Example sentences of "[conj] are [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This diversity accounts for the mutually contradictory complaints that are frequently voiced by village locals : that the newcomers come in and try to run everything or that they take no part in village life and are not ‘ involved ’ . |
| 2 | Finally , attention will focus on island communities in the developing world where land-use has created specific environmental problems that are frequently related to watershed abuse . |
| 3 | Strong promoters that are negatively regulated by repression factors tend to bind RNA polymerase far below maximal rates , the subsequent steps leading to the formation of an elongation complex being highly efficient . |
| 4 | Malvern-based chartered accountant Alan Kay is helping with a detailed investigation of the activities of certain copier companies that are widely criticised for malpractice , as well as the leasing companies that finance them . |
| 5 | The suggestions that follow are based on models that are widely used in management development and leadership training . |
| 6 | They include substance P and neurokinin A that are both derived from processing of the precursor polypeptides encoded by the preprotachykinin A gene ( PPT ) ( 2 ) . |
| 7 | Stone floor panels dating from 883–612BC , uncovered in the Assyrian royal palaces at Nimrud , Balawat and Nineveh , contain patterns that are generally accepted as carpet designs ; thee are also a number of reliefs and carvings showing men carrying what can only be tapestries or rugs . |
| 8 | Thus , the sequence of momentary and isolated percepts is determined by what has directly preceded it and results in a fusion of newly perceived aspects with those that are already held in memory . |
| 9 | Among the developing nations that are worst affected by soil erosion are Mexico , Ethiopia and many more African states , as well as India , Pakistan and China ( see review in Brown and Wolf 1984 ) . |
| 10 | The figures give an idea of the industries that are most geared towards exporting . |
| 11 | This is conceptually similar but not identical to the phenomena described by Matza ( 1964 : 33–68 ) as the subculture of delinquency : both consist of ‘ precepts and customs that are delicately balanced between convention and crime ’ ; both ‘ posit objectives that may be attained through ( crime ) but also other means ’ ; both ‘ allow ( crime ) but it is not demanded or necessarily considered the preferred path ’ ; and both consist of ‘ norms and sentiments ’ which are ‘ beliefs that function as the extenuating conditions under which ( crime ) is permissible ’ . |
| 12 | Most such applications come from people who , because of physical disabilities that are mostly associated with age , can no longer cope in their homes as currently structured . |
| 13 | Against each group a preliminary choice of chemical is made based on chemical types that are also listed in chapter one . |
| 14 | We see nothing wrong in designing vehicles that are intended for motion but we feel it wrong to design ideas that are also intended for motion . |
| 15 | Some horses that are well fed on hay and grain all through the dry months of summer may never have a real glow of health until the spring grasses appear . |
| 16 | However , such progress as has been made is in areas that are well defined in advance — which , by definition is not usually the case in the are a of strategic decision making . |
| 17 | Even conventions that are well established in principle such as those relating to cabinet collective responsibility may be vague in their application . |
| 18 | I know there 's lads get eggs and butter and stuff from the farms , but everybody has n't got farms , and I could take you to some cottages that are well supplied with butter , sugar and cheese and what have you , that 's not from the farms . ’ |
| 19 | Section 66(4) defines these as accounting practices that are otherwise required by law ; in addition , ‘ proper practices ’ include those regarded as such by ‘ any generally recognised published code or otherwise ’ ( except that where a given practice conflicts with the law , it is of course the law that takes precedence ) . |
| 20 | In the case of United Kingdom hotels it is again the large diversified conglomerates that are heavily involved plus brewery groups ( Scottish and Newcastle , Vaux , Greenhall Whitley , Allied Lyons , Bass ) . |
| 21 | erm another area of my work is as I er writing workshops , the writing workshops are very different from the normal writing workshops there based at galleries and they take groups of people round an exhibition recording their comments on either one particular picture or the exhibition as a whole and then with my help we put the comments into poems that are then displayed along side the exhibits , erm this work I do with erm all sorts of people with children people with special needs , disabled people and , and that 's really where my interest in art erm comes in and I find that its a great leveller for people who would like to express themselves and have perhaps have difficulty by aiding , by looking at paintings and being able to see perhaps emotions or images that they , they feel themselves , so in all areas erm I find painting in my areas of work , painting influences me and has done for as , as long as I can remember . |
| 22 | They represent the best hope in years of cutting the rich countries ' farm subsidies which , at taxpayers ' expense , build up huge surpluses of foodstuffs that are then dumped on world markets at low prices — and which then put third-world farmers out of business . |
| 23 | As it happens , there are a small number of positional characteristics in chess that are roughly associated with advantage and are easy to quantify . |
| 24 | In other words , there is very nearly a three-quarters consensus among the 30 informants as to the elements in the passage that are specifically associated with SF . |
| 25 | Nevertheless the erosion of such landscapes can expose the successive lava flows which may then form low , but laterally persistent , cliff-like faces in which the hexagonal joint patterns that are sometimes developed in basalt are visible . |
| 26 | Few persons living in Newcastle during this period escaped without suffering some of the symptoms that are inescapably associated with cholera , if not the disease itself . |
| 27 | This is invariably from small-scale farmhouse producers , using just the milk of their own herd , be it cattle , sheep or goats , fed on pastures that are organically fertilised with farmyard manure or a natural material such as seaweed . |
| 28 | A familiar example of interference in the case of light is the colors that are often seen in soap bubbles . |
| 29 | As a result historians have developed a stock of general labels that are often used for convenience . |
| 30 | Manufacturing — Two typical constraints that are often experienced in manufacturing industry are shortages of particular labour skills and space for machinery . |