Example sentences of "are [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But old Hoggatt founded the place as a police lab , and when the chips are down that 's what it 's all about . |
| 2 | Jackie 's ears are down all the time . |
| 3 | Amongst the major shares , Abbey National are down 1 at 212 , and as I 've just mentioned , British Aerospace went down 12 to 541 , British Airways were down 2 at 158 , British Gas were down 2 at 217 , British Steel down 2 at 119 , British Telecom down 9 at 276 , Rolls Royce down 5 to 175 and T S B down 2 at 119 . |
| 4 | Is the Prime Minister aware that building employers say that conditions are worse than they have been in 40 years , that car sales are down 20 per cent . |
| 5 | Attempted murders are down twenty-one per cent . |
| 6 | Earnings are down 19 p.c. to 26.7p a share , but with the benefits of its expansion programme expected to show through , the dividend is being lifted 12 p.c. to 8.7p , with the payment of a 5.8p final . |
| 7 | Compared with the peak year of 1989 , volumes are down 35 p.c . |
| 8 | And some of these companies are in such as er Nestle appear in cocoa , and they also appear as very big players in other commodities . |
| 9 | Is the single room next to the one you are in free at the weekend ? ’ |
| 10 | At Southampton General Hospital , where 90 out of 360 nurses are off sick , management appealed for volunteer nurses . |
| 11 | Insured workers who are off sick are entitled to draw sickness benefit . |
| 12 | People have been talking to him about sickness and that if an office has erm people that are off sick a lot more than another office they 're at a disadvantage . |
| 13 | The Opposition never mention manufacturing exports , which are up 75 per cent . |
| 14 | Tour operator Thomson said bookings are up five per cent on last year , with more than 80,000 people travelling in the last week of the year . |
| 15 | Ten years later , after a 17 per cent drop in the secondary school population of the area , suspensions are up 230 per cent , the centres admit suspended as well as pre-suspension pupils and a fourth centre has been opened . |
| 16 | The 2.4 litre diesel Landcruiser and Corollas are up one per cent , while the Starlet , ( the GL is the only model available ) is up £260 to £7860 . |
| 17 | Dividends are up 10 p.c. to 5½p after a final of 3.8p payable on May 30 . |
| 18 | Amongst them bankruptcies are up 100 per cent . |
| 19 | Sticks to it that , when you are up front driving , you can neither see nor hear a damned thing that is happening behind you . |
| 20 | Despite the Labour party 's smears about what has been happening recently , manufacturing exports are up this year , notwithstanding the recession . |
| 21 | Flying in even light snow is like being in a fog , and unless you are up high and can manage to fly clear on instruments , you are liable to have real trouble . |
| 22 | Ian : Because people do when they are up high . |
| 23 | If we compare this stage in the economic cycle with the previous stage , we see that output is up a quarter , investment is up a third , productivity is up a half and exports are up three quarters . |
| 24 | Earnings are up 22 p.c. to 55p a share , but the dividend increase is being kept to 8 p.c. with a 14p final on June 8 , making 21p for the year . |
| 25 | Cider sales are up seven percent this year … and the makers say that despite a bumper crop , they need all the fruit they can get . |
| 26 | Do you realise that the figures are out that everybody knows that the figures are out . |
| 27 | The sort of pet you can keep depends very much on where you live , whether you work or are out all day , and how much money you have . |
| 28 | Days when you are out all day can then be used for the simplest pieces . |
| 29 | If you are out all day what time do you get back in the evening ? |
| 30 | Colliery beaches produced some sizeable codling , although they are out numbered by undersized fish . |