Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Description and decision are delayed until an extended visual search is completed .
2 In muscles receiving delayed innervation , or muscles innervated at aberrant synaptic sites , both receptor clustering and receptor synthesis are delayed or redirected , consistent with the new pattern of innervation .
3 Living on income support is for many a very negative experience — the intrusive questioning about income and about personal relationships ; the difficulties of queuing with young children ; the problems when benefits are delayed or lost ; the lack of control over income as more and more direct deductions are made — all these and more contribute to the difficulties of bringing up children alone on a low income .
4 10.1 If either you or we are delayed or prevented from performing our obligations under this order , by circumstances beyond the reasonable control of either of us , ( including without limitation any form of government intervention , strikes and lock-outs relevant to this order , breakdown of plant or delays by sub-contractors concerned ) such performance shall be suspended , and if it can not be completed within a reasonable time after the due date as specified in this order , this order may be cancelled by either party .
5 The affair seems to him to belong to the town , to have no future , and they are parted when the town comes under fear and hazard .
6 The specific social relations of such privilege are of course derived from the social order as a whole ; it is there that the patron 's powers and resources are enrolled or protected ; in the crudest terms , he is doing what he wishes with his own .
7 It is the responsibility of students enrolled on a programme of studies to ensure that they obtain , read and understand both HCIMA and Centre regulations relating to the area(s) of study on which they are enrolled and abide by these regulations .
8 apply to the centre where they are enrolled and obtain written confirmation that they are prepared to liaise with and forward examination paper(s) to the selected examination centre .
9 It also appears that as the low variants are replaced by higher ones , the relevant vowels are lengthened and sometimes diphthongized : thus , as the rules are applied , conservative variants such as [ rant , raent ] : ‘ rent ’ , are replaced by [ rΕnt ] ( raising and lengthening ) and [ rΕ ? nt ] ( diphthongization ) .
10 WATER STORAGE : - In which the stems are swollen or the leaves are fleshy , i.e. succulents , e.g. cactus , stonecrop ( on dry walls ) , grasswort , saltwort ( saltmarsh ) .
11 Caution : Do not apply pressure if the sinuses are swollen and painful ( see Fig. 13 ) .
12 Ian 's knees are swollen and a large blister is developing under his big toe .
13 The SEC is centralised whereas SROs are decentralised and rulemaking is spread out amongst the various SROs .
14 Throughout the main growing season vegetables , fruit and flowers are gathered or cut according to need , often before they are fully ripe .
15 Official statistics are gathered and recorded in different ways between one country and another .
16 The plumed seeds of Dischidia parvifolia ( Asclepiadaceae ) are wind-dispersed but , if they land in the vicinity of ant nests , they are gathered and taken into tunnels , where they germinate and their roots gain access to nutrients in the insect frass .
17 All theoretical curves are normalized as described in the text .
18 The reception area , restaurant and bar are furnished and decorated to conform to this image , conveying an image of quiet , old-fashioned comfort and luxury .
19 The reception area , restaurant and bar are furnished and decorated to conform to the same image , conveying an image of discreet , old-fashioned comfort and luxury .
20 If the expatriate and family are expected to find their own accommodation , information should be given on the types of properties available for rent , how much these are likely to cost together with information on whether they are furnished or unfurnished .
21 Driveways have spaces for two cars , front and rear lawns are turfed and owners of Les Jones homes arrive at a house or bungalow which is attractive and complete in every way - and not surrounded by a mass of mud as on so many new housing estates .
22 White working-class and black women 's stories of employment difficulties and success are heard as case histories of psychic tension , and lesbian women 's attempts to redefine relations between women become assimilated to accounts of pre-oedipal intimacy .
23 However , the rationale for using this paradigm as a way of investigating perceptual units was established by Ladefoged and Broadbent ( 1960 ) who showed that the position of clicks is not reported accurately , because they are heard as displaced from their original position to the boundaries of perceptual units .
24 If these cries are heard and met , and therefore effective , the cry can , when the ability is acquired , be transferred into words : ‘ I want ’ ; ‘ I am hungry ’ ; ‘ I am hurt . ’
25 In our society today the use of an organ is a rarefied form of museum culture , whereas guitars and synthesisers are heard and seen every day on television .
26 Eventually proposals of marriage are made and accepted , but during the ceremony — performed by Despina in disguise as the notary — military sounds are heard and the girls realize with horror that their original sweethearts are ‘ returning ’ .
27 Of course one wants to avoid situations where the conflict reaches excessive levels and actually gets in the way of running the business , but if the right decisions are to be taken it is essential that conflicting views are heard and thrashed out .
28 Similarly , participative structures are consciously designed to encourage upward influence to ensure the creative ideas of those lower in the hierarchy are heard and seen .
29 Professional advisers who are members of drug and therapeutic committees can ensure that primary care concerns are heard and addressed and that they are informed of any changes in hospital prescribing that affect them .
30 limit in advance the discretion entrusted by the Act to any meeting of the licensing board at which applications are heard and disposed of .
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