Example sentences of "are [verb] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although many local authorities in their strategy documents state that they aim first at rehabilitation , I remain unconvinced that they are devoting the same resources in terms of skilled social workers with small caseloads and adequate financial support to natural families , as they do to finding and supporting new families . |
| 2 | The Regional Council Highways Department is to install a kerb at this corner and the Community Council are to plant a few trees . |
| 3 | The problem of thinking we are attaching the same meaning to a word or action when we may not be can be appreciated humorously . |
| 4 | The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like . |
| 5 | However , it can be understood as recommending that one live in such ; way that the various aspects of one 's being are given the same degree of power as they have of innate authority . |
| 6 | Individuals can apply for meals themselves — all applications are given the same consideration . |
| 7 | Cations of elements which only form one stable ion are given the same name as the element . |
| 8 | All volumes containing modules of the same charge code are given the same name , as specified by the user , but the serial number at the end of the volume name is incremented for each new volume that is opened . |
| 9 | One by one , calves and adults are given the same treatment . |
| 10 | Only a little thought will show what a nonsense this is , for , as we have just seen , no two individuals manifest their illnesses in exactly the same way even if they are given the same disease label . |
| 11 | The parent is captured and its offspring are given the same marks ; one nick on each side of the upper beak for the Vintners ; one on one side for the Dyers ; none at all for the Royal cygnets . |
| 12 | In other words , we are seeing the same film , but it is the negative that is now being presented to us . |
| 13 | Do n't confuse this with the time-up bell , especially when many areas are in close proximity and all are using the same type of bell . |
| 14 | The newspaper coverage may have contributed to bringing the crime into the public domain , but essentially the press and the police are using the same repertoire of scripts . |
| 15 | Now there are less than 30,000 and those 30,000 are producing the same amount of milk as the higher number did previously . |
| 16 | We gladly accept all these rightful strictures and if we are to enjoy the same success with councils we have to accept their bye-laws , too . |
| 17 | The more people there are helping the less time it takes . |
| 18 | All three patterns , the written , diagrammatical and the digital , are knitting the same shape , a rectangle . |
| 19 | Further down the beach , women and children are trolling the same waters with nets collecting coal dust to try to earn enough money to feed their children . |
| 20 | As a result , more than 70 per cent of the population now have a Current Account and are enjoying the many advantages it gives them — cheques , instant cash , Standing Orders and Direct Debits . |
| 21 | Success Sunderland are adopting the same formation that brought Ipswich success in the 70s , and the results have been encouraging enough to persuade the 37-year-old boss to call off his search for a midfield playmaker . |
| 22 | We are rowing the same boat , I think — ’ |
| 23 | The tops and bottoms of Jack 's windows are sloping the same amount as the hillside . |
| 24 | The part is specified to dissipate a hot 175 watts at 4.5 volts so Western Research Labs engineers are rigging a little water cooling system sealed inside a low-pressure cylinder . |
| 25 | Whether in Ghana , the Philippines , Peru , Poland , India or Brazil , the same inflexible , totalising and unreasonable prescriptions are proffered by the experts of the IMF and the World Bank ; the aims of Gatt are to impose the same programmes — ‘ macro-economic correctives ’ , ‘ structural adjustment plans ’ — a more intensive use of resources , more exploitation of the people , a competitive demolition of the very elements of life , in order that countries may ‘ survive ’ the universal reign of the market . |
| 26 | If at any point you come into contact with it you lose a life immediately and are moved a few steps back . |
| 27 | If you are replacing a few boards in an existing floor , and have brought them from a timber yard , do n't come home and fit the boards straight away . |
| 28 | When Montaigne and Bacon stress the determining power of social custom they are developing the same idea of an order prior to and determining of consciousness , though now of course with the crucial difference that it is a non-teleological order , historical rather than divine , material rather than metaphysical . |
| 29 | It holds more true of some of us than of others , that in the struggle to make it new we are writing the same book all our lives ; and with Dostoevsky this truth is very true . |
| 30 | On advertised steaming days , trains are operating every half hour between 11.00 and 17.30 with short rides in the station yard . |