Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there are no clubbers at all then any netted enemy are jumped on by the netters themselves , and damage is resolved with a strength of 3 as normal . |
| 2 | In the UK anyway , the published products of historical scholarship , monographs and articles in learned journals , are still the principal criteria upon which promotion and professional recognition are meted out within the humanities . |
| 3 | Other details of this allegedly gentle pre-war street life are filled in by the writings of youth club workers — Butterworth 's Clubland ( 1932 ) , Hatton 's London 's Bad Boys ( 1931 ) and Secretan 's London Below Bridges ( 1931 ) — which are teeming with rowdy incident , outbreaks of hooliganism , shoplifting sprees , youngsters terrorising old ladies , foul language , youth club riots and vandalism . |
| 4 | When it is grabbed , its elongated , sharp-pointed ribs are pressed out through the sides of its body and into the lining of the mouth of the hapless hunter . |
| 5 | Bikini bottoms look more like high-waisted hot pants , while swimsuits are squared off across the thighs or skirted . |
| 6 | Subjects that they care about are fended off by the pupils with the familiar complaints that they are ‘ boring ’ or ‘ stupid ’ . |
| 7 | Then , suddenly , the arms are dropped down to the sides of the body again . |
| 8 | Further , some at least of the influential individuals in a community may operate outside the field of industrial relations : drawing on the work of Blauner ( 1960 ) , Bulmer suggests that the strong occupational communities characteristic of mining settlements occur because the social relations forged in the workplace are carried over into the arenas of non-work activity , creating overlapping primary group affiliations in which |
| 9 | Efficiency audits have no real private sector counterpart since monopoly references , though they also are carried out by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission , are more limited in scope . |
| 10 | According to David Grey , working for the Malawian Department of Land , Valuation and Water , under a British technical assistance programme , there is no point in improving the design of pump heads until problems are sorted out with the boreholes . |
| 11 | Shades of the Mediterranean are conjured up by the aquas and terracottas from Oneworld Trading 's accessories . |
| 12 | The purples are echoed in the colour wash on the wall and the oranges are picked up in the flowers . |
| 13 | The Members of the smaller parties complain that they are squeezed out by the front-benches whatever happens . |
| 14 | The residuals are smoothed using the same recipe as before , and the results are added back to the results of the first smooth ; this is illustrated in exercise 9.1 . |
| 15 | But its annual surpluses ( $56 billion in fiscal 1989 ) are added back for the purposes of the Gramm-Rudman deficit-cutting law . |
| 16 | The Consumers ' Assocation said : ‘ People are fed up with the banks ' incompetence , compounded by arrogance . ’ |
| 17 | Just as in reverse discourse the categories of subordination are turned back upon the regimes of truth which disqualify , so this ‘ other ’ sensibility is in part affirmed as an inversion and absence of sensibility 's traditional criteria . |
| 18 | Phonic In the phonic approach , words are built up from the sounds of the individual letters or groups of letters ( phonemes such as th , ph , and so on ) . |
| 19 | Furthermore , the written narratives which constitute the novel are shot through with the vestiges of oral culture : incomplete sentences , a tendency toward verbosity and digression , as well as an abundance of transcriptions of actual dialogue . |
| 20 | In some roofs tiles are hung on to the battens with only every third row nailed . |
| 21 | Regiments of Elf spearmen and archers are made up of the citizen-soldiers of Ulthuan . |
| 22 | Regiments of Elven Spearmen are made up of the citizen-soldiers of Ulthuan . |
| 23 | In the case of n-ary relationships , the relationship becomes a member record , each of the entities linked by the relationship becomes an owner , their keys are made up of the identifiers of the entities of the conceptual data model which the relationship was linking and the attributes of the entity become fields of the records generated . |
| 24 | But erm the logistics costs are made up from the costs of procuring spares and support equipment largely and er for an aircraft such as this , the amount of equipment required to operate at first line is very low indeed . |
| 25 | In addition , savers can miss up to six monthly payments over the five years provided they are made up in the months immediately following the five-year term . |
| 26 | They are stingy when it comes to overheads : in most discount stores , there are few staff in sight and goods are sold out of the boxes they come in . |
| 27 | The queen spreads them over her body and they are licked off by the workers , who pass them to the rest of the colony by trophallaxis . |
| 28 | So hard copy reports are produced out of the ledgers and then the results are taken and keyed into FDC . |
| 29 | As the goods are drawn out of the larders , the statistics are adjusted downwards , and Brown can quickly check how much he needs to re-order . |
| 30 | Our physical characteristics are handed on through the genes but the far more important part of us , the mental , lives on in the minds and eventually in the memory of the human race . |