Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The payment will be available to teaching staff until such time as the Teachers ' Superannuation ( Scotland ) Regulations are amended to provide for an injury allowance . |
| 2 | The points noted below are intended to serve as a guide on how to maximise this resource . |
| 3 | These measures could quite justifiably be regarded as something of a sledgehammer to crack a very small nut , since they are intended to deal with a problem the existence of which is almost totally unproven . |
| 4 | Mass mobilisations by the so-called ‘ pro-life ’ forces in Buffalo are designed to focus on an issue that puts liberals on the defensive : abortion is to the US Democratic Party what taxes were to Labour . |
| 5 | Some stoves are designed to operate on a variety of liquid fuels including , for example , white spirit . |
| 6 | Speakers and headphones are designed to work from a zero impedance source . |
| 7 | ‘ But for subsequent years , as the economy strengthens , my proposals are designed to build in a wedge of steadily rising revenue . |
| 8 | ‘ You are forbidden to speak to an officer in that fashion . ’ |
| 9 | They also are expected to call for a UN arms embargo . |
| 10 | ‘ You are expected to perform straight away and if you are in a front-running car you are expected to perform like a front-runner immediately . |
| 11 | Further , these purchases are expected to lead to an increase in the price of financial assets and a fall in their yields ( i.e. interest rates ) . |
| 12 | As a consequence they pose real problems to the policy maker , practitioner and manager , who are expected to respond to a problem the magnitude and significance of which are open to wide and sometimes conflicting interpretations . |
| 13 | Northern Ireland , with the pressure off , are expected to go for a win . |
| 14 | Children are expected to conform to a plan . |
| 15 | It suffices that customers are expected to act in a way that will provide economic benefits to the entity . |
| 16 | WinServers are expected to sell for an average of £40,000 to £50,000 in the UK — prices are n't available until the systems are ready to ship — and will be offered with Oracle 7.0 , Microsoft SQL Server and other database options . |
| 17 | Arguments about carbon emissions are expected to come to a head in the forthcoming UNCED " Earth Summit " to be held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992 , where a global warming treaty is expected to be signed . |
| 18 | We are an integral part of a large organisation and are expected to work as a team . |
| 19 | Both the statement and financial figures are expected to relate to a plan for development over a period of 3–4 years . |
| 20 | However , students are expected to bring to a module and to use in an examination perspectives related to their particular fields of study . |
| 21 | Notice that already , in talking about different tones , some idea of function has been introduced ; speakers are said to select from a choice of tones according to how they want the utterance to be heard , and it is implied that the listener will hear one-syllable utterances said with different tones as sounding different in some way . |
| 22 | In the New Testament there are four different words that are used to refer to a gift and the one used here means an endowment , and an endowment comes , not because of me , but it becomes because of the grace of the giver . |
| 23 | Owners are told to start with a children 's toilet seat taped to an ordinary cat litter box . |
| 24 | GOODS are needed to sell at a church fete next month in Tarvin . |
| 25 | Such membrane changes are the hallmark of NANC nerve mediated relaxation and are thought to result from an increase in potassium conductance . |
| 26 | The details you give are assessed according to a points system and then the bank may check with a credit reference agency to see whether you have a previous record of not paying your debts . |
| 27 | ( The restaurant is closed on Tuesdays when guests are invited to dine at a restaurant in San Gimignano . ) |
| 28 | He writes , for example , a fine satiric account of a Hollywood producer 's stag party where the guests are compelled to sit in a circle , bang drums and earnestly articulate their feelings about the groom . |
| 29 | Six months are spent studying at an Institut Universitaire de Technologie specializing in Marketing , Management/Personnel or Computing , and this is followed by a 3-month integrated work placement . |
| 30 | The Laboulbeniales demonstrate a high degree of host specificity , and by this criterion are highly advanced ; most infect only a single species of arthropod , or at most a small group of closely related host species , and only a few are known to occur on a variety of distantly related hosts . |