Example sentences of "are [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NEW Yorkers are stepping out to weird Foot Friend parties to meet the partner of their dreams . |
| 2 | We are spat out of fevered loins , or punctured rubber , or drunken grapplings in creaking beds . |
| 3 | We are spat out of fevered loins , or punctured rubber , or drunken grapplings in creaking beds . ’ |
| 4 | Today , entire journals are given over to this work . |
| 5 | If we are using up to five times the energy that we really need to move , then it is hardly surprising that , after a long day , all we can do is ‘ collapse in a heap ’ ! |
| 6 | But uncertainties are smoothed over by this idealization of a historically and socially specific , juridical concept of power ( Hussain 1981 ) . |
| 7 | Homes with large impersonal reception areas are better for orientation if they are broken up into smaller areas divided from each other . |
| 8 | Once there , they are broken up by ultraviolet radiation , releasing chlorine atoms which destroy ozone , CFCs are also an important greenhouse gas ( see above ) . |
| 9 | So nothing at Barnsley House is too grand … and the broader vistas are broken up by judicious planting of trees and shrubs.As for the flower borders … they owe more to the Victorian cottage than to the stately home : |
| 10 | Societies disintegrate from within more frequently than they are broken up by external pressures . |
| 11 | Today most of these assemblages are broken up by human activity but , for example , on the great plains of Serengeti in East Africa the relationships between seasonal vegetation , nomadic herbivores , and dependent beasts of prey can still be discerned and studied in detail . |
| 12 | The recessed planes are used in places , but more often they are broken up by bold three-quarterings and massings which give a quite different sense of the third dimension . |
| 13 | Goals are much easier to attain if they are broken down into small steps . |
| 14 | In order to cover this range of variation , the figures in table 3.13 are broken down into mandibular incisor digestion ( columns 13 ) , maxillary incisor digestion ( columns 4–6 ) , isolated incisor digestion ( columns 7–10 ) , and all these combined in columns 11 to 13 . |
| 15 | Even chemicals that are broken down by different enzymes may ‘ compete ’ : some enzymes need substances known cofactors to help them do their work , so the two chemicals are ‘ competing ’ for cofactors , rather than for the enzymes themselves . |
| 16 | Many cognitive processes are carried through without conscious awareness . |
| 17 | If these reactions are carried out at constant volume changes in number of moles of gas with change in gas pressure which can be measured using a manometer . |
| 18 | appropriate safety and environmental analyses are carried out at defined stages of exploration , development and production ; |
| 19 | Reactions are carried out at high pressure and temperature and the processes involve large scale filtration , drying , milling and packing . |
| 20 | The four major subsystems are carried out at different locations , by different personnel , and therefore formed ‘ natural ’ boundaries . |
| 21 | It then assumes a parliamentary intention that the steps which Parliament has enjoined or authorized for saving or minimizing tax shall not be effective if they are carried out for that purpose but are only to be effective if carried out for some other ‘ legitimate ’ business purpose . |
| 22 | Cultivations are carried out for three reasons : to improve the soil crumb structure and so create an ideal seed-bed for the crop ; to uproot and kill weeds ; and to bury turf or crop residues where they will rot down and not compete with the ensuing crop . |
| 23 | However , many market research studies are carried out on large samples which would be beyond the reach of academic researchers and it is not unusual to find commercial surveys which contain quite valuable social information . |
| 24 | Various investigations are carried out on surgical wards . |
| 25 | Worries also exist over mutual recognition of testing and certification procedures , as there is concern that some member states may not have adequate facilities and experience to ensure that these procedures are carried out with appropriate attention to important details . |
| 26 | It may mean operating with associate companies , where the bulk of the brewing operations are carried out through licensed brewing agreements . |
| 27 | As most drift-netting operations are carried out in international waters where little or no international agreements are in force , it is extremely difficult to control this destruction of life on the high seas , or even to get an accurate picture of its magnitude . |
| 28 | Schregle 's ( 1981 ) approach to this basic problem of what is comparable in cross-national studies is to compare the methods and ways in which particular industrial relations functions are carried out in various countries , rather than simply comparing institutions and procedures carrying the same designation . |
| 29 | The controversial foetal cell transplants are carried out in other parts of the world too . |
| 30 | Supervisory duties at break and lunch-time are carried out by non-teaching assistants . |