Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Purchasers should be aware that the recent House of Lords ' decision in Litster v Forth Dry Dock Engineering Company Ltd [ 1989 ] IRLR 161 has radically altered the position of purchasers for liability where persons are dismissed in connection with a business transfer . |
| 32 | These assertions , which would of course be very difficult to demonstrate in a literal or historical sense , are justified as part of Pareto 's general scheme of the equilibrium of social systems , which rests on a social-psychological basis : ‘ The principle of my sociology rests precisely upon separating logical from non-logical actions and in showing that in most men the second category is far larger than the former ’ . |
| 33 | Consumer protection laws are justified on efficiency grounds , in order to prevent consumers making unwise decisions because of insufficient knowledge of firms ' products . |
| 34 | Foundationalists suppose that there are two sorts of justification , and that the inferentially justified beliefs are justified by appeal to the non-inferentially justified ones . |
| 35 | Since the effects of the damage are largely restricted to language , the disruption can not affect the whole brain , so in that sense we are justified in thinking of the brain as consisting of functionally independent modules . |
| 36 | This not only affects how the male public react to policewomen in the province , it also influences how male colleagues treat policewomen in the work environment and the sorts of duties they are assigned in practice ; and the dearth of senior female officers makes it easy for male colleagues to impose such limits on the role of policewomen . |
| 37 | Also , since some children in care are placed at home on trial , this explanation is blatantly false . |
| 38 | ‘ As a result they are placed at risk . |
| 39 | A new dimension is added , and the conflicts are placed between ego instincts and object instincts , both of a sexual , libidinal nature . |
| 40 | She said : ‘ There is an emphasis today on matching cultural and racial backgrounds when children are placed for adoption or fostering . |
| 41 | What expectations are placed on quantity compared to quality of work that you do ? |
| 42 | Pressure by environmentalists in the US has meant that that country has exerted some control over the industry by insisting that observers are placed on board US-registered boats . |
| 43 | The important event in container shipping occurs not when the goods are placed on board the vessel , but when the goods are taken charge of by someone entrusted with the ‘ door to door ’ carriage of the goods , including , when appropriate , vessel carriage . |
| 44 | Lastly to make the picture more realistic , some crew are placed on board , and on the floating pontoons . |
| 45 | Further bars are placed on top of the joists , and 19mm Gypoc plank is screwed to the underside , the floor is 19mm Gypoc plank laid in the channel , with floor boards screwed to the channel flanges |
| 46 | Timbers are placed on top of the existing roofing , secured through the existing roof covering into existing supports . |
| 47 | The whole church is based on a skeleton framework , the supporting roof poles are placed on top of the intersecting ground sills and there are cross beams on top of the poles . |
| 48 | These are placed on top of a complete pudding basin cake made in the normal way . |
| 49 | These entities are placed on Earth to manage coincidences in such a way as to inch us gradually along the evolutionary path and , while on Ketamine , Lilly was able to communicate with these extraterrestrials , who informed him that they had removed DNA samples from Earth and transported them to another planet . |
| 50 | Certain specialist titles are circulated to the appropriate officers or sections on arrival ; all other general titles are placed on display and most are available on loan . |
| 51 | Certain limitations are placed on property damage . |
| 52 | Three percent are classed as ineducable and either stay at home with their families or are placed in welfare institutions — parents wishing to have teaching for these children have to pay privately . |
| 53 | The data for band 1 are placed in memory bank 1 which provides the red input to the TV monitor display . |
| 54 | The effect of the " dominant impact " test is to enable the courts to take account of the psychological realities of reading and film viewing , in so far as the audience is affected by theme and style and message , so that isolated incidents of an offensive nature are placed in context . |
| 55 | Moreover , some topics are placed by law within the ( co-determination ) jurisdiction of the works council , a formally union-independent system of interest representation in which all eligible employees may vote and stand for election regardless of union membership . |
| 56 | A similar problem may arise where orders are placed by telephone , or at trade fairs , over lunch and so on . |
| 57 | When using the direct method , tesserae are placed by hand into a layer of fresh mortar spread in small patches across the hardened , penultimate , mortar layer , ( hence the possibility of guidelines , see above ) . |
| 58 | In a nation where rank is everything , and everything is ranked , these ‘ yuppiewhites ’ are placed by Japanese at the top of the gaijin pecking order . |
| 59 | If the terms and conditions are altered as part of Newco 's rationalisation of the business , employees may be entitled to resign and claim constructive dismissal . |
| 60 | Cyclic-AMP-regulated chloride conductances are altered in airway epithelia from CF patients r4–6 , suggesting that the functional expression of CFTR in the airways of CF patients may be a strategy for treatment . |