Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fairies are supposed to make tapestries of light beams , but these tapestries of the mind are made of thread even finer . |
| 2 | Although the thinking behind the switch was unclear , foreign currency experts believe institutions are anxious to square their books ahead of the election , fearing that , whatever the outcome , the next government will adopt narrow bands for sterling . |
| 3 | It is very encouraging to know that so many institutions are keen to establish themselves in the important area of advanced IT training and that a significant contribution to costs came from industry . |
| 4 | Seeking a name , John Fawcus opened a book and the first word that caught his eye was ‘ cryptic ’ So , as established institutions are apt to spring from casual beginnings , was born the club that has prospered peripatetically ever since . |
| 5 | This pattern suggests that individual media institutions are unlikely to survive either in isolation or as independent ( national ) trading units . |
| 6 | This means simply that the customers have the claim on these deposits and thus the institutions are liable to meet the claims . |
| 7 | There are real signs that institutions are ready to advance to new levels of self-understanding and self-criticism . |
| 8 | Given that it seems clear that we may expect students who are well qualified in traditional terms to achieve relatively high levels of academic achievement , an important measure of success may be the extent to which institutions are able to take students who are not well qualified traditionally and achieve relatively high success rates with these students . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) The loans must be to defray expenditure incurred in acquiring ordinary share capital of a close company complying with s13A(2) as described above , or in lending to such a close company where the money loaned is used wholly and exclusively for the purpose of its business or the business of any of its associated companies provided the latter are also close companies satisfying the conditions of s13A(2). ( 3 ) When interest is paid on the manager 's loan , Newco must continue to comply with s13A(2) — this means it must continue to satisfy the relevant purpose test rather than that it should continue to remain a close company ; in the case of a purchase of shares in Target , the reason why Newco should be close after the institutions commit to invest is to ensure that institutions and management can invest at the same time and that , at that time , Newco is both close and satisfies the relevant purpose test , ie already controls Target ; management can not commit Newco to acquiring Target until the institutions have committed to funding Newco , and once they have so committed the institutions are likely to control Newco under s416 , so a structure is needed whereby management also controls Newco at this point . |
| 10 | If the new higher education funding bodies established by the Education Reform Act ( 1988 ) were to rely over-heavily on numerical ‘ performance indicators ’ in assessing the extent to which institutions have fulfilled the contracts for which they are funded , institutions are likely to develop course appraisal systems which record performance in just those terms . |
| 11 | Although higher education institutions are supposed to embody a detached and rational stance towards the world , they seem to behave much as any other kind of institution when faced with the need to determine internal priorities or fend off external threats . |
| 12 | Fairley argues that such conventions demand systematic investigation , since they constitute the core of the " literary competence " that educational institutions are supposed to make available for students . |
| 13 | In the opinion of Alan Malcolm , KPMG 's corporate finance partner in Glasgow , this is largely due to the fact that vendors ' price expectations still greatly exceed what managements are prepared to pay and what banks and institutions are prepared to back . |
| 14 | Few financial institutions are prepared to lend to proprietors and partnerships on this basis . |
| 15 | For Gandhi , particular religions are necessary to convey what it might mean to speak of the one , true and perfect Religion which is beyond predication and not realized within finite existence . |
| 16 | The Giants are easy to spot . |
| 17 | ( Infuriatingly , though , the notes are due to appear in a separate volume , which has still not been published , so it is impossible to tell whether the quotation comes from a letter , from conversation or from some unauthenticated report at second-hand . ) |
| 18 | Pre-1974 ( Local Government re-organization ) Local Acts are due to expire 31st December , 1979 in Metropolitan areas and 31st December , 1984 elsewhere . |
| 19 | Women and non-whites are likely to experience particular difficulty . |
| 20 | A system can be designed much more economically if it can be assumed that skilled personnel are available to control and take care of it . |
| 21 | Cyclists and horse riders are keen to progress with the scheme but there has been some opposition from one particular village . |
| 22 | Those that remain awake are sometimes sluggish and temperamental , so their riders are reluctant to use their mounts save in times of direst need . |
| 23 | We have n't had any arguments which tandem riders are supposed to do . |
| 24 | Before a split , better make sure you are with the majority faction ( or Bolsheviks ) , for the Mensheviks are likely to lose out . |
| 25 | The ribbons are first seen when Lise ties them to a nail on the wall . |
| 26 | Much of Leith 's discussions are difficult to follow because he never makes clear , in dealing with doubts about neo-Darwinism , what are really unwarrantable , what are due to muddle , what arise only from practical difficulties in actual research , and what are real doubts of principle . |
| 27 | All that is here assumed is that reasons are insufficient to establish the superiority of one option over the others . |
| 28 | Kinetic reasons are unlikely to explain this difference , since unchelated zinc and copper have rates of ligand exchange similar to those of magnesium and calcium , such as water exchange rate constants . |
| 29 | In combination , these three reasons are likely to draw the members of the European Community close together in the postwar phase ; they are also likely to open up a large divergence of views between Europe and the US . |
| 30 | But some objects are hard to value . |