Example sentences of "they [am/are] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a group , they are marginalised in a society that places a high value on being clever and articulate . |
| 2 | I am assured that they are advertised in the Institutions Journal . |
| 3 | The Fenny Bentley figures , for there are two of them , also wear winding-sheets , but here they are tucked under the feet , secured by linen bands around the calves , and finished off with a neat bow ; but the head end displays the standard knot . |
| 4 | ‘ Lightweight dinghies should n't be used unless they are tethered to the shore , ’ said Peter Race . |
| 5 | There are times when this is quite acceptable , such as for street interviews or music recording , but they are not suitable for drama unless they are mounted on a boom . |
| 6 | They are assigned to a team and introduced ( if that 's the word ) to their team leader . |
| 7 | Yet the prevailing treatment of women workers defines them as a particular and different sub-group of the general category ‘ workers ’ ( this parallels the role they are assigned in the study of deviance ) . |
| 8 | Women 's role and position in the social stratification system husband and wife working in a paid job or career ? vicarious role they are assigned in the sociology of stratification . |
| 9 | They are understood by the ability of the imagination ( Rachel 's servant , Bilhah ) to relate these emotions to anticipation of the joys of heaven and pains of hell , and helped by the practice of self-discipline , abstinence and patience in the desires of sensuality ( Zilpah , Leah 's servant ) . |
| 10 | They are typified by the relations whose extended statement consists in a machine table , or flow chart , or computer programme . |
| 11 | The genre itself , the style , the language are all put in cheerfully irreverent quotation marks and they are perceived against a background of a contradictory reality that can not be confined within their narrow frames . |
| 12 | Often they are regarded as a nuisance ; sometimes , in Wessi ( western ) cabarets , as good for a snigger . |
| 13 | In Indonesia they are much more : they are regarded as a status symbol . |
| 14 | They are regarded as the elite amongst the prostitutes . |
| 15 | The lamps with krypton save energy so they are regarded by the lighting industry as ‘ first choice ’ . |
| 16 | Now they are flooded with the West European goods their recycling is n't worth any more . |
| 17 | They are manufactured in a choice of colours and can be spot bonded in cold bitumen or other adhesive , or loose laid . |
| 18 | They are manufactured by the Contassium Company of Putney , south-west London , and several other companies in Britain . |
| 19 | Over 2 million animals live on the limitless plains of the Serengeti and from December to May , they are massed like an army on the shortgrass plains in the south of the park . |
| 20 | Behind Sweeney Agonistes lies Rivers , but Eliot 's interpretation and use of Rivers owes much to the Stevensonian world of his childhood reading , where white men seek paradise with island wives arrayed in ‘ the scarlet flowers of the hibiscus ’ , only to find too often that they are condemned to a life of soul-destroying boredom where ‘ Night on the Beach ’ is followed monotonously by ‘ Morning on the Beach ’ . |
| 21 | They are condemned to a life of misery in cramped breeding colonies . |
| 22 | It seems that this perception is a common one amongst black kids , whether they are headed for a sports career or not . |
| 23 | They are trained in a corridor fashion over latadas , a sun-bleached framework of chestnut wood posts with a lattice of canes on top . |
| 24 | ( 2 ) Byelaws made under subsection ( 1 ) above shall not have effect until they are confirmed by the Secretary of State , and the provisions of subsections ( 4 ) to ( 12 ) and ( 15 ) of section 202 of the Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1973 and of section 204 of that Act shall , with any necessary modifications , apply in relation to byelaws to be made or made under this section as they apply in relation to byelaws to be made or made under that Act . |
| 25 | A sale of goods is not prevented from being a sale by description by reason only that , being exposed for sale or hire , they are selected by the buyer . ’ |
| 26 | ( p100 ) This is now given statutory effect by s13(3) of SGA 1979 which provides that : A sale of goods is not prevented from being a sale by description by reason only that , the goods being exposed for sale or hire , they are selected by the buyer . |
| 27 | Although procedurally they are selected by the appointments secretary at Downing Street , in practice the Queen is asked for her informal approval before a nomination is made : the prime minister 's private secretary writes to the Queen 's private secretary saying ‘ the |
| 28 | Privately , they are disturbed by the move , which follows the controversy last week when ITV delayed transmission of the Liverpool v Manchester United match . |
| 29 | They are threatened by the spread of bigotry , but also by other conceptions of life — for example , those which look on originality , innovation , and diversity as luxuries which society can ill afford given the need for efficiency , productivity , or growth , or those which in a host of other ways depreciate freedom . |
| 30 | They are loved as the protectors of all beasts and birds . |