Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] and [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although patients need to be protected from risk , we must be sure that the precautions taken are justified and that social support networks that have taken years to develop are not unnecessarily shattered . |
| 2 | However , occasions will arise where contributions are justified and this should be actively pursued with the insurer concerned . |
| 3 | Suppose , then , that a , b ε Z are given and that , to avoid trivialities , neither a nor b is zero . |
| 4 | Some youngsters who sniff have accidents while they are intoxicated and some suffer damage to their health . |
| 5 | IntelliDraw , on the other hand , tries to detect near alignments between the object you are drawing and all the other objects on the screen and places a blue guideline automatically . |
| 6 | The ways this might happen are limited and most involve specific types of behaviour . |
| 7 | Please hurry though , stocks are limited and this offer must close on Saturday 30th June 1990 . |
| 8 | Added to this is the historical argument that in the tropics more of the available ‘ niches ’ are filled and that , because of ice ages or other environmental factors , temperate habitats are not yet saturated with species . |
| 9 | What action would you take to ensure all records are amended and all departments are notified ? |
| 10 | A few days before discharge is expected , any services required are arranged and any drugs , dressings and appliances ( e.g. Mr Reynolds ' stoma equipment ) are ordered . |
| 11 | Suddenly , the circumstantial shackles are banished and this hirsute foursome wings scarcely precedented amounts of beauty and pathos from their thunderous psycho-grunge blueprint . |
| 12 | It 's hard to say at this point how many are now in prison as some are scattered and some gone underground . |
| 13 | It seems that while everybody does dream during REM sleep , most dreams are forgotten and some people forget more readily than others . |
| 14 | Limited provisions for fluctuations are included and some choice is given to the employer in the subcontractors to be employed for specialist work . |
| 15 | It is not really a cost of living index since many goods of a luxury nature are included and several items ( e.g. income tax , insurance premiums , etc. ) for which it is hard to identify ‘ units ’ of sale are excluded . |
| 16 | Wards are mixed and many of us only see a nurse at meal times . |
| 17 | But his eyes are averted and this combined with the sudden dwindling of scale conveys the sense that the sitter is both immediately present and unobtainable . |
| 18 | Meanwhile good news in the clear up rate of robberies , about a third of those recorded in the Thames Valley are solved and that is higher than the national average . |
| 19 | All pets are inoculated and all strays ruthlessly destroyed . |
| 20 | All the basic properties of Wave Motion are considered and some time is spent on Ray Optics and Simple Electricity . |
| 21 | So what you do as a trainer in a circus you try and encourage the animal to want to the act and to reinforce it for so doing and that may be food , it may be actually just affection for the people who are training and that 's what a trainer wants to try and . |
| 22 | Steam days are held on the first Saturday of each month from April to October when as many as possible of the exhibits are operated and many additional attractions are provided . |
| 23 | This provides the framework for a theory of why some areas are regulated and some not , albeit a partial one since it depends on the pattern of interests . |
| 24 | Well certainly at times of stress erm all sorts of things are revealed and that 's one of the reasons why the current situation and the anxiety and level of stress around has resulted in people feeling a whole range of things that perhaps has actually surprised them erm and therefore it 's not surprising that children are equally filled with all sorts of the mixed emotions about what 's going on . |
| 25 | Wensley ( 1981 ) says that management must decide how much effort should be exerted on CAPM compared to the strategic analysis of competitive advantage , but the position adopted here is that the two concepts are related and that effort on one ought to improve understanding of the other , even if little research on such matters has yet been performed . |
| 26 | No summary data are presented and some of the individual trials did not measure quality of life at all . |
| 27 | The reviews are collected and another meeting scheduled between the facilitator and the idea originator . |
| 28 | B. On the lowland plains more fodder crops , including barley , oats , turnips and swedes are grown and much hay is made from grass grown in rotation with these arable crops . |
| 29 | This means that fewer cereal crops ( such as oats ) are grown and more land is put down to grass . |
| 30 | Erm the president finds that people only obey his decisions if certain conditions are met and these conditions rarely come together . |