Example sentences of "are [verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As direct eye contact is established , then held , her pupils are dilated not just by the half-light , but by adrenalin . |
| 2 | OFF to a good start on the field , Crook 's cricketers are faring less well in the clubhouse . |
| 3 | The winds are placed admirably forward in the Overture , revealing an instrumental balance that anticipates some recent performances on period instruments . |
| 4 | There was a very considerable consensus on the elements selected , and these choices , in the order in which they appear in the text , are given below along with the percentage ( rounded to the nearest integer ) of the informants who identified each one . |
| 5 | No wonder women are treated so badly in the world when even an organisation such as Amnesty judges them in terms of their lives only meaning something if they can ‘ belong ’ to a man . |
| 6 | If you look at a dissection of the human arm you can see that the string-like tendons which attach to the fingers are joined further back in the arm , to the muscles . |
| 7 | However , if we are to go much further along the road to open learning mentioned earlier , we need to explore and extend the potential of electronic information transfer . |
| 8 | Secondary tonics are limited almost entirely to the relative and subdominant . |
| 9 | Students of linguistics are taught early on about the importance of binary oppositions like this one , and are encouraged to look for two-term contrasts , x and not-x , in the linguistic data they analyse . |
| 10 | Another point to remember is that if all four pictures are to sit comfortably together in the overall design , then all the material used should be of roughly the same size . |
| 11 | They are flat , and usually are arranged either parallel to the ground , as in most trees , or vertically , like flags , as in grass : whichever arrangement intercepts the sunlight most efficiently in the particular circumstances . |
| 12 | As we shall see in the next chapter , in natural materials like wood , the long-chain molecules are arranged roughly parallel to the length of the tree , that is to say , more or less in the direction of the most important stresses . |
| 13 | Initial results from the first phase of the research ( summer 1986 ) show that the police are sticking very closely to the new rules and that this has had a major impact in the way CID officers conduct investigations . |
| 14 | On the contrary , ‘ few things are regarded so cheaply as an animal 's life … |
| 15 | Birds , like mammals , produce sound by blowing air from their lungs over vibratory vocal chords in the trachea , although in birds the vocal cords are situated slightly closer to the lungs than in mammals . |
| 16 | But any vertiginous feelings are stabilized almost immediately by the rhetoric that enfolds the band ( which they severely resent ) , which recruits their private obsessions into a grand scheme of subterranean resistance . |
| 17 | They say who they want to send it to , add a few notes , send it off and are dropped straight back into the spreadsheet . ’ |
| 18 | Sometimes assessments are carried out simply as a classroom routine . |
| 19 | In the rest of the UK , these functions are carried out separately by the National Council for Vocational Qualifications ( NCVQ ) and a variety of awarding bodies . |
| 20 | In a smaller agency many of these tasks are carried out either by the managing director , the finance department or a general manager , with help where necessary from other members of other departments . |
| 21 | In contrast to this , all inputs to a process are carried out automatically by the IPC type expert system without consulting a human operator . |
| 22 | As the hair grows , the eggs are carried further away from the scalp and become white or grey in colour , because they have hatched out . |
| 23 | Now we can only hope that things are resolved quickly enough for the developments to be finished in time for the 1994 Open . ’ |
| 24 | Many drugs are acidic or alkaline and this affects their removal in the urine ; acidic drugs are excreted more easily in the daytime and alkaline ones at night . |
| 25 | Some of the national Sunday papers include magazine sections , which are edited quite separately from the newspapers themselves . |
| 26 | Results for the 12 months to the end of December are expected shortly along with an announcement on the progress of loan renegotiations . |
| 27 | It is perhaps interesting to note that Baines in his History of Lancashire tells us that there are no mines at work in this Parish , nor any minerals found , except some fine specimens of copper ore which are picked up occasionally near the brooks in Rusland ! |
| 28 | In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life . |
| 29 | The vineyards of Oiry are located well away from the village on the lower slopes of the Butte de Saran at a level of between 100 and 120 metres . |
| 30 | There is a central role for specialists who can integrate the formal with the informal , who are able to influence the centres of power , and are committed more closely to the missions of the NHS than just financial reward . |