Example sentences of "are [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Abstract nouns , participles , and relative pronouns are italicized in the above passage . ) |
| 2 | On the contrary , they form the foundation blocks to all that follows , and serve as a constant reminder of the need to ensure that we are building on the right foundation and that the materials with which we build have spiritual survival capability ( 1 Cor. |
| 3 | Police say the device bears all the hallmarks of the IRA and officers are liasing with the Anti Terrorist Squad … |
| 4 | She will ensure that women 's voices are heard at the highest level . |
| 5 | Appeals to the House of Lords are heard by the Appellate Committee of the House , which consists of those members of the House qualified to deal with its judicial business . |
| 6 | Working-Set Database Volumes are calculated on the following basis . |
| 7 | The price factors are calculated for the first day of the delivery month , and adjustments have to be made for accrued interest where the first day of the delivery month does not coincide with a coupon payment date . |
| 8 | If the terms of Bell 's inequality are calculated from the composite wave function I mentioned above then the inequality is found to be violated ; on the other hand , it is always satisfied for wave functions that are simple products . |
| 9 | At present rates are calculated from the rateable value of business premises and the local rate poundage . |
| 10 | ‘ Standard rates ’ for each activity are calculated from the direct expenditure plus the allocated overheads . |
| 11 | ‘ Standard rates ’ for each activity are calculated from the direct expenditure plus the allocated overheads . |
| 12 | The values of for polyatomic ions and ionic compounds are calculated in the same way as for molecular compounds . |
| 13 | So if you are dismissed before the agreed age , you might have a claim for breach of contract , but not for unfair dismissal if you are over the normal retiring age for colleagues in your class of work . |
| 14 | In my judgment , provided the specified precondition is met , the only limitations on the type of order that can be made under section 6(2) that are justified by the statutory language are that the order must be intended to restore all the parties to the transaction to their respective former positions and that the steps directed by the order to be taken must be reasonably capable of doing so . |
| 15 | In our example , x 29 , x 59 and x 97 are basic and so nodes 2 , 5 and 7 are assigned to the second generation and P(2) = P(5) = P(7) = 9 . |
| 16 | x 29 , x 41 , x 59 , x 87 and x 97 , then nodes 4 and 9 are assigned to the first generation and P(4) = P(9) = 1 . |
| 17 | Not surprisingly , the results are not always convincing : lyric poetry , for example is labelled as non-fictional even when it includes references to non-existing objects ( such as blue deer in Georg Trakl 's poems ) , while narrative and nonsense poetry are assigned to the fictional domain . |
| 18 | If a clone has also been used as a probe then the program also checks if the probe and clone are assigned to the same contig . |
| 19 | In general , for a node i of the rth generation , we assign any node j ( ) not assigned to generations 1 , … , r , for which or is basic , to generation r + 1 and set P(j) = i This means that all the remaining nodes in our example are assigned to the third generation and P(3) = P(6) = 2 , P(8) = 7 . |
| 20 | Since the Library 's collections are dispersed throughout three buildings , it is necessary to have a more or less continuous programme of transferring stock from one floor to another , and from one building to another , in order to create space for expansion and to ensure that the printed collections are placed to the maximum advantage as far as distribution , access and preservation are concerned . |
| 21 | The two other chairs are placed on the other side of this table , still farther to the right , so that they do not block the view of the first two through the balustrade of the veranda . |
| 22 | When keys are returned care must be taken to see that they are placed on the correct key hook . |
| 23 | In a strict order of preferential treatment , the newest titles are placed on the top rack , and moved down weekly , until the volumes on the bottom rack are superseded and returned to the publisher for pulping . |
| 24 | Any dwellings not taken up within a specified time are placed on the open market . |
| 25 | I do n't object to ladies being printers , provided they are placed on the same equality as men . |
| 26 | Selection for senior posts is therefore more important than training ; if people who display the appropriate qualities are placed in the correct context then they will flourish . |
| 27 | The result is , as we have seen , a tendency towards a teacher-dominated style of interaction , in which children are placed in the passive role of respondents , obliged to accept the teacher 's definition of what is considered relevant . |
| 28 | It 's the cause of the divisive broad band streaming which I think some comprehensives have been persuaded to use , and I 'm forced to say how can a child really value himself or herself if they are placed in the bottom band of such a school throughout the time when they are at that comprehensive ? |
| 29 | ‘ By the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 , the defendants are placed in the same position as the ordinary subjects of the Crown ( see section 21 of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 ) and I see no reason why they should not in appropriate cases refuse to refund money paid to them voluntarily under a mistake of law , as the revenue authorities were held to be entitled to do in the case of William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King and National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King . |
| 30 | The arrangement of things into classes , such as the class metal , or the class man , is grounded indeed on a resemblance among the things which are placed in the same class , but not on a mere general resemblance ; the resemblance it is grounded on consists in the possession by all those things of certain common peculiarities ; and those peculiarities it is which the terms connote , and which the propositions consequently assert ; not the resemblance . |