Example sentences of "[conj] are [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely , then , it is perverse and inexplicable behaviour on the part of so many English speakers to take words ( like adult or person ) that are not inherently misleading , or are meant to improve linguistic precision , and deliberately make them misleading and imprecise . |
| 2 | There are , however , some patients who , though not in an acutely disturbed state , will need extra security for a period because they have been a risk to the public at some time in the recent past or are considered to require special containment while assessment continues in conditions of moderate security . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Like most works that are felt to mark some kind of watershed in the history of music , Peter Grimes has been heavily probed for , among other things , debts to and possible borrowings from the works of other composers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mario Segni , a professor of law and Sardinian member of parliament , is the chief promoter of three referendums on electoral reform that are intended to reshape Italian politics . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | The aims of this study were to determine the frequency of the 3849+10 kb CT mutation in Israeli CF patients and to assess the disease severity in patients with this mutation compared with that of patients who have the mutations that are known to cause severe disease . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mairi Campbell of BOC at Cumbernauld and Jean Buchan of Playtex at Port Glasgow took part in Exercise Executive Stretch , 48 hours of physical and mental challenges that are designed to have some feedback into management skills . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It incorporates data compression algorithms that are claimed to increase effective throughput of wide area networking links by as much as four times . |
| 19 | These are the terms that are considered to induce chaotic behaviour in these cosmological models . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | That raises the alarming prospect that red mercury may actually be a codename for real substances that are needed to make nuclear bombs . |
| 22 | The quality of the printing depends on the number of dots that are used to create each character ; typical values range from 8 rows of 8 dots to the , so called , Near Letter Quality of 24 rows of 17 dots . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Drivers whose vehicles give off more poisonous chemicals than are allowed have ten days to clean up their act . |
| 25 | I feel sorry for the little girl and I suggest to the writer that she consoles her daughter by telling her that the vile custom of killing wild animals for fun is on the way out , that almost all british people feel as she does , and are determined to end such cruelty , and that she can help to bring about its end by supporting the League Against Cruel Sports and talking about the work they do to her schoolfriends . |
| 26 | TCP/IP and Synchronous Data Link Control connections to enable machines running Microsoft Corp 's Windows for Workgroups to communicate with Unix and IBM Corp mainframe systems have now gone into beta test , the Redmond company says , and are planned to ship this quarter . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They attend different churches and are said to hold separate bank accounts . |