Example sentences of "are [adv] [verb] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside investors are apparently clamouring to have a share of the service , which is expected to launch later this year . |
| 2 | What interests me is why you are so determined to find a scapegoat for your own inner fears . ’ |
| 3 | Can can I just say that I think it 's interesting that Mao 's sort of targeting the local tyrants and the erm the evil gentry I mean because you could , you could ar argue that basically the landlords are only trying to get a return erm which is , which is equal to what they can get if they invest all their money in or you know erm or whatever or big cities |
| 4 | ‘ Look , ’ sniffed Mel , ‘ these guys are only trying to make a bob or two … and from what I gather they usually rake in a fair bit . ’ |
| 5 | What happened was that we began to do all kinds of things that are normally done to support a tour that you farm out , but we used to do it in-house , so we had our own publicity department , our own travel department — we booked our own flights and our own hotels , we did n't use a travel agency . |
| 6 | ( 4 ) The offeror 's solicitors are normally asked to undertake a review of all publicly available documents ( such as memoranda and articles of association , Loan Stock Trust Deeds , material contracts etc ) to elicit whether the takeover would constitute a default thereunder , trigger an early repayment of loans or the exercise of options or the documents could in some other way impact on the takeover . |
| 7 | This magnificent insect , as well as being rare , frequents the tops of oak trees , rarely descending to the forest glades , so binoculars are normally required to catch a sight of it . |
| 8 | It is probably obvious that comparability of unitization and assessment pattern , the frequency with which modules run ( often termly for popular Stage I modules ) , common requirements for students seeking the same qualification ( e.g. all honours students are normally required to complete a project ) , and central provision of course-wide performance data , all operate to facilitate monitoring and to reduce the burden it places upon staff . |
| 9 | The time will rapidly approach , however , no doubt just as interest rates are finally reduced to match a reduction in German interest rates ( if the pound remains attached formally or informally to the Deutschmark ) when the correct policy will be to raise interest rates . |
| 10 | When they are finally allowed to return a year and a half later , they discover that Xorandor and seventeen of his children are under close surveillance in different parts of the world , but that he has ‘ programmed ’ them to escape and neutralize nuclear missiles . |
| 11 | This recognition of the " blurred roles " of teachers and librarians , and of the importance of providing opportunities for those who wish to gain an understanding of and professional accreditation in both professions , has long been the case at school level in the USA , where school librarians are generally required to have a proportion of undergraduate and graduate credits in both disciplines ( the regulations vary from state to state ) , and the education system has long been flexible enough to meet the need without the provision of special courses ( though this has its disadvantage in that some students may therefore miss the opportunity to make direct cross-disciplinary comparisons under academic supervision ) . |
| 12 | The parts of the world — the Third World — which may suffer a loss , real or relative , as a result are generally estimated to have a debt of $1300 billion . |
| 13 | ‘ We are already pushed to complete a season if the weather is good . |
| 14 | The 6.00 news , this is Annie Webster , Police investigating a triple murder in Buckinghamshire are tonight trying to persuade a man hiding in nearby woods not to kill himself , Paul Chandler reports : |
| 15 | Police investigating a triple murder in Buckinghamshire are tonight trying to persuade a man hiding in nearby woods not to kill himself . |
| 16 | And police investigating a triple murder in Buckinghamshire are tonight trying to persuade a man hiding in nearby woods not to kill himself . |
| 17 | ‘ It is an absolute red herring and they are just trying to make a mountain out of a molehill ’ — NEIL GRAY ( All Black manager in Australia ) after his team had been accused of excessively tough tactics in beating New South Wales ( 41–9 ) . |
| 18 | Try to learn to tell the difference between people who are just wanting to have a row and people who REALLY want to know more about Jesus . |
| 19 | As we go into the south we are just going to conduct a rent reduction , interest reduction campaign and we , we will then aim to consolidate that position and at some stage we will then move forward into land reform again , but to do that we will probably need a new land law because we 're recognizing the old agrarian land law is , is inappropriate , absolute egalitarianism is now dead in a sense of as erm it 's sort of saying that , that as Mao is arguing in May forty eight , May forty eight that absolute egalitarianism is wrong . |
| 20 | Librarians are gradually beginning to apply a systems approach in which different types of sign are used to illustrate different functions such as orientation , direction , identification , instruction , prohibition or regulation and current awareness . |
| 21 | Now I 'd like to bring you back to Mr Williamson 's opening remarks in which he described the allocations of land for industry and all these other things that are tied in with industry now as generous , making generous allocations , and the Civic Society would like to see those allocations rather less generous , we are like trying to develop a climate of restraint when on the expansion of Harrogate and the rate at which people are encouraged or wish to come into the town . |
| 22 | Certainly they are forever trying to find a chink between their world and this . |
| 23 | Now if Mr is saying that outside the context of the structure plan entirely which is all I took him to be saying , that the members of North Yorkshire County Council are still determined to build a road to the north of of erm |
| 24 | Even if their child stays away from school parents are still urged to seek a refund as the council believes children should have the same rights as other rail users . |
| 25 | Smyth , an Irish international cricketer , is one of the most exciting batsmen in the country at the moment and he and Kilgore are both hoping to score a lot of runs in tomorrow 's final against North Down . |
| 26 | 1 Bilingual Service Providers — people who are both qualified to provide a service ( such as doctors , policemen , lawyers and environmental health officers ) and are competent to offer that service in either English or another language . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , more subtle prognostic indicators are urgently needed to assess a tumour 's capacity for metastatic spread , and to plan adjuvant radio- or chemotherapy . |
| 28 | The bristles are carefully sculptured to form a cup shape . |
| 29 | The SSA would not normally condone betting , but for a good cause head office staff are positively encouraged to have a flutter by SSA chairman On February 5 around 8O people put down their stakes for four horse and four videoed greyhound races . |
| 30 | ‘ We are also trying to arrange a surprise visiting loco but at the moment details have not yet been finalised with its owner . |