Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Description and decision are delayed until an extended visual search is completed . |
| 2 | The affair seems to him to belong to the town , to have no future , and they are parted when the town comes under fear and hazard . |
| 3 | All theoretical curves are normalized as described in the text . |
| 4 | White working-class and black women 's stories of employment difficulties and success are heard as case histories of psychic tension , and lesbian women 's attempts to redefine relations between women become assimilated to accounts of pre-oedipal intimacy . |
| 5 | However , the rationale for using this paradigm as a way of investigating perceptual units was established by Ladefoged and Broadbent ( 1960 ) who showed that the position of clicks is not reported accurately , because they are heard as displaced from their original position to the boundaries of perceptual units . |
| 6 | Another definition of I t is the initial value of the shares corresponding to one futures contract ( that is , S t ) , so that arithmetic returns are calculated as ( F t +1 ; - F t ) /S t ( Figlewski and Kon , 1982 ) . |
| 7 | The elements of R ( are calculated as explained earlier ; the result is r i =0.65 , r 2 =0.35 , r 3 =0.37 and r 4 =0.63 . |
| 8 | One minute we are involved in matters of state , murder , Yorkist conspiracies , and the next we are dismissed because Her Grace wishes to attend a masque ! ’ |
| 9 | Current regulations on safety are dismissed as ‘ woefully inadequate ’ and the association calls on drivers to boycott models if manufacturers fail to make safety a priority . |
| 10 | A string of distinguished television current-affairs programmes are dismissed as being soft on criminals and terrorists ; TV programme-makers turn out to be pretentious , corrupt , cynical and generally ‘ nauseating … these saintly people , living off the fat of the land , try to kid you that they are guardians of the common weal ! ’ |
| 11 | Next , the things ordinary people like are dismissed as vulgar . |
| 12 | All too often their impressions are dismissed as false , having been based on a short , unrepresentative glimpse of part of a lesson , even thought they are usually expert at getting to the heart of the pupils ' experience in a particular classroom . |
| 13 | Similarly , Wordsworth is commonly bowdlerized into a ‘ Nature poet ’ , and his frequent accounts of human beings in economic difficulties are dismissed as his ‘ revolutionary growing-pains ’ — to be omitted from the safe anthologies in which he is. commonly presented to the adolescent mind . |
| 14 | These factors are dismissed as inevitable or unalterable , or not considered at all . |
| 15 | Showaddywaddy , however , are dismissed as ‘ revisionists , taking the revolutionary music of the workers ’ collectives of Memphis in the 1950s and subverting it with a horrible crepe-sole cabaret act . |
| 16 | What all this amounts to is a proviso that research based on samples of five hundred , a thousand , or more individuals should not be uncritically accepted as ‘ good ’ research while surveys using small samples , say a hundred or less , are dismissed as invalid . |
| 17 | The Gospels are dismissed as unreliable , second-hand accounts which contain only ‘ something — but little — of the sayings , the precepts of Christ and information concerning him ’ . |
| 18 | Her successes are dismissed as tawdry , her claims to original exploration comprehensively deflated . |
| 19 | It privileges the music which Adorno chooses as best representing the contradictory whole — thus alongside Beethoven and the tradition following him other kinds of music ( Berlioz , Rossini , Verdi , Elgar , Stravinsky , Eisler , let alone Lehár , Louis Armstrong , Walter Donaldson or Elvis Presley ) are inevitably presented as partial , that is to say more socially specific , less autonomous ; it also reduces the possibility of struggle over the specific uses and meanings of musical materials and forms : competing ‘ viewpoints ’ are dismissed as ‘ regressive ’ or ‘ false ’ . |
| 20 | Such arguments are dismissed as overreaction by those campaigning for a significant reduction in the use of animals in research . |
| 21 | If necessary , considerably more complex calculations are justified because of the speed of internal storage operations , and because use of such a calculation allows the unbroken key sequence to be exploited . |
| 22 | By consequentialist he means that the moral value or justification of any action is to be found in its consequences , and by eudaemonistic he means that actions are justified when , as a consequence of those actions , people get what they want or what they prefer . |
| 23 | Where the branch manufactures a product ( such as a car ) the standards it must comply with are those of the host member state ; conversely , where it sells a product made in its home member state the manufacturing standards of the home member state are normally the relevant ones , although the rules of the host member state would apply to its advertising in that state provided that they are justified as being for the public good . |
| 24 | Adoption agencies in Britain take the greatest trouble to see that children are placed where they will enjoy a strong family background . |
| 25 | They are placed as follows : Monday and Wednesday Paisley ( District Hall ) Tuesday and Thursday Linwood ( Church Hall ) Friday Erskine ( Church Hall ) The funding for the project originally came from Social Work Services Group under section 10 . |
| 26 | It is necessary for the reader 's initiation into James 's world that he should hold his convictions in suspense , ie he should be aware that more things are hidden than have yet been shown . |
| 27 | Intraperitoneal injections are given while holding the animal as in Figure lb on its back with the head slightly down . |
| 28 | Thus , to extend the Bell-Szekeres solution , the same initial conditions are given except that the component becomes complex and , from ( 6.22e ) , W must become non-zero in the interaction region . |
| 29 | Yet more instructions are given as to how the people should live , how they should avoid oppression , and show true compassion for the poor and the vulnerable . |
| 30 | In the MEDLINE system , for example , the user can interactively ask for instructions at the beginning of the search , or for assistance during the search , when part of the original instructions are given as requested . |