Example sentences of "[noun pl] are [vb pp] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 Its aim , according to Vice-President Al Gore , is to " ensure that environmental considerations are brought to bear at the earliest stages in the development of economic policy " .
2 Neighbours and other third parties are allowed to speak at a public inquiry — though they usually appear last .
3 Six months are spent studying at an Institut Universitaire de Technologie specializing in Marketing , Management/Personnel or Computing , and this is followed by a 3-month integrated work placement .
4 At the rear of the idol , seven round indents are formed beginning at the base of the spine and extending to the head .
5 ( The restaurant is closed on Tuesdays when guests are invited to dine at a restaurant in San Gimignano . )
6 The trouble with this is that , although the plants are meant to bloom at the same time , invariably some flower later or earlier , and ruin the whole carefully thought-out scheme .
7 Operational deposits make up approximately a fifth of bankers ' balances held at the bank , the remainder being made up of non-interest bearing cash deposits that banks are required to keep at the Bank of England to provide it with an income .
8 GOODS are needed to sell at a church fete next month in Tarvin .
9 In Britain , water tables are expected to remain at a low level throughout the summer .
10 In this , the scene is divided into three sections both horizontally and vertically , and the idea is to line up the shot so that the main features are made to come at the intersections of the imaginary dividing lines .
11 Occasionally athletes are kept waiting at the start for a minute or so until television is ready .
12 Both men are part of a coterie of so-called ‘ rugby mercenaries ’ whose pay-offs are said to start at the $120,000 mark and the best-rewarded of whom — the ‘ rugby millionaires ’ — are reckoned to be paid $250,000 per season .
13 The post translational processing mechanisms that convert progastrin to amidated peptides are known to operate at the post Golgi level on this pathway .
14 It is a rather uncharacteristic work , scored fr the unusual combination of two violins and double bass , which like Mozart 's Musical Joke , pokes gentle fun at badly played dance music , and even includes a section where the players are instructed to shout at the beats of the bar !
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