Example sentences of "are [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Again , many decisions which are successfully carried out in a given period may not turn out to have been the best possible courses of action .
2 The cost of choice for the majority is the absence of choice for the minority who will never afford to buy , … ‘ the Right to Buy ’ and growth of owner-occupation are effectively carried out on the backs of poor people .
3 The interest payments you make to the fund are effectively paid back to the members of the Scheme as pensions later .
4 Oystercatchers are rarely noted away from the coast , but have been recorded on occasions on flooded levels as well as at the reservoirs .
5 Grey Plovers are rarely seen away from the coast in Sussex , but there have been six such records since 1947 in March , April , May , October ( three together ) , November , and December .
6 Such an exercise can span huge parameter ranges in which quite different behaviours are observed ( but all of which are intimately tied up with the existence of periodic orbits : even the strange attractor is densely packed with unstable orbits ) .
7 As the question of his death date , and indeed the circumstances of his death , are intimately bound up with the vexed problem of the identity of his successor , further discussion of it may suitably be left to the following chapter .
8 The difference between established senses and potential senses is not merely one of frequency of use , although this is undoubtedly an important component of the difference : established senses are presumably represented differently in the mind 's lexicon .
9 . The letters of all good soldiers show that the military duties of the soldier and his good military bearing are indivisibly bound up with the loyalty to the Führer and thus with a genuine National Socialist attitude in general …
10 Activists are illegally dismissed , strikes are forcibly broken up by the army or police and many unionists have been killed .
11 The slow homogenisation of large families could take many thousands of generations ; but chromosomes are constantly shared out among the members of a population .
12 Not all of these approaches are necessarily directed solely to the cities , and some would not feature in many classifications of inner-urban policy .
13 The last three months particularly are charged with electricity — and you are suddenly involved both in the throes of final productions and the ‘ business ’ of acting ; it all comes together in a thrilling rush , and the time goes quickly .
14 There are one or two passably funny lines which fail to make up a coherent , witty whole but are suddenly shot out from an invisible pea-shooter as if whipped from Ms Rudner 's stand-up routine .
15 But there are other recurring fingerprints — melodic motifs , rhythmic patterns , harmonic progressions — the secrets of which are perhaps known only to a handful of Shostakovich 's oldest and closest friends .
16 Some sociologists have researched ‘ counter school ’ youth cultures , and how they are naturally carried over onto the shopfloor .
17 Right number ten , name the two fences which are only jumped once in the Grand National .
18 These variables are only known locally to the defining procedure or function .
19 A motor extracts air through a replaceable filter and powders are gently drifted away from the operator .
20 To Sulentic 's surprise , he has also found that the connection can be traced right into the central nucleus of NGC 43 19 — very much as we might expect if , as Arp has often suggested , high redshift objects are somehow shot out from the centres of otherwise normal galaxies .
21 By convention , such powers are normally exercised formally by the monarch on the advice of ministers ( the ministers , in practice , take the decisions ) .
22 Hence , such experiments are normally carried out in a laboratory permanently equipped with a wind-tunnel ( the name for any system providing a working air stream ) , a water flume or channel ( similar systems with water ) , or a towing tank ( a large tank of stationary water through which an obstacle can be moved ) .
23 The growth cabinets are normally used only as a place to grow plants in a controlled way , measurements being made in the laboratory .
24 The arrangements for such a meeting are normally set out in the articles of association of the company .
25 Advertising costs and any expenses incurred in hiring premises are normally passed on by the estate agents to the vendor , whether or not the auction results in a sale .
26 Instead they are normally closed out by an offsetting sale or purchase beforehand .
27 In most cases , late leaching was accompanied by the calcitisation of dolomite and secondary limestones are normally found together with the porous dolomites ( Figs. 21 , 22 , 23 and 24 ; Clark 1980a ) .
28 Xenophon 's teachings are best summed up by the following statements :
29 They are best told apart by the differences in head shape — labiatum has thicker lips and citrinellum has a larger hump resulting in a steeper forehead profile .
30 Benoit Mandelbrot 's central idea presented here in a revised and expanded version of an essay first published in English five years ago , is that many of Nature 's forms have irregularities so extreme that they are best described not by the one-dimensional curves and two-dimensional surfaces of conventional geometry but as intermediate shapes ( ’ fractals ’ ) whose dimensionality need not be a whole number .
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