Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ( Abstract nouns , participles , and relative pronouns are italicized in the above passage . )
2 John Nicholson wafted in and out of their lives and Jack 's recollections of the man he imagined was his father are tinged with a certain sorrow that he had become an alcoholic , with memories of scenes on the home front , and of the young Jack cooling his heels outside one bar or another with a fizzy drink while his ‘ father ’ stood inside drinking neat brandies .
3 Kevin Scully , senior vice-president of Global Systems and Technology , says : ‘ What we have can be described as a centralised database with applications that are decentralised on a global basis .
4 These , again , are pre-set to a small selection , but , noticeably , they include only those colours that normally print well with a three colour ribbon , which , given the price and target audience of the program , is a sensible move .
5 All 133 bedrooms are furnished to a high standard with en-suite bathroom .
6 The palazzo now offers five lovely apartments all of which are furnished to a high standard some with antiques — and of individual character and charm .
7 The bedrooms are furnished in a traditional style and have air-conditioning .
8 The bedrooms are furnished in a traditional style and have double glazing .
9 Where parasites are congregated within a small area , erosion of the mucosal surface is apparent ( P1.II ) .
10 MORRISSEY and organisers of the ill-fated Madstock Finsbury Park concerts are embroiled in a legal battle , with both parties threatening to sue each other over Morrissey 's non-appearance on the Sunday bill .
11 The guerrillas are embroiled in a civil war against an alliance of rival Tamil groups , the Tamil National Army , in areas from which the Indian Peace-keeping Force has withdrawn .
12 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 .
13 Earnings can fluctuate quite widely from one year to the next , but if long-run earnings are calculated as a moving average of short-run earnings , this will be a much more stable measure .
14 NI contributions are calculated on a payment-by-payment basis according to the earnings period .
15 The figures are calculated on an assumed growth rate of 10.75% and are therefore not guaranteed , as unit prices can fall as well as rise .
16 Working-Set Database Volumes are calculated on the following basis .
17 Erm unle unless we 're actually making that change as such , then the only way forward it seems to me i i is on the lines of which of which Mr has indicated which is that erm essentially the needs of Greater York are calculated on the current Greater York study area and the requirements are made on that basis and the supply is within that area , unless it ca n't be made in that area in that case it goes without that area , and therefore it it it 's part of the justification for the new settlement .
18 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 .
19 At present rates are calculated from the rateable value of business premises and the local rate poundage .
20 ‘ Standard rates ’ for each activity are calculated from the direct expenditure plus the allocated overheads .
21 ‘ Standard rates ’ for each activity are calculated from the direct expenditure plus the allocated overheads .
22 But when this and fines imposed on others as well as those firms involved in the Folding-Carton industry conspiracy are calculated against the gross revenues and then standardized as a fine imposed on a person earning $15,000 annually , it is clear that they are relatively minuscule .
23 Taxable profits , which are calculated in a similar way to companies ' taxable profits , are treated as personal income to the sole trader , or split between partners in proportion to their share of profits in the year of assessment .
24 STORM HAVOC : Two camper vans are overturned at a shattered campsite in Vaison-la-Romaine
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 All enrolling students are assigned to a personal tutor , normally an academic teaching in one of their fields , who has responsibility for a total of about a dozen students in various years of the Course .
28 Controlled indexing languages or assigned-term systems are indexing languages in which a person both controls the terms that are used to represent subjects and executes the process whereby terms are assigned to a particular document .
29 However , in broad terms , one credit is assigned to one 40-hour module ; two credits are assigned to an 80-hour module , etc .
30 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 .
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