Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notice that Wordsworth can play off speech-rhythm against the iambic pattern ; if one reads the extract aloud ‘ List'ning ’ and ‘ Broke ’ , for example , are heard to run counter to the expected rhythm and help the verse to mime what is being described . |
| 2 | Yet , analysts are heard asking time and again , ‘ Tell me what you want . |
| 3 | Parallel transporting a vector around the loop ABCDA induces changes which are calculated using eqn ( 6.10 ) . |
| 4 | Occasionally , when manpower allows , men from the sections are assigned to beat duty and can walk anywhere within the Easton district in order to show a presence and look for minor crime . |
| 5 | When the project is completed , the group members are transferred back to the basic structure , or they are given operating responsibility for the new product in a new unit . |
| 6 | Under the CAP , export subsidies are given to bring EC prices down to world prices . |
| 7 | A huge cast of characters — each of whom are given intermeshing chapters to narrate the US perspective on the mess and sacrifice of World War Two — is flung out all over the globe . |
| 8 | Bigger classes and lower education standards are predicted as teachers are sacked to save money . |
| 9 | That set of industries which are natural monopolies , are perfectly contestable and are sustained using Ramsey prices , give rise to a socially very desirable result . |
| 10 | Sometimes there is a fixed pass mark and leavers receive their certificates graded as I , II , or III ; sometimes passes or grades are adjusted to fit places available in secondary school , but in either case , everyone knows that there are just so many secondary school places , and many , many more aspirants for them . |
| 11 | We are taught to block pain . |
| 12 | ‘ We are taught to resist pain . |
| 13 | Gridiron players are taught to tackle head first , driving their facemask into the opponent 's chest . |
| 14 | Ten to 17-year-olds are taught to take responsibility for themselves , to understand the effects of their crime on the local community and to compensate their victim . |
| 15 | I do not know if scientists are taught to write precis or if arts students are still made to study a little science . |
| 16 | We are taught to raise families and that is a hierarchy that shows no sign of becoming a network . |
| 17 | We are taught to equate beauty with ‘ success ’ , ‘ social mobility ’ and sexual desire . |
| 18 | Just as dentists are taught to plug cavities on sight , so they are trained to remove badly worn , leaky or broken fillings . |
| 19 | The fact that the younger the subject is , the more able he is to recall details of past lives , seems to me to be quite simple to understand : it is only as our children pass through the Western educational system that they are taught to forego intuition and creativity in favour of logic and calculation . |
| 20 | They are the dynamos of the cell being the site where sugars are oxidised to form Adenosine Triphosphate ( ATP ) , the chemical which is the immediate source of energy for most vital processes . |
| 21 | a stage in book binding where after sewing the sheets are pressed to expel air . |
| 22 | In Improving Secondary Schools ( Hargreaves Report ILEA 1984 ) , specific recommendations , aimed at all involved in the delivery of the education service , are highlighted to reduce levels of underachievement and disaffection . |
| 23 | Around 4,921 officers are aligned to patrol work , which is 44pc of the total force . |
| 24 | Certain types of cylindrical brush machines are arranged to flick dirt and used cleaning solution into d collector tank via a rotating collection drum so cleaning and drying the floor in a single pass . |
| 25 | The servers are optimised to support NetWare 4.0 and Windows NT , and are due to start shipping June 1 . |
| 26 | Up to now , Mitsubishi Electric 's only widely-reported involvement in microprocessors has been its tie-up with Fujitsu Ltd and Hitachi Ltd on the G-micro family of chips that are optimised to run Japan 's Tron real-time nucleus . |
| 27 | If for any reason no cells are formed containing pole plasm — and this does sometimes happen — the resulting flies are sterile for life . ’ |
| 28 | Modules with very high or low means or wide or narrow standard deviations are referred to field committees for comment in the subsequent annual review cycle . |
| 29 | Bureaucrats make bad leaders because they are indoctrinated to accept authority , so any period of their ascendancy produces conservative , unimaginative and unbalanced leadership . |
| 30 | Radar transmitters blast out up to 100 kW , with the result that many areas of the deck are exposed to field intensities greater than 30 W/m . |