Example sentences of "are [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Whilst other object players such as Objectivity Inc and Object Design Inc are successfully licensing persistent language products to majors like Microsoft Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc ( UX No 405 ) , it is only a matter of time , Andrews argues , before they no longer need the services of third parties .
2 Questionnaires and achievement scores may be used but they are rarely given high priority .
3 The people involved are apparently drawing technical inspiration from Carnegie Mellon University 's PI project .
4 However , the Ulrich hypothesis does not explain why trees growing in a wide range of soil types , even calcareous soils , are apparently suffering acidic deposition effects .
5 But it 's believed that the majority of cases of tuberculosis , that we actually see , are so called post-primary tuberculosis where all of this process is taking place asymptomatically and the host is in this state of balance but something else comes along and stresses cell mediated immunity and the control breaks down so that th the organism M T B wins out very dramatically over the , over the macrophages and you end up with this post-primary pattern of tuberculosis .
6 ‘ We are only getting basic money which is rubbish .
7 In organisations people are only given sufficient power to carry out their responsibilities effectively .
8 This means that a 50MHz 486 performs only a little better than a 16MHz 286 if you are only doing simple word-processing .
9 Conference organizer(s) are normally given complimentary status : the accepted ratio is approximately 1 organizer per 50 delegates .
10 As a devotee of Alsace ( the villages may be chocolate-boxy but the food is wonderful and the hotels unbelievably cheap ) , I am encouraged that the wines are finally gaining due recognition .
11 These minor fungi are generally termed wet rot .
12 Employees who are already earning good money will see little point in spending their vouchers .
13 Time-Warner are already facing pre-release criticism of SPIKE LEE 's Malcolm X and observers reckon the DENZIL WASHINGTON-starring movie may prove to be as incendiary an issue as Bodycount 's ‘ Cop Killer ’ .
14 We are already enjoying eternal life , and physical death will merely mean the passing from life , in which we see through a glass darkly , to life when we shall see and know as we are known .
15 Col Gaddafi 's friends and neighbours are already preparing new transport links to the outside world to take the strain if the airports are closed .
16 This means a nest may contain eggs through to fry which are just becoming free swimming .
17 And they 're the sort of people who are anyway having great difficulty finding er the extra to support their er own workers with their initial Poll Tax payments anyway .
18 Anyway se these are always named upper case so it will always be .
19 If Christians use a therapy which is also used by people who are deliberately following New Age beliefs , this may lead people to be deceived into thinking the New Age Movement is acceptable to Christianity ? ( 1 Corinthians 10:19–25 )
20 As Christiansson ( 1988 ) describes , rotational bush-fallowing and permanent agriculture are gradually replacing shifting cultivation in an area that experiences a long dry season and a short intense wet season .
21 ITHINK if we are ever to see grand hokum in the Mac marketplace we 'll see it in the months ahead , as the M-word — multimedia — becomes the in thing to discuss in the 1990s .
22 These are usually given subspecific rank .
23 However , political issues of a constitutional character — like joining the European Community , devolving power to a Scottish assembly and reform of the voting system — are usually given extended consideration ( and possibly even a referendum ) in recognition of their special nature ( Norton , 1991 , pp. 475–98 ) .
24 Because students are usually taught four-part harmony , and there are four conventional voices ( soprano , alto , tenor , and bass ) , they tend always to write for the conventional four-part mixed choir , thus ignoring the existence of the most common voices of all ( mezzo soprano and baritone ) .
25 in some areas there is a specialist home nursing service for the terminally ill and this is sometimes part of the services of a hospice ( these are usually called Continuing Care or MacMillan nurses ) .
26 One of the most revealing facts about using BM is that you often discover that inadvertently you are either rewarding undesirable behaviour and hence encouraging it , or are mistakenly punishing good behaviour .
27 However , both Exxon and the state of Alaska are still facing legal action from local fishermen , environmental groups and native American Indian villagers .
28 The biggest problem is gold miners , and the diseases they have brought with them — malaria and TB are still causing high death rates ( between January and August this year one Yanomami died every two to five days from disease ) .
29 All three are still serving good ale .
30 The couple are still undergoing intensive treatment for injuries caused by the attempt on their lives .
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