Example sentences of "are [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , the severity of this rule is mitigated by section 3 of the Defamation Act 1952 which provides that in an action for malicious falsehood it shall not be necessary to allege or prove special damage if the words upon which the action is founded are calculated to cause pecuniary damage to the plaintiff and are published in writing or other permanent form .
2 Proof of financial loss was also required , subject to the relaxation in Section 3 of the Defamation Act 1952 ( that is , where the offending words are calculated to cause pecuniary damage and are published in writing or other permanent form ) .
3 Residual gas ( 2 x 10 -10 atms ) produces a repulsive force between A and B. There is also a mutual gravitational attraction between A and B. These effects are calculated to produce relative accelerations of order 3 × 10 -9 m s -2 , After correction for all such effects the observed acceleration difference found for aluminium/carbon is which is a null result at the level of precision achieved in the experiment .
4 Fossil fuel reserves are depleted at a frantic rate and materials are squandered to manufacture throw-away products for the short-term profit maximisation of a rapacious economic system .
5 In the abdomen apodemes are developed to provide firm origins for some of the more important muscles .
6 Various strategies are developed to handle potential conflicts that can not be overcome because people keep meeting each other .
7 This is by no means an easy task when so many types of movement classes and fitness pursuits are competing to attract potential members .
8 Our English counterparts have experts preparing Encyclopaedias of Precedents ( styles ) and text-books are revised to include new styles .
9 We are helping to improve public administration and the legal system in a number of countries .
10 Customers will get refunds and other firms are helping to find alternative trips .
11 In traditional medicine we have a lot of local herbs that are proven to cure venereal diseases , effectively suppress malaria , and alleviate stomach pains , ulcers and even certain types of cancer .
12 Although these are intended to complement written work , they almost always stand up in their own right .
13 The funds , amounting to 12 billion ecus per year , are intended to support infrastructural developments in the Community 's poorer regions .
14 The boundaries shown are intended to represent broad zones with an uncertainty of up to 10 km or so , and the whole map invites testing by further data .
15 Mario Segni , a professor of law and Sardinian member of parliament , is the chief promoter of three referendums on electoral reform that are intended to reshape Italian politics .
16 Of course , not all existential propositions are intended to carry ontological claims .
17 Clearly more weight attaches to the principal administrative and economic factors : the development of general hospital treatment and primary care which are intended to replace mental hospitals , and the search for more cost-effective alternatives to state hospital provision .
18 Rescheduling of such debts has become a necessity for the private banks , and a practice which has emerged is that new agreements have been made conditional on such countries accepting the stringent programmes of the IMF which are intended to promote effective adjustment of a country 's balance of payments and ensure that the use of Fund resources is temporary .
19 The lay members are intended to bring industrial experience and practical knowledge to bear on the issues coming before the tribunal .
20 A sculptor as well as a painter , Roscheck 's watercolours are intended to provide ideal landscapes for her sculptures .
21 The Regulations are intended to protect ordinary consumers and therefore do not apply where the customer is a company or corporate body or where the customer is making the contract for his business purposes .
22 CPRW is a well established national organisation and the only voluntary body concerned with strategies for Wales as a whole which are intended to protect Welsh heritage , its countryside and the quality of life of its people .
23 Others are intended to introduce new skills and knowledge for these demanding professions .
24 are intended to cover extraneous invalidating causes such as mistake , misrepresentation or duress ; consequently , it is said , the subsection makes enforceable an agreement for which there is no consideration .
25 The restructuring measures are intended to reduce annual spending by $10m to $12m ; Pyramid expects to report cash of about $26m as of September 30 , with almost no long-term debt .
26 First , since the ICC is not a lawmaking body it can not formulate rules of a mandatory character ; indeed , its rules are intended to encapsulate proper practice rather than to distribute legal liability .
27 Many of his proposals are intended to help British industry and in themselves these are welcome .
28 Irvine , California-based Advanced Logic Research Inc has cut prices across its entire line of desktop products in response to Compaq Computer Corp 's price cuts last week : the reductions are intended to position key models with a higher feature set at prices 10% to 20% less than Compaq 's comparable models .
29 Brio 's integrated family of products are designed to enable non-technical end-users to query , analyse and update corporate databases from Macintosh and Windows computers .
30 Because they are designed to justify certain propositions , the questions they ask are formulated in such a way as to prompt the desired answers .
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