Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All sections are counterstained with cresyl violet . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | for instance , the costs of travelling by rail or by car are refunded by Pilkingtons , Billiton and local authorities . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A large number of students are enrolled for City and Guilds and RSA certificates . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So family memories are tinged with sadness : |
| 9 | Some will carry 300 men , with the baggage , and others 150 horse with their riders ; 150 more are building at Brest , St Malo , Nantes , Port L'Orient , Morlaix and other ports of Brittany . |
| 10 | Will she also emphasise that we are building on success and , to this end , will she give the House the figures for 1988 , 1989 and 1990 on the proportion of American and Japanese investment in the EC which came to Britain ? |
| 11 | With regard to the War Department , I quite agree with Panmure , that the best course will be to lodge that Department in an unpretending but suitable manner in Pall Mall , and to carry that arrangement into effect at the same time that a Foreign and Colonial Office are building in Downing and Fludyer Street . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Hundreds of people are queueing at cinemas across the region to see Hollywood 's new dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic Park . |
| 14 | Hundreds of people are queueing at cinemas across the region to see Hollywood 's new dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic Park . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | The answer to his first point is that it is absolutely clear that a number of people who break their bail conditions are remanded in custody when they are brought back to the court ; but that happens in only about six out of 10 cases , and in four out of 10 cases when those who break their bail conditions are brought back to the court , it seems that they are no longer remanded in custody but are again let out on bail . |
| 17 | And so it came to pass that on Friday 24 April , at 11am our time , 94 ladies and gentleman of the British press are gathered at Stansted Airport inside a privately chartered plane whose previous occupants were Neil Kinnock and the Labour Party election campaign team . |
| 18 | Here the ewes ( female sheep ) are gathered for lambing and later for shearing wool and for dipping to control insect pests . |
| 19 | For the Church of God 's frozen people this is the Pathway to Power , individual and Church alike are Gathered For Power . |
| 20 | BLACK MUSLIMS FROM the Nation of Islam are gathered in force outside the Hackney Empire . |
| 21 | The spacious rooms have large bay windows and cast-iron fireplaces with marble surrounds , and are furnished in Laura Ashley fabrics and antiques . |
| 22 | Trading standards are liasing with colleagues in Liverpool where similar material has been found . |
| 23 | There is the special delight Britons have in gossip , especially when it is hinted that politics are spiced with sex . |
| 24 | Most meetings are punctuated with champagne toasts , many are held in expensive restaurants . |
| 25 | The Murray 's Handbooks to India are punctuated with references to stations much used by pilgrims . |
| 26 | After all , unless we can show that we are able to do better with the totality of the sums , and the totality of the business , why should any shareholder believe that we know better how to deal with his money if we are to invest in areas outside our particular expertise , than he can by individual investments ? |
| 27 | ‘ We see ourselves as a specialty chemical company and the strategies are to invest in facilities and R & D , to emphasise Europe as we go forward and to continue to improve the quality ’ . |
| 28 | John Barnes and Gary Gillespie are misssing from Liverpool 's squad to play Wigan in the Littlewoods Cup tonight , putting their participation for England and Scotland in World Cup qualifying games next week in doubt . |
| 29 | SOME of the biggest names in Irish literature are to gather in Londonderry next month for a five-day ‘ Languages of Ireland ’ literary festival . |
| 30 | Frequently , squeaks and crackles over the posterior lung lobes are heard on auscultation . |