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

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1 The changes in O 3 concentrations are predominantly confined to the latitude band of injections in July .
2 If graded tests are widely adopted within a school and if they are used properly as a means of assessing individual pupils ' ability and knowledge , according to their progress along the path of expertise , then the school must be prepared for classes that are grouped vertically , not horizontally .
3 Students should make themselves familiar with Traffic Regulations which are widely displayed throughout the University .
4 ( 4 ) J. Martin Shaw , County Planning Officer of Norfolk , notes that ‘ schools are widely regarded as the focus of village life ’ .
5 The ‘ two prongs of nationalism ’ , he suggests , ‘ tend to be a proletariat and an intelligentsia ’ : the former is first uprooted and then gradually incorporated in a new national community ; the latter provides new cultural definitions of group membership which are widely diffused with the development of mass literacy and a national educational system which industrialization itself makes necessary .
6 These classes are widely known by the label ‘ comprador ’ though this term has attracted a great deal of criticism .
7 These are widely distributed within the region .
8 For example , of 134 species of mosses identified in Peary Land , north Greenland , Holmen ( 1960 ) categorized only one , Ortothecium acuminatum , as endemic to the area , and only 24 ( 18% ) as having a mainly arctic distribution ; the remaining species are widely distributed in the north temperate zone .
9 Although sponges are widely distributed in the fossil record they are particularly numerous and easy to collect in Cretaceous rocks in Europe and North America , where dozens of well-preserved species have been described .
10 Receptors which bind hormones such as adrenaline and noradrenaline are widely distributed in the body .
11 These are widely considered in the literature already mentioned above .
12 Minimum reserve ratios are widely used around the world to restrict credit , including in the USA , Japan , Canada and all the EC countries other than the UK and Luxembourg ( see Box 17.3 ) .
13 Improved versions of what became more generally known as the patent still are widely used in the making of grain whisky , gin , and other potable and industrial spirits .
14 It also plays host to a number of strange , ghostly occurrences according to a book I belong to Glasgow by Bill Hamilton and Gordon Carsely , from which I am most obliged for the information .
15 A famous example of the importance of checking whether the so-called facts are right occurred on the occasion of Charles II founding the Royal Society in 1660 .
16 The draftsman should give consideration to doing so in all renewal leases ( see Form 15 ) but if this is done , the tenant 's adviser must ensure that all necessary ancillary rights are expressly granted by the lease .
17 Even so , proof of reliance is not difficult especially in view of s13(3) of SGA 1979 which provides that ordinary articles of commerce as specific goods are expressly included in the definition of sale by description .
18 The powers that exist to enable him to carry out this task are expressly preserved by the Act , and it is essential to consider their scope in some detail .
19 Fair and accurate reports of proceedings in Parliament are expressly exempted from the operation of this Part of the Act , which also does not apply :
20 THE Government 's efforts to ensure that all 10 water authorities are successfully floated on the Stock Exchange in December are becoming more than a little disingenuous .
21 Many horses with these conditions are successfully treated with the addition of electrolytes .
22 Rinuccini 's next favola for music , a Euridice with a happy ending , was composed by Peri ( but included some pieces by Caccini which are duly acknowledged in the preface ) for the wedding of Maria de' Medici to Henry IV of France and performed in the Pitti Palace on 6 October 1600 .
23 Units are loosely linked by a theme in groups of six , of which the last is always a reading unit .
24 Where are we to account for the hints , implicit purposes , assumptions , social attitudes and so on that are effectively communicated by the use of language , not to mention the figures of speech ( e.g. metaphor , irony , rhetorical questions , understatement ) that have preoccupied theorists of rhetoric and literature ?
25 Part of the reason for this is , again , the way in which women are effectively confined to the home at least for some part of their lives .
26 Cars and lorries in Britain are effectively subsidised to the tune of £20 million annually .
27 If left unploughed , these communities are eventually replaced by a Festuca rubra — Trifolium repens sward .
28 But I see no difficulty in reading the language of subsections ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) of section 18 as authorising an order for payment by the board ( subject , of course , to the criteria prescribed by subsection ( 4 ) ) of such part of the costs of the proceedings which are eventually determined in the defendant 's favour as were incurred by the defendant personally at any time when he was not receiving legal aid and accordingly fell within the definition of an unassisted party .
29 When Mr and Mrs Bloggs are eventually summoned to the teacher 's desk they are asked what they thought of the work .
30 They assemble initially in their own chamber from where they are eventually summoned by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod to attend at the Bar of the House of Lords where a Commission for the Opening of Parliament is read , usually by the Lord Chancellor , on behalf of the monarch .
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