Example sentences of "are [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes assessments are carried out simply as a classroom routine .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 In contrast to this , all inputs to a process are carried out automatically by the IPC type expert system without consulting a human operator .
5 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 !
6 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 .
7 Animals in all stages of misery are turned out on to the streets , left in remote areas , even just left behind after the family holiday .
8 Wedges of oceanic crust are thrust up on to the overlying sediments of the subduction zone and uplift ensues ( Fig. 3.16 ) .
9 Guests ' bills are written up daily from the duplicate vouchers which are debited to the visitors ' tabular ledger and it follows that the balances shown on the guests ' bills must correspond with the balances in the visitors ' tabular ledger .
10 Progressive assessment relates directly to the principle of credit accumulation in that passes in individual modules are built up progressively towards a final award .
11 And Darren looks like an oversized leprechaun , all dressed in green and ready to go , meanwhile I 'm reporting this excellent news to you guys if you are listening out there from the national library association , er , er , er , er
12 ‘ Wayward , twisted psykers are hunted down ruthlessly on a host of worlds .
13 This is when the bream are feeding very confidently , usually on maggots which they are picking up directly from the bottom , much as a chicken picks up corn one grain after another without having to move too far to do it .
14 Many birds die and individuals are washed up on to the shore .
15 Slack planning laws mean hotels are growing up all over the place , said Nick — who quickly threw out his own idea that the West has all the answers to the problems .
16 The buildings themselves are no longer self-contained or fully circumscribed forms but are opened up completely into the space around them to form a composition of interpenetrating , shifting planes , suggesting an extremely complicated transparent sculpture in low relief .
17 The meeting has already attracted great interest from smaller nations which will be sending teams to the Olympics , and they will be accommodated in a one-and-a-half hour ‘ warm-up ’ before the principle events get under way at 7.30pm and are beamed out live to a world-wide audience by Screensport .
18 These stones , contrasting in shape and colour and radiating light , are shown off admirably by the severe but wearable linear design .
19 The long , slender pelvic fins are drawn up flush with the underside of the body , while the pectoral fins lie flat against the sides .
20 ‘ We know there are individual trusts with smaller turnovers than ours and mergers with acute services are going on elsewhere in the country , ’ he said .
21 If we make up a helical coil ( Fig. 4.2(b) ) the wires are going round always in the same direction so the voltages simply add and we may rewrite eqn ( 4.13 ) in the form
22 Many of the drivers are Brunel enthusiasts , but others are going along just for the ride .
23 ‘ The lights are going out all over the galaxy , ’ he said softly .
24 Well , we are going back now to the days of the hand joiner 's shop , when mouldings were scribed ( not routered ! ) and tenons cut with the rip saw .
25 The books are lying about all over the place in Shellerton .
26 Some are undoubtedly produced when ropy strands or shreds of sticky lava are flung up out of the vent , twisting and turning slightly in the air before falling back to earth ; these are known as rope or ribbon bombs , and they may be as much as one metre long .
27 In fact , population growth rates are slowing down everywhere in the world — even in Africa .
28 Specialist journals of the ‘ have to have ’ variety , needed by all good universities , are holding up well in an unsympathetic environment , but journals publishers generally are having to market harder to maintain subscriptions .
29 These are shared out equally between the tenants so that the " fit " may feel they are having to support the " unfit " .
30 I would think it would , yes , I would think it would be people , more and more people are coming round today with the idea that people need to go away , send somebody to get something .
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