Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way that can be ensured , as the Minister recognised in our debate on pension schemes , is if the buy-outs are given a real opportunity to succeed . |
| 2 | It 's a competition organised by the Training Trust , in which teams are given a charitable task to carry out within strict time limits . |
| 3 | Here your eyes are given a difficult task to perform . |
| 4 | Consciously or unconsciously , the trees , either individually or in clumps , are recognized by local people as being sacred , and they are given a helping hand to ensure their survival . |
| 5 | ‘ Alienth are thuch a complicated thing to believe in ! ’ |
| 6 | The association 's 170 members will have to bear the brunt of new fees for proposed discharge licences and are demanding a strong inspectorate to enforce the legislation . |
| 7 | TWO of Britain 's biggest unit trust groups , Henderson Unit Trust Management and Gartmore Investment Management , are launching a joint company to handle the administration of their funds . |
| 8 | Researchers at the University of Warwick are training a neural computer to examine brain-scanner images to recognise the symptoms of mental diseases . |
| 9 | TORY Euro rebels are hatching a secret plot to oust Premier John Major . |
| 10 | As for being ‘ alarmist ’ , it 's right to be ultra cautious ( even to the extent of junking an untrustworthy drive ) when you 're using a hard disk to store valuable data . |
| 11 | If you 're asking a civil engineer to do some work for you i if that civil engineer has a degree does it automatically mean that the work 's going to be perfect and wonderful ? |
| 12 | M M My Lords , i it is important that whatever is taught to a child between the ages of five and eleven that the child is able to benefit from it educationally if the child is , is overloaded as it were by being presented erm a curriculum that they simply can not manage , then that 's going to create confusion , but it 's also important to say that one of the erm er objectives of this whole exercise is to underpin all education , both morally and spiritually and I believe we 're doing a great deal to get that right . |
| 13 | • If you 're travelling a long way to buy fish , it 's worth asking for them to be bagged separately and , if they are freshwater fish , take a handful of zeolite with your , which the assistant can then drop into the bottom of the bag to help prevent ammonia problems during the journey . |
| 14 | Oh they 're taking a long time to get these last two runs are n't they ? |
| 15 | So be on your guard if you are offered a new way to cure gout see in the dark or watch an eclipse of the Sun . |
| 16 | New members for 1988 are offered a free voucher to attend a Rally of their own choosing . |
| 17 | UNIVERSITIES and biotechnology companies in the US are considering a new plan to speed the transfer to industry of genetic engineering techniques developed in university laboratories . |
| 18 | Piontek said : ‘ People are expecting a new Lineker to come through straight away and that is not possible . |
| 19 | Today we are printing a special token to complete the voucher we gave you yesterday . |
| 20 | POTATO farmers in Byelorussia , Ukraine and Russia are to use a biological pesticide to protect their crops from an assault from the Colorado beetle . |
| 21 | COLLEGES in County Durham are joining a national campaign to get grown-ups back to learning ways . |
| 22 | LOCAL charity workers are joining a nationwide drive to raise public awareness of Motor Neurone Disease ( MND ) — muscle-wasting condition for which there is no treatment or cure . |
| 23 | They are having a real struggle to pay their heating bills , according to the Child Poverty Action Group . |
| 24 | Clearly , the United Kingdom and the Community are doing a great deal to assist the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe generally . |
| 25 | Those hyacinths in the cauldron are taking a long time to come out are n't they ? |
| 26 | Those hyacinths in the corner are taking a long time to come out , are n't they ? |
| 27 | So I think we are actually obliged , and it 's right that people should be consulted , but there is a point about it that it takes an awful long time and that is actually the reason why we 've got er a whole programme of urban safety management schemes that er are taking a long time to develop , it 's almost two years now , and the main reason for that is toing and froing with different designs with members of the public and the worst thing we could do is actually put in a package of schemes which people say , well that 's not what we wanted anyway . |
| 28 | This is because such schemes are taking a long time to get off the ground and because employers generally recruit from non-local networks ( see also Ladbury and Mira-Smith in this volume ) . |
| 29 | But sources say that Ministers are studying a possible package to extend the compensation scheme for VAT which is planned for pensioners and families with young children . |
| 30 | Clematis are allowed a free rein to climb and scramble through conifers and shrubs |