Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All 3 political groups are pitching for increased spending , Labour is likely to propose a budget around £320 million , the Liberal Democrats around £314 million and the Tory group up to £310 millions , all of them well above Government guidelines of £306 million . |
| 2 | Bonington 's adventures on Everest an Annapurna are interlarded with other events ; Fowler and Saunders on Spantik , and even a passing nod to Moffat and Edlinger . |
| 3 | The majority of all black pupils are enrolled at primary level : 78 per cent of all enrolments in the DET 's jurisdiction ( compared with 56 per cent of all white enrolments ) . |
| 4 | Tears come from the deepest emotions , from joy and beauty and often they are tinged with nostalgic sadness . |
| 5 | These can go a very long way to mollifying those individuals whose journeys are lengthened by traffic-affecting measures . |
| 6 | The woods in Coulby Newham , which have suffered from half a century of neglect , will be rejuvenated with help from three developers Wimpey , Yuill and McLean who are building on adjacent plots . |
| 7 | They have abandoned leaves to reduce loss of water by transpiration , and their stems are swollen with stored water . |
| 8 | The victims are gathered for quick repairs before another round . |
| 9 | Each autumn the hazelnuts ripen on the bushes nearby , are gathered in dry weather and shaken to expel earwigs lurking in their casing . |
| 10 | The garden 's main crops of apples and pears are gathered in late September and through to the first weeks of October . |
| 11 | As a comic opera , it is very much sui generis : all the recitatives are furnished with orchestral accompaniment , and the music is both continuous and strongly unified . |
| 12 | There is a very pretty sitting-room and the bedrooms are furnished in traditional style in three delicate pastel shades — one for each floor . |
| 13 | At the same time more and more males are accumulating in all-male groups . |
| 14 | " The fabric of family life of millions of our people has been shattered , … our economy lies in ruins and our people are embroiled in political strife . " |
| 15 | Britain 's role as Kingston described it could be called that of a peace-keeping force , and his stones of intrigue and skirmish are punctuated by anti-war sentiments . |
| 16 | These problems are emphasized with large data volumes , multiple authorship , complex inter-node and intra-node relationships , need for multiple views of same hyper-medium , and a desire to integrate the hyper-base with other types of application within the organization . |
| 17 | There is , then , no shortage of social science research which is claimed to be necessary if we are to cope with environmental change . |
| 18 | Most cases are heard by part-time chairmen who must be solicitors , barristers or advocates of five years standing . |
| 19 | The following figures have been extracted from our management accounts , are calculated at constant exchange rates and take account of the effect of UK Refining : |
| 20 | Lattice enthalpies determined through the Born-Haber cycle can be regarded as experimental values since the lattice enthalpies are calculated from experimental values . |
| 21 | All of the objects and characters are solid 3D objects which are calculated in real time . |
| 22 | Policy strategies which attack the social and economic determinants of ill-health are dismissed as futile attempts at social engineering . |
| 23 | The attitudes held by the modern racists are deracialized in that the attitudes are justified by traditional values , such as equality and fairness , and not by oven racial themes . |
| 24 | You can set up menus which are assigned to specific users and passwords . |
| 25 | The ten l.e.d.s concerned here are placed at various positions in the ‘ field ’ , each representing a number of runs or a no-score , plus a couple which may lead to a catch or an appeal for lbw . |
| 26 | Touch-operated computer terminals are placed at strategic points allowing us , quite literally , to have the ancient world at our fingertips . |
| 27 | All these are inconsistent with ‘ living life ’ , the two words which are placed between inverted commas and imposed at the level of mere idea upon Notes from Underground , but which truly drive Raskolnikov , which are his need to become a man again . |
| 28 | Nov. 13 Three prominent Palestinians are placed under administrative detention [ ibid . ] . |
| 29 | Half of all children in care in the Netherlands are placed with foster families ( Kampen , 1988 ) , against only thirty-one per cent in Flanders ( Lammertyn and Antoons , 1990 ) . |
| 30 | Children who do come in to care are placed with other families where possible and again is fortunate in having an experienced network of foster parents and link carers and we ca n't thank them enough . |