Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [adv prt] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The canal is lined by a membrane resembling the tunica arachnoidea , and is situated above the fissure of the medulla , being separated by a medullary layer : it is most easily distinguished where the large nerves are given off in the bend of the neck and sacrum , imperceptibly terminating in the cauda equina . |
| 2 | How detritus and fish excreta are broken down in the filter |
| 3 | Most of your belongings are stacked up in the hall and the bedroom . |
| 4 | The curved planks or tubes of cork are stacked out in the sun for three months or more to dry , then boiled for an hour or so with fungicides and antiseptics to kill off any bugs and moulds , and to soften the bark by extracting tannins and minerals . |
| 5 | These materials are highly complicated and important fluids which play a great part in the direction of the ways in which our bodies and minds function ; they are known as hormones , and are carried around in the bloodstream exercising effect on each other and on a variety of bodily processes . |
| 6 | When the multiplications are carried out in the order indicated , the upper Hessenberg form is maintained throughout , If , however , we begin by multiplying the central three matrices , the upper Hessenberg form is lost , with a accompanying loss of simplicity . |
| 7 | For many Christian people who are caught up in the whirlpool of grief , the most difficult part may well be their realization that they are in fact feeling very distressed . |
| 8 | Plans cater for both an immediate accident and the long-term care of individuals who survive or are caught up in the disaster — including the rescuers . |
| 9 | Each month 's results are picked over in the business 's board meeting , with a head-office manager present in a non-executive role . |
| 10 | When words are looked up in the word look-up tree , if the flag for start of compound is set , the compound tree is checked . |
| 11 | All the normal operating procedures and the emergency operating procedures are written down in the flight manual of an aircraft , one copy of which is carried in the aircraft while another is always available ( to accident investigators , amongst others ) on the ground , and pilots are trained and required to operate their aircraft in conformity with these procedures . |
| 12 | If , for instance , you are pushed over in the playground , would it be all right to push the aggressor in return ? |
| 13 | Objections to the creation stories are made up in the name of science . |
| 14 | As subjects of the King we are to obey his laws , and his laws are spelt out in the Sermon on the Mount . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're still listening to a bad PA , the music 's blowing all over the place , people are crashed out in the mud … it 's exactly the same ! ’ |
| 16 | Departmental Budgets are drawn up in the wake of the Sales and Production Budgets . |
| 17 | In the UK , the institutional mechanics are broadly that a government 's intended expenditure plans for the coming four years are drawn up in the autumn of each year , with the upcoming year being the dominant period for consideration . |
| 18 | Instead , they are bound up in the replication of previously set standards and routines which may actually frustrate the straightforward goal of simply getting housework done . |
| 19 | Moral and economic rights are bound up in the concept of copyright . |
| 20 | At the root of this divide , as Pugin and Dickens both perceive , lie mechanical production and the profit motive , both of which are reflected in many details of the drawing , and are summed up in the subject of the lecture , advertised by the ‘ Mechanicks Institute ’ , ‘ on a new designing machine capable of making 1000 changes with the same set of ornaments ’ . |
| 21 | These purposes are those most readily associated with the objectives of the positive state which emerged towards the end of the nineteenth century and which are summed up in the idea of government as institution which promotes progressive evolutionary change . |
| 22 | Pancks 's habit of puffing and snorting , and his bustling ways around his employer are summed up in the steam-tug and barge image that CD repeatedly uses to describe them . |
| 23 | It is not possible to establish , even in the broadest terms , educational needs for the present , or the immediate future , without taking into account the fundamental economic and social changes which are summed up in the phrase , ‘ a post-industrial society ’ . |
| 24 | His feelings about the latter are summed up in the phrase ‘ God does not play dice . ’ |
| 25 | These typical senses of the infinitive are summed up in the table below : The bare infinitive is therefore no less versatile than the to infinitive in being able to express a happening as real or only potential , which is not surprising given the fact that the to infinitive is composed of the preposition to + the bare infinitive . |
| 26 | Relations — including the nicknames they are known by in the family . |
| 27 | New guidelines followed in 1984 , but these have apparently proved to be less than satisfactory for reasons which are spelled out in the House of Commons Energy Committee Report . |
| 28 | They have lost touch with what is happening and hospital beds are being closed before alternative beds and day care are set up in the community . |
| 29 | The normal minimum entrance requirements are set out in the Degree Course Requirements list . |
| 30 | Instead , Mr Cameron recommends the following measures ( whose effects are set out in the chart ) : |