Example sentences of "are [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , if you are building up to a competition and wish to greatly increase your fitness and endurance , the FDR should be very intense and should make up a large part of your training . |
| 2 | Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train . |
| 3 | The warblers ' own young are turfed out of the deeply cupped reed nest by the cuckoo chick soon after it hatches and the foster parents find themselves feeding an enormous monster with a huge red gape and insatiable appetite — a monster which will eventually grow to three times their size . |
| 4 | These charges , and any interest payable on an overdraft , are calculated up to the first Friday in March , June , September and December , and deducted from your account 14 days later . |
| 5 | Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas . |
| 6 | It 's that time of year when theatres everywhere are given over to the mayhem that is panto … when men are dames and the principal boys are girls . |
| 7 | The canal is lined by a membrane resembling the tunica arachnoidea , and is situated above the fissure of the medulla , being separated by a medullary layer : it is most easily distinguished where the large nerves are given off in the bend of the neck and sacrum , imperceptibly terminating in the cauda equina . |
| 8 | To achieve this it will be essential to create a culture where services are given back to the people and delivered with the attitude that the ‘ customer is sovereign ’ . |
| 9 | As you 'll have heard , bass makers Warwick are branching out into the area of specialised bass amplification . |
| 10 | The staff and students are quickly getting to know each other and are shaping up into a hardworking and enthusiastic team . |
| 11 | Mrs Leinen fears if they are flown back to the United States she 'll lose custody forever . |
| 12 | If there are no clubbers at all then any netted enemy are jumped on by the netters themselves , and damage is resolved with a strength of 3 as normal . |
| 13 | Ironically Pembroke , the most recently developed area , where today new routes are tumbling out of the sky as fast as the climbers , has become the place where descriptions — starred pitches probably excluded — still offend mightily under the grade descriptions act . |
| 14 | You may sense that your words are tumbling out into a kind of void . |
| 15 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 16 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 17 | In any case , if any of the pupils are to go on with the language at A level , they will simply have to learn some grammar at some stage . |
| 18 | If Mr Newton is right , perhaps Mr Lamont will one day be able to please the traditionalists … by announcing that the railways are to go back to the good old steam age . |
| 19 | ‘ If we are to go out of the Cup then let it be to a side packed with international stars . |
| 20 | These are faults — which is where John McEnroe comes in — that are smoothed out by a second distillation . |
| 21 | That there 's more to Normski than his manic public persona is obvious here , with the music playing , and the beaming photos of himself and Janet Street-Porter that are propped up through the house . |
| 22 | Toilet seats are propped up against the wall , in the unlikely event that someone might want to buy them in a country where hygiene is pathological . |
| 23 | In the UK anyway , the published products of historical scholarship , monographs and articles in learned journals , are still the principal criteria upon which promotion and professional recognition are meted out within the humanities . |
| 24 | So all the excavations are filled in for the sake of tidiness , and all the bolt-holes and entrance holes are filled in to help assess what 's been left . |
| 25 | 6/Highlights are masked out while areas are filled in with a thin wash . |
| 26 | The dots are filled in with the appropriate names like this : |
| 27 | Other details of this allegedly gentle pre-war street life are filled in by the writings of youth club workers — Butterworth 's Clubland ( 1932 ) , Hatton 's London 's Bad Boys ( 1931 ) and Secretan 's London Below Bridges ( 1931 ) — which are teeming with rowdy incident , outbreaks of hooliganism , shoplifting sprees , youngsters terrorising old ladies , foul language , youth club riots and vandalism . |
| 28 | In Britain in nineteen ninety three we are hanging on to the remains of our welfare state by our fingertips . |
| 29 | Richard Spink , of the Citizens Advice Bureaux , said : ‘ Thousands are hanging on by the skin of their teeth . |
| 30 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |