Example sentences of "are [adj] [prep] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mathematicians are used to doing this , but notation tends to frighten non-scientists . |
| 2 | If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity please sign and return the attached undertaking of confidentiality to me . |
| 3 | As yet we have nobody actually in charge of preservation , and it is early days yet , but please do come forward if you are interested in running this group . |
| 4 | While no one is ever going to be able to focus a SAM on a human heart operating in the ordinary way within the body , many researchers are interested in exploiting this special ability of the acoustic microscope in other ways : to detect otherwise invisible defects inside silicon chips and other microelectric assemblies . |
| 5 | Yet they are unaware of doing this . |
| 6 | There seem to be two major criteria which are crucial in carrying this out . |
| 7 | Also in January 1950 , Sukarno paid a state visit to India which was returned by Nehru in June : in a typically ruminative speech ( so different from Sukarno 's declamatory style ) Nehru told his audience , Politicians are accustomed to making this kind of speech on a foreign tour , but we may believe that Nehru , with his almost mystical sense of Asian-ness , meant every word . |
| 8 | MCPS are involved in policing this area in conjunction with the BPI Anti-Piracy Unit ( APU ) . |
| 9 | If , however , you are unhappy about doing this , there is an independent Welfare Service in the ES . |
| 10 | Two dichotomies are helpful in examining this area of discourse . |
| 11 | Books such as those used for beginning readers are useful for demonstrating this effect , and if you have found yourself daydreaming or thinking about a conversation with a colleague while " going through the motions " of reading to a child , this does not mean that your reading was inadequate . |
| 12 | If you believe that discrimination has occurred against yourself , a colleague or a member of the public , you are responsible for reporting this at once to your manager or personnel section . |
| 13 | Some local authorities in the UK are notorious for doing this ! |
| 14 | The skills of counselling are concerned with enabling this communication process , whilst at the same time dealing perceptively with the problems that the counsellee faces . |
| 15 | The bab the babies who are susceptible to getting this cold injury are , what did we do last week ? |
| 16 | By opportunities for learning that can be at depth , about learning about ourselves , but also the practical things like what do you say to a child whose father 's come back mutilated from war erm how do you write a letter to a bereaved person , and I think children I mean they are capable of doing this , I 've seen it with my own children , with some help they 're able to express quite deep emotions , you know , to somebody who 's had a bereavement , and if they can learn that now , you know , it 's going to be a lot easier later on . |
| 17 | For example , ants are able to memorize the path through a maze and are capable of applying this learning to other mazes . |
| 18 | They are capable of packing an immense amount of precise , digital information into a very small space ; and they are capable of preserving this information — with astonishingly few errors , but still some errors — for a very long time , measured in millions of years . |
| 19 | Many directors who come to opera from the theatre are incapable of understanding this quite special form of human expression . |
| 20 | Scanning programs , such as Norton Disk Doctor , are incapable of diagnosing this precise disk fault , and can only describe a general fault . |
| 21 | The way that most invertebrate and mixed systems are set up , with intricate rockwork and powerful water movement , makes it very difficult to spot uneaten food particles , and the various scavengers are vital in picking this surplus up , and preventing it from decaying and fouling the tank . |
| 22 | Politicians are wary of doing this , of course , because it forces them to accept their proper share of responsibility for the present state of anomie . |