Example sentences of "are [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE two winners of round-the-world holidays in our exclusive Courtauld News competition are finalising plans for their dream trips in February . |
| 2 | Are building programmes for the next financial year drawn up in time to be available to managers before holidays are allocated ? |
| 3 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 4 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 5 | In El Salvador , US grants are building barracks for demobilised FMLN guerrillas ; in Nicaragua , General Humberto Ortega , brother of the Sandinista ex-president , Daniel , recently aroused a storm by pinning the Sandinistas ' highest military medal on the chest of the US military attacheé . |
| 6 | At the same time , scientists are building computer models of ocean circulation but full three-dimensional models must wait for the next generation of powerful computers . |
| 7 | ‘ We are are building democracy on a slippery surface , ’ says Mr Petr Pithart , the premier of the Czech lands ( Bohemia and Moravia ) . |
| 8 | There 's the ex-taxi driver , the chicken farmer and the house decorator who are building robots in their spare time for space projects . |
| 9 | Scientists from Nanjing Normal University are building display tanks and a semi-natural reserve in the form of a 1.5km ( 1-mile ) channel between two islands in the river at Tongling. further upstream , at Shi Shou , the Wuhan institute plans to adapt a 20-k ( 12-mile ) old oxbow in the river to become a reserve . |
| 10 | Through grants to local authorities , we are financing schemes to introduce more flexible working practices — such as job sharing . |
| 11 | Investment trusts are in fact very active in the market for new issues of shares and in this respect are channelling funds to ultimate borrowers . |
| 12 | ‘ Please , sir , ’ says Management B , ‘ I have n't really raised my prices ; I have actually produced what is a new and better article , so much better than those of my competitors that , although my price is much above theirs , I have full order books and the retailers tell me they are accumulating waiting lists . ’ |
| 13 | ( 3 ) Which part of RTPA 1976 are you considering — goods or services or both ? ( 4 ) Establish which parties are accepting restrictions . |
| 14 | It 's still in the experimental stage , but they are accepting guinea-pigs if they have this particular strain of lymphoma and , therefore , nothing to lose . |
| 15 | If you are accepting instructions on behalf of a partnership , it is again a good idea to check that the person who approaches you has authority to act on their behalf . |
| 16 | President , Congress , the ex er we believe the Executive are accepting motion two four three , but we believe it should be aired at Congress today . |
| 17 | How dare the Government say that they are going to improve patient care when they are wasting money so disgracefully in other parts of the health service ? |
| 18 | We are wasting time ! |
| 19 | And it is always us who are rowdies in the pub , who choke harbour fronts with gear , and are heard swearing and shouting among the seaside trippers — never the local yobs , is it . |
| 20 | But now it is individual skilled and managerial people ( plus entrepreneurs and self-employed ) who are relocating West ) . |
| 21 | It is no wonder that so many are dismissed pad/bat . |
| 22 | You , you , but not you , are dismissed b . |
| 23 | money , investment are proving sound , there is no need to worry about my expenditure |
| 24 | Whenever the result of the development of node k is that two new branches are grown , the up- and down-nodes are assigned values of and ( where x r is the branching variable ) respectively . |
| 25 | Most defendants in capital cases are black and they can not afford legal representation , so they are assigned counsel by the state . |
| 26 | The reason is that , as work is executed , so the results thereof are assigned identifiers ( e.g. module name and version number , DC number ) , and objects attached . |
| 27 | The Emperor has access ( to the room where the Council of Ministers meet ) by going through two rooms , one of which is a library and the other containing a table on which are placed newspapers , documents , etc . |
| 28 | For a differential drill they are placed side by side and drilled across to highlight the difference between them . |
| 29 | Because of the way that the two animals stand in relation to one another while grooming is going on , it is these vertical lines that are placed slap in front of their ‘ nearside ’ eyes . |
| 30 | At regular intervals on the circle are placed pictures of uniform size , either related to a central theme or without any specific relationship . |