Example sentences of "are [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 6/Highlights are masked out while areas are filled in with a thin wash . |
| 5 | The dots are filled in with the appropriate names like this : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | CFCs are broken down in the upper atmosphere by UVB , and release chlorine atoms . |
| 8 | As fibre-rich waste products are broken down in the large bowel , a number of products are formed apart from the release of calories . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The growing demands and applications being made of plastics are filtering through to the additive market , requiring them to be constantly updated and made more efficient , and thus leading to higher prices , explained the report . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | St Joseph 's church at Crofton is retained , and elements of the two churches which have been replaced are carried over into the new one . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Here again they state that the form is for use where works are carried out for an agreed lump sum and where an architect or supervising officer has been appointed on behalf of the employer . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Certain features are carried out on a large scale . |
| 17 | A number of investigations are carried out with the scaled-up analyser to determine what factors can lead to improvement in performance . |
| 18 | Sensitivity at the outset far outweighs a full routine of complicated strokes if they are carried out in a mechanical and impersonal manner . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Economic models are particularly useful since millions of daily transactions are carried out in the real world and so some means must be found of expressing the essential characteristics of the problem at hand . |
| 21 | All the processes other than the actual embroidery are carried out in the numerous ‘ embroidery factories ’ , most of which are located in Funchal . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Similar opinion surveys are carried out throughout the European Economic Community and are published by the European Commission . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | There is now light at the end of the runnel as the contracts are let out in the final stage this month . |
| 26 | New opportunities are opening up in the near future which you must be calm enough to accept . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Women in Hinduism are caught up in a paradoxical view of the female , where the divine can be feminine , yet women are profoundly mistrusted . |
| 30 | We pray for those who are caught up in the human side of the conflict ; for those in camps , held as hostage , deprived of their homes , taken away from their work . |