Example sentences of "are [verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present , local authorities are building not for the poorest , nor for the slum-dweller , but mainly for those better off . |
| 2 | What aims , objectives , hopes , wishes and intentions are gathered together under the broad heading of resource-based learning ? |
| 3 | These charges , and any interest payable on an overdraft , are calculated up to the first Friday in March , June , September and December , and deducted from your account 14 days later . |
| 4 | So work has started to spread the ‘ learning difficulties ’ modules throughout the catalogue to ensure that they are placed firmly in the appropriate cognate group . |
| 5 | FOUR different countries are hidden away in the damp jungles of Panama . |
| 6 | Calculations for the sampling errors of some variables have been published in the individual WFS country reports , but the WFS data are given usually without the relevant confidence intervals . |
| 7 | Wales welcome their arch-humiliators with open jaws , the scent of an overdue kill growing in nostrils that are flaring again under the inspirational coaching of Alan Davies . |
| 8 | Welcome back:The Princess of Wales will visit two groups for people with HIV and Aids tomorrow , drawing national attention to way sufferers are treated here in the Central region . |
| 9 | Well , they are played but not , not very often , and they are treated not with the same respect as we treat them . |
| 10 | His financial transactions during the start-up period are listed below in the first column and are identified by capital letters . |
| 11 | Their qualifications are validated either by the British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education ( BACIFHE ) or by one of the independent professional bodies such as the National Council for Drama Training or the Council for Dance Education , or are the college 's own non-validated certificates or diplomas . |
| 12 | If Mr Newton is right , perhaps Mr Lamont will one day be able to please the traditionalists … by announcing that the railways are to go back to the good old steam age . |
| 13 | I am sure that my hon. Friend is right , in that it makes sense to believe that if young people from both sides of the community are taught together in the same classrooms , they will value equally both traditions and will be more likely than some others to find common ground in later life . |
| 14 | Notice how the sunset and the greeting are welded together in the last stanzas and are transformed into the endless journey and ‘ human sweetness ’ of the last three lines . |
| 15 | The dots are filled in with the appropriate names like this : |
| 16 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |
| 17 | These two approaches are examined separately in the following Sections . |
| 18 | We are touching here on the sensitive area of competitive tendering and of privatisation . |
| 19 | CFCs are broken down in the upper atmosphere by UVB , and release chlorine atoms . |
| 20 | As fibre-rich waste products are broken down in the large bowel , a number of products are formed apart from the release of calories . |
| 21 | Entries provide address , phone number and and service offered and ( most usefully ) the restorer 's qualifications if any , and are arranged geographically under the relevant speciality such as furniture or works on paper . |
| 22 | This strategy and the supportive arguments are explained briefly in the following paragraphs |
| 23 | Thus is perpetuated the unanswerable myth whereby all mysteries are explained away by the simple process of ascribing them to some remote and inaccessible ‘ god ’ who created everything . |
| 24 | Roxburgh knows that the Italians are favourites to win his group and that the odds are stacked heavily against the Scots qualifying for a sixth successive appearance in the World Cup finals . |
| 25 | When the radicals are formed initially in the aqueous phase of whole blood , the water soluble antixoidants in the plasma such as vitamin C and plasma vitamin E participate in the primary defence and later vitamin E in the erythrocyte membrane decreases . |
| 26 | Calcareous crusts , often termed calcrete and sometimes caliche , the latter being an ambiguous term in view of its alternative use mentioned above , are formed earlier in the evaporating sequence than gypcretes . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position . |
| 28 | This does n't require prohibitively much energy : a male 's tiny pinprick can be seen by a female from some distance on a dark night , since her eyes are exposed directly to the light source itself . |
| 29 | some proteins are exposed only to the interior surface of the cell . |
| 30 | some proteins are exposed only to the exterior surface of the cell . |