Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The posters are intended to cheer up the staircase , which is in urgent need of renovation . |
| 2 | COACHING CONTROLLER CARDS : These cards are designed to speed up the pace at which you can get information from your hard disk . |
| 3 | A plant 's leaves are ideally placed to detect day length , for they are designed to pick up the sun 's light for photosynthesis . |
| 4 | The new clauses are designed to set out the structure for a funding council skeleton on which such structures would be built . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 still have all the advantages of slings and are designed to balance out the child 's weight more evenly . |
| 8 | Supplements therefore are designed to make up the basic food ingredients and balance them to keep the horse healthy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Between now and Easter , thousands are expected to take up the invitation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Sometimes chemicals known as buffers are added to slow down the reaction rate thereby reducing corrosiveness . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | From time to time these institutions are instructed to speed up the introduction of Hindi . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Adjustable compensating magnets are fitted and these are used to take out the effect of deviation when the compass is checked ( " swung " ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Another problem which electric fish have circumvented is that very sensitive receptors are needed to pick up the weak signals of other fish , and such receptors would be swamped by the fish 's own field . |
| 26 | The most common failings are to rely too much on words rather than extensively labelled diagrams , to use technical terms and concepts which the user may not understand , to focus on what it is at the expense of what it does and to fail to separate the needs of the operator from the details which are needed to set up the device , to locate faults , to provide remedies and to provide routine maintenance . |
| 27 | They are needed to dress up the stage for the production of Willy Russell 's Stags And Hens which is about to go into rehearsal at the Arts . |
| 28 | People like you are needed to take up the challenge . |
| 29 | The 16 tonne lorry depositing a load is one of the 7,500 that are needed to make up the specified contours . |
| 30 | They are shown moving up the figure and their RNR increases . |