Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [prep] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , all inductivists would claim that in so far as scientific theories can be justified , they are justified by supporting them inductively on the basis of some more-or-less secure basis provided by experience . |
| 2 | As a result , our eyesight is so well developed that few animals possess comparable vision , and we are justified in considering it our supersense . |
| 3 | They were part of Japan until Russia occupied them at the end of the second world war , and the Japanese feel they are justified in wanting them back . |
| 4 | We are justified in using it for a quality of material things only if the quality is like the bodily sensation . |
| 5 | But neither Ray and Di , nor Clayton , are folled into thinking he is Elvis . |
| 6 | If people are honoured for risking their lives in the not obviously useful pursuit of speed records and mountains to climb , why should they not be encouraged to do so in more worthwhile causes ? |
| 7 | ‘ Soon those opulent manufacturers , whose ideas of supreme happiness at a spa are limited to taking their spotty wives and daughters to a moderately dear hotel , will be recalled to the smoke of their native places . |
| 8 | All Welsh counties for instance are limited to increasing their budgets of one point seven on point seven five percent over nineteen ninety three , ninety four are as the cities of Cardiff and Swansea and the borough of Newport and it is this cap of one point seven percent as my honourable friend for Cardiff South and Penarth has pointed out , which is at the route of the funding problems of the South Wales police authority area . |
| 9 | They are distinguished by bearing their blooms very close to and within the foliage , but are repeat flowering . |
| 10 | His pictures are distinguished by having his monogram in black letters with an inventory number at the back . |
| 11 | At the end , the play is turned over to genuine amateurs , as the patrons are coerced into waving their arms , donning toadstool hats , and making dog noises . |
| 12 | As soon as women are coerced into adopting their own dreary , pathetic , feminist views by the opposite sex , they take offence and suggest we revert to behaving like pigs — which is , of course , what we 're best at . |
| 13 | If a person is prevented from doing what they would otherwise intend or desire to do , or if they are coerced into doing what they would not otherwise want or desire to do , they are not acting autonomously . |
| 14 | In other words , it seems that some schoolchildren ( boys ) are rewarded for breaking the rules while others ( girls ) are punished for following them . |
| 15 | So , although you are discouraged from dropping your bottom as a beginner , it is very useful when the wind increases in handling the extra pull . |
| 16 | We are committed to conducting our business in a manner which avoids adverse effects on the environment and public health . |
| 17 | Erm to emphasize the fact that erm in principle we are we are committed to providing our customers with a service that enables them to be more competitive . |
| 18 | Therefore it is equally important to remember that when two people are committed to investing their lives in each other , the actual outworking of this structure on a day-to-day basis will be much more a partnership . |
| 19 | I am always fascinated to hear Liberals going on about resources being made available for defence , when they are committed to cutting them by 50 per cent . |
| 20 | We are committed to giving our viewers and listeners context — to give them the where-with-all to make sense of the world . |
| 21 | We are committed to improving it further as a result of increased traffic , which is largely a consequence of the success of the east coast ports . |
| 22 | We are committed to boosting our R&T effort on base petrochemicals . ’ |
| 23 | We are committed to making your stay a pleasant one . |
| 24 | Someone once said more people are cheated by believing nothing than by believing too much . |
| 25 | Holman stresses that poor parents may well share the child care values and objectives of the wider society , but are prevented from achieving them by depriving environments . |
| 26 | Because the steam is generated in a separate tank and then passed at pressure through a pipe onto the iron 's soleplate , drips , leaks , calcium and other nasties are prevented from staining your clothes and the life of the iron is prolonged . |
| 27 | Perhaps the hon. Gentleman wants a society in which people are prevented from drinking what they want . |
| 28 | Often in life we are prevented from realising our true potential because we feel restricted , or are harbouring some feelings that we would love to share . |
| 29 | They are prevented from entering what appears to them the more appealing world of work , a world in which they can earn independence and the goods that money can buy . |
| 30 | This approach can also help those people who feel a sense of threat from other people 's opinions and so bulldoze them first so that others are prevented from expressing their views . |