Example sentences of "are [verb] [verb] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actuaries are helping to facilitate these discussions . |
| 2 | The problem is , that because of the power of male definitions of reality in our culture , and because women are taught to accept these definitions too , the friendship and support which countless women give to each other can remain unacknowledged and invisible . |
| 3 | ‘ More and more people are struggling to pay these bills even now and this will be the last straw for many of them . |
| 4 | This is because certain instrumentation and connecting cables ( see section 9.5 ) are arranged to match these impedances ; 600Ο is the adopted standard in professional audio-frequency systems , 75Ο the standard in domestic television and 50Ο the standard in radio-frequency instrumentation . |
| 5 | The visits are intended to give those customers , previously supplied by Preston mill , an insight of the mill process and to see what happens once an order is placed . |
| 6 | The new tiers of membership , which become available this month , are intended to add some teeth to the X/Open 's existing system vendor , independent software vendor and user councils , described by X/Open chief technical officer Mike Lambert as pure ‘ talking shops . ’ |
| 7 | The services are targeted at customers with 1,000 personal computers or more , multinational companies , or companies with a lot of branches , and are intended to provide such organisations with a better return on their investment by attacking the hidden costs of installation , support , and implementation of an ever-increasing number of upgrades . |
| 8 | The findings are intended to provide all parties interested in small hotel businesses with a clearer appreciation of the real motivations of , and the weaknesses behind , the operation of this increasingly important sector . |
| 9 | The following example module headers are intended to provide some guidelines on how the various fields might be filled in . |
| 10 | The public exhibitions now being mounted and the publication of this leaflet by the Regional Council are intended to augment these procedures . |
| 11 | The approaches employed in this research are designed to tackle these problems in order to produce substantive conclusions regarding the patterns and processes of corporate finance between 1860 and 1914 . |
| 12 | The tests are designed to illustrate those qualities which may be essential if the adventure is to be a success ( p. 207 ) . |
| 13 | 3.1 PSD modules are designed to offer most students choice and scope for development . |
| 14 | The consultation paper and video are designed to mean all things to all men — we can not assume that points we support will be retained . |
| 15 | You are forbidden to ask any questions or try to discover who the person is . |
| 16 | All animals are forbidden entails All dogs are forbidden |
| 17 | Arrows are included to show these relationships . |
| 18 | Local authorities are expected to resolve any questions as to a child 's ordinary residence by agreement , failing which the Secretary of State will decide ( s30(2) ) . |
| 19 | Dr Stroud and Sir Ranulph are expected to give more details about their experiences at a London news conference today . |
| 20 | Talk by lecturers of students developing their critical abilities is just cant when students are obliged to adopt atomistic and surface approaches just to assimilate and reproduce the course content , and where they are expected to spend many hours every day in the laboratory or to complete an essay every week , and to sit ten or more 3-hour papers in 2 weeks . |
| 21 | The US Baby Bells are telling the US powers that be that they will invest $100,000m upgrading their networks if they are permitted to carry any services they choose on them — if not , they will simply allow their networks to deteriorate and decay : no , they do n't actually go that far , but they say they will collectively invest only $25,000m . |
| 22 | If after I have read my submissions the councils wish and are permitted to make any observations on it , I request the right to reply thereto before the matter is decided by you . |
| 23 | For example , superior colliculus lesions are reported to affect many forms of visual discrimination performance in tree shrews ( Casagrande and Diamond 1974 ) . |
| 24 | For different reasons , Europe 's governments are refusing to face these questions . |
| 25 | LEAs are empowered to take such steps as they consider are necessary to prevent the breakdown or continuing breakdown of discipline at a school , a power which the Elton Committee urges them to invoke when the situation warrants it . |
| 26 | Traditional corporate-planning theorists are said to ignore these facts , concluding that rational models lead to effective performance and that highly segmented organizations are really tightly coupled systems ( Weick , 1976 , 1985 ) . |
| 27 | The absence of women and members of ethnic minorities and the continuing dominance of Oxford and Cambridge arts and classicist graduates amongst the senior civil service and the ‘ high fliers ’ are said to support these criticisms . |
| 28 | In this respect , however , the distinctions that are made resemble many others in political science which , as I noted at the beginning of this chapter , frequently emerge out of the dominant political concerns of the age . |
| 29 | But the way they are sold means many savers end up with egg on their faces if they are forced to cash in policies before these fall due . |
| 30 | Chairman you 've got to allow me because by the time I 've finished you wo n't be able to stop me , er , but I mean if there 's a lot of money floating about in this area then I think that er , some committee or other should be looking at the the refurbishment of the courts in Devizes which are a disgrace , and partly the fault of this council when th they were allowed to get into such a state , and I mean at some stage or other , something or else is gon na to have to happen to them and I would hope that the magistrates in their wisdom in some committee or other are , are deciding to take these courts back into use . |