Example sentences of "[conj] they are [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government decisions in Britain are made in the name ofthe Cabinet , in contrast to the United States where they are made in the name of the President . |
| 2 | Conversely , future taxes and government expenditure may influence current incomes , as where they are capitalized in asset values . |
| 3 | The effectiveness of metaphors of the type in which inanimates are treated as animate is shown in passages of narratorial description where they are deployed in a fully developed form , for example in a lengthy passage where the pre-Copernican view of the universe ( which still pervades the English language ) is exploited and combined with the peoples ' perception of animacy in all things : " The moon rose slowly and almost vertically into a sky where there was nothing but a few spilled traces of cloud . |
| 4 | ( The horns fetch tens of thousands of dollars in the Far East , where they are used in fever-reducing medicines — not as aphrodisiacs , as is commonly supposed . ) |
| 5 | Uniformly blue berries that are familiar in certain temperate Ericaceae seem to be particularly associated with the attraction of pheasants , at least in the Malay Peninsula , where they are found in Pollia spp . |
| 6 | Description , interpretation and judgement are the subjects of separate chapters , where they are considered in more detail . |
| 7 | Within the context of each module or group of modules where they are linked in an integrated programme , students have a part to play in determining what , how , when , where and at what pace they learn . |
| 8 | But if we reject this view in favour of memory as a property of the brain as a system , rather than of its individual cellular and molecular components , then memory will depend not on distinct biochemistry but on just which cells and synapses are showing the changes , where they are located in the nervous system , and which other cells they make contact with . |
| 9 | The audit report should refer to significant departures from SSAPs where either they are not explained in the accounts or they are explained in the accounts but the auditor does not concur . |
| 10 | The audit report should refer to significant departures from SSAPs where either they are not explained in the accounts or they are explained in the accounts but the auditor does not concur . |
| 11 | Or they are held in the arms and quietly soothed — of course they 're sad to be going . |
| 12 | No concentration of scats was found , although they are recorded in the literature ( Camenzind , 1978 ) . |
| 13 | There are other sexist conventions of usage , however , which — although they are reproduced in everyday speech and writing — are ultimately sanctified by the authority of grammar books and dictionaries . |
| 14 | Although they are enunciated in the Old Testament in the context of a primitive agricultural society they nevertheless embody principles of lasting value . |
| 15 | Mary and the rest of her national co-ordinating team hope that it will be helpful in facilitating the consultation processes that they are engaged in . |
| 16 | Teachers must be intellectuals in the sense that they are engaged in constant co-operative inquiry into the content and method of schooling , an inquiry in which their own experiences and thoughts provide major input . |
| 17 | I very much hope that they are engaged in the work and committed to it , but I do n't want them to believe it 's real ; and the word involvement to me implies an inability to stand apart from the role-playing . |
| 18 | Many teachers try to obscure the fact that they are teaching in a multiracial school . |
| 19 | It is important that they are kept in good working order so that water does not leak from the system and so that you can turn the water off when you want to . : |
| 20 | But it is the responsibility of every person on site to make sure that they are operating in a safe manner . |
| 21 | Standards can be set , but arrangements for ensuring that they are maintained in the private sector are still inadequate . |
| 22 | Two decades earlier Louis XIV had put it more succinctly : " Nothing happens in the world which does not come under the cognizance of … a good ambassador " , while in the early eighteenth century a leading international lawyer wrote flatly of resident diplomats that " it is precisely for the purpose of getting information that they are maintained in the courts of friendly powers " . |
| 23 | The house is not very large — there are only 13 bedrooms in all — and this , together with the friendly , attentive service , combine to give guests the impression that they are staying in a graceful home rather than a hotel . |
| 24 | One of the nice things about them is that they are situated in one of the quieter areas between Palma Nova and Magalluf , but it is only a short walk to the beaches and nightlife of both resorts . |
| 25 | One of the hon. Members who spoke earlier pointed out the dangers , and I wonder whether the Government are aware of the dangers of the policy that they are pursuing in relation to gas-fired power stations . |
| 26 | Their only claim to be local is that they are implemented in a restricted geographical area — but then so are certain aspects of defence and foreign policy ! |
| 27 | Egg producers must recognise that they are competing in the sophisticated food industry of the late 1980s and that they have a responsibility to the consumer . |
| 28 | I am assured that they are advertised in the Institutions Journal . |
| 29 | However , if people challenge the basic principle of utility one can not say that they are mistaken in any kind of factual way , or that they are necessarily irrational . |
| 30 | I say publicly that they are mistaken in trying to push this Bill through in the face of severe and fierce opposition , not just from committed Labour supporters but from rank-and-file Conservatives and from people who have no particular political We were lucky enough to see my hon. Friend the Minister of State a couple of times , and we tried to explain to him how we in Leicestershire would lose out . |