Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a three-variable table with one response variable and two explanatory variables , the proportions are calculated to sum to 1 within each of the cells formed by the categories of the explanatory variables . |
| 2 | They were much less gentle than the water-buffalo , which spend most of their lives doing nothing , wallowing up to their ears in mudpools , while pampered and scrubbed by the little boys who are assigned to look after them from birth . |
| 3 | It is n't as pretty as we are given to understand in fairy tales . ’ |
| 4 | In order to ensure compatibility with qualifications obtained by more traditional means , centres may only offer , through APL the same qualifications that they are validated to offer by other means . |
| 5 | Indeed , often when it is adopted the final accounts are adjusted to appear as accruals accounts . |
| 6 | Such an individual could choose to ignore conventional time-cues and so cocoon himself in an artificial world in which meals and artificial lighting are adjusted to accord with the dictates of his body clock — like the subject in a cave ( in chapter 2 ) and the opposite of what happens normally , when our life-style adjusts our body clock . |
| 7 | I wrote to the Earl personally and told him that Brownie Guides are taught to leave behind nothing but their thanks , but received a reply saying that my letter had been passed on to the agent , Mr. Bishop , who handled all such matters . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's had trouble with campers , who 've broken down his fences and left fires that have caused a lot of damage — not Guides or Scouts , of course , who you know are taught to leave behind nothing but their thanks but he puts all campers together and calls them all nuisances . ’ |
| 9 | Exercise that can help to maintain the elasticity of the vagina are also used to control urinary incontinence and avoid a prolapse — they are the pelvic floor exercises that women are taught to do after childbirth : sit on the lavatory with the thighs parallel to the ground and feet flat on the floor ( or on a book , if necessary ) ; start to pass water , then use the muscles to stop the flow ; release and finish the flow . |
| 10 | She toured the Hearing Dogs for the Deaf centre at Lewknor near Oxford where dogs are taught to act as ears for deaf people . |
| 11 | In a country where most of us are taught to paddle on flat water , should we insist on putting novices into white water boats which are specifically designed to veer off course and then spend millions of man hours teaching them to go straight or should we put novices into boats designed to go in straight lines ? |
| 12 | The sisters are taught to think of those impulses that impede the spirit as sins with the strength of predatory beasts ravening in the wilderness of the interior landscape of the fallen world . |
| 13 | Early achievement spurs the client on ; they are taught to focus on their success , and to cope with any difficulties rationally by altering the programme slightly until success is achieved . |
| 14 | Our servile Tongues are taught to cry for Pardon |
| 15 | They are taught to look for the common signs of preparation that precede offences . |
| 16 | Sadly , we are taught to look upon emotions as some kind of social disease . |
| 17 | Most men are taught to seek in their working lives the sense of purpose , of meaning and of self-respect that women seek in personal relationships . |
| 18 | He writes : ‘ If we are pressed to see in the doctrine of the Trinity some clue to the sense that gender … must have something corresponding to it in the God-head , one would find in the unconditioned Unity of God something like the feminine in creation , while the differentiated Persons , on the other hand , have each a masculine denomination . ’ |
| 19 | The payment will be available to teaching staff until such time as the Teachers ' Superannuation ( Scotland ) Regulations are amended to provide for an injury allowance . |
| 20 | Many babies are lulled to sleep in cars , but if yours is wakeful and miserable , tapes of music or songs can be useful . |
| 21 | In practice , this may mean that old people are exposed to risk in their own homes and that there will be , on occasion , tragic consequences . |
| 22 | These are team meetings where the analysis and design specifications and other documentation are exposed to review by the members of the team . |
| 23 | People within enterprises who are designated to engage in environmental scanning ( and similar ) activities do not of course restrict themselves to that part of the total external information resource that happens to be publicly available at a specific point in time . |
| 24 | This meeting and a subsequent schedule of talks at the ministerial level are intended to lead to a global convention on climate change by 1995 . |
| 25 | This means that we have to specify a number of assumptions , and those we have chosen are intended to conform with the Keynesian view of how the economy works and at the same time to simplify the analysis in a way which enables us to see clearly how DD unemployment can arise . |
| 26 | The following assumptions are intended to conform with the Keynesian view of the economy and to simplify the analysis in such a way that enables us to make useful predictions . |
| 27 | The points noted below are intended to serve as a guide on how to maximise this resource . |
| 28 | Some have a loop around the spat , between stops , others have loops which are intended to go around the spar and the extension of the vinyl sockets . |
| 29 | Japan 's post-war constitution forbids the use of its navy outside territorial waters , but there are concerns to safeguard the imports of plutonium , which are intended to deal with Japan 's approaching energy crisis . |
| 30 | These measures could quite justifiably be regarded as something of a sledgehammer to crack a very small nut , since they are intended to deal with a problem the existence of which is almost totally unproven . |