Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " 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 While the majority are carried out by a person known to the victim , random attacks on strangers are on the increase .
11 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 .
12 This should not include VAT , as this is only payable when the repairs are carried out by a contractor/repairer who is VAT registered .
13 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 .
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15 These three jobs are carried out within a time dimension .
16 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 .
17 Workers are caught up in a form of ‘ prisoners ’ dilemma' .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 they are airlifted out in a helicopter gunship
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 Strong and sometimes quite intense relationships with individuals are built up over a period of even a few weeks .
26 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 .
27 Usually such organisations are built up of a multiplicity of smaller gangs .
28 A Middle East dollar market exists in Bahrain where euro-dollars ( and other currencies ) are intermediated in by a number of Arab and non-Arab banks .
29 Single widths of printed muslin are made up into a pair of 3-metre curtains .
30 Cell walls are made up of a variety of substances of which only one , cellulose , is truly fibrous in the sense of being filamentous or threadlike .
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