Example sentences of "are [verb] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All theoretical curves are normalized as described in the text . |
| 2 | Social security benefits are calculated and paid to the public by a very large number of Department of Health and Social Security staff based in regional and local offices throughout the country . |
| 3 | In the rat small intestine , many drugs are acetylated and excreted into the lumen . |
| 4 | Gains or losses from this notional disposal are treated as accruing at the time of the intra-group transfer . |
| 5 | Because company law fails to differentiate in any consistent fashion between these different sorts of companies all are treated as regulated by the traditional legal framework which we have been examining . |
| 6 | We have registers for certain groups of disabled people — those registered with local authorities , those who are listed as disabled with the Department of Employment , records of certain groups receiving treatment or pensions , and so on . |
| 7 | These topics are developed and broadened in the second year and more emphasis is placed on rigour and abstraction . |
| 8 | What may be unusual is my conviction that constitutional change , a reordering of the formal arrangements of political power and the nature of the British State , is a precondition for the achievement of the other changes , and that demands for this change may well be the vehicle through which other aspects of the strategy are developed and used as a stimulus to political action . |
| 9 | Elements of the design are developed or resolved in a series of local activities . |
| 10 | Though since the judicature Act came into force in 1875 the rules of Common Law and Equity are recognized and administered in the same court , yet they still remain distinct bodies of law , governed largely by different principles . |
| 11 | Whatever the arrangements , it is very important to get ground rules agreed before the move takes place , so that some of the possible snags for all concerned are foreseen and nipped in the bud . |
| 12 | A third of the women in the ‘ specials ’ are diagnosed as suffering from a psychopathic disorder , compared with less than a quarter of the men . |
| 13 | During 1990 SCOTVEC received a number of requests regarding the possibility of certification of National Certificate Modules where students are taught and assessed in a language other than English . |
| 14 | Basic number sets and simple addition are taught and practised in the first Numbers Book . |
| 15 | All bargains are registered and settled at the London Options Clearing House ( LOCH ) a wholly owned ISE subsidiary . |
| 16 | The cable cores of the flex are stripped and laid in the correct channels of the plug ; the plug pins are twisted to secure the wires ; and then the fuse cover is closed . |
| 17 | Meanwhile at the 12 area offices customer complaints ( e.g. poor water , flow , dirty water etc ) are received and put into a PC . |
| 18 | The forms are checked and returned to the census officer for coding . |
| 19 | Furthermore , where either depression or schizophrenia are provoked or triggered by an event , disorder typically follows so rapidly that intervention after the event and before the emergence of disorder is unlikely to be a practical possibility . |
| 20 | They are regarded as belonging to an earlier age of superstition and ignorance . |
| 21 | It is also what is involved when modern descriptions of the moon 's trajectory are retained and observation statements referring to the fact that the moon is much larger when it is near the horizon than when it is high in the sky are regarded as resulting from an illusion , even though the cause of the illusion is not well understood . |
| 22 | Slave systems were typically displaced by the ‘ feudal ’ mode of production , where a class of partially free serfs are coerced and exploited by a dominant aristocracy of landlords , backed by a small central state . |
| 23 | It is not that they are not used : vitamins are prescribed and bought on a massive scale for people without the slightest hint of a deficiency , and ginseng is now sold in chemists and health-food shops in the UK to the tune of no less than £7 million a year . |
| 24 | This principle applies in full force in dealing with the harmonic idioms of the present day , in which discords are approached and quitted with the utmost freedom , and there is often little or no feeling of resolution at all , for there must always be ‘ part-writing ’ and the notes must ‘ go somewhere ’ and not be left in the air , so to speak , even if the progressions are not in accord with nineteenth-century harmonic notions . |
| 25 | Swiftly eggs and milt are shed and sink beneath the gravel grains . |
| 26 | Every time that it comes to capping regulations , those same authorities are blamed and pilloried for the spending for which Ministers have happily claimed the credit . |
| 27 | The fact that where goods are designed and manufactured to the buyer 's special order the seller will have greater knowledge of the buyer 's requirements and the buyer will rely on the seller 's skill may make it less reasonable for the seller to exclude or limit liability ; on the other , hand , if goods are manufactured to the buyer 's special order , it may be more reasonable to expect the buyer to insure against losses . |
| 28 | The M-Series of mini-tower machines are designed and manufactured in the UK , and even have a British BIOS . |
| 29 | Both productions are designed and directed by the same team responsible for last year 's successful production of IOLANTHE . |
| 30 | The danger is that this disparity will be enshrined in the formulas for distributing funds that local authorities are adopting as required by the 1988 Act . |