Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Again , taking South Hams as an example , applicants are placed in queues for one of five housing sub-districts and also in one of five groups according to family size , marital status and number of children . |
| 32 | It is no wonder , when so many police officers appear to be doing the duties which prison officers should be doing and so many prisoners are placed in police cells . |
| 33 | For example , the supervisor call instruction on the IBM 370 range passes a one-byte literal to the supervisor , to indicate the type of request being made : any further parameters are placed in accumulators . |
| 34 | ‘ Where children are given responsibility they are placed in situations where it becomes important for them to communicate — to discuss , to negotiate , to converse — with their fellows , with the staff , with other adults . |
| 35 | Anyone who has visited a number of medieval castles will know how admirable their sites often are : how they command distant views , or river crossings , or are placed in situations of great natural strength . |
| 36 | Their visibility or otherwise , the ways in which they are coded , policed , censored , constructed , praised or punished , the ways in which and levels at which they are represented as engaging with the viewer , and the contexts in which women 's bodies are placed in images and how images of women 's bodies are then distributed and consumed — all this adds up to a subtle politics of the representation of women 's bodies . |
| 37 | This process is complicated by the differences in salary , qualification and experience which exist between field social workers who hold legal responsibility for such children and their residential colleagues who provide care for those children who are placed in children 's homes . |
| 38 | In a grammatical gender language , nouns are placed in classes not according to their meaning but according to their form — for example , the patterning of their inflectional endings — and the way they behave when it comes to the agreement of adjectives , articles and pronouns ( the technical term for this is ‘ concord ’ ) . |
| 39 | The leks are placed within areas favoured by reeves ( female ruffs ) for breeding , probably because of a good food supply . |
| 40 | Comparison of the frequency with which tumour suppressor and oncogenes are altered in adenomas and carcinomas suggests that there is a preferred order for their occurrence in the adenoma-carcinoma sequence ( figure ) . |
| 41 | Pedestrians going down the steps from the bus stop are hidden by trees and shrubs and have to either walk in the road or cross over to find a pavement . |
| 42 | The rates of interventions are given as percentages — that is , per 100 deliveries . |
| 43 | Twitchit 's actual substitutes , Rose and Beef , are given as substitutes for Dorning . |
| 44 | Infants who were studied after unexplained sudden infant death were all born at term and their ages are given as weeks of postnatal life . |
| 45 | The full texts of eight relocation policies from named companies are given as examples of good practice in Appendix 1 . |
| 46 | In addition to a summary table some specific examples are given of questions and the results they produced . |
| 47 | ‘ In the administration of government in this country the functions which are given to ministers ( and constitutionally properly given to ministers because they are constitutionally responsible ) are functions so multifarious that no minister could ever personally attend to them . |
| 48 | Will the hon. Gentleman give an assurance , which is urgently needed on Merseyside , that every effort will be made to ensure that contracts for Irish sea exploration are given to firms in the north-west of England in general and to Merseyside in particular ? |
| 49 | Under the fund 's rules grants are given to projects if they promote the development of declining or under-developed regions , improve their infrastructure and create jobs . |
| 50 | Many birds and mammals may have alarm calls that are given to objects that other members of their species have indicated are frightening . |
| 51 | To assist them the Government has made the west of the region a Development Area in which special grants are given to industries . |
| 52 | When tests are given to adults , it may increase co-operation if a test has high face validity . |
| 53 | Problems requiring information are given to pupils both as individuals and as members of groups and formative evaluation , both by teachers and pupils , of their inquiry/communication skills will be an integral part of the Unit . |
| 54 | Certain opportunities are given to backbenchers to choose the subject matter for debate . |
| 55 | But ten times as many children of divorce live with their mothers as with their fathers ; more than eighty-five per cent of divorces , granted on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour , are given to wives complaining about their husbands ' conduct , and the number of wives made to pay off their ex-husbands is still tiny . |
| 56 | ’ 'T IS bruited about that the king is unwell and that you are given to displays of temperament ! |
| 57 | When no specific instructions are given to candidates about the layout of assignments any recognised style of layout will be acceptable to the Examiners , so long as it is followed consistently . |
| 58 | When no specific instructions are given to candidates about the layout of assignments , any recognised style of layout will be acceptable to the Examiners , so long as it followed consistently . |
| 59 | When no specific instruction are given to candidates about the layout of assignments , any recognised style of layout will be acceptable to the Examiners , so long as it is followed consistently . |
| 60 | When no specific instructions are given to candidates about the layout of assignments , any recognised style of layout will be acceptable to the Examiners , so long as it followed consistently . |