Example sentences of "[noun] [am/are] [verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 BLACK MUSLIMS FROM the Nation of Islam are gathered in force outside the Hackney Empire .
2 Institutions are viewed as expressions of collective purposes which maintain vitality so long as they are able to maintain a clear sense of purpose .
3 Does the Minister accept that when universities and other educational institutions are used as centres for terrorist activity .
4 Institutions are rushing after shops in cathedral towns .
5 COMIC giants are flooding into Merseyside for this year 's Liverpool Festival of Comedy .
6 The main EEC based investment aid is through the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Scheme ( AHDS ) whereby enhanced rates of grant are paid for land in the LFA 's ‘ severely disadvantaged ’ zone .
7 IN the freezer at Tesco , 4lb packs of frozen petit pois are reduced by 80p to £1.69 and 2lb packs of frozen pommes noisettes are 65p , from £1.15 .
8 Note how the highest ( and loudest ) notes are kept in reserve for this decisive bar .
9 It therefore follows that technical personnel are assigned to divisions on the basis of discipline , and for the purpose of accountability , control and maintenance of professional standards .
10 This is particularly unlikely to happen if , as is often the case , guide-lines are constructed with reference to existing sentencing levels .
11 Discussions are continuing with LCD regarding long term proposals to improve the legal aid system and the best methods of remuneration for the Bar .
12 Courses , seminars and discussions are held at intervals within an individual college or within a broader catchment in order to improve college teaching .
13 These reasons are given in detail in the discussion of man-machine function allocation ( p. 35 ) .
14 Anthropologists , in turn , have attempted to argue that , for example , the transition from brideservice , in which labour is performed by the prospective groom , to bridewealth , where objects are given in exchange for the bride , marks a significant difference in the development of a phenomenon whereby objects may stand for human labour , with the implication that this is the first stage towards the conditions of property and alienation as we know them today ( Strathern 1985 ) .
15 How is it possible for a creature to form means — end plans for reaching a desired object , plans within which other objects are represented as instruments to the overall end ?
16 At present the objects are defined in terms of the departments of local government : education , health , highways .
17 I do n't think it will be too long before such neckplates are abandoned in favour of the recessed bolt idea we 've seen recently on Ibanez and Heartfield guitars among others .
18 Companies are required to state that their accounts are prepared in accordance with approved accounting standards .
19 First , the law ( Companies Act 1985 , Schedule 4 , paragraph 36A , as amended ) now requires companies to disclose whether the accounts are prepared in accordance with applicable accounting standards , and to disclose particulars of any material departure from those standards and the reasons for it ( the relevant standards are the SSAPs and FRSs of the Accounting Standards Board ) .
20 The accounts are prepared in accordance with applicable accounting standards including FRS3 under the historical cost convention as modified by the revaluation of certain land and buildings .
21 Now to my mind that is not a question of being a snooper , a nark or even being a policeman , er it is er er indeed if we look at section fifteen of the local government finance act of nineteen eighty two er it it 's quite interesting to see the the words used because the auditor is under a duty , amongst other things , to see that the accounts are prepared in accordance with regulations er made under the act er to see that proper practices that have been followed and to see that the body of accounts that have been audited have made proper arrangements f for securing economy , efficiency and effectiveness .
22 There is no pretence of competition with commercial banks for private sector business , and there is some suggestion that the accounts are maintained in order for the Bank to keep in touch with banking practice , although the degree to which such experience accrues is likely to be limited given the small number of accounts relative to a commercial bank .
23 So long as we adopt a broadly ‘ functionalist ’ philosophy of mind — in which mental states are defined in terms of their causal relations to sensory inputs , motor outputs and to one another — this ‘ computational theory of the mind ’ is a very satisfying general account of the mind-body relationship .
24 In vivo , disease states are associated with changes in matrix components and in the expression of matrix degrading enzymes and their inhibitors by non-parenchymal cells .
25 To see how far contrasts in the institutions of two different welfare states are reflected in patterns of employment and family building , collaborators in Sweden are running parallel analyses of the event histories of Swedish women .
26 Nightmares of pure horror are expressed in dreams of cannibalism , gory deaths and graveyard ghouls .
27 At the same time changes of wave direction are imposed on waves by the sea bottom interfering with the flow pattern in the waves , but these directional changes are considered later on .
28 Politics have their bases in perceived interests of the working class , but their form and direction are mediated by capacities for action , and these are determined by local social structures ( p 62 ) .
29 Applications for next year 's Fellowships are invited from people aged eighteen to thirty .
30 Originating from an initiative by the Lothian Headteachers Association and named after Robert Reid , a past headmaster in Lothian , the fellowships are offered as secondments for a term by the Region .
  Next page