Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [verb] [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hotel does not operate a service charge , but you are given to understand that guests in fact tip generously . |
| 2 | The way that the WO population projections are undertaken means that patterns of recent behaviour ( such as the very high levels of in-migration experienced in the mid/late 1980s ) are projected forward without question . |
| 3 | At this time certain information is usually recorded to ensure the patient is fit for surgery and also to avoid potential complications , e.g. a specimen of urine is tested to ensure that diabetes mellitus does not go undiagnosed ; allergies are checked to ensure that drugs , anaesthetic agents , lotions or dressings can be avoided if a patient has an allergy to them . |
| 4 | Another analysis of the function of imposing fiduciary duties on directors is that these duties are designed to ensure that directors act only within the ambit of their special expertise . |
| 5 | These Regulations are designed to ensure that employers introduce arrangements for effective management of health and safety in which employees and safety representatives will have to play their part . ’ |
| 6 | They are designed to ensure that authors receive recompense for the free provision of their books to the public by libraries . |
| 7 | Monies are paid to a business in a variety of forms and all our services are designed to ensure that funds are received , processed , and credited to accounts as quickly and cost effectively as possible . |
| 8 | The fact that so many new titles are appearing suggests that publishers now reckon that video is getting established in language institutes . |
| 9 | As a result there is some prospect of schools once more becoming places where children are expected to learn and teachers to teach . |
| 10 | As at Ibrox , the match is for home fans only , but 1,000 Scots fans are expected to travel and police are mounting a huge security operation to stop touting outside the stadium . |
| 11 | And fireworks are expected to fly as ministers battle to protect their cash plans in the light of a strict 244.5bn pounds spending limit . |
| 12 | Although nitrate pollution of the Broads is well known , recent studies are reported to show that streams in areas such as the Cotswolds are now equally polluted . |
| 13 | All fresh cases are reported to CATCHEM and forces all over the country have to fill in a form with 230 questions devised by Dovaston . |
| 14 | Instead , great efforts are made to ensure that boys do keep up , through , for example , remedial classes which continue into secondary schooling . |
| 15 | I should like the Minister to state clearly what checks are made to ensure that police computer information is not available to debt collectors , bailiffs , and other such persons . |
| 16 | Now they 're waiting to see if humans will respond . |
| 17 | Instead , they are likely to use the ‘ just-in-time ’ ( JIT ) system where complex market relations with component subcontractors are used to ensure that supplies arrive on the premises where they are needed at the appropriate time . |
| 18 | Now , thanks to the publicity of the past year or two , people are beginning to realize that fats are dieters ' enemy number one . |
| 19 | Strange and costly garments branded Gucci or Dior are worn to signal that humans have judgement , style and personality . |
| 20 | MORE and more areas of BNFL 's THORP plant are coming to shape as contractors and commissioning teams strive towards the February 1993 deadline for all areas to be under the control of the Commissioning Group . |
| 21 | The programme is structured , and tutors are asked to ensure that students see patients with problems pertaining to the ‘ topic of the week . ’ |
| 22 | While we are on the subject of ’ joining the union of your choice ’ , will he ensure that the security guards who are presently members of the Transport and General Workers Union and the General , Municipal , Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union , employed by the Ministry of Defence , are allowed to continue as members of the union of their choice and are not ordered into another — |
| 23 | Do not be tempted to tell him that adults are allowed to swear but children are not . |
| 24 | Typically it means that steps are taken to ensure that women do not take away a proportion of the kin group 's resources when they marry — which can mean variously , that women 's sexuality is tightly controlled , that women are given little choice about whom they marry , that there is a preference for choosing marriage partners from within the kin groups ( Tillion , 1983 ; Goddard , 1987 ) . |
| 25 | Inventors are encouraged to invent and investors are more likely to provide finance if a monopoly right is available for inventions . |
| 26 | I think that the most fruitful approach is to ask what are the computational and cognitive capacities which we are forced to suppose that animals possess . |
| 27 | We are determined to ensure that women in the work-force realise their full potential . |
| 28 | We are determined to ensure that women and men from ethnic minority groups are full and equal members of the community . |
| 29 | Think about what you are trying to achieve and things will eventually fit into place . |
| 30 | Some 400 students from all over the world are trying to prove that words can hurt just as much as sticks and stones . |