Example sentences of "are [adj] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are some gone back to work they have n't got all that heavy obligations but there are lads on the line which have got very heavy complications and children and they have stuck it out you know . |
| 2 | The other auction bidders are all tied up with litigation against the Special Forces . |
| 3 | Our very limited resources are all tied up in getting on with the work . |
| 4 | The lightstick lasts for up to six hours sometimes longer you tee up the ball on every shot so that you ca n't hit the light stick out when this game is played the flags are all lit up with bigger lightsticks . |
| 5 | They are all pumped up at the moment . |
| 6 | The Book of Earth , the cornucopia of all the tiny books that go to make up The Book of Languages and even more disconcertingly , The Book of Mirrors , are all locked up in a glass case . |
| 7 | These are all stamped out with a huge press and dies like pastry cutters , in a dark vault in our street , by an old man who cuts from one skin first the back of a large rucksack , then a couple of handbag sides , and eventually bits of miniature hanging purses , like a thrifty housewife making tarts . |
| 8 | Whether it is the Lusitania steaming up the Irish coast towards her doom or a couple of one-legged dwarfs drinking in a bar in Paris , the processes of imagination in the form of characters , clothes , setting , and action are all clawed out of the mind . |
| 9 | We are all made up of what we have achieved in the past , the character we have developed , our strong points , our weaknesses . |
| 10 | They are all made up of the same shapes-triangles , squares and rectangles . |
| 11 | The latest sub-atomic theories , for example , say that we are all made up of infinitely thin pieces of string which may exist in ten dimensions . |
| 12 | Our jolly attendant makes one more and final round , checking that we are all tucked in for the night . |
| 13 | I think that the idea of offsetting imbalances on on one project er with transfer the work in other is certainly very interesting but of course as far as the erm tornado programme is concerned I think it it is now really far too late because production is over apart from the the second Saudi Arabian order and we are really only working on the manufacture of spares and given that the existing suppliers are all tooled up for those and indeed her are way down the learning curve having produced vast quantities of them , it really would n't be economic to transfer any of that work now I do n't think . |
| 14 | The above explanation also allows a clearer view of the relation between know and the other verbs which belong to the conceptual field , and shows why such verbs are all followed by to + infinitive . |
| 15 | She will lunch with selected guests in the new council offices , and an hour beforehand they are all turned out in their best suits and dresses fidgeting in anticipation . |
| 16 | These are the ones that are all backed up with notes ? |
| 17 | The typical interviewee profile of the ‘ recreational user ’ is that of ‘ dabbling ’ at weekends , usually sharing a ‘ bag ’ with a friend , then gradually filling in the days in between until they are all taken up by heroin use . |
| 18 | Complicated family inter-connections are all trotted out in pointless detail , designed , presumably , to show just how very ‘ in ’ is Lady Colin Campbell . |
| 19 | Just above its melting temperature a polymer behaves like a highly viscous liquid in which the chains are all tangled up with their neighbours . |
| 20 | Companion stuff from the new album — a gloriously lolloping ‘ Step It Up ’ , the pre-packed next single ‘ Ground Level ’ — rubs slick shoulder with pre-acceptance vintage like ‘ Lost In Music ’ , and the show goes on and on until people are dripping off the walls , and the last kind of urban excitement we need is a joke security alert on Charing Cross Road , which means we are all shepherded out of the Marquee 's tradesmen 's entrances like nuisances , sticking to each other and sapped of claustrophobic dancenergy . |
| 21 | And those 16 are all booked in for treatment during April , most this week . |
| 22 | A budgetary control system begins with business forecasts and the development of a sales budget ; these are followed by the production budget , a capital expenditure budget , a cash budget and the various departmental budgets ; finally these are all drawn up into one Master Budget ; once in operation , period budget statements are produced to indicate performance against budget and the variances that have occurred-these variances provide the grounds for any necessary corrective action by management . |
| 23 | Salvage excavations are those carried out on sites where destruction has already begun , often because the site was unknown before construction work started . |
| 24 | The fermentation of organic matter by gut micro-orgamisms is mediated by a number of interdependent reactions in which complex polymers are first broken down to their constituent monomers by hydrolytic enzymes synthesised by the bacteria . |
| 25 | To ensure their proper fullness they are first blocked in with a broad contour-band ( the ‘ eighth-of-an-inch stripe ’ ) which gave the painter 's eye the sense of the background to come . |
| 26 | When they are first chipped out of the rock such fossils will often be partly concealed by matrix . |