Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 6/Highlights are masked out while areas are filled in with a thin wash . |
| 2 | These include policies of enforced separation whereby only activities that do not cause conflicts are carried on within a single entity , declining to act in situations of acute conflict , use of independence policies and Chinese walls . |
| 3 | This case also often occurs in practice due to the results of cases such as grouped meter readings from customers who were at home when the meter reader called , combined with customers ' own readings carried out because they were out when the meter reader called , and a number of special checks that are carried out at a different time . |
| 4 | Here again they state that the form is for use where works are carried out for an agreed lump sum and where an architect or supervising officer has been appointed on behalf of the employer . |
| 5 | To make sure the system is working says stocktaking exercises are carried out on a regular basis and there are random checks of the collections . |
| 6 | Certain features are carried out on a large scale . |
| 7 | Sensitivity at the outset far outweighs a full routine of complicated strokes if they are carried out in a mechanical and impersonal manner . |
| 8 | Current powers do not allow for searches that are based on a policeman 's hunch that someone may be carrying an illicit article , or for blanket searches that are carried out in a particular area or among particular groups . |
| 9 | Sometimes the salespeople carry out merchandising activities like building up shelf displays , providing window stickers and in-store advertising , although sometimes these duties are carried out by a separate merchandiser or team of merchandisers , particularly when some form of demonstration or product promotion is required . |
| 10 | ‘ They are let out of a greyhound-style trap and can cover more than 100 metres in a matter of seconds when they get a whiff of food , ’ says Michael , 52 . |
| 11 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 12 | The two are caught up in a desperate race to save their women — knowing that the rescue of one means the destruction of the other . |
| 13 | Women in Hinduism are caught up in a paradoxical view of the female , where the divine can be feminine , yet women are profoundly mistrusted . |
| 14 | But this information is also readily available if the ferret is fitted with a transmitting device within its collar and the signals from this are picked up on a hand-held receiver . |
| 15 | In The Lost Ship , for instance , a couple of merchant navy apprentices , overboard by accident from a tanker , are picked up by a sinister couple planning to snatch gold from a wreck on a Caribbean island , and in Horseshoe Reef a similar young couple is rescued from shipwreck by a strange , isolated family with criminal intentions . |
| 16 | The screens are slotted on to an amazing new printer which cost the company an arm and a leg a couple of years ago . |
| 17 | After serving a further 20 per cent of their sentence in a semi-open regime , inmates are moved on to an open system ; |
| 18 | ‘ We are fed up with a distant bureaucracy telling us what to do with our bikes . |
| 19 | ‘ A lot of people are fed up with a whole range of changes which appear to have no philosophical direction to them , ’ he said . |
| 20 | There is a good programme of daily activities in the Home , and all these are written up on a large board in Peter 's office . |
| 21 | It 's the time when the final pellets of vanity accumulate into a cyst , when the self starts up its last pathetic murmur of ‘ Remember me , remember me … ‘ ; it 's the time when the autobiographies get written , the last boasts are made , and the memories which no one else 's brain still holds are written down with a false idea of value . |
| 22 | More crudely , they are written off as a rampaging mob , victim to primitive urges or the machinations of conspirators . |
| 23 | The way in which these circuits are built up in a structured way out of interacting modules and submodules corresponds well to the use of nested parallel constructs in occam . |
| 24 | Thus the expenditure needs are built up from a whole series of estimates , referring to the many components of Local Government expenditure . |
| 25 | And both of these contradictions of capitalism are built out of a developing incompatibility of bourgeoisie and civil society . |
| 26 | He wrote immediately to the SMG , cutting off all contact : ‘ I am not interested in agencies who politic and posture for no other reason than to promote themselves … secondly , as I am not presently able to place any trust in you , I must insist that any further matters you wish to raise are channelled through to a suitable agency , viz the local council or HCRC . ’ |
| 27 | Some programmes are made up of a straight interview , but your spokesman , may not actually be in the same studio as the interviewer . |
| 28 | Most hunts are made up of a complete cross-section of society , the only qualification being an ability to ride . |
| 29 | Pigs are our chief prey item — half the meat in the human diet , worldwide , is pork , That has to mean that those of us who are n't Jews , Moslems or vegetarians are made up of a large proportion of protein that arrived by way of the animal we most like to sneer at — not to mention mistreat , in the most abominable ways . |
| 30 | The stark facts are spelt out in a recent copy of the Independent . |