Example sentences of "are [verb] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MOBILE wardens are to monitor playing fields in Darlington . |
| 2 | Notice that Wordsworth can play off speech-rhythm against the iambic pattern ; if one reads the extract aloud ‘ List'ning ’ and ‘ Broke ’ , for example , are heard to run counter to the expected rhythm and help the verse to mime what is being described . |
| 3 | Yet , analysts are heard asking time and again , ‘ Tell me what you want . |
| 4 | Parallel transporting a vector around the loop ABCDA induces changes which are calculated using eqn ( 6.10 ) . |
| 5 | Occasionally , when manpower allows , men from the sections are assigned to beat duty and can walk anywhere within the Easton district in order to show a presence and look for minor crime . |
| 6 | When the project is completed , the group members are transferred back to the basic structure , or they are given operating responsibility for the new product in a new unit . |
| 7 | Under the CAP , export subsidies are given to bring EC prices down to world prices . |
| 8 | A huge cast of characters — each of whom are given intermeshing chapters to narrate the US perspective on the mess and sacrifice of World War Two — is flung out all over the globe . |
| 9 | Brokers and investors cite three other devices that some of those investing public-sector funds are using to give share prices a big boost : |
| 10 | Bigger classes and lower education standards are predicted as teachers are sacked to save money . |
| 11 | That set of industries which are natural monopolies , are perfectly contestable and are sustained using Ramsey prices , give rise to a socially very desirable result . |
| 12 | That is our intention , er we are organizing briefing sessions for officers , and taking an approach which we want to get the information distributed to the workplace and that is clearly an area that we wan na develop . |
| 13 | They are helping to move soil into a garden they are building at the school with the help of mums , dads and teachers . |
| 14 | The recent ‘ South/South ’ initiatives , which are helping to link networks of communication organisations in Africa , Asia and Latin America/Caribbean , will enable groups such as the Belize Rural Women 's Association to share their experiences of community theatre with similar groups in other parts of the world |
| 15 | Other , smaller donations , mostly from libraries , are helping to fill gaps in back runs of periodicals . |
| 16 | Both , in fact , are at fault ; both are helping to accelerate boxing 's decline . |
| 17 | The fisheries developed off Greenland and Iceland , started by colonial investment and now protected from foreign exploitation , are helping to raise standards of living ashore . |
| 18 | It is these factors which are helping to secure contracts in what is a highly competitive market . |
| 19 | Recently , however , they have been down to Lord Mayor Treloar College where they are helping to buy TNS 's , a battery powered device which produces small low powered electric shock — something like pins and needles — designed to ease muscle pain for people with disabilities such as spina bifida and muscular dystrophy . |
| 20 | ‘ All phases of our mission are helping to alleviate things such as earthquakes and hurricanes , ’ he explained . |
| 21 | Many agencies are helping to keep health personnel at their jobs by providing perks , such as cars , out-of-country work trips , and per diems for seminars . |
| 22 | Here the argument is that correctionalists are helping to divert attention away from the ‘ real ’ problems , rather than that they are necessarily helping to crush revolutionary potential . |
| 23 | SCIENTISTS in Wales are helping to boost production of one of India 's staple foods — the ubiquitous chapati , writes Tony Heath . |
| 24 | This is vital if we are to continue to lose weight and inches at a satisfactory rate , and essential if we are not to return to our previous shape . |
| 25 | If we are to continue to deliver quality services , and indeed if we are to increase the quality , which is what we want to do , you can not do that on a shoe string . |
| 26 | If the police are to continue to exercise control over an increasingly pluralist society , which is better educated and less willing simply to accept any version of events handed out by the powerful , then it seems essential they should avoid scrutiny yet suggest they are totally accountable to the democratic ideal . |
| 27 | Sometimes there is a fixed pass mark and leavers receive their certificates graded as I , II , or III ; sometimes passes or grades are adjusted to fit places available in secondary school , but in either case , everyone knows that there are just so many secondary school places , and many , many more aspirants for them . |
| 28 | We are taught to block pain . |
| 29 | ‘ We are taught to resist pain . |
| 30 | Gridiron players are taught to tackle head first , driving their facemask into the opponent 's chest . |