Example sentences of "are [verb] [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Ninety-eight per cent of all criminal cases are heard in the latter courts .
2 Even when nominally on loan shelves , as in libraries in which loan and reference stocks are placed on the same shelves , these kinds of book are not borrowed but referred to .
3 The possibility of a title going ‘ out of print ’ if selection decisions are delayed must also be considered — though this is unlikely if orders are placed within a few months of publication .
4 Ideas of identity and insider integrity in the late 1980s are sustained by the same symbols of status and denigration which have existed since at least the mid-1950s .
5 ( The more lenders there are competing for the same customers , the hard for each has to work to attract a given number of customers — and an obvious way of attracting customers is by cutting rates . )
6 This suggests that certain groups and individuals will be ‘ stronger ’ and better placed to obtain the housing they want , although this is something of an oversimplification since it implies that all are competing for the same types of house .
7 And despite their higher incomes , they rarely become rich because their activities are limited to the few months during the year when the climate is favourable for construction work .
8 Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have .
9 First impressions , and they are formed within a few seconds of listening to these headphones , are of an unveiled immediacy , very extended high-frequency response and seamless midrange .
10 Some of the young calves are fattened on the farms but many are reared for a few months and then sold for fattening in central or eastern Britain .
11 Suddenly he is more relaxed and confident and those horrible little worms of self-doubt which are perpetually burrowing away in a golfer 's head are banished for a few holes , anyway .
12 Recognition that the members of organizations share group identities and have interests which may not coincide with others who are contributing to the same goals began with the Human Relations movement and its founder George Elton Mayo ( 1933 ) .
13 London clubs differ from one another , but most are organised along the same lines , usually based in pub function rooms .
14 All the beauty that ought to be but rarely is , all the promises of perfection are caught in a few moments of that iridescent light .
15 And the results are expected within a few weeks .
16 The four have undergone doping tests and the results are expected within a few days .
17 As explained earlier , it is therefore important to avoid the use of independent overflow areas except as a safety precaution ; the one exception to this is when updates are grouped in a few areas .
18 By and large , the soil-dwelling enemies of the rose are confined to the several kinds of chafer .
19 It is the ‘ all'-inclusive macro-redistributive studies that capture most interest in general , but these are the studies that are beset by the most problems at all levels .
20 The questions in the checklist are related to the same concepts as in the full SCAN event-by-event analysis , but the pace is more relaxed ( see 6A and 6E ) .
21 The other visitors are living under the same conditions . ’
22 Pascal goes some way towards this recognition when he observes : ‘ I see , in truth , that the same words are applied on the same occasions , and that every time two men see a body change its place , they both express their view of this same fact by the same word , both saying that it has moved ; and from this conformity of application we derive a strong conviction of a conformity of ideas .
23 Data are shown for the same mice as in a .
24 This is why people who are the same age as one another usually end up being friends because they are going through the same experiences simultaneously .
25 To the extent that these parts of the social structure are based on the same values , they may be said to be integrated .
26 Where NVQs and SVQs are based on the same statements of competence the qualifications will carry titles which clearly indicate that area of competence .
27 These are approximations in which the very large number of particles are replaced by a few quantities .
28 The debt to Italy , and particularly to Venice , is apparent in many of the finest buildings in Šibenik , Trogir , Split and Dubrovnik , and one does not need the constant reminders of their origins which are provided by the many replicas of the winged lion of St Mark 's which adorn them .
29 are banked by the same ancestors :
30 She disagrees with the implication that the DoH has cast a more favourable glance over the needs of health authorities and is adamant they are judged along the same lines as SSDs .
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