Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas . |
| 2 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 3 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 4 | All steel parts are checked through on a magnaflux machine . |
| 5 | The raffle or lottery is a form of random sample — in its simplest form the identical little numbered tickets are shaken up in a hat and drawn out one by one by someone with their eyes closed . |
| 6 | In the West , business agreements are carried out at a distance , say six feet or more . |
| 7 | Rocket tests are carried out at a missile centre at Shuan-ch'eng-tsu or at a nuclear test range in Lop Nor . |
| 8 | Measurements are carried out on a sample clamped in a thermostat . |
| 9 | Professor J. P. Payne of the Department of Anaesthetics at the Royal College of Surgeons insists that a research nurse should always be present when tests are carried out on a patient . |
| 10 | They dispense justice , settle land disputes , give orders to civil servants ( which are carried out with an alacrity unknown earlier ) . |
| 11 | While the majority are carried out by a person known to the victim , random attacks on strangers are on the increase . |
| 12 | The defendant had produced a program called " Oscar " , a job scheduling program for controlling the order in which tasks are carried out by a computer . |
| 13 | This should not include VAT , as this is only payable when the repairs are carried out by a contractor/repairer who is VAT registered . |
| 14 | The Government may be the paymaster , but the actual negotiations are carried out by a team of health authority representatives who might be industrial relations experts but usually are not . |
| 15 | NEW WAYS TO DIP INTO INFORMATION Document image processing can only fulfil vendors ' claims if the right analysis and preparation are carried out before a decision to buy is made |
| 16 | These three jobs are carried out within a time dimension . |
| 17 | If migrating birds are caught up in a storm , or blown off course , it can be disastrous for , even undisturbed these vast journeys stretch them to the limit . |
| 18 | Workers are caught up in a form of ‘ prisoners ’ dilemma' . |
| 19 | It 's a fearful world where even the goodies have a strangeness about them , as they too are caught up in a world of little people , strange animals and flying objects . |
| 20 | She and the photographer she works with are caught up in an investigation that shakes her out of her complacency — and into the shadowy world of covert operations against the dictatorship . |
| 21 | The oscillations stimulated in the sample are picked up by an arm attached to the rigidly fixed end held in torsion bars , and transmitted to a recorder by a linear variable differential transformer . |
| 22 | The suggestion is that the other dimensions are curved up into a space of very small size , something like a million million million million millionth of an inch . |
| 23 | It could be argued that such a system is valuable in all high risk operations : it provides reassurance not only for the surgical teams but also for patients who are operated on by a surgeon in whom seroconversion subsequently occurs . |
| 24 | Similarly , Marshall Sahlins 's work on the Hawaiian islanders in his Islands of History , though far more acutely aware of contending multiple narratives trying to ascribe different significances to the same happenings , is also organised so that it allows Sahlins to present a narrative wherein conflicting stories/histories are mapped out in a framework which explores these histories ' interpenetrations , their assimilations of each other rather than their refusals of each other . |
| 25 | they are airlifted out in a helicopter gunship |
| 26 | That is nipples which are turned in like a crater , or which do not stick up by at least half a centimetre when gently pinched between thumb and forefinger from just beyond the base . |
| 27 | If you are turned down for a grant or loan or you are unhappy with the amount given , there is no right of appeal to an independent tribunal as there used to be . |
| 28 | Strong and sometimes quite intense relationships with individuals are built up over a period of even a few weeks . |
| 29 | Clearly memories are not formed instantaneously , as if by throwing a switch , but are built up over a period of hours after the event to be memorized has occurred ; during this build-up the form in which any memory is stored changes . |
| 30 | Usually such organisations are built up of a multiplicity of smaller gangs . |