Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wings are very broad and thick at the base and the feathers at the end of the wings are parted like the fingers of a human hand . |
| 2 | Its nostrils are placed at the ends of two extremities that grow out from the side of its head . |
| 3 | Northampton Town 's Supporters Trust , an independent body set up in January after a public meeting in the town , have unveiled plans to keep the debt-crippled Division Four club alive if they are placed into the hands of the official receiver on March 11 . |
| 4 | Such items would only become liabilities when contracts are placed for the goods to be provided or the work to be carried out . |
| 5 | All flies possess these little structures but they are particularly noticeable in the crane flies , the daddy-long-legs , in which the knobs are placed on the ends of stalks so that they look like the heads of drumsticks . |
| 6 | DIRE warnings are given of the consequences of taking the necessary measures to make cars more environment-friendly . |
| 7 | Details of these requirements are given in the tables of Degree Course Requirements on the following pages . |
| 8 | Where the circumstances are that a plaintiff ( such as a mail order company ) wishes to bring separate proceedings in one county court against a great number of defendants , provision is made for a combined request and particulars of claims by the Lord Chancellor 's Practice Directions made on 1 March 1979 and 17 March 1987 setting out full instructions ; these are given in the notes under Ord 3 , r 3 in The County Court Practice . |
| 9 | The problems encountered when constructing such drawings are given in the examples of the bridal head-dress painting , illustrated . |
| 10 | When the signals involved are of low-enough frequency for reactive and other frequency-dependent effects to be negligible , the Z-parameters are given by the slopes of appropriate static characteristics at the operating bias levels . |
| 11 | The two probability distributions of B are given by the squares of moduli of two such wavefunctions . |
| 12 | For example , we are treated to the results of a 10-year study of the foraging activity of a laboratory colony of Atta , information on the biology of the immense carpenter ant genus Camponotus and unique insights into the alkaloidal pharmacopoeia of fire ants . |
| 13 | Most of them are listed under the provisions of the Clean Air Act of 1990 , but restrictions imposed by the Act will not come into force until 1995 . |
| 14 | All of the many degree courses offered at the University of Edinburgh are listed in the tables of the section ‘ Degree Course Requirements ’ . |
| 15 | Where O or S passes are listed in the requirements for entry to a particular faculty or to a specific course , these must normally be at grades 1 , 2 or 3 for S grade , or grade C or better ( 7 or better from 1994 ) for O/GCSE . |
| 16 | Snotlings are great mimics and are fascinated by the activities of their larger relatives , which , although their actions are completely inexplicable to Snotlings , they will often cheerfully imitate . |
| 17 | Those who are fascinated by the minutiae of stratigraphical correlation may be horrified at my generalisations . |
| 18 | As with all claims made by competing groups for the objective nature of their own discourse , those made by the Royal Society are tainted by the contingencies of the world in which they were made . |
| 19 | So , for example , among the Muslim Somali of north-east Africa , married women are frequently prone to mysterious complaints which are diagnosed by the experts as possession by evil spirits . |
| 20 | The broad policies of investment trust companies are set out by a board of directors , and as with any limited company they are limited by the articles of association and shareholder approval . |
| 21 | It is involved in all the relations , institutions and structures which are implicated in the activities of production and reproduction in the life of societies ’ ( Held , 1984 , p. 235 ) . |
| 22 | I am not sure how far , without these visible or audible marks of strangeness , ‘ they ’ would be recognised by cultural differences , though in racist reactions much is made of such things : how good Frenchmen are insulted by the smells of North African cooking , or good Brits by that of curry emanating from their neighbours . |
| 23 | Such difficulties are compounded by the complexities of dealing with children who are bilingual . |
| 24 | Yet when such annoyances are compounded by the strains of family living , what would cause one family annoyance might easily add up to long-term unhappiness in another family . |
| 25 | There have been recent increases in the extent to which tenancies are registered in the names of both parties , again of benefit to the woman . |
| 26 | Its many rooms , all ten inches high , are filled with the memorabilia of childhood and family life , and the housekeeper 's bed-sitting room and the linen room are also there . |
| 27 | " Moons make speed to repair their heavenly losses " ( Michie 1964 ) ; " While , though , waning moons can mend their celestial losses " ( Leishman 1956 ) ; " Her losses soon the moon supplies " ( Johnson 1784 ) ; " But oh , whate'er the sky-led seasons mar , / Moon upon moon rebuilds it with her beams " ( Housman 1944 ) ; " These wounds of the wheeling skies are healed by the moons in their flying " ( Marsh 1940 ) . |
| 28 | The choice may depend on who I am , and even on when I live ; Edward Marsh 's version — " These wounds of the wheeling skies are healed by the moons in their flying " — was published in wartime , in December 1940 ( the year of the Battle of Britain ) . |
| 29 | As the radiation decreases by the square of the distance to the source , the highest radiation doses are received by the hands of the investigator . |
| 30 | ‘ the body of our dear brother here departed to a hemmed-in churchyard , pestiferous and obscene , where malignant diseases are communicated to the bodies of our dear brothers and sisters who have not departed … where a reeking little tunnel of a court gives access to the iron gate — here they lower our dear brother down a foot or two : here sow him in corruption , to be raised in corruption : an avenging ghost at many a sick-bedside . ’ |