Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] and [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social security benefits are calculated and paid to the public by a very large number of Department of Health and Social Security staff based in regional and local offices throughout the country . |
| 2 | These topics are developed and broadened in the second year and more emphasis is placed on rigour and abstraction . |
| 3 | What may be unusual is my conviction that constitutional change , a reordering of the formal arrangements of political power and the nature of the British State , is a precondition for the achievement of the other changes , and that demands for this change may well be the vehicle through which other aspects of the strategy are developed and used as a stimulus to political action . |
| 4 | Though since the judicature Act came into force in 1875 the rules of Common Law and Equity are recognized and administered in the same court , yet they still remain distinct bodies of law , governed largely by different principles . |
| 5 | During 1990 SCOTVEC received a number of requests regarding the possibility of certification of National Certificate Modules where students are taught and assessed in a language other than English . |
| 6 | Basic number sets and simple addition are taught and practised in the first Numbers Book . |
| 7 | All bargains are registered and settled at the London Options Clearing House ( LOCH ) a wholly owned ISE subsidiary . |
| 8 | The cable cores of the flex are stripped and laid in the correct channels of the plug ; the plug pins are twisted to secure the wires ; and then the fuse cover is closed . |
| 9 | Meanwhile at the 12 area offices customer complaints ( e.g. poor water , flow , dirty water etc ) are received and put into a PC . |
| 10 | The forms are checked and returned to the census officer for coding . |
| 11 | Slave systems were typically displaced by the ‘ feudal ’ mode of production , where a class of partially free serfs are coerced and exploited by a dominant aristocracy of landlords , backed by a small central state . |
| 12 | It is not that they are not used : vitamins are prescribed and bought on a massive scale for people without the slightest hint of a deficiency , and ginseng is now sold in chemists and health-food shops in the UK to the tune of no less than £7 million a year . |
| 13 | Every time that it comes to capping regulations , those same authorities are blamed and pilloried for the spending for which Ministers have happily claimed the credit . |
| 14 | And I march to an unseen drum that is the metronome of an infinite host and like Thoreau , I am lifted and inspired by a music that no one else hears . |
| 15 | The fact that where goods are designed and manufactured to the buyer 's special order the seller will have greater knowledge of the buyer 's requirements and the buyer will rely on the seller 's skill may make it less reasonable for the seller to exclude or limit liability ; on the other , hand , if goods are manufactured to the buyer 's special order , it may be more reasonable to expect the buyer to insure against losses . |
| 16 | The M-Series of mini-tower machines are designed and manufactured in the UK , and even have a British BIOS . |
| 17 | Both productions are designed and directed by the same team responsible for last year 's successful production of IOLANTHE . |
| 18 | Typically , tradition weighs heavily on us : curriculums are organised and taught in the way that we have always done it . |
| 19 | They are organised and led by the people and , although a religious leader is present to offer assistance , the nature and activities of the group are decided by the members . |
| 20 | Johnson Matthey 's R&D activities are organised and co-ordinated on a worldwide basis . |
| 21 | LEFT Tiny plant and animal remains , retrieved through wet sieving , are sorted and studied under a microscope . |
| 22 | The means by which people are caught and recruited into the underclass has changed . |
| 23 | After a year in the cage the hens are caught and transported to the slaughter house . |
| 24 | In a strict order of preferential treatment , the newest titles are placed on the top rack , and moved down weekly , until the volumes on the bottom rack are superseded and returned to the publisher for pulping . |
| 25 | The nuts are picked and dried in the sun , and then placed in a fire to roast . |
| 26 | The distinctive features of railway activities affect organization and management-workforce relations independently of the fact that in most countries of the world the major railway networks are owned and run by the state , and everywhere without exception they are subject to close state regulation . |
| 27 | After the severe winter of 1946–7 there were only eight cows and five bulls in the herd , but there are now perhaps 50 animals altogether and they are owned and protected by the Chillingham Wild Cattle Association , a registered charity which bought the herd on the death of the eighth Earl in 1972 . |
| 28 | These are owned and controlled by the people who shop there and each society is governed by a board of directors elected from its own members . |
| 29 | Each partition contains space for a finite number of items which are added and deleted in a pre-defined order . |
| 30 | Curfews are broken , drinks are tanned , discos are dismantled , golden opportunities are recklessly squandered , and matches are won and lost with a callous disregard for the nation and its emotional stability . |