Example sentences of "[conj] [am/are] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the institutions that are trying to establish captive-breeding programmes face difficult decisions . |
| 2 | It is tempting to compare the role of the Commissioner with that of the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Commission for Racial Equality , bodies that are empowered to support individual cases in connection with complaints about discrimination on grounds of sex or race respectively . |
| 3 | Those working in the psychological tradition devise tasks or tests that are believed to place varying levels of demand on the cognitive , sensory , or motor capacities we believe our subjects to possess . |
| 4 | In traditional medicine we have a lot of local herbs that are proven to cure venereal diseases , effectively suppress malaria , and alleviate stomach pains , ulcers and even certain types of cancer . |
| 5 | Second , bees that are trained to approach horizontal stripes do not come to prefer vertically moving random-dot patterns over a similar pattern moving horizontally . |
| 6 | In this respect , however , the distinctions that are made resemble many others in political science which , as I noted at the beginning of this chapter , frequently emerge out of the dominant political concerns of the age . |
| 7 | er and some of the solutions that are offered to reduce those crimes involve women restricting , their movements and their freedoms , but I think one of the other reasons why generally people who are victims of crime be they men or women feel guilty is because one of the implicit elements in tradition crime prevention strategies is for us to reduce the opportunity for crime |
| 8 | To investigate the effects of retinoic acid on Hox expression and segmental patterning in the hindbrain , we have exposed mouse embryos at several early stages to concentrations of retinoic acid ( 20mg per kg ) that are known to induce craniofacial abnormalities . |
| 9 | This model coexists with other idea systems within the organization that are designed to handle different types of ideas and/or clientele ( i.e. suggestion systems and quality circles ) . |
| 10 | As part of its work the EPRG is anxious to construct , and then make widely available to interested parties , an inventory of all case-control studies that are in progress across Europe and that are designed to investigate possible associations between particular conditions and prior exposure to medicinal products . |
| 11 | This strain in central-local government relationships has been further hardened by the imposition of charge-capping and other fiscal controls that are designed to keep local authorities within central government 's expenditure plans . |
| 12 | Policies are evolved in a wider environment in which problems emerge that are deemed to require political solutions , and pressures occur for new political responses . |
| 13 | The majority of crustacea have appendages that are specialized to do different jobs along the length of the animal — some for grasping , some for swimming and so on . |
| 14 | That raises the alarming prospect that red mercury may actually be a codename for real substances that are needed to make nuclear bombs . |
| 15 | A depletion of transmitters is therefore likely to be associated with impaired performance and to render the organism more vulnerable to frustration , loss and other life stresses that are expected to increase adaptive demands . |
| 16 | The reason for this is that you do not just calculate the length and breadth of the pool , but the various areas that are going to accommodate marginal shelves as well . |
| 17 | Drivers whose vehicles give off more poisonous chemicals than are allowed have ten days to clean up their act . |
| 18 | Again , it is clear that the courts are taking a very restricted attitude to their powers of judicial review in these cases and are refusing to consider general questions of the fairness of decisions . |
| 19 | Shingle construction : Small ‘ batts ’ of polyester fibres are sewn to the outer cover and lining of a bag and are overlaid to eliminate cold spots . |
| 20 | The other comes when the customary ways and limits of power are altered , when subjects are presented with new and disturbing uses of power and are asked to assume new burdens and accept new claims . |
| 21 | The services are targeted at customers with 1,000 personal computers or more , multinational companies , or companies with a lot of branches , and are intended to provide such organisations with a better return on their investment by attacking the hidden costs of installation , support , and implementation of an ever-increasing number of upgrades . |
| 22 | Women continue to struggle against the tide of agencies like LEDU and are beginning to force these agencies to take the issue of women 's employment more seriously . |
| 23 | The DPS 7000 Model 400s , supporting up to 1,000 users , are housed in a small cabinet and are said to bring small systems price/performance advantages to the low-end of the GCOS 7 range . |
| 24 | Almost a month after the 1 April changes , many local authorities have not yet set up assessment systems for drug and alcohol misusers and are failing to refer these clients for treatment . |
| 25 | We are assured that the foods now have a date stamp and are guaranteed to reach British shops within six weeks of production . |
| 26 | They have an automatically controlled hot gas defrost system , a rapid pull down time and are guaranteed to hold pre-chilled products at a temperature of +5 deg C or below . |
| 27 | To ensure that hospital consultants — whose decisions effectively commit sums of money — are involved in the management of hospitals ; are given responsibility for the use of resources ; and are encouraged to use those resources more effectively . |
| 28 | Postgraduate : students are expected to participate in the seminars and are encouraged to attend scientific meetings to present the results of the research projects and meet experts in their fields of study . |
| 29 | Watchd and libft are designed to separate fault detection , process restart and volatile data recovery facilities from the application functions and are claimed to provide different levels of fault tolerance with minimal effort and high flexibility . |
| 30 | Personal evaluations occur bi-annually and are used to assess both changes in the basic wage and individual bonus payments . |