Example sentences of "are [verb] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remainder are calculated by calibrating the theoretical model such that the parameters are consistent with equilibrium in the market in a given period . |
| 2 | Private companies can get rid of the pre-emptive rights — by altering their articles , again by special resolution — unless and until the articles are altered by deleting the relevant clause . |
| 3 | Easy to follow instructions on how to use this service are given by ringing the above number . |
| 4 | B types are broken on mixing the two components . |
| 5 | Above all , we are committed to providing the best service in the business . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I have worked closely with Technology on a number of service projects and I know that they are committed to providing the best possible service , ’ said John . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , sponsors of commissioned works are committed to accepting the finished product , even if the composer fails to produce exactly what was envisaged or specified . |
| 8 | Security 's being tightened up around the breeding pens … but staff are committed to maintaining the same easy access to the birds for visitors to the trust . |
| 9 | At The Shaker Shop , Tim Lamb and Liz Shirley are committed to presenting the essential simplicity of authentic Shaker style . |
| 10 | ‘ We are committed to retaining the nuclear option for the future , provided the industry can demonstrate that nuclear generation is economic and provided it can meet rigorous standards of safety and environmental protection . ’ |
| 11 | We are committed to applying the best practicable health and safety standards in our business to protect our employees , contractors , visitors , customers , shareholders and the community . |
| 12 | The departments which teach modern European languages — French , German , Italian , Portuguese , Russian , Scandinavian , Spanish , Celtic — are committed to preserving the best features of traditional courses of language study so that students may acquire competence and skill in the written and spoken language as well as an extensive knowledge of the literature and civilisation of the countries concerned . |
| 13 | In the first and last resort , the law , and therefore all courts and judges , are committed to upholding the prevailing social , economic and political order and they will not countenance activities that threaten that order . |
| 14 | Nevertheless they are constrained from deploying the usual wind-up techniques by their overriding concern to justify their actions and attitudes to someone who disapproved of them but whom they perceived to be in a position to influence their situation for better or worse . |
| 15 | Once our parents are dead , we are catapulted into becoming the older generation ourselves . |
| 16 | Here I am talking to you about myself — a thing I assure you I very very rarely do — while you are shrinking from making the slightest personal communication to me . |
| 17 | The room numbers are ascertained by using the alphabetical guest list . |
| 18 | They are selected by typing the corresponding integer and RETURN . |
| 19 | ‘ It is possible they operate individually but are connected by having the same contacts , for instance a dealer in Essex or Ireland , ’ said Det Sgt Elston . |
| 20 | On each option date employees will be notified , by circulation and notice board , of the price at which options are available ; applications are made by completing the appropriate form which is incorporated in the Rules of the Scheme available from the Personnel Manager . |
| 21 | The clearing banks keep operational balances at the Bank which are used for settling the final position at the end of the day between the Bank and the banking system , and their drawing down of money from the discount houses will be designed to keep these balances at a " target " level considered appropriate given the uncertainty of the daily cash flows to the Bank . |
| 22 | For convenience q may be replaced by r , the number of chain segments , although q will actually be less than r because some of the external contacts are used in forming the covalent bonds in the chain . |
| 23 | Firstly , they are used in focusing the search on promising hypotheses , but ultimately they are needed for choosing the final interpretation of a unit . |
| 24 | Macari and two other former club officials are accused of cheating the Inland Revenue out of hundreds of thousands of pounds by not disclosing the payments . |
| 25 | Macari and two other club officials are accused of defrauding the Inland Revenue by paying illegal tax-free bonuses to players . |
| 26 | In Latvia , thoughts are turning to bringing the former Soviet satellite state back into the ‘ light ’ and that means the suppressed aviators are beginning to stir . |
| 27 | We 've got two officer 's for example who are leading on working the young people in the town , Youth Development Officer 's er we , the Local Government Unit has a policy team initiated work on the youth policy , and this arose out of erm a member seminar 's , September eighty nine , where er the members felt that really the Council was n't doing enough for young people , that we as a Council , not not to think about young in the way we deliver our services and it was felt that we needed to go out and talked to young people , which we did in the winter of that year , erm and find out what they wanted from us , and the res as a result of that , that , that policy , and that consultation exercise has now developed into a front line service where we have two people full time working with young people in the town and that 's on various things , graffiti project , the underpasses in the town we , which have got graffiti type I mean I know there not everybody 's cup of tea , but I mean they way . |
| 28 | Such sections are produced by extending the 1 µm diamond finishing stage , at which material is slowly removed and thus more easily controlled . |
| 29 | A few of the population are employed in maintaining the two lighthouses , Skroo at the north end and Skaden at the south end . |
| 30 | Full-time reserve police on the whole are people who are disqualified from entering the regular force as a result of age , height , or physical health . |