Example sentences of "[pron] are [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the numbers of frail old people grow , in both absolute and proportional terms ( and they far exceed any other vulnerable groups ) , those who work with and for them are bound to experience this dilemma more acutely , which may be summarised as ‘ just how much are we supposed to do to support and protect such old vulnerable people ? ’ . |
| 2 | All forty two of them are threatening to leave local authority control and be directly financed from Westminster because they say they have n't got the money to do their jobs . |
| 3 | All forty two of them are threatening to leave local authority control and be directly financed from Westminster because they say they have n't got the money to do their jobs . |
| 4 | Lee , who left the family home in Skelton two years ago , came in from the cold to highlight the plight of the young homeless : the Rural Development Commission says more than 14,000 people in country areas are without a home 12pc of the national total and many of them are forced to leave rural areas altogether . |
| 5 | In support of this view , a number of studies have indicated that language-impaired children make significant improvements if the adults around them are induced to make systematic changes in certain aspects of their language ( Howlin 1984 ; McLean and Snyder 1978 ) . |
| 6 | I need to focus on my work here , and my sister and I are beginning to drive each other mad . ’ |
| 7 | Steel-Maitland told Balfour that " Farquhar and I are endeavouring to raise more money . |
| 8 | Rockwell wrote to his brother : ‘ Prince and I are going to fly ten hours tomorrow , and we 'll do our best to kill one or two Germans for Victor . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ To paint Darlington as a jobs blackspot is not just factually wrong , it is also very damaging to the work the council and I are doing to attract new investment . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Castle catholics ’ , those who found a place in the Stormont administration and developed a stake in the union , have also voted alliance , but are probably now , in 1989 , switching their allegiance to the newly found conservative associations , which are seeking to bring British party loyalties to Ulster . |
| 11 | Clearly more weight attaches to the principal administrative and economic factors : the development of general hospital treatment and primary care which are intended to replace mental hospitals , and the search for more cost-effective alternatives to state hospital provision . |
| 12 | There are also chairs that you can buy , designed by a chiropractor , which are intended to put less strain on the body when sitting . |
| 13 | Rescheduling of such debts has become a necessity for the private banks , and a practice which has emerged is that new agreements have been made conditional on such countries accepting the stringent programmes of the IMF which are intended to promote effective adjustment of a country 's balance of payments and ensure that the use of Fund resources is temporary . |
| 14 | CPRW is a well established national organisation and the only voluntary body concerned with strategies for Wales as a whole which are intended to protect Welsh heritage , its countryside and the quality of life of its people . |
| 15 | Order 13 , r 12 applies the provisions of the Rules of Supreme Court Ord 29 , II ( Interim Payments ) to county courts which are empowered to award interim payments of debt or damages where the sum claimed or amount involved exceeds £500 . |
| 16 | At present , special tax rules apply to members ' special reserve funds which are maintained to meet future losses and are liable to tax relief at the higher rate . |
| 17 | When market-makers began to suspect that the sales were on behalf of the Bank of Spain , the central bank apparently started to use other Spanish banks , which are believed to include Central Hispano , Bilbao Vizcaya ( BBV ) and Banesto . |
| 18 | Samsung has been collaborating with Hewlett-Packard on some of the low-end PA 7100 machines , which are planned to appear next month . |
| 19 | After 2km ( just over a mile ) the left-hand branch of the road from Hinterthal reaches the entrance to the remarkable Holloch Caverns ( the labyrinthine passages of which are calculated to extend some 93km ( 58 miles ) ; 1km ( half a mile ) of the caves are open to visitors ) . |
| 20 | The Scottish Office does not cover functions which are felt to require uniform standards throughout the country , e.g. social security . |
| 21 | More than this , many constitutional authorities have become uneasy about the behaviour of governments in the light of the doctrines of mandate and the manifesto which are said to give effective power to party activists and extremists outside of parliament . |
| 22 | Moreover , producer countries are having to resort to countertrade , with all its accompanying inefficiencies , to circumvent the shortage of foreign exchange for imports , which are allocated to develop other sectors ( Vergara and Brown , 1988 ) . |
| 23 | The internal wrangles , sometimes over single issues , which are coming to characterise British party politics in the 1980s , may well foreshadow a similar process . |
| 24 | It has a watching brief to keep its eye on the activities of banks and other financial institutions which are required to submit monthly returns to the Bank . |
| 25 | It monitors the activity of banks , which are required to submit monthly reports to it , and it attempts to spot any bank that is likely to face difficulties . |
| 26 | When we turn to the linguistic abilities which are required to give empirical mode explanations , we find that the role of the temporal priority principle is again a matter of debate . |
| 27 | They are also given power to vote on fundamental structural changes to the company , such as altering the memorandum and articles of association or merging with another company or dissolving the enterprise which are thought to resemble constitutional issues . |
| 28 | Amasha was popularly treated with Boneji , an informal school of medicine that uses herbs and fruit which are thought to possess medicinal powers . |
| 29 | However , a possible explanation has been put forward by Brooks et al ( 1971 ) , which proposes that softening of the atheromatous plaque may be due to the presence of unusual lipids ( cholesteryl esters of hydroxyoctadecadienoic acid ) found in high concentrations in ulcerated plaques ( Harland et al , 1971 ) which are thought to produce smooth muscle cell necrosis at the base of the plaque . |
| 30 | Alternative qualifications which are considered include Open University courses , access courses and diplomas from adult education colleges . |