Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Abstract nouns , participles , and relative pronouns are italicized in the above passage . ) |
| 2 | Bonington 's adventures on Everest an Annapurna are interlarded with other events ; Fowler and Saunders on Spantik , and even a passing nod to Moffat and Edlinger . |
| 3 | All sections are counterstained with cresyl violet . |
| 4 | For example , in the provisions for extension of time , an extension may be given if the works are delayed for any reason beyond the control of the contractor ( a clause of much wider scope , incidentally , than in other JCT contracts ) , and the contractor is not required to provide information to assist the supervising officer in making an extension . |
| 5 | Where proceedings are delayed through unreasonable or time-wasting behaviour by one of the parties involved , the Reporter should feel free to make a recommendation , on which the Secretary of State will place considerable weight , that the expenses of other parties be awarded against the party responsible . |
| 6 | Countries to the east of us are in time zones with local time that is ahead of GMT , whereas local time and the time zones to the west are delayed with respect to ours . |
| 7 | As each financial year passes , the bow-wave does , indeed , dissipate as research and development programmes meet snags ; as decisions are delayed in the labyrinth of Whitehall committees ; as procurement contracts slip behind schedule ; and as units expend less than they asked for due to similar delays in their day-to-day training and operations . |
| 8 | A few guests who are invited to a midweek ceremony may not be able to leave work early , are delayed by rush hour traffic , or have to return home to change their clothes , and therefore they reach the reception after it has started . |
| 9 | Who will pay compensation if one operators ' trains are delayed by a breakdown of a train by another operator ? |
| 10 | They are parted from their parents on hatching and raised without an anemone . |
| 11 | The wings are very broad and thick at the base and the feathers at the end of the wings are parted like the fingers of a human hand . |
| 12 | Existing employees are refunded for two private survey fees ; new employees are allowed only one . |
| 13 | for instance , the costs of travelling by rail or by car are refunded by Pilkingtons , Billiton and local authorities . |
| 14 | The situation is more acute in the rural areas when only 32 per cent of the population aged seven to fourteen years are enrolled at school . |
| 15 | The majority of all black pupils are enrolled at primary level : 78 per cent of all enrolments in the DET 's jurisdiction ( compared with 56 per cent of all white enrolments ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A large number of students are enrolled for City and Guilds and RSA certificates . |
| 18 | You can work through the open learning material whether or not you are enrolled on the programme . |
| 19 | In Britain , 15 per cent of the 18–24-year-old population are enrolled on higher education courses . |
| 20 | Many EEC students are enrolled on the Course , usually either as one year exchange or private associate students ; but a small number seek full degree programmes . |
| 21 | More than 1,100 HIV-positive patients are enrolled in five independent phase I trials and three independent phase II trials with gp160 with up to 4 years of follow-up . |
| 22 | John Nicholson wafted in and out of their lives and Jack 's recollections of the man he imagined was his father are tinged with a certain sorrow that he had become an alcoholic , with memories of scenes on the home front , and of the young Jack cooling his heels outside one bar or another with a fizzy drink while his ‘ father ’ stood inside drinking neat brandies . |
| 23 | Tears come from the deepest emotions , from joy and beauty and often they are tinged with nostalgic sadness . |
| 24 | So family memories are tinged with sadness : |
| 25 | These can go a very long way to mollifying those individuals whose journeys are lengthened by traffic-affecting measures . |
| 26 | The complaint of Admiral Vernon , in a parliamentary speech of 1749 , that ‘ our fleets , which are defrauded by injustice , are first manned by violence and maintained by cruelty ’ , was substantially justified . |
| 27 | The lower reaches of the Sevre Niortaise are swollen with the waters that once covered the whole area , until medieval monks started to dig a spider-web of ditches to drain it . |
| 28 | They have abandoned leaves to reduce loss of water by transpiration , and their stems are swollen with stored water . |
| 29 | Kevin Scully , senior vice-president of Global Systems and Technology , says : ‘ What we have can be described as a centralised database with applications that are decentralised on a global basis . |
| 30 | Other things being equal it appears that those remanded in custody are more likely to plead guilty , substantially less likely to be acquitted and very much more likely to receive a custodial sentence on conviction than their counterparts who are remanded on bail ( see , eg , Bottomley , 1970 ; Davies , 1971 ; and also Home Office , 1990f , Tables 9.6 and 9.9 ) . |