Example sentences of "[coord] [am/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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They attend different churches and are said to hold separate bank accounts . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Statutory requirements that persons bargain in good faith , or that contractual terms be reasonable , have a relatively narrow ambit , and are interpreted to have minimum impact in the commercial context . |
| 11 | These are accessible from under the famous scimitar truss rod cover/logo plate , and are reputed to obviate any kind of neck warp or twist . |
| 12 | This is particularly clear in childrearing practices where boys and girls are treated identically , and are expected to develop similar person characteristics . |
| 13 | The systems will vary in size from six to 33 users and are expected to provide on-line tax collection system support to more than 3,000 tax officials by the end of the year . |
| 14 | We are assured that the foods now have a date stamp and are guaranteed to reach British shops within six weeks of production . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All breeding and laying flocks have to be registered and are required to undertake extensive testing for salmonella at every stage of the hens ' lives . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Personal evaluations occur bi-annually and are used to assess both changes in the basic wage and individual bonus payments . |
| 21 | It says it has so far received nine orders for the multiprocessor S-MP superservers , which start at $500,000 and are designed to support Sparc-based workstations . |
| 22 | If after I have read my submissions the councils wish and are permitted to make any observations on it , I request the right to reply thereto before the matter is decided by you . |
| 23 | Here we are told for the first time such details as that the Moreens are American , that they require a resident tutor for their sickly child , and that Pemberton is looking for the tutor 's job ; or rather , we are not told , but are led to infer these facts , for James avoids a direct statement of them . |