Example sentences of "are [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against this , J.H. Gagnon and William Simon have argued in their book Sexual Conduct that sexuality is subject to ‘ socio-cultural moulding to a degree surpassed by few other forms of human behaviour ’ , and in so arguing they are building both on a century of sex research and on a century of questioning the notion of ‘ natural man ’ . |
| 2 | Conversely , if you are building up to a competition and wish to greatly increase your fitness and endurance , the FDR should be very intense and should make up a large part of your training . |
| 3 | Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train . |
| 4 | Instead of just inspecting records within the Input range you can define n output range so that all the records found as a result of the search are gathered together into a separate table . |
| 5 | Does the television studio , in which a group of academics are gathered together for a discussion on an ‘ academic ’ issue , count as an academic setting ? |
| 6 | Theses are assigned exclusively to a single category in all of the above lists . |
| 7 | Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas . |
| 8 | In a book which was actually about statistics , A. L. Bowley once established four rules to guide designers of schedules and questionnaires.3 They are given below as a starting point for our discussions . |
| 9 | The staff and students are quickly getting to know each other and are shaping up into a hardworking and enthusiastic team . |
| 10 | Cenwulf 's dealings with Sussex are witnessed only by a grant to the bishop of Selsey from 801 . |
| 11 | I know any number of indigent dames who have found such employment , and they are treated quite as a member of the family . ’ |
| 12 | The Review covers some 90 countries , which are listed alphabetically with a resumé of the press and general media situation in each country . |
| 13 | You may sense that your words are tumbling out into a kind of void . |
| 14 | Banks are competing fiercely for a share of the slower-growing market . |
| 15 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 16 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 17 | Three species of arctic residents , Lapland longspurs , snow buntings and rock ptarmigan , are joined annually by a dozen species of long-distance migrants — red-throated divers ( loons ) Gavia stellata , arctic terns Sterna paradisaea , oldsquaw Clangula hyemalis , common and king eider Somateria mollissima and S . |
| 18 | letters which are joined together as a single unit of type such as oe and fi . |
| 19 | The point is , only one of the two can come out of his little door at any one time , not just because that would make impossible weather , but because the two little men are joined together by a metal bar : one has to stay in if the other one is out . |
| 20 | Yachts wishing to use the canal are limited only by a maximum mast height of 80ft ( 24.5m ) . |
| 21 | These are faults — which is where John McEnroe comes in — that are smoothed out by a second distillation . |
| 22 | 6/Highlights are masked out while areas are filled in with a thin wash . |
| 23 | Cheddars may be hard or semi-hard ; they are pressed lightly for a matter of hours and then more firmly for a short period of days . |
| 24 | Injection pipettes are made in exactly the same way as holding pipettes except that they are broken off at a smaller internal diameter . |
| 25 | Leaves which are small , round or elliptic , fleshy , glossy , bright green , tapering towards the base without leaf-stalks , are arranged opposite on a stiff , round , fleshy stem . |
| 26 | All steel parts are checked through on a magnaflux machine . |
| 27 | Some of the finest acrobats in the world are limbering up for a show in the Big Top in Cheltenham . |
| 28 | The mountain peaks of Christian belief are travelled there in a style that has few rivals in the whole history of the church , and none at all in the twentieth century . |
| 29 | Foldaway slippers for the flight are tucked away in a holdall with disposable nappies and sick tablets . |
| 30 | It claimed that people feel more in control of their lives if they are inching forward on a journey , rather than waiting for something to happen . |