Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] are [vb pp] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Whether Carthage or London , the poem 's cities are seen as horrible , life-denying .
2 That is , it totally fails to consider the persistence of power through property ownership ; moreover , its conception of the labour market ignores those factors which determine whether or not one 's skills are perceived as marketable , and whether some groups , for example the professions , have the power to establish the view that their particular skills are valuable .
3 The chapter first provides a critical overview of the standard ‘ referential communication task ’ , where a child 's skills are gauged when required to communicate with another about an array of objects or drawings , while speaker and hearer can not see one another , being placed behind opaque screens to encourage verbal and preclude non-verbal communication .
4 The electorate 's views are seen as stable , centrist and moderate , but , in the context of an electoral system that bolsters the two-party system and blocks the easy rise of third parties of moderation , the House of Commons is " unrepresentative " and the party activists unchecked .
5 Thus in Wales , men active within the prince 's council are categorized as Woodville associates , as are the officials of the duchy of Lancaster estates held by the queen .
6 Thus in Wales , men active within the prince 's council are categorized as Woodville associates , as are the officials of the duchy of Lancaster estates held by the queen .
7 The thing to remember about proof-reading is that a proof-reader 's corrections are intended as advice to the printer , not as a punishment to the writer .
8 Market research has shown that the company 's torches are seen as dependable but rather old-fashioned and there is little awareness of the newer products which have been introduced to fit the contemporary lifestyle .
9 I am sure that the House very much hopes that the Government 's objectives are achieved because they will be a major step towards solving the issues of the international environment .
10 Pynchon 's tactics in Section IV of Gravity 's Rainbow are related since he moves further and further from realism .
11 In 1800 the family 's landlords are given as ‘ Muir and Wayland ’ , and the property itself is described as ‘ House and Garden ’ .
12 Doubts about Mancini 's version are reinforced when it is compared with the account produced early in 1486 by the anonymous continuator of the Crowland chronicle .
13 Doubts about Mancini 's version are reinforced when it is compared with the account produced early in 1486 by the anonymous continuator of the Crowland chronicle .
14 However , the company 's hands are tied because the Government insist that the main consideration must be that bus services are commercially profitable .
15 The company 's hotels are run as autonomous units , and their operations are only co-ordinated to a limited extent .
16 In these models much attention has been focused on the interaction between markets which fail to clear , and the mechanisms by which agents ' actions are coordinated when prices are sticky .
17 But since capitalists ' profits are seen as being constituted by accumulation and personal consumption , the sum of realised profit will be perceived as being smaller that the actual social surplus-value .
18 Invalidity benefit is paid according to the usual contribution conditions and dependants ' benefits are added where appropriate .
19 This concentration of digestion at the incisor tips is highly characteristic of the prey assemblages of the category 2 species ( Fig. 3.22 F-I ) , and must be linked with heavier digestion combined with the high retention rate of the incisors in the jaws ( Tables 3.6 and 3.8 ) , most of the digestion occurring while the incisors are still in place in the jaws ( Fig. 3.22 H ) : in the long-eared owl samples , four times as many in situ incisors are digested as isolated incisors and three times as many for Verreaux eagle owl ( data from Table 3.13 ) .
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