Example sentences of "[noun prp] are [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrols of the forty kilometres of wire separating the British Sector from East Germany are performed by soldiers from the three resident infantry battalions and the Berlin Armoured Squadron , although until 1982 RMP carried out this task . |
| 2 | There is more pop surrealism by Anne Schwegmann-Fielding and clocks and candlesticks by Adrian Taylor are based on styles of the last 150 years . |
| 3 | The artist 's sketches and scribbles are analysed to demonstrate recurring motifs and psychological preoccupations guilt at the death of Casegemas or a mistress 's abortion for example while figures such as Alfred Jarry , Max Jacob and Gertrude Stein are brought to life in Richardson 's simple , flowing prose . |
| 4 | Friends of Mrs Barrrie-Brown are angered by reports of an imminent sale . |
| 5 | No less a masterwork though , as the military complexes of America and Russia are reduced by circumstances to mere personal bickering while the countdown to global destruction ( and a life of harem-shagging in coal mines for the ‘ lucky ’ survivors ) ticks relentlessly away . |
| 6 | Its profits before tax for the current year to 31 December are forecast at $900,000 on turnover of $6.5m . |
| 7 | The eccentricities of Dr Maturin are endured with fortitude by his landlady ; her opinions are indicated , in a direct account of his situation at a particular period in his life , with perfect naturalness : |
| 8 | Hailed two years ago as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in Europe , the painted caves at Alave in northern Spain are decorated with images of animals , symbols and splashes of colour . |
| 9 | At the town 's new cultural exhibition — the Sicilian Carousel — myths , legends history and people of the entire island of Sicily are brought to life through a unique blend of audio presentation and displays . |
| 10 | South Shields are doomed to relegation with only three points . |
| 11 | If Foucault and Derrida are taken to task for their Nietzschean lineage , Habermas ' main weakness is deemed to lie in his Kantianism , manifest in a formalist ‘ metaethics ’ , and his conception of ‘ communicative rationality ’ grounded in the consensual account of meaning offered by speech-act theory — and as such likewise vulnerable to Davidson , as well as to Wittgenstein . |
| 12 | Philosophy and later social-science structuralism à la Lévi-Strauss are seen by Bourdieu to be , in their ‘ objectivism ’ , somehow au dessus de la mêlée . |
| 13 | Numbers of refugees seeking asylum in the United Kingdom are held in detention for long periods following their arrival . |
| 14 | Author Brian Hoey , a former BBC Court correspondent , gives an insight into how royals like Charles and Di are tracked on journeys in bugged cars . |
| 15 | Several recent or forthcoming operas sound as if they were designed for — or perhaps by — what in Soho are known as people of strange and unusual tastes . |
| 16 | In the New Testament those who do not enjoy salvation in Christ are regarded as slaves of sin ( John 8:34 ; Rom. 7:14 ) . |
| 17 | Temperatures in the mid-80s from Sunday to Wednesday are predicted for parts of the South by professional independent forecaster Piers Corbyn . |
| 18 | Miles are walked in exchange for a feeling of perpetual defeat . |
| 19 | 1 ) JOBS — The upper parts of the Himalayas are covered with snow throughout the year making it impossible for animals and people to live there . |
| 20 | For example , over a season , six species of Shorea are visited in turn by species of thrips , which are believed to be their major pollinators . |
| 21 | Essentially , the prospects for court action against the administration in Britain are limited to allegations of actions taken that are ultra vires , that is beyond the powers delegated to the institution by Parliament , or where a minister acts ‘ unreasonably ’ . |
| 22 | The majority of holdings in the uplands of Great Britain are farmed by owner-occupiers with an ageing population of farmers . |
| 23 | The main reason is that most executive cars in Britain are bought by companies for their managers and directors . |
| 24 | For ICI Polyurethanes , products made at Spondon are delivered to sites in Holland , Italy and France , as well as the UK . |
| 25 | Several manufacturers make Luminaire Supporting Connectors ( LSCs ) which ( like the Ceiling Maestro ) come in two parts which can be separated , allowing lights to be changed easily or removed for cleaning , but not all LSCs are designed for use with heavy fittings . |
| 26 | Indeed , opposition to whale conservation campaigns in Japan are based on appeals to nationalism . |
| 27 | Their six resorts in France are served by flights from Plymouth , Exeter and London City to Chambery , their three resorts in Austria from Exeter and Bristol to Innsbruck . |
| 28 | In summary these results demonstrate that both the total amount of ATF1 and the amount of ATF1 that is directly associated with CREB are reduced following differentiation of F9 cells . |
| 29 | A dye house appears in the references , although part of the site may have been leased out , as both John Lovegrove and William Pitt are mentioned in connection with the latter . |
| 30 | Import duties collected by the Netherlands and Belgium are counted as part of their gross contribution . |