Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the dust-laden wind meets an obstacle , the dust particles rarely strike the obstacle as they are diverted round it in the general air flow and so exert little or no erosive effect . |
| 2 | It seems to be established , and rightly so , that the criterion is not geographical — privilege does not attach to letters sent by constituents to a member , even though they are posted to him in the post office in the Lobby of the House of Commons ( Rivlin v Bilainkin [ 1953 ] 1 QB 485 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ As long as the patients are volunteers and the risks are explained to them before the operation , I can see no objection myself . ’ |
| 4 | Those who think that ideas consist of images which are formed in us by the concourse of bodies … regard ideas as lifeless pictures on a board , and preoccupied thus with this misconception they do not see that an idea , insofar as it is an idea , involves affirmation or negation . |
| 5 | the merits of such proposals as are referred to them by the Select Committee ; |
| 6 | The National Association of Pension Funds ( NAPF ) acts as the lobbying body on behalf of the pension industry , but has no specific regulatory powers , nor does the Occupation Pensions Board ( OPB ) which comments on pension matters that are referred to it by the Secretary of State ( and also has responsibility for issuing contracting out certificates ) . |
| 7 | Trudgill writes : speakers are not capable of acquiring the correct underlying phonological distinction unless they are exposed to it from the very beginning , before they themselves have even begun to speak . |
| 8 | The courses are designed for anyone in the voluntary sector who is unsure how the changes will affect them or who simply wants to be better informed . |
| 9 | Recently many artificial fibres , such as nylon , made in chemical factories , have replaced cotton or wool , or they are mixed with them in the spinning or weaving process . |
| 10 | Those forces that make agencies fail to generate change also make them slow to respond to changes that are thrust upon them from the outside . |
| 11 | As a first step you might refuse the plastic bags that are thrust upon you at the supermarket check-out and use boxes to carry home the food . |
| 12 | Their powers are granted to them by the state and the courts ensure through the ultra vires or jurisdictional principle that they do not act outside their powers . |
| 13 | Why have they such an appalling record when ready-made Bills are presented to them by the Law Commission ? |
| 14 | DB2 is a relational DBMS , that is data structures are presented to it in the form of tables ; IMS views the data structures in terms of hierarchies ; and IDMS in terms of networks . |
| 15 | Er today we 're going to look at this Policy E two , the op open countryside , and there are presented to you for the discussion three matters . |
| 16 | The easiest format for the script is one in which the shot details are written down on one side of the page , while the corresponding words of commentary are written opposite them on the other side . |
| 17 | I think that a good job has been done by the ITC , but I am prepared to consider any representations that are made to me about the future determination of licences . |
| 18 | Which particular set of such properties are attributed to her by the utterance of ( 34 ) are at least in part dependent on the contexts of utterance : said by an admirer it may be a commendation , conveying the properties of toughness and resilience ; said by a detractor it may be taken as a denigration , conveying her lack of flexibility , emotional impassivity or belligerence . |
| 19 | In every generation , REPRODUCTION takes the genes that are supplied to it by the previous generation , and hands them on to the next generation but with minor random errors — mutations . |
| 20 | Such banquets are portrayed for us on the Bayeux Tapestry , or at least the early stages of them . |
| 21 | These are known to us as the African elephant , Loxodonta africana , and the Asian elephant , Elephas maximus . |
| 22 | Let us take the usable answers ( a ) — ( f ) for Question 2 and determine what antecedents and consequences are known to us from the text . |
| 23 | It might also encourage the lordly ones who run the Trust to see that its properties only have real value and interest when set in a wider social background that the rather greenery-yallery context in which too many of them are set for us by the Trust 's publications . |
| 24 | But for many stall-fed cattle and pigs the crops are brought to them from the fields . |
| 25 | My letters to Herta are brought to me by the valet . |
| 26 | ’ One has to balance these things carefully : they 're capable of erupting if churches are inflicted on them at the rate of more than , say , one every other day . |
| 27 | A person whom there are grounds to suspect of an offence must be cautioned before any questions about it ( or further questions if it is his answers to previous questions that provide grounds for suspicion ) are put to him for the purpose of obtaining evidence which may be given to a court in a prosecution . |
| 28 | ‘ A person whom there are grounds to suspect of an offence must be cautioned before any questions about it ( or further questions if it is his answers to previous questions that provide grounds for suspicion ) are put to him for the purpose of obtaining evidence which may be given to a court in a prosecution . |
| 29 | It also need have no privileges , since those required are passed to it by the initiator ( ie. the LIFESPAN Manager ) . |
| 30 | Most of your study materials are sent to you through the post . |