Example sentences of "[pron] are [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In fact over two million people in the UK have the disease , but only a quarter of them are getting any treatment .
2 All those are practical methods , all of them are working , and all of them are delivering better health care and will deliver faster health care .
3 Much to mummy and daddy 's despair , none of them are showing any inclination to .
4 Negative , extremist , in them are fused sectarian party orthodoxy and individual self-deliverance .
5 The only problem is — Francisco and I are buying this villa from Mum and Dad .
6 Avoid non-brewed condiments , which are diluted acetic acid coloured with caramel and without the rounded acidity of a true vinegar .
7 But there is growing consensus that the broader functions of a medical education , which are assuming greater importance in the undergraduate curriculum , are not so easy to learn from someone untrained in educational method .
8 For the more environmentally sensitive areas which are assuming more importance , the
9 Other winners in the awards ceremony seen as a pointer to the Hollywood Oscars which are announced next week included Silence of the Lambs star Anthony Hopkins .
10 The following notes have been reproduced in full by courtesy of the London Chamber of Commerce which are organising this mission .
11 Since , after normal ovulation , between 6 and 12 eggs are recovered , success is measured by the number which are undergoing mitotic division and the number of divisions which can be analysed .
12 The party leadership faces unrest over the poll tax , water and electricity privatisation and the changes to the health service , in addition to rising mortgage rates , which are damaging Tory support .
13 Some of the words listed by Hewitt are in fact just special uses of existing British English words , which are given new meaning within the youth culture : e.g. hard , soff ( soft ) , dread , star , sweet .
14 The microeconomic imperfections which are given special attention are imperfect information ( eg firms ' inability to monitor accurately the productivities of their employees ) , imperfect competition ( eg collective bargaining ) , and various transactions costs ( eg the costs of hiring , training , and firing employees ) .
15 My Lords , is my Noble Friend aware that many parents and teachers who have been deeply dissatisfied and disillusioned by local education authority schools in fact just set up their own new schools which are providing excellent education and really meeting those parental wishes , often with very strong er spiritual and moral values .
16 According to metaphysics , even terminal diseases can potentially be cured , by tackling the emotional blocks , imbalances and negative beliefs which are creating that illness .
17 However , at British Airways Cargo it is the global implications of the Single Market which are receiving most attention , ’ says Peter White .
18 Much of the stonework had become coated with a black layer of gypsum ( calcium sulphate ) and soot , while the lower levels of the façade are also affected by salt and nitrates which are causing severe damage .
19 The plant 's output will allow a 40 per cent reduction in the capacity of brown coal-fired power stations in northern Bohemia , which are causing severe pollution in the area [ see ED68 ] .
20 He created two competing monopolies which are causing considerable unrest within the industry .
21 Look out for ‘ Weeping Standards ’ which are repeat flowering ground cover roses grafted onto standard stems .
22 After consulting this same healer on several further occasions , Simone decided to join a small team of people specialising in past-life therapy , and now helps others to come to terms with traumas in the past which are blocking present progress or happiness .
23 The existence of such conflicts had been acknowledged and deplored as early as the 1580s by George Gifford 's non-Puritan countryman , who had commented : ‘ I know towns myself which are divided one part against another since they had a preacher , which was not so before … whereas before they loved each other , now there is dissension sown among them . ’
24 One large-scale source is the public examination statistics for England and Wales , which are published each year .
25 Staw and Szwajkowski attempted to test the following hypothesis : ‘ when the organization is located within a scarce environment , one method of coping with intra- and extra-organizational demands may be to perform activities which are legally questionable … the more scarce the environment of a business organization , the more likely it will engage in activities which are considered unfair market practices or restraints of trade ’ ( 1975 : 346–47 ) .
26 But his assertion that a Scottish parliament should have some say over the siting on Trident nuclear missiles in Scotland brought an angry Mr Hughes to the rostrum : ‘ Let's not get dragged down the back alleys of stupid silly little constitutional issues which are doing this party no good whatsoever . ’
27 Electronics designers will need to follow some rules of thumb , many of which will be familiar , such as mains filtration , adopting a sensible grounding policy , minimising ground impedance , minimising cable lengths , screening cables which are carrying high frequency , large magnitude signals or which contain sensitive signals , and grouping cables to separate the sensitive from the interfering .
28 Students at the University are eligible to apply for sports bursaries which are awarded each year to those students who have already shown that they have exceptional sporting ability and who wish to achieve further excellence .
29 There are several developments which are enabling rapid change to take place in telecommunications .
30 THE Road Haulage Association is warning about a team of bogus engineers who are contacting mobile phone users on the pretext of tracing and solving connection problems .
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