Example sentences of "are [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All 3 political groups are pitching for increased spending , Labour is likely to propose a budget around £320 million , the Liberal Democrats around £314 million and the Tory group up to £310 millions , all of them well above Government guidelines of £306 million . |
| 2 | Bonington 's adventures on Everest an Annapurna are interlarded with other events ; Fowler and Saunders on Spantik , and even a passing nod to Moffat and Edlinger . |
| 3 | Where proceedings are delayed through unreasonable or time-wasting behaviour by one of the parties involved , the Reporter should feel free to make a recommendation , on which the Secretary of State will place considerable weight , that the expenses of other parties be awarded against the party responsible . |
| 4 | The majority of all black pupils are enrolled at primary level : 78 per cent of all enrolments in the DET 's jurisdiction ( compared with 56 per cent of all white enrolments ) . |
| 5 | Tears come from the deepest emotions , from joy and beauty and often they are tinged with nostalgic sadness . |
| 6 | These can go a very long way to mollifying those individuals whose journeys are lengthened by traffic-affecting measures . |
| 7 | The woods in Coulby Newham , which have suffered from half a century of neglect , will be rejuvenated with help from three developers Wimpey , Yuill and McLean who are building on adjacent plots . |
| 8 | They have abandoned leaves to reduce loss of water by transpiration , and their stems are swollen with stored water . |
| 9 | The victims are gathered for quick repairs before another round . |
| 10 | Each autumn the hazelnuts ripen on the bushes nearby , are gathered in dry weather and shaken to expel earwigs lurking in their casing . |
| 11 | The garden 's main crops of apples and pears are gathered in late September and through to the first weeks of October . |
| 12 | As a comic opera , it is very much sui generis : all the recitatives are furnished with orchestral accompaniment , and the music is both continuous and strongly unified . |
| 13 | There is a very pretty sitting-room and the bedrooms are furnished in traditional style in three delicate pastel shades — one for each floor . |
| 14 | At the same time more and more males are accumulating in all-male groups . |
| 15 | " The fabric of family life of millions of our people has been shattered , … our economy lies in ruins and our people are embroiled in political strife . " |
| 16 | The lives of affected individuals are punctuated by repeated ‘ crises ’ , which are extremely painful and debilitating . |
| 17 | Britain 's role as Kingston described it could be called that of a peace-keeping force , and his stones of intrigue and skirmish are punctuated by anti-war sentiments . |
| 18 | These problems are emphasized with large data volumes , multiple authorship , complex inter-node and intra-node relationships , need for multiple views of same hyper-medium , and a desire to integrate the hyper-base with other types of application within the organization . |
| 19 | There is , then , no shortage of social science research which is claimed to be necessary if we are to cope with environmental change . |
| 20 | Most cases are heard by part-time chairmen who must be solicitors , barristers or advocates of five years standing . |
| 21 | The following figures have been extracted from our management accounts , are calculated at constant exchange rates and take account of the effect of UK Refining : |
| 22 | Right , okay , erm let's now move on to er these other diagnostics , right , like test for structural change these diagnostic test statistics that are calculated for right , because essentially what they 're doing is that they 're testing the assumptions on which ordinary leased squares is based . |
| 23 | Lattice enthalpies determined through the Born-Haber cycle can be regarded as experimental values since the lattice enthalpies are calculated from experimental values . |
| 24 | All of the objects and characters are solid 3D objects which are calculated in real time . |
| 25 | Policy strategies which attack the social and economic determinants of ill-health are dismissed as futile attempts at social engineering . |
| 26 | The attitudes held by the modern racists are deracialized in that the attitudes are justified by traditional values , such as equality and fairness , and not by oven racial themes . |
| 27 | You can set up menus which are assigned to specific users and passwords . |
| 28 | The ten l.e.d.s concerned here are placed at various positions in the ‘ field ’ , each representing a number of runs or a no-score , plus a couple which may lead to a catch or an appeal for lbw . |
| 29 | Touch-operated computer terminals are placed at strategic points allowing us , quite literally , to have the ancient world at our fingertips . |
| 30 | All these are inconsistent with ‘ living life ’ , the two words which are placed between inverted commas and imposed at the level of mere idea upon Notes from Underground , but which truly drive Raskolnikov , which are his need to become a man again . |