Example sentences of "are [verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 You react like one when you burn the toast , so why should n't you react like one when you are pitching for a new account ?
2 ‘ Care managers are stepping into a different world , managing budgets and telling clients when they ca n't do something because there is no more money .
3 John Nicholson wafted in and out of their lives and Jack 's recollections of the man he imagined was his father are tinged with a certain sorrow that he had become an alcoholic , with memories of scenes on the home front , and of the young Jack cooling his heels outside one bar or another with a fizzy drink while his ‘ father ’ stood inside drinking neat brandies .
4 With the threat of relegation looming again , the loss of the ground , and the millstone around my neck of a team of asthmatic pine martens with the collective brain power of a kiwi fruit , the pressures on me are building to a frightening pitch .
5 Kevin Scully , senior vice-president of Global Systems and Technology , says : ‘ What we have can be described as a centralised database with applications that are decentralised on a global basis .
6 These , again , are pre-set to a small selection , but , noticeably , they include only those colours that normally print well with a three colour ribbon , which , given the price and target audience of the program , is a sensible move .
7 All 133 bedrooms are furnished to a high standard with en-suite bathroom .
8 The palazzo now offers five lovely apartments all of which are furnished to a high standard some with antiques — and of individual character and charm .
9 The bedrooms are furnished in a traditional style and have air-conditioning .
10 The bedrooms are furnished in a traditional style and have double glazing .
11 Where parasites are congregated within a small area , erosion of the mucosal surface is apparent ( P1.II ) .
12 MORRISSEY and organisers of the ill-fated Madstock Finsbury Park concerts are embroiled in a legal battle , with both parties threatening to sue each other over Morrissey 's non-appearance on the Sunday bill .
13 The guerrillas are embroiled in a civil war against an alliance of rival Tamil groups , the Tamil National Army , in areas from which the Indian Peace-keeping Force has withdrawn .
14 Earnings can fluctuate quite widely from one year to the next , but if long-run earnings are calculated as a moving average of short-run earnings , this will be a much more stable measure .
15 NI contributions are calculated on a payment-by-payment basis according to the earnings period .
16 Taxable profits , which are calculated in a similar way to companies ' taxable profits , are treated as personal income to the sole trader , or split between partners in proportion to their share of profits in the year of assessment .
17 STORM HAVOC : Two camper vans are overturned at a shattered campsite in Vaison-la-Romaine
18 All enrolling students are assigned to a personal tutor , normally an academic teaching in one of their fields , who has responsibility for a total of about a dozen students in various years of the Course .
19 Controlled indexing languages or assigned-term systems are indexing languages in which a person both controls the terms that are used to represent subjects and executes the process whereby terms are assigned to a particular document .
20 ROADS : Almost every week traffic restrictions are placed on a new section of the motorway network , reducing the number of lanes open to traffic from three , to two , or even one .
21 Water drops are placed on a thin piece of polished silicone pointing slightly uphill and coated with a water repellent of increasingly lessening effect as the coating goes uphill .
22 Often the squares are placed in a central position and enclose a figured medallion .
23 But you are placed in a great difficulty .
24 Beakers containing the fluids are placed in a ventilated oven and dried at 100°C for at least 24 hr , cooled in a desiccator , and weighed to 0·001 g
25 To explain the difference between the two structures , they are placed in a realistic context .
26 If , however , they show no sign of ability to make contact or to learn by five years they are placed in a special school , welfare institution or returned to family surroundings .
27 It is essential , however , that all donations are placed in a special envelope or paid by cheque or by Standing Order .
28 Starfish , flatworms and other early animals use a slightly refined system in which the eye-spots are placed in a cup-like depression .
29 Firstly the scientific ideas are altered in a particular way by their transmission .
30 The quantities for most of the meals on the following pages are given for a single portion .
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