Example sentences of "are [verb] [to-vb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a bargain has been struck the TOPIC ( " Teletext Output of Price Information on Computer " ) price displays are altered to show the last trades made . |
| 2 | Members of the Department of Social Anthropology and the Audio-Visual Aids Unit Cambridge are collaborating to make the first experimental videodisc at Cambridge University . |
| 3 | The two finishing holes are designed to test the last reserves of the golfer 's confidence . |
| 4 | It continues to chalk up record trade surpluses , but the first three months of 1992 are expected to show the second consecutive quarterly fall in gross domestic product , confirming that the Land of the Rising Sun is officially in recession . |
| 5 | The apexes are connected to form a second grid . |
| 6 | I SUPPOSE a lot of people are waiting to greet the first cuckoo of spring , but I was looking forward to the first hedgehog of spring . |
| 7 | We are beginning to plan the next stage of development with a target of 6500 campus-based students by the year 2000 . |
| 8 | A dog training scheme to help the deaf has been so successful that the organisers are having to open a second training centre . |
| 9 | ‘ Rescuers are having to walk the last two or three miles carrying all their equipment . ’ |
| 10 | Whether you are starting to decorate a first home , have just moved into a new place or are redecorating an existing room , the problem is often much the same : not so much how to arrange things as how to fill up big blank walls and table or shelf surfaces when you do n't seem to have very much to use and certainly very little to spend . |
| 11 | Copies of Figure 11.3 are given to the sender and receivers and they are asked to repeat the first exercise using Figure 11.4 as the data to be transmitted . |
| 12 | ‘ And some of us men are learning to take a second job , eh ? ’ |
| 13 | In a package to be put before the clubs , the League 's governing body are proposing to increase the First Division from 14 to 16 teams . |
| 14 | All beginners are required to master the first kata before taking their first grading examination . |
| 15 | If we are to begin to consider the second part of this question seriously we need to be able to specify what are the ‘ relevant facts of the context of utterance ’ . |
| 16 | Today he has shed a good deal of that ideology — his speech yesterday was social democratic through and through — but he remains devoid of the work experience relevant to his next task which is to convince the country that he , and Labour , are qualified to form the next government . |