Example sentences of "[noun] are [verb] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Institutions are viewed as expressions of collective purposes which maintain vitality so long as they are able to maintain a clear sense of purpose . |
| 2 | Does the Minister accept that when universities and other educational institutions are used as centres for terrorist activity . |
| 3 | Institutions are rushing after shops in cathedral towns . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Courses , seminars and discussions are held at intervals within an individual college or within a broader catchment in order to improve college teaching . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | At present the objects are defined in terms of the departments of local government : education , health , highways . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Nightmares of pure horror are expressed in dreams of cannibalism , gory deaths and graveyard ghouls . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Patrols of the forty kilometres of wire separating the British Sector from East Germany are performed by soldiers from the three resident infantry battalions and the Berlin Armoured Squadron , although until 1982 RMP carried out this task . |
| 16 | Legionellae in the enviroment are found as parasites of protozoa in which intracellular multiplication can take place . |
| 17 | French and British aid policies are constrained by interests in former colonies . |
| 18 | However , its location and release of new energies within a literary text are based on discoveries of how that text negotiated its own culture . |
| 19 | The largest tortoises you will see in the park are descended from specimens from Aldabra Island in the Indian Ocean . |
| 20 | Swithland Woods are ancient deciduous woodlands , and with Bradgate Park are administered by Trustees with financial help from the County and Leicester City Councils . |
| 21 | Editor , — Angela Coulter and colleagues point out that a high proportion of dilatation and curettage operations are performed on women under the age of 40 . |
| 22 | What does it mean to say that periods of structural change are marked by changes in the direction and structure of industrial production ? |
| 23 | A pupil whose difficulties in learning and in social interaction are connected with difficulties in seeing and the way that these difficulties are regarded by others will require both understanding and knowledge of the nature of the problems from the teacher . |
| 24 | Relationships between the entities are shown by lines between the soft boxes . |
| 25 | There is no evidence to suggest that buy-outs are associated with cuts in spending on research and development , nor on investment , nor in any drastic way even in overall employment . |
| 26 | New notes and coins are withdrawn by banks from their accounts held in the Banking Department of the Bank of England . |
| 27 | Archaic Greek coins are found in hoards from Egypt and the Levant , as they were exchanged for goods , perhaps grain or slaves ; many hoards of Roman silver and gold coins are known from southern India because they were exchanged for luxury items such as exotic spices and perfumes , rich silks and precious gems . |
| 28 | The President , Vice-Presidents and the Senate are elected nationally while members of the Chamber of Deputies are elected by constituencies under a system of proportional representation . |
| 29 | ( If you think that you are a SAD sufferer then contact your doctor. ) ( 1 ) Most SAD cases are referred to clinics in the months December to April . |
| 30 | Sporadic cases are seen in patients in their 20s or early 30s . |