Example sentences of "are [verb] [verb] [adv prt] the " 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 posters are intended to cheer up the staircase , which is in urgent need of renovation . |
| 3 | COACHING CONTROLLER CARDS : These cards are designed to speed up the pace at which you can get information from your hard disk . |
| 4 | A plant 's leaves are ideally placed to detect day length , for they are designed to pick up the sun 's light for photosynthesis . |
| 5 | The new clauses are designed to set out the structure for a funding council skeleton on which such structures would be built . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 still have all the advantages of slings and are designed to balance out the child 's weight more evenly . |
| 9 | Supplements therefore are designed to make up the basic food ingredients and balance them to keep the horse healthy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Between now and Easter , thousands are expected to take up the invitation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Sometimes chemicals known as buffers are added to slow down the reaction rate thereby reducing corrosiveness . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Police are wanting to find out the events leading up to the death , and work out the motive for the killing . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | From time to time these institutions are instructed to speed up the introduction of Hindi . |
| 22 | You are requested to set out the different theories of the purposes of criminal punishment ( general and particular deterrence , incapacitation , reformation , ethical retribution ) and to consider whether any of these theories can be used to support the conviction in R . |
| 23 | So the adapters are attempting to get up the career using sort of tried and tested ways of digging and sort of hauling each other up , and this sort of thing . |
| 24 | Three other LEDs are used to set up the operating status , arranged in a horizontal ‘ traffic light ’ formation : red indicates that the input signal is below the Threshold level , yellow that it has reached Threshold , and the green that it is above Threshold . |
| 25 | Adjustable compensating magnets are fitted and these are used to take out the effect of deviation when the compass is checked ( " swung " ) . |
| 26 | The design we are going to talk about is a DIY design in that , apart from a 555 timer and 4001 NOR gate chip , discretes are used to carry out the various circuit operations and the system is capable of being modified for those who like a starting point and then like to experiment . |
| 27 | Peter Hunter , secretary of the NALGO Pro-Life Group , at a recent meeting of NALGO supporters told of the disgraceful waste of union resources which are used to prop up the national Abortion Campaign , to which NALGO is affiliated . |
| 28 | These early payments are used to clear up the cost of setting it up — and in particular the commission of the agent who sold it to you . |
| 29 | When applying any tape , always position the free ends of the draw cords , which are used to pull up the heading , to the outside edge of the curtain ( i.e. , the edge furthest away from the centre ) . |
| 30 | You also pay premiums into an endowment savings plan or pension plan — the proceeds of the endowment plan when it matures , or the cash sum at retirement from the pension plan , are used to pay off the capital at the end of the loan . |