Example sentences of "are [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | As each financial year passes , the bow-wave does , indeed , dissipate as research and development programmes meet snags ; as decisions are delayed in the labyrinth of Whitehall committees ; as procurement contracts slip behind schedule ; and as units expend less than they asked for due to similar delays in their day-to-day training and operations . |
| 2 | The residents of Unity Flats are shrugging off the stigma of living in what has long been regarded as one of the city 's most undesirable areas . |
| 3 | The rooms of the museum are furnished in the style of the period , with important collections of authentic period furniture , silver , china and art . |
| 4 | These are calculated on the value of the investments held in the trust ( measured on their own offer and bid prices ) , the brokerage costs and stamp duty . |
| 5 | This is certainly significant at the 1 per cent level , though we must bear in mind that these expectations are calculated on the basis of a purely random distribution of sites , which may not be quite true in practice . |
| 6 | Payments are calculated on the basis of the worker 's age , length of continuous service , and pay . |
| 7 | They are a form of taxation levied on local property , and are calculated on the basis of the rent at which the property might reasonably be let . |
| 8 | Ages are calculated at the beginning of the tax year . |
| 9 | Ages are calculated at the beginning of the tax year . |
| 10 | These are calculated from the number of students registered for each module together with its size , single or double , rather than from class hours . |
| 11 | If , if anybody is interested , these unemployment rates are calculated by the number of unemployed as a percentage of the estimated total of the workforce , the sum of the unemployed claimants , employees , and call it self-employed , H M Forces and participants in work related training programmes . |
| 12 | If you are dismissed at the end of your first year , concentrating on the terms of the contract leads to the conclusion that you ordinarily worked in Great Britain , whereas looking at what actually happened leads to the opposite conclusion . |
| 13 | Indeed , many vertical mergers are justified on the basis of internalising such information and transaction costs with the hope of reducing such costs . |
| 14 | Yet the prevailing treatment of women workers defines them as a particular and different sub-group of the general category ‘ workers ’ ( this parallels the role they are assigned in the study of deviance ) . |
| 15 | Women 's role and position in the social stratification system husband and wife working in a paid job or career ? vicarious role they are assigned in the sociology of stratification . |
| 16 | As tv onlookers we are placed at the centre of events no human being could ever witness in the flesh , by close-ups of a bomb's- eye view of the interior of a ventilator shaft right up to the moment of impact . |
| 17 | At Cirencester a panel containing a sixteen-petalled rosette has a comparable central device , however , the strongest comparisons are to be made with both of the Leicester mosaics , where eight-petalled rosettes similar to those in the Gloucester pavement are placed at the centre of a kaleidoscopic geometric design ( pI . |
| 18 | Our eyes are placed at the front of the head , a position shared by the eyes of cats , birds of prey and other hunters . |
| 19 | Both fireplace and bed are placed beyond the reach of draughts . |
| 20 | However , restrictions are placed on the power of management to combat a hostile takeover bid , for fear that they might act only in their own interests rather than for those of the company or its shareholders . |
| 21 | Because Statementing is concerned with the allocation of resources rather than with the identification of needs strict limits are placed on the power of parents to affect the Statementing process . |
| 22 | Substantive limits are placed on the power of the public body , and the appropriate test for such limits is a topic of much contention . |
| 23 | In some applications the infra red sources and detectors are placed around the edge of the visual display unit , a cheaper method of providing an interactive screen than embedding touch pads into the glass . |
| 24 | The quality and accessibility of materials have to be high if this approach is to succeed and no organisational barriers are placed in the way of learning . |
| 25 | Again , you are placed in the situation of having to work quite hard to impose a personality or style on the guitar , which , if you think about it , is how things perhaps should be . |
| 26 | Tables showing the current level of intervention stocks in the United Kingdom and the EC are placed in the Library of the House each month . |
| 27 | You will I hope realise that these cases are placed in the context of a diseased sexuality . |
| 28 | Although Handy 's model is essentially abstract it does assume significance when schools are placed in the context of local management of schools and the National curriculum . |
| 29 | In addition students choose a total of four units from : Theory and Practice of Direction ( 2 units ) , Theory and Practice of Community Drama ( 2 units ) , Administration and Management ( 1 unit ) , Press , Publicity and Print ( 1 unit ) ( the last two units are placed in the context of theatre ) , as well as a range of elective units from the Faculty programme . |
| 30 | These studies are short term and can be extremely useful if they are placed in the context of wider knowledge . |