Example sentences of "[conj] are [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admittedly then , those seeking a comprehensive analysis , will have to have some a priori position on these issues since they all profoundly affect or are affected by environmental degradation . |
| 2 | Vogue wheels should not be fitted to earlier Range Rovers unless the wheel studs are marked with a line on the end or are replaced with new ones . |
| 3 | What is likely to happen is that they will shun those centres that have a bad name or are lacking in professional infrastructure ( the two usually go together ) in favour of well-regulated , stable ones . |
| 4 | Support for the scanning hypothesis of lateral differences in tachistoscopic recognition came in the form of findings which showed the direction of visual field asymmetry to be related to whether the stimuli are symmetrically shaped ( Bryden , 1968 ) or are presented in normal or in mirror image orientation ( Harcum and Filion , 1963 ) . |
| 5 | Social deixis concerns " that aspect of sentences which reflect or establish or are determined by certain realities of the social situation in which the speech act occurs " ( Fillmore , 1975 : 76 ) . |
| 6 | Where such resources are controlled at the top or are determined by national agreements , as with much of public sector salaries , then the power of middle management will diminish . |
| 7 | The stimuli which the cell receives from the matrix can then initiate changes in gene expression with temporally related changes in cell structure which result directly from the same signals or are determined by concomitant but separate cell-matrix interaction . |
| 8 | Many schools still have a remedial department or are visited by peripatetic remedial teachers who withdraw children for extra tuition in reading with little time for consultation with school staff . |
| 9 | Convinced that niche marketing was the right approach to follow , they decided to build on their experience in audit , accounting and tax for companies with turnovers of £1m to £30m ; investigative work for institutions that have invested , or are thinking of investing , in such companies ; and general litigation support . |
| 10 | Mental events , like most events , are composite-they contain or are constituted of other mental events . |
| 11 | For example , they can help handicapped youngsters in the difficult school-leaving period , encourage them to find work , keep an eye on their activities if they are trying to take on too much or are getting into bad company , help them to cope with family relationships and to become as independent and content as possible . |
| 12 | These form a layer at or near the surface or are incorporated into inner layers of the cuticle . |
| 13 | Sometimes , these remain in the landscape or are incorporated into complex village plans ; elsewhere , they were abandoned in what seems to have been wholescale replanning and resiting of villages . |
| 14 | Any small amounts of matter leaking from the black holes will gather together to form new stars , but those stars will themselves evolve until they either become black holes or are subsumed into black holes . |
| 15 | But the breed 's origins are uncertain and the theories are numerous — that they are almost directly descended from the wild aurochs , for example ( the claim of many a breed ! ) or are at least of Bos primigenius stock like the Podolians of the steppes , or are descended from large , long-horned continental cattle imported several centuries ago ( some say by the Romans ) , or were imported 3,000–4,000 years ago , or came from Ireland where they were an ancient indigenous type , or were developed from Dutch and old English breeds before the eighteenth century , or must have Norse origins because of their coat colour and pattern . |
| 16 | Those that do escape , or are released by compassionate fishing captains and crew , are often caught again , and the same dolphins may often be chased to exhaustion and encircled with tuna nets many times each fishing season . |
| 17 | Whether this is a common occurence and whether the larvae migrate or are transported by terrestrial populations of earthworms or beetles is not definitely known , but the occurrence of this apparent reservoir of larvae in soil may be important in relation to certain systems of control based on grazing management . |
| 18 | Some of them are severely confused through an illness like Alzheimer 's disease or are suffering from short-term memory loss . |
| 19 | Working with adults who have suffered or are suffering from mental illness using drawing and slide photography . |
| 20 | Mostly they do administrative work inside the station , drive for the section inspector , or are seconded to administrative work elsewhere in the station . |
| 21 | When goods are carried in different vehicles or are of a different kind or are divided into different lots , the sender of the carrier is entitled to require a separate consignment note for each vehicle or each kind or lot of goods . |
| 22 | Within this tendency , the basic ‘ facts ’ or ‘ structure ’ of a given society and/or period are received or are established by general analysis , and their ‘ reflection ’ in actual works is more or less directly traced . |
| 23 | Crash site is on mudflats that are exposed at low tide some 150 yards seaward of The Old Neptune public house , Whitstable , North Kent , and part of the aircraft 's bomb load was destroyed by an Ordnance Disposal team in November 1991 . |
| 24 | They find their way to alternative allergists because they read articles in newspapers and magazines that are written by naive journalists or planted by efficient public relations experts . |
| 25 | Where possible , only buy bleaches , disinfectants and floor cleaners that are fitted with childproof caps . |
| 26 | Panels of reflective foil fitted behind radiators that are mounted on external walls will reflect back heat which would otherwise be lost through the masonry to the outside air . |
| 27 | Right , okay , erm let's now move on to er these other diagnostics , right , like test for structural change these diagnostic test statistics that are calculated for right , because essentially what they 're doing is that they 're testing the assumptions on which ordinary leased squares is based . |
| 28 | The collection of neutrals plus ions will result in scattering and recoiling intensities that are determined by elemental concentrations , shadowing and blocking effects , and classical cross-sections . |
| 29 | Inhibition of metalloproteinases , therefore , may not itself break the autocrine loops of proliferation and destruction that are created in pathological conditions such as cancer . |
| 30 | This is based in part on the growth of effective party organisation , which has steadily weakened parliament 's original critical role , and in part on the emergence of a complex civil service structure with access to information and technical expertise that are denied to ordinary Members of Parliament ( Poggi , 1978 ; Crossman , 1963 and 1975–7 ) . |