Example sentences of "are [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The warblers ' own young are turfed out of the deeply cupped reed nest by the cuckoo chick soon after it hatches and the foster parents find themselves feeding an enormous monster with a huge red gape and insatiable appetite — a monster which will eventually grow to three times their size . |
| 2 | Ironically Pembroke , the most recently developed area , where today new routes are tumbling out of the sky as fast as the climbers , has become the place where descriptions — starred pitches probably excluded — still offend mightily under the grade descriptions act . |
| 3 | ‘ If we are to go out of the Cup then let it be to a side packed with international stars . |
| 4 | Volcanic bombs are just lumps of solid ( or sometimes plastic ) lava which are lobbed out of the vent , fall back to earth with a wallop , and that 's all . |
| 5 | If we are to come out of the recession without increasing inflation , we need to sell more goods abroad and at home in competition with imports , but we will not be able to do that . |
| 6 | Institutions , such as the Cabinet , are sucked out of the larger political and societal context that gives them meaning , and they are regarded as having a life and importance all of their own . |
| 7 | They hold debates on a wide variety of topics , some of which are squeezed out of the Commons programme through lack of time . |
| 8 | ‘ People are fed up of the mayhem and death wreaked by young criminals . |
| 9 | Hewlett-Packard Co last week introduced the latest swat of HP 9000 Series 800 business servers — thirteen uni-processor machines whose top ends are built out of the new 7100 PA-RISC chip . |
| 10 | Good-humouredly , bundles are pushed out of the way ; babies and children accommodated . |
| 11 | Class 1 NI are made up of the employer 's share , which you pay , and the employee 's share , which you can deduct from your employee 's pay . |
| 12 | Too often headteacher 's reports are made up of the dry dust of lists of attendance figures , class visits , building repairs , pupil numbers and details of resignations and appointments . |
| 13 | Regiments of Elf spearmen and archers are made up of the citizen-soldiers of Ulthuan . |
| 14 | The Reaver Knights are made up of the wildest and most headstrong sons of the noble houses . |
| 15 | Regiments of Elven Spearmen are made up of the citizen-soldiers of Ulthuan . |
| 16 | They are made up of the Polytechnic of Wales ; three national institutions in the shape of the Welsh College of Music and Drama , at Cardiff , and the College of Librarianship of Wales and the Welsh College of Agriculture , both at Aberystwyth ; six colleges or institutions of higher education ; and thirty-six other establishments ( Figure 7.1 ) . |
| 17 | In the case of n-ary relationships , the relationship becomes a member record , each of the entities linked by the relationship becomes an owner , their keys are made up of the identifiers of the entities of the conceptual data model which the relationship was linking and the attributes of the entity become fields of the records generated . |
| 18 | Both body and clothing are made up of the black and the white — uncomplicated but striking — and her complexion shines like gold ( 3236 – 41 ; 3246 ; 3255 – 6 ) . |
| 19 | The Falcons are made up of the RAF 's top parachute instructors from Brize Norton . |
| 20 | We have a di , a different picture , and we make up erm pictures like you see o on these crime programmes , the videofits of suspects , you 've all seen them where th , you know got the lines between the nose and , and the mouth they are made up of the information that we 've gained from witnesses . |
| 21 | They are stingy when it comes to overheads : in most discount stores , there are few staff in sight and goods are sold out of the boxes they come in . |
| 22 | Member states have weighted votes , and 54 votes are needed out of the total of 76 in order to adopt the Directive . |
| 23 | Some drown and are hauled out of the pool and left on the edge . |
| 24 | So hard copy reports are produced out of the ledgers and then the results are taken and keyed into FDC . |
| 25 | As the goods are drawn out of the larders , the statistics are adjusted downwards , and Brown can quickly check how much he needs to re-order . |
| 26 | The first 100 readers whose postcards are drawn out of the bag on 12 December 1992 will each receive a special Le Piat d'Or Christmas Gift Box . |
| 27 | At a ballot at the beginning of each session , 20 names are drawn out of the hat by the Deputy Speaker . |
| 28 | A lot of them are going out of the area , but I think er I 'd imagine that a large majority or a a large proportion certainly would wish to stay in . |
| 29 | Now that interest rates are at historically low levels , considerable sums of money are moving out of the banks and building societies into equity based investments , the equity message seems to be getting home . |
| 30 | The self is always a more or less precarious and conflictual construction out of , and compromise between , conflicting and not always conscious desires and experiences , which are born out of the ambivalences and contradictions in human experience and relationships with others . |