Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 They are assigned to a team and introduced ( if that 's the word ) to their team leader .
2 In the third term of Year II , major students are placed in a theatre or theatre organization in the British Isles for an intensive six-week programme of work experience .
3 In Table 1.3 figures for the trade balance in manufactured goods are given on an intra- and extra-basis for the four major industrial countries in the EC .
4 Taking the Gaussian coordinates to be at y we assert that the coordinates for which eqn ( 6.16 ) holds are given by a transformation where the are some constants .
5 Similarly , although the smallness of the samples of 16th , 17th , and 18th Century publications in need of repair means that conclusions about them must be treated with some caution , it is worth noting that if all pre-1800 items are treated as a group and the proportion of them allocated to each of Categories 3–5 calculated , their pattern of distribution ( ‘ Poor' 78% ; ‘ Bad ’ 18% ; ‘ Fragile ’ 7% ) comes close to matching that already established for all defective items .
6 In patients with an in situ gall bladder the risks of biliary related problems are higher although they are in keeping with the general incidence in patients who are treated with a sphincterotomy and successful duct clearance .
7 Sterling eurobonds , which are a part of the international eurobond market described in Chapter 5 below , are normally issued as bearer securities and are usually unsecured but with a negative pledge ; they are listed on an exchange but not necessarily the London Stock Exchange and they pay interest gross .
8 Circuits are flown without a crosswind or base leg , just a constant turn to or from the downwind .
9 If you are on a camping holiday and are stopped with a penknife or sheath knife on your belt and a rucksack on your back , most policemen would accept that you need the knife for camping .
10 As a group , they are marginalised in a society that places a high value on being clever and articulate .
11 Applications are developed on a PC and then sent to the target machine .
12 ‘ Scrap merchants will pay 45p per kilo for empty drinks cans , provided they are crushed into a shape that 's easily handled , ’ he said .
13 According to Klein , a child psychoanalyst , babies are consumed with a primitive and innate rage when their needs are not met and they are in bodily discomfort .
14 Suppose we try out the following definition : a complex thing is something whose constituent parts are arranged in a way that is unlikely to have arisen by chance alone .
15 For women it matters less whether they are referred to a gynaecologist or a urologist than that they are referred to someone with an interest in urinary incontinence .
16 Both of these room types are situated on a hill and reached via a flight of steep steps .
17 The proposals are intended as a package and not for piecemeal negotiation .
18 We also need to ensure that all children are educated beyond an assumption that mathematics has one correct form .
19 In particular the chaos of the media ; where Front 242's use of TV images of terrorism and catastrophe was as a backdrop to their own survivalist strength , with Butthole Surfers it 's more the case , as David Stubbs said , that they 've fallen foul of the media overload , are carried by a momentum that is not their own .
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21 Another worker said it was too early to say whether industrial action was likely , but added : ‘ My own feeling is that we are caught between a rock and a hard place . ’
22 And er , we 'll be a part , I know as councillors , Labour councillors we are caught in a trap because due the financial constraint that the government has placed upon us there is very little we could do but , oh I 'll get I I er crumbs of comfort from the speculators who may decide to give us a few social housing .
23 Mystics are overwhelmed by a consciousness that there is a dimension beyond that of time , experience of which brings such certainty of fulfilling joy , such transfiguring of the material order , that the only possible priorities for existence in time can be to find a way of life that will allow access to this dimension .
24 However , a distinction is drawn between the position where premises are owned by a company and managed by an employee ( Paterson ) and a case involving premises owned by an individual and managed by another .
25 The goats are attacked by a troll as they cross a river , and through their cunning and the brute strength of the biggest of them , overcome their assailant and complete the crossing to the lush pasture on the other side .
26 The landlord will nevertheless wish to ensure that the premises are occupied and trading as soon as possible , particularly if they are located in a parade or shopping centre where the landlord 's adjoining premises could benefit from customers to the premises .
27 What makes some people happy for example , is that they are committed to a cause or to a person ; their happiness derives from something other than the pursuit of happiness .
28 If such covenants are mixed with negative covenants , which appear on the Register , or if they are contained in a document that is bound up in the certificate , they will be apparent , and a conveyancer acting for an original covenantor who is selling should peruse these covenants , providing in the contract for a covenant of indemnity against breach of any positive covenants by the buyer ( see below ) ; ( see special condition K , 34 ) .
29 The details are contained in a recording and transcript of a telephone call between Hounam and Murrin on October 16 , 1990 .
30 The ‘ ideal ’ 100% inversion , where all data items are keys and therefore all items are contained in an index as well as a data record , will be very inefficient in many respects .
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