Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both derive from a deep sense of grievance and resentment against those Western powers led by the United States which are seen to have carved up the world for their own convenience . |
| 2 | Boulders up to 3 km long are said to have fallen down a scarp along an outcrop more than 300 km long . |
| 3 | ‘ We are a bit thin on the ground for central defenders and we 're going to have to look around a bit . |
| 4 | ‘ If you 're going to start trotting out the right answers for the wrong reasons you 'll go down great with my grandfather — what are you doing now — practising ? ’ |
| 5 | Children are believed to be more vulnerable than adults , who are thought to have built up an immunity after a similar , but much less virulent virus appeared last year . |
| 6 | Well , note first of all that the various gases that are thought to have made up the early atmosphere contain most of the main elements that are known to be essential to life : carbon , nitrogen , sulphur , hydrogen , and oxygen — though the oxygen was not ‘ free ’ , but was combined for example with carbon in carbon monoxide . |
| 7 | You then consult that on the screen and print it out only if you think you are going to want to look up the same word again . |
| 8 | The hospital would have to make choices : ‘ We are going to have to weigh up a hip replacement against a breast carcinoma . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ According to this girl , ’ says Charles , ‘ great avalanches are going to come sliding down the mountains , burying people by the dozen . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ And I 'm going to have to make up the cameras and equipment , too , because we do n't have any . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm trying to establish put down a figure of forty six thousand for migration . |
| 12 | Perhaps he was trying to butter up America and Britain , because the United Nations Security Council will soon be discussing tighter sanctions against Libya unless he hands over the people who are believed to have blown up an American airliner over Scotland in 1988 . |