Example sentences of "are [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train . |
| 2 | The staff and students are quickly getting to know each other and are shaping up into a hardworking and enthusiastic team . |
| 3 | These are faults — which is where John McEnroe comes in — that are smoothed out by a second distillation . |
| 4 | 6/Highlights are masked out while areas are filled in with a thin wash . |
| 5 | Injection pipettes are made in exactly the same way as holding pipettes except that they are broken off at a smaller internal diameter . |
| 6 | These include policies of enforced separation whereby only activities that do not cause conflicts are carried on within a single entity , declining to act in situations of acute conflict , use of independence policies and Chinese walls . |
| 7 | This case also often occurs in practice due to the results of cases such as grouped meter readings from customers who were at home when the meter reader called , combined with customers ' own readings carried out because they were out when the meter reader called , and a number of special checks that are carried out at a different time . |
| 8 | To make sure the system is working says stocktaking exercises are carried out on a regular basis and there are random checks of the collections . |
| 9 | Certain features are carried out on a large scale . |
| 10 | Sensitivity at the outset far outweighs a full routine of complicated strokes if they are carried out in a mechanical and impersonal manner . |
| 11 | Current powers do not allow for searches that are based on a policeman 's hunch that someone may be carrying an illicit article , or for blanket searches that are carried out in a particular area or among particular groups . |
| 12 | Sometimes the salespeople carry out merchandising activities like building up shelf displays , providing window stickers and in-store advertising , although sometimes these duties are carried out by a separate merchandiser or team of merchandisers , particularly when some form of demonstration or product promotion is required . |
| 13 | ‘ They are let out of a greyhound-style trap and can cover more than 100 metres in a matter of seconds when they get a whiff of food , ’ says Michael , 52 . |
| 14 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 15 | The two are caught up in a desperate race to save their women — knowing that the rescue of one means the destruction of the other . |
| 16 | Women in Hinduism are caught up in a paradoxical view of the female , where the divine can be feminine , yet women are profoundly mistrusted . |
| 17 | The traditional multilateral institutions , IMF and World Bank , are gearing up for a major contribution . |
| 18 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
| 19 | Greece and Cyprus stay hot and dry , but the Balkans and Turkey are cooling off to a nice temperature for hikers . |
| 20 | But this information is also readily available if the ferret is fitted with a transmitting device within its collar and the signals from this are picked up on a hand-held receiver . |
| 21 | In The Lost Ship , for instance , a couple of merchant navy apprentices , overboard by accident from a tanker , are picked up by a sinister couple planning to snatch gold from a wreck on a Caribbean island , and in Horseshoe Reef a similar young couple is rescued from shipwreck by a strange , isolated family with criminal intentions . |
| 22 | They are mopping up in a southerly direction . |
| 23 | ‘ We are fed up with a distant bureaucracy telling us what to do with our bikes . |
| 24 | ‘ A lot of people are fed up with a whole range of changes which appear to have no philosophical direction to them , ’ he said . |
| 25 | For this reason , an all-round practice gives better training than a specialised one — but it may be well worth taking articles in a specialised firm if you are assured that they are looking out for a bright young man/woman like you to be a partner . |
| 26 | There is a good programme of daily activities in the Home , and all these are written up on a large board in Peter 's office . |
| 27 | It 's the time when the final pellets of vanity accumulate into a cyst , when the self starts up its last pathetic murmur of ‘ Remember me , remember me … ‘ ; it 's the time when the autobiographies get written , the last boasts are made , and the memories which no one else 's brain still holds are written down with a false idea of value . |
| 28 | More crudely , they are written off as a rampaging mob , victim to primitive urges or the machinations of conspirators . |
| 29 | The way in which these circuits are built up in a structured way out of interacting modules and submodules corresponds well to the use of nested parallel constructs in occam . |
| 30 | Thus the expenditure needs are built up from a whole series of estimates , referring to the many components of Local Government expenditure . |