Example sentences of "are [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ONE of the province 's most popular marching bands , the Millar Memorial Flute , has reported an increase in membership recently with it now in excess of 35 including many young members who are building a firm base for the future .
2 As you are building a new pond , you have the opportunity to put in the best filtration system , without paying a fortune .
3 Said manager John Bell : ‘ The Canadians are building a huge power plant in Ontario and already they have been in touch for guidance on how we operate our laundry system . ’
4 With reference to the three-dimensional search space shown in Figure 1.1 , we are building a recursive graph along the time and the knowledge-level axes .
5 ‘ The two I particularly remember are building the new stand at Ascot and the construction of Central Point in London . ’
6 The doctor says stores are wasting an ideal chance to redefine children 's eating habits .
7 He will tell you if you are rotating the left forearm properly on the backswing .
8 You are poisoning the very sources of order and happiness and virtue ; you are tearing up root and branch all relations of families to each other ; you are annulling , as it were , the institution of domestic life decreed by Providence Himself , the wisest and kindest of earthly ordinances , the mainstay of social peace and virtue and therein of national security .
9 It appears that German states are opposing a VAT-like tax on in an inconsistent way , aggravated , aggravated by a failure to warn of any increase in the tax in January nineteen ninety three .
10 Scottish fishermen 's representatives are opposing an all-out ban and are calling for a series of restrictions on imports until there is a balanced supply at the markets .
11 For example , Fielding ( 1982 ) takes the best elements of the three main models : ( a ) the desire to live in a more rural setting ; ( b ) the availability of new jobs in the sunrise industries of the rural areas ; and ( c ) regional planning by governments to argue that the two main factors are first , the development of a post-industrial society where the mobile middle classes are relocating the new industries , and second , the rise of service employment , particularly in the more attractive rural areas of each country .
12 The eavesdroppers are proving a serious problem for police in Sheffield , South Yorkshire .
13 Significant technological advances in underwater excavation and recovery are proving a mixed blessing in the field of marine archaeology .
14 Remaining large areas of old-growth forest in Eastern Europe are proving a tempting source of hard currency at a time of rising world timber prices .
15 But the heavy clay gallops near Woodbridge are proving an ideal training ground for young chasers .
16 He said : ‘ How would a political party as totally committed as the Labour Party to equality of treatment and of opportunity for girls and women , lend its support to the introduction of schools in which men exercise all the power , and women are assigned a subordinate and restricted role ? ’
17 Add to this that today 's stars are fit and positive , as well as the thought that they now use almost illegal high-tech equipment and are given every new creation to experiment with , such as metal heads , weird shafts and incredible balls , and it 's no wonder they find the perfect combination — for them .
18 Women , even heterosexual women in his family , are given no real voice at all .
19 We are given no real indication of whether the title was warranted or not , official or not , recognised or not .
20 We use this to cast light on a metaphor of which we are given no other interpretation .
21 Individual investors , unlike the S.I.B. , are given no statutory right of action against third parties ‘ knowingly concerned . ’
22 Worst of all we are given no true insights into the man or the legend which saw the production of more than 75 films and made a poor boy from Lambeth the most famous and feted individual in the world .
23 Contextual cues are given no special status in this scheme .
24 They know how not to analyse it , it is true , but are given no positive guidance which will enable them to get around the menace of voluntarism .
25 If the ‘ night forces ’ are given no safe outlet , no proper channelling , they may erupt with disastrous effect .
26 These modern versions of Marxism are not attempting to reintroduce ‘ idealism ’ in which thought and ideas are given a central role in the determination of history .
27 Hence if shares are given a preferential dividend they are presumed to be non-participating as regards further dividends , and if they are given a preferential right to a return of capital they are presumed to be non-participating in surplus assets .
28 Hence if shares are given a preferential dividend they are presumed to be non-participating as regards further dividends , and if they are given a preferential right to a return of capital they are presumed to be non-participating in surplus assets .
29 Addition : Suppose you are given a long column of figures to add .
30 Mozart 's life and character are well documented by the extensive correspondence that was generated within his family by his frequent travels and we are given a fascinating glimpse into matters both artistic and domestic .
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