Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 13,650 full-time and part-time students are enrolled for courses at all levels of higher education , from part-time certificate programmes to doctoral studies . |
| 2 | Hundreds of people are queueing at cinemas across the region to see Hollywood 's new dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic Park . |
| 3 | Hundreds of people are queueing at cinemas across the region to see Hollywood 's new dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic Park . |
| 4 | Trading standards are liasing with colleagues in Liverpool where similar material has been found . |
| 5 | The Murray 's Handbooks to India are punctuated with references to stations much used by pilgrims . |
| 6 | After all , unless we can show that we are able to do better with the totality of the sums , and the totality of the business , why should any shareholder believe that we know better how to deal with his money if we are to invest in areas outside our particular expertise , than he can by individual investments ? |
| 7 | ‘ We see ourselves as a specialty chemical company and the strategies are to invest in facilities and R & D , to emphasise Europe as we go forward and to continue to improve the quality ’ . |
| 8 | Applications are heard in chambers unless otherwise directed . |
| 9 | Such appeals are heard in chambers unless the judge otherwise directs . |
| 10 | Some people would argue that many applications for judicial review which are heard by courts in fact involve wider political and administrative issues ; and that the rules of evidence and procedure in such cases should be changed to allow interested third parties to ‘ intervene ’ in the proceedings and to allow relevant information to be given about the likely impact of a decision one way or the other on the administrative process and on the public at large . |
| 11 | Unit trust prices are calculated on computers using market information supplied by the WM Company . |
| 12 | My heart is hammering , my hands are balled into fists . |
| 13 | For example , many people would classify nuns as holy and sincere , while Hell 's Angels are dismissed as troublemakers , drug-takers and wild drunks . |
| 14 | Savings due to reduced admissions are dismissed by administrators because the saved places are readily used up from endless waiting lists . |
| 15 | They are dismissed by others in the occult , who claim that the group ‘ tell outsiders this tall story ( of Satan being the Son of God ) to make themselves look respectable ’ . |
| 16 | These violations of laws of purity and holiness are justified in terms of more fundamental principles , concern for the inner ethical motivations of the person , rather than their external bodily state , and respect for all persons , regardless of gender or ethnicity . |
| 17 | The rewards for those who do conform , and the penalties on those who do not , are justified in terms of a cultural tradition which places the group first and the individual second . |
| 18 | Non-basic beliefs are justified in terms of the basic and the basic are justified in some other way ; the asymmetry lies in the fact that justification is all one way , from non-basic to basic . |
| 19 | While the others are assigned to carvings which were partially damaged David Esterly has to recreate something which was all but destroyed in the fire . |
| 20 | Keywords are assigned to resources that match both pupil and teacher criteria , the inquiry/communicating skills required of pupils and the resources being indexed . |
| 21 | It therefore follows that technical personnel are assigned to divisions on the basis of discipline , and for the purpose of accountability , control and maintenance of professional standards . |
| 22 | All registered students on taught courses are assigned to studies advisers who guide in matters affecting course content , assessment and progress . |
| 23 | Modules are assigned to levels , the higher levels using proportionally more groupwork and projects and , correspondingly , placing less reliance on lectures . |
| 24 | Thus for BrF the first band shows a splitting of about 0·32 eV and is clearly due to a level largely localized on Br ; in IBr ( Fig. 6.18 ) the first two bands show splittings of 0·58 and 0·36 eV and are assigned to lone-pairs mainly localized on I and Br , respectively . |
| 25 | However , the rules by which such indices are assigned to words are not totally reliable . |
| 26 | Once a suitably-sized range of IPX addresses is assigned , the network administrator allocates those numbers according to local need and individual network numbers are assigned to servers , routers and network segments . |
| 27 | The basic argument with which we are concerned here is that the low level of female crime is a result of the expectations and constraints that are placed on women by society . |
| 28 | In any situation where heavy demands are placed on personnel owing to excessive work load , there is a tendency to deal with those jobs where most external pressure is being applied and to neglect the ones showing least demand . |
| 29 | Consequently contradictory demands are placed on schools and colleges ; for example , girls are allowed to study physical science in school , but are also channelled into subjects such as home economics which instil in them their future role as wives and mothers . |
| 30 | Heavy demands are placed on schools to find time in the curriculum for a wide range of individually worthwhile activities and difficult decisions have to be made about priorities . |