Example sentences of "[noun] are [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition all the functions of the unc sec. stopwatch are complemented by audible signals . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps the ancient fairies are looking after things round here . ’ |
| 3 | End up amongst them and the problems are evident , unless of course the wood fairies are smiling upon you . |
| 4 | Fairies are reported to be thick on the ground living in grassy mounds all over the island . |
| 5 | BLACK MUSLIMS FROM the Nation of Islam are gathered in force outside the Hackney Empire . |
| 6 | Women in Islam are held in very high esteem , which Westerners do n't seem to realise . |
| 7 | Affection and dread are mixed in ambivalence , grief becomes guilt , and often a disgust factor at the kind of tasks to be undertaken compounds the pain ( Ungerson , 1987 ) . |
| 8 | If institutions are funded from the same general purse , on the whole they mesh together and work easily together . |
| 9 | Add to this the fact that our universities and practically all our major cultural institutions are run by English people , and that many of the executive posts in local government and other organisations are occupied by them , and it will be clear that Scotland is rapidly being colonised , indeed being turned into an extension of England . |
| 10 | Many EEC ( European Economic Community ) institutions are based in his country , including the European Court of Justice . |
| 11 | Elections in the United States take place every two years ( more frequently if one includes state and local elections ) and , as part of the checks and balances built into the process by the constitution , different institutions are elected for different tenures . |
| 12 | Institutions are viewed as expressions of collective purposes which maintain vitality so long as they are able to maintain a clear sense of purpose . |
| 13 | Advertisements sent to relevant European institutions are exempt because those institutions are treated as Art 9(3) experts in relation to investment advertisements relating to activities falling within their home-regulated business ( see para 44 of Sched 10 to the Banking Co-ordination Regulations ) . |
| 14 | Heads of departments and institutions are indemnified by the University in respect of any claims made against them under civil law in connection with safety duties . |
| 15 | A surprising fact is that 65 per cent of the UK is supplied with hard water , a situation which means that a high proportion of hotels , restaurants and other institutions are faced with hard water problems which are costing them hard earned revenue . |
| 16 | As for the second , it has long been recognised that successful institutions are distinguished by clear aims . |
| 17 | Similarly , institutions are accused of ‘ disloyalty ’ in bid situations , preferring to take the premium rather than await longer-term growth . |
| 18 | In addition , many institutions are restricted from holding foreign securities ( e.g. German life insurers ) and many have restrictions on acceptable credit ratings . |
| 19 | All these institutions are controlled From above , all an subject to directives emanating from the same political institution or institutions , all have their key officials in the nomenklatura of higher Party officials ( that is , their officials are appointed and removed only when a Party organ takes the action or agrees to it ) , all have developed many of the characteristics associated with bureaucratization . |
| 20 | Three institutions are proposed for case study : a large private firm ; a civil service department ; and a national trade union . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) In the tradition of Weber , legitimacy has been defined as ‘ the degree to which institutions are valued for themselves and considered right and proper ’ . |
| 22 | These institutions are produced for the same purpose as neuroses are by the individual ; they are collective solutions for the problem of defence against unsatisfied wishes . |
| 23 | Does the Minister accept that when universities and other educational institutions are used as centres for terrorist activity . |
| 24 | Strong interventionist states with powerful centralized bureaucracies and institutions of state coercion , for example , may be contrasted with those of countries where the interests of civil society are stronger and state institutions are moulded to its purpose . |
| 25 | Government and legal — administrative institutions are moulded in forms which optimally sustain capital accumulation , whether or not the state is directly controlled by capitalists and irrespective of the precise balance of class forces . |
| 26 | Also , where Newco is acquiring a business , it seems it is no longer strictly necessary to ensure that the shares the managers subscribe in Newco confer control after the institutions have invested , so long as they confer control before then , assuming in this scenario that the managers invest well before the institutions and before the institutions are committed to investing . |
| 27 | The Bretton Woods institutions are preparing for their fiftieth anniversary next year . |
| 28 | Members of academic , research and other government institutions are divided into two separate scientific communities-the natural and social between which there is little effective cooperation and a lot of envy , disdain and competition for scarce resources . |
| 29 | Both these institutions are dealt with in Chapter 12 . |
| 30 | Institutions are rushing after shops in cathedral towns . |