Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Necessary jobs are helping to clear up the smaller branches and making a start on repointing the bridge itself . |
2 | The financial resources proposed by the secretary of state to support the strategy are intended to move over a 5 year period from 0.8% of the total NHS budget to a target of 1.5% . |
3 | The posters are intended to cheer up the staircase , which is in urgent need of renovation . |
4 | COACHING CONTROLLER CARDS : These cards are designed to speed up the pace at which you can get information from your hard disk . |
5 | A plant 's leaves are ideally placed to detect day length , for they are designed to pick up the sun 's light for photosynthesis . |
6 | The new clauses are designed to set out the structure for a funding council skeleton on which such structures would be built . |
7 | They are designed to cut out the reflective glare that can be potentially harmful to someone spending long hours working in front of a computer screen . |
8 | They are designed to cut out the reflective glare that can be potentially harmful to someone spending long hours working in front of a computer screen . |
9 | They still have all the advantages of slings and are designed to balance out the child 's weight more evenly . |
10 | Supplements therefore are designed to make up the basic food ingredients and balance them to keep the horse healthy . |
11 | It becomes possible to envisage a sequence of shots in which real pieces of connected action are linked together by shots which are included to fill in the continuity gaps . |
12 | No other party has officially confirmed they will be contesting the election but the SDLP are expected to put up a candidate . |
13 | The banks are expected to take up an investment stance which is not their true role . |
14 | Ministers are expected to take up the fight in the next few days and urge the banks that , at a time of national economic crisis , they must do their bit . |
15 | Between now and Easter , thousands are expected to take up the invitation . |
16 | ‘ Our Quality Charter states that NICMA members are expected to work out a policy on discipline which does not include smacking children , ’ she said . |
17 | The two local favourites , Claire Waddell , who currently leads the Grand Prix , and Julie Nicol are expected to make up the semi-final line-up . |
18 | They are itching to hold up the red card to an establishment that does n't believe that ex-pros have the right pedigree to control top matches . |
19 | Sometimes chemicals known as buffers are added to slow down the reaction rate thereby reducing corrosiveness . |
20 | We term this the level of computer architecture , at which a set of logically integrated hardware functions are programmed to carry out the processing of data . |
21 | As the mechanics , now dubbed dismantlers , get to work their eyes are primed to search out every tiny component which could be used again or recycled into something else . |
22 | Further to our meeting last Friday , I am writing to set out the advice and assistance that we are able to provide in connection with the intended sale of Older Business Limited . |
23 | In connection with the role you have asked me to undertake in the dispute between Mr D Smith and the other directors of and shareholders in Smith & Co Limited , I am writing to set out the nature of the responsibilities which you wish me to perform . |
24 | Cleveland social services and Cleveland Cooperative Agency are looking to set up a ‘ sitting ’ service so that carers of elderly people can take a break when the county council 's Tithebarn resource centre opens in Stockton later this year . |
25 | There 's a bloody riot going on , the town is crammed with nigs , er blacks , and they are looking to sort out the Young Conservatives . |
26 | In terms of the analogies we have used so far , the Indian traditions are said to orbit around a different sun , or to be climbing a different mountain — or to identify with a family of monsters in the loch quite different from the one followed by the Near Eastern religions . |
27 | Established firms are tending to scoop up the talent in the market which is still in second-tier houses — without which they will not survive . |
28 | Police are wanting to find out the events leading up to the death , and work out the motive for the killing . |
29 | The problem is compounded when attempts are made to find out the costs of individual services when subsidies are paid line-by-line , rather than for whole sectors ; yet this is what RENFE 's 1984 programme contract with the state claimed to achieve ( RENFE 1984a : 80 ) . |
30 | From time to time these institutions are instructed to speed up the introduction of Hindi . |