Example sentences of "are [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All 3 political groups are pitching for increased spending , Labour is likely to propose a budget around £320 million , the Liberal Democrats around £314 million and the Tory group up to £310 millions , all of them well above Government guidelines of £306 million . |
| 2 | Bonington 's adventures on Everest an Annapurna are interlarded with other events ; Fowler and Saunders on Spantik , and even a passing nod to Moffat and Edlinger . |
| 3 | For example , in the provisions for extension of time , an extension may be given if the works are delayed for any reason beyond the control of the contractor ( a clause of much wider scope , incidentally , than in other JCT contracts ) , and the contractor is not required to provide information to assist the supervising officer in making an extension . |
| 4 | Where proceedings are delayed through unreasonable or time-wasting behaviour by one of the parties involved , the Reporter should feel free to make a recommendation , on which the Secretary of State will place considerable weight , that the expenses of other parties be awarded against the party responsible . |
| 5 | Existing employees are refunded for two private survey fees ; new employees are allowed only one . |
| 6 | The majority of all black pupils are enrolled at primary level : 78 per cent of all enrolments in the DET 's jurisdiction ( compared with 56 per cent of all white enrolments ) . |
| 7 | In Britain , 15 per cent of the 18–24-year-old population are enrolled on higher education courses . |
| 8 | More than 1,100 HIV-positive patients are enrolled in five independent phase I trials and three independent phase II trials with gp160 with up to 4 years of follow-up . |
| 9 | Tears come from the deepest emotions , from joy and beauty and often they are tinged with nostalgic sadness . |
| 10 | These can go a very long way to mollifying those individuals whose journeys are lengthened by traffic-affecting measures . |
| 11 | The woods in Coulby Newham , which have suffered from half a century of neglect , will be rejuvenated with help from three developers Wimpey , Yuill and McLean who are building on adjacent plots . |
| 12 | We are building on this . |
| 13 | Two developments are , firstly , that we are adopting a modular system , which we feel gives our students greater flexibility and , secondly , that through the Enterprise in Higher Education Initiative , we are building into all our modules transferable skills such as team building and presentation . |
| 14 | So we , we are not just creating capitalism per se we are building in that direction er but there will be elements of socialism there which we can then build on and take us forward . |
| 15 | They have abandoned leaves to reduce loss of water by transpiration , and their stems are swollen with stored water . |
| 16 | The victims are gathered for quick repairs before another round . |
| 17 | Each autumn the hazelnuts ripen on the bushes nearby , are gathered in dry weather and shaken to expel earwigs lurking in their casing . |
| 18 | The garden 's main crops of apples and pears are gathered in late September and through to the first weeks of October . |
| 19 | The data are normalized to that at 5MPa ; absolute values for each of the samples at this pressure were as follows : A1 , 5.01x10 -4 Sm -1 ; A2 , 2.51x10 -4 Sm -1 ; B1 , 1.995x10 -4 Sm -1 ; B2 , 2.24x10 -4 Sm -1 . |
| 20 | The data are normalized to that at 18MPa ; absolute values for each of the samples at this pressure were as follows : A3 , 2.24x10 -5 Sm -1 ; A4 , 3.55x10 -6 Sm -1 ; B3 , 2.51x10 -6 Sm -1 ; B4 , 2.3x10 -6 Sm -1 . |
| 21 | The results are normalized to that at 25°C ; absolute values for each of the samples at this temperature were as follows : A1 , 1.26x10 -4 Sm -1 ; A2 , 0.631x10 -4 Sm -1 ; B1 , 1.26x10 -5 Sm -1 . |
| 22 | You and your staff will maintain the well-established convention whereby ministers do not concern themselves with the detailed information which may be obtained by the Security Service in particular cases , but are furnished with such information only as may be necessary for the determination of any issue on which guidance is sought . |
| 23 | As a comic opera , it is very much sui generis : all the recitatives are furnished with orchestral accompaniment , and the music is both continuous and strongly unified . |
| 24 | There is a very pretty sitting-room and the bedrooms are furnished in traditional style in three delicate pastel shades — one for each floor . |
| 25 | The bedrooms are furnished in older style and have a private bathroom , though they do vary in size . |
| 26 | At the same time more and more males are accumulating in all-male groups . |
| 27 | " The fabric of family life of millions of our people has been shattered , … our economy lies in ruins and our people are embroiled in political strife . " |
| 28 | The lives of affected individuals are punctuated by repeated ‘ crises ’ , which are extremely painful and debilitating . |
| 29 | Britain 's role as Kingston described it could be called that of a peace-keeping force , and his stones of intrigue and skirmish are punctuated by anti-war sentiments . |
| 30 | These problems are emphasized with large data volumes , multiple authorship , complex inter-node and intra-node relationships , need for multiple views of same hyper-medium , and a desire to integrate the hyper-base with other types of application within the organization . |