Example sentences of "are [prep] [be] [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 LONG-STAY hospital patients in Ayr are to be given the opportunity of moving into small staffed community homes thanks to £2.6 million of bridging finance from the National Health Service .
2 DRIVERS in Scotland caught committing a range of traffic offences are to be given the option of agreeing an on-the-spot penalty with police .
3 If payments are to be certified the builder 's surveyor may delay the issue of the documentation until the interim certificate for the main contract is received from the architect .
4 Smugglers , drug addicts and couriers were frequent travellers , and if all the stories are to be believed the train carried every spy from the notorious Mata Hari to the faceless agents of the cold war .
5 A statement is expected before Christmas on how many of Hong Kong 's 3 million British passport-holders are to be granted the right of residence in the United Kingdom .
6 If all modules in the LIFESPAN system are to be listed the user should enter ‘ A ’ ; if only a subset is required the user should enter ‘ P ’ .
7 The outposts of Imperialism in the Third World are to be denied the support of Imperialist powers .
8 If confusion and resentment are to be avoided the change-over must be simple to understand and must have been heralded so far in advance that it is almost an anti-climax when it finally comes .
9 In the primary care sector of the NHS , general practitioners ( GPs ) with large practices are to be offered the chance to control their own budgets and to buy hospital services on behalf of their patients .
10 The EP , consisting of four tracks recorded after the LP was completed , are to be deleted the week after release .
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