Example sentences of "are [adv] [adv] [vb pp] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It must be recognized that Donna Landry 's views on Leapor are most nearly justified in relation to this piece . |
| 2 | It also helps to vary the shapes of the flowers as well as their colours : for example , hydrangeas are much more pointed in shape than roses , and the petals of potentillas are widely spaced and so give a more pronounced petal shape . |
| 3 | Consequently some CMHC teams tend to focus on more articulate , well-organized , socially competent people in a transient state of distress and have less time for the more seriously disturbed and those with long-term disorders who are less readily engaged in treatment . |
| 4 | Instead of orderly motility patterns , which can be analysed relatively easily , irregular contractions occur that are apparently tandomly distributed in location and time . |
| 5 | What may be thought surprising is the absence of Celtic deities which are so well represented in stone sculpture and reliefs , especially in the west . |
| 6 | This is not simply a matter of those aspects of women 's sexual lives that are so often cited in evidence as disqualifying women from running the affairs of nations , or even from running a small business : menstruation and premenstrual tension ; conception , pregnancy and childbirth ; lactation and child-care . |
| 7 | The surface construction which realizes ( 21 ) is that seen in ( 22 ) , although it is more common to find the serial order of the second and third elements reversed ; this does not change their relationships in terms of intensional qualification : ( 22 ) It is curious that the verb and the adjective are so often separated in surface structure ; the reason is perhaps that the noun phrase object is " pulled " into the position immediately following the verb because , in the vast majority of transitive verb phrases , that is where the object is found . |
| 8 | Is the Secretary of State aware that any measures taken to increase car security will be welcome in Northern Ireland , where stolen vehicles are so often used in terrorist murders and other such crimes ? |
| 9 | The auction houses may anticipate an effect on prices , although early and late impressions are already clearly differentiated in catalogue descriptions . |
| 10 | It is in this context that minorities who may feel that their causes are not adequately represented in Parliament wish to use their freedom of protest to draw attention to their plight . |
| 11 | Other examples of insurance claims being referred to experts do not appear in the reports and are not generally encountered in practice ; the insurance world has a pronounced preference for arbitration . |
| 12 | In this atmosphere , one would not expect the criticisms and justifications of the monarchy , qua monarchy , to be sharpened into explicitness , for they are not presently needed in debate . |
| 13 | We shall see that employers are key actors within industrial relations and that they possess a considerable margin for defining their own policies which are not wholly determined in response to the actions of unions , or to economic and political pressures . |
| 14 | ( Statistical terms such as variance , skewness and kurtosis , though easily defined in terms of the above molecular weight averages , are not usually employed in polymer science . ) |
| 15 | Young people striking out on their own for the first time frequently do not have transport and colleges or universities are not always situated in city centres . |
| 16 | Magistrates and others who have called for more secure places want them to be used to contain the activities of young offenders who are not currently kept in prison accommodation , like so-called joyriders and repetitive burglars . |
| 17 | This Order , which is now in force , imposes a levy on employers in the engineering construction industry ( including employers who are not mainly engaged in engineering construction activities ; for them , the levy will be imposed only in respect of their engineering construction activities ) . |
| 18 | This definition encompasses the trade-off between static and dynamic efficiency : current welfare losses may be acceptable , if the market structure or conduct which gives rise to the losses will also generate efficiencies in the long run , so long as the prospective benefits are not too delayed in realization and the social discount rate is not too high . |
| 19 | The distinction between individuals in government and the senior civil service , banks and corporations is often more blurred than in western countries , and therefore this elite tends to form a coherent and powerful set of economic interests , ( although these may be contradictory and are usually very diverse ) and are not only represented in government but often are the government . |
| 20 | Marriages , contrary to belief , are not necessarily made in heaven . |
| 21 | Danish schools whose heads do not see themselves as curriculum leaders are not necessarily sunk in apathy or mechanically carrying out the dictates of a central programme . |
| 22 | Perhaps they are just more practised in forethought , especially if they have children . |
| 23 | It is considered that loan stock instruments are usually not issued in consideration of an advance and " advance " therefore usually connotes 'simple debt " rather than debt represented by a loan stock instrument or other security . |
| 24 | Furniture , floors and bookshelves are usually best made in wood and so are things like flagstaffs and yachts ' masts . |
| 25 | Although the ericaceous shrubs are a consistent part of the community , they are usually much reduced in stature by exposure and grazing , and may be only a few centimetres high . |
| 26 | There were significant changes in the services provided , but these are more properly discussed in Chapter 4 . |
| 27 | The ridges are more freely distributed in orientation . |
| 28 | However , among the things which we tend to think of as good there are some few things which are more easily conceived in abstraction from any larger social or natural context and we will expect Moore 's method of isolation to reveal these as the main bearers of intrinsic goodness . |
| 29 | Few subjects are more hotly debated in curriculum committees . |
| 30 | Water Rails are more generally distributed in winter , when birds have recently been recorded in up to 20 inland localities in one winter , more than in any one breeding season . |