Example sentences of "are [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | These can go a very long way to mollifying those individuals whose journeys are lengthened by traffic-affecting measures . |
| 3 | The woods in Coulby Newham , which have suffered from half a century of neglect , will be rejuvenated with help from three developers Wimpey , Yuill and McLean who are building on adjacent plots . |
| 4 | The victims are gathered for quick repairs before another round . |
| 5 | At the same time more and more males are accumulating in all-male groups . |
| 6 | Britain 's role as Kingston described it could be called that of a peace-keeping force , and his stones of intrigue and skirmish are punctuated by anti-war sentiments . |
| 7 | Most cases are heard by part-time chairmen who must be solicitors , barristers or advocates of five years standing . |
| 8 | At first sight , this could turn out to be the bargain of the century , because the asset-values are calculated on 1991 prices , even though Russian prices rose by a vertiginous 2,600% during 1992 . |
| 9 | Lattice enthalpies determined through the Born-Haber cycle can be regarded as experimental values since the lattice enthalpies are calculated from experimental values . |
| 10 | Policy strategies which attack the social and economic determinants of ill-health are dismissed as futile attempts at social engineering . |
| 11 | The attitudes held by the modern racists are deracialized in that the attitudes are justified by traditional values , such as equality and fairness , and not by oven racial themes . |
| 12 | While such mentalistic constructions may sound implausible at first sight , they are justified in three ways . |
| 13 | You can set up menus which are assigned to specific users and passwords . |
| 14 | The ten l.e.d.s concerned here are placed at various positions in the ‘ field ’ , each representing a number of runs or a no-score , plus a couple which may lead to a catch or an appeal for lbw . |
| 15 | Touch-operated computer terminals are placed at strategic points allowing us , quite literally , to have the ancient world at our fingertips . |
| 16 | All these are inconsistent with ‘ living life ’ , the two words which are placed between inverted commas and imposed at the level of mere idea upon Notes from Underground , but which truly drive Raskolnikov , which are his need to become a man again . |
| 17 | Half of all children in care in the Netherlands are placed with foster families ( Kampen , 1988 ) , against only thirty-one per cent in Flanders ( Lammertyn and Antoons , 1990 ) . |
| 18 | Children who do come in to care are placed with other families where possible and again is fortunate in having an experienced network of foster parents and link carers and we ca n't thank them enough . |
| 19 | A high proportion of trainees are placed with small employers Without that contribution the funding package simply does not add up . ’ |
| 20 | West Yorkshire , will be able to buy a stake once shares are placed with institutional investors . |
| 21 | The living turtles are placed on burning coals and heated until their top and bottom shells become malleable enough to rip off . |
| 22 | A light source and photosensitive device photodiode , phototransistor or photovoltaic cell — are placed on opposite sides of the disc , so that the device is illuminated whenever a disc slot is in front of the light source . |
| 23 | This pattern , which echoes the scheme invented by Sylvester for the Tate Gallery more than twenty years ago and encourages a focus upon single works , is continued in the long gallery of the ground floor where paintings from 1929 to 1939 are placed on both sides of a partition wall . |
| 24 | The basis of social hierarchy is not contrasting relationships to the means of production , but different values which are placed upon different occupations . |
| 25 | Before Morris introduced this type of maze , it had become common practice to study spatial learning in a more conventional version of the same task , in which rats are placed in various forms of radial mazes with four , six or eight arms , and must learn to run to a goal box containing food or water at the end of one of the arms . |
| 26 | Pitfall traps are placed in various sorts of sites around the garden to catch ground beetles , spiders , harvestmen , woodlice , centipedes and millipedes . |
| 27 | And also , when handicapped children are placed in foster homes , the foster parent is assis assessed as a contributor , which of course the Local Authority has to pay . |
| 28 | Polyatomic ligands are placed in curved brackets . |
| 29 | Instructions about what to do in case of fire are placed in prominent positions throughout your place of work . |
| 30 | They are placed in public spaces often in the centre of villages , to commemorate the brave local people who fought and died in the First and Second World Wars . |