Example sentences of "be [verb] are [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It is your responsibility to ensure that you and those for whom you are booking are in possession of valid passport and any appropriate visas ( please see Holiday Information on page 14 ) .
2 Secondly , as Knox argued after publication of the RAWP report , people who are dying are among the heaviest users of services .
3 Few of the learned tomes that have been written are for the domestic consumer and contain few , if any , recipes to lighten the technical detail .
4 However , the questions and issues this material raises about the way primary classrooms are organized are worth presenting as an extension of those above .
5 TIP Get several estimates , or recommendations from friends or consult Which ? magazine before deciding whether any goods or services you 're offered are in fact good value .
6 So what you 're really saying is that the computers of the kind you 're describing are for the ordinary person .
7 The regions which are leading are in some cases different from those which have been leading in terms of the historic trends over the last four months .
8 Those that are employed are on low wages ; the majority are unemployed .
9 Our results imply that the effects of vitamin A supplementation on the immune response to infection after the epithelial barrier has been breached are of greater functional significance than the effects on the integrity of the epithelial barrier itself .
10 The hon. Members who are rising are on the list of those wishing to speak in the debate .
11 What Labour Members say makes it sound as though they do not want parents to know what the schools that their children are attending are like .
12 Questions about how examination results should be interpreted are of interest in their own right but are also important in studies of school effectiveness and wider debates about how educational institutions should be evaluated and held accountable .
13 Similarly , the description of the conventions regarding the form of language to be used are to be interpreted more as a parody and critique of the rival Academy than as evidence of what members of the Royal Society really did .
14 Bentham 's intention here was explicit , for as he remarked ( Works , IV p 70 ) : " It is obvious that the more the persons to be inspected are under the eyes of the persons who should inspect them , the more perfectly will the purpose of the establishment have been attained .
15 Such faults as can be detected are of little consequence to the average kite-maker .
16 The majority of African departments adopt these curricular policies and materials directly ; any changes which may be effected are of a minor quantitative nature .
17 The actions which have to be taken are by definition inward ones — things we can do ourselves .
18 The activities in which citizens are to be engaged are to be far removed from any levers of real political power .
19 ( Addresses where these can be obtained are at the end of the book . )
20 This means that the facts unc we are assuming are in principle decidable , an so add nothing to the real power of our system .
21 Only answers to what has been asked are of any value .
22 If the questions that are asked are of the right kind , then an investigative approach to a topic will automatically ensure that the history attainment targets are met .
23 CPRW has no doubt that in this particular instance a decision to provide planning consent would be quite disastrous , whereas a rejection would strengthen the value of National Park designation at a time when development pressures of the kind being considered are on the increase .
24 The garments being made are on order from stores such as C&A , Top Shop , and Wallace 's .
25 An unsuccessful search terminates when the end points of the section of the list being searched are in fact next to each other , and neither matches the searched-for item .
26 Even if the rights being asserted are in reality a reflection of parental responsibility to ensure that children receive a suitable education ( although there is inevitably dispute between parent and state about the meaning of ‘ suitable ’ in this context ) , such responsibility gives rise to a considerable amount of power and authority .
27 My earliest memories of being abused are of going into a neighbour 's house when I was five or six and getting money for what he made me do .
28 Incidentally the odds on the hunted fox being killed are about evens .
29 Most of them er er that are advertised are from London Gatwick .
30 The difference is that his compound is a nanocomposite — the crystals from which it is made are between two nanometres ( two millionths of a millimetre ) and ten nanometres across .
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