Example sentences of "[conj] are [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People only go to hospital when they are sick or are visiting the sick . |
| 2 | The two luxury cars that are capturing the German imagination . |
| 3 | But these services are not among those that are experiencing the highest growth rates in the 1980s . |
| 4 | Interest has centred on the role of two small groups of cells , one on either side of the brain , that are called the suprachiasmatic nuclei ( SCN ) . |
| 5 | He says ’ I think that for everyone who is objecting to the festival locally there are a lot more who are happy to see it go on and see the space used properly and there are twenty five thousand people here from all over the country that are loving the three days . ’ |
| 6 | Well I think if you look at the main jobs in Britain , all the managers are male , and I think it 's , it 's gon na change when we do have females and males in all these erm , these jobs that are managing the main N H S , social work |
| 7 | They not only face the dangers of living in a war-torn society , but also risk torture or death for wanting to tell the truth as they see it and for refusing to be a part of the various propaganda machines that are fuelling the present conflict . |
| 8 | The fish are drawn into nets using an electrical charge ; the more fish that are caught the purer the water is likely to be . |
| 9 | The incidents that are reported the following day are necessarily the more memorable ones — memorable for their oddity . |
| 10 | And she 's just like , this really officious and then , she just said , everybody goes round , and they try and get the cheapest price and they go back to the place that are giving the cheapest price , whatever . |
| 11 | United States climatologists are discussing preliminary evidence that sulphur dioxide — a major pollutant and contributor to acid rain — may be inducing localised cooling effects that are countering the warming influences of greenhouse gases . |
| 12 | As a result , more than 70 per cent of the population now have a Current Account and are enjoying the many advantages it gives them — cheques , instant cash , Standing Orders and Direct Debits . |
| 13 | Finally , assuming that you have made it to the right starting line in plenty of time , wearing the right kit and your race number , and are facing the correct way when the cannon sounds , there is just one last piece of essential advice : do n't panic ! |
| 14 | Hunters are cashing in on this shortage and expense of whale meat , and are providing the Japanese market with a more affordable substitute of dolphin flesh . |
| 15 | It also ensures that all outcomes are covered by the assessments and are given the right emphasis , whether the assessment is knowledge-based or practical , achieved in the workplace or in a classroom . |
| 16 | They scrounge wiring , plasterboard , wood , all kinds of building materials from local firms and are rebuilding the charred structure . |
| 17 | They want instant results and are asking the impossible . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ What I do is follow the money and make sure the people who are spending it on my behalf are actually the right sort of people , and are doing the right sort of job . ’ |
| 19 | Campaigning groups have served to shine a spotlight on many of the world 's diminishing rainforests and are making the guilty West sit up and take note . |
| 20 | Grumman TBM-3E Avenger N6827C and Tora Tora film Zeke /Harvard IV N15798 have been sold to Tim Wallis/Alpine Fighter Collection in New Zealand , and are making the long journey ‘ down under ’ by sea . |
| 21 | In Avondale Road , the Wilcox boys have risen from their beds at last and are making the most of their unsupervised occupancy of the house . |
| 22 | We 've become better at making money in sluggish trading conditions and are making the most of the patchy recovery we 've seen in some of our markets . |
| 23 | Many of these are now professionally translated and produced and are supplanting the pirated , crudely photocopied sex books and pamphlets that appeared in the latter part of Gorbachev 's rule . |
| 24 | Simon calls them ‘ the doomsdayers ’ and they are just as persuasive as he is , but are putting the exact opposite case : that rapid population growth is destroying our green and pleasant planet along with all its economic and social institutions . |
| 25 | The forms are termed the deviatoric parts of the respective tensors , while are called the dilatational parts . |
| 26 | effectively perform natural experiments on lake acidification , with the advantage that the results are ‘ controlled ’ in that the same lakes are being examined as are recording the modern industrial assault . |
| 27 | As are to play the Pied Piper , Bs the Mayor of Hamelin and Cs the parent of a child held captive by the Pied Piper . |