Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All sections are counterstained with cresyl violet . |
| 2 | Countries to the east of us are in time zones with local time that is ahead of GMT , whereas local time and the time zones to the west are delayed with respect to ours . |
| 3 | A few guests who are invited to a midweek ceremony may not be able to leave work early , are delayed by rush hour traffic , or have to return home to change their clothes , and therefore they reach the reception after it has started . |
| 4 | for instance , the costs of travelling by rail or by car are refunded by Pilkingtons , Billiton and local authorities . |
| 5 | The situation is more acute in the rural areas when only 32 per cent of the population aged seven to fourteen years are enrolled at school . |
| 6 | A large number of students are enrolled for City and Guilds and RSA certificates . |
| 7 | Some 13,650 full-time and part-time students are enrolled for courses at all levels of higher education , from part-time certificate programmes to doctoral studies . |
| 8 | So family memories are tinged with sadness : |
| 9 | The complaint of Admiral Vernon , in a parliamentary speech of 1749 , that ‘ our fleets , which are defrauded by injustice , are first manned by violence and maintained by cruelty ’ , was substantially justified . |
| 10 | Other things being equal it appears that those remanded in custody are more likely to plead guilty , substantially less likely to be acquitted and very much more likely to receive a custodial sentence on conviction than their counterparts who are remanded on bail ( see , eg , Bottomley , 1970 ; Davies , 1971 ; and also Home Office , 1990f , Tables 9.6 and 9.9 ) . |
| 11 | The answer to his first point is that it is absolutely clear that a number of people who break their bail conditions are remanded in custody when they are brought back to the court ; but that happens in only about six out of 10 cases , and in four out of 10 cases when those who break their bail conditions are brought back to the court , it seems that they are no longer remanded in custody but are again let out on bail . |
| 12 | And so it came to pass that on Friday 24 April , at 11am our time , 94 ladies and gentleman of the British press are gathered at Stansted Airport inside a privately chartered plane whose previous occupants were Neil Kinnock and the Labour Party election campaign team . |
| 13 | Here the ewes ( female sheep ) are gathered for lambing and later for shearing wool and for dipping to control insect pests . |
| 14 | For the Church of God 's frozen people this is the Pathway to Power , individual and Church alike are Gathered For Power . |
| 15 | BLACK MUSLIMS FROM the Nation of Islam are gathered in force outside the Hackney Empire . |
| 16 | The spacious rooms have large bay windows and cast-iron fireplaces with marble surrounds , and are furnished in Laura Ashley fabrics and antiques . |
| 17 | There is the special delight Britons have in gossip , especially when it is hinted that politics are spiced with sex . |
| 18 | Most meetings are punctuated with champagne toasts , many are held in expensive restaurants . |
| 19 | The Murray 's Handbooks to India are punctuated with references to stations much used by pilgrims . |
| 20 | Frequently , squeaks and crackles over the posterior lung lobes are heard on auscultation . |
| 21 | Thus , although Patterson has gellon for ‘ gallon ’ and care for ‘ car ’ , and although similar pronunciations are heard in Ulster rural dialects , our Belfast data show that the rule has receded in an orderly way through a series of environments . |
| 22 | Many voices are heard in favour of more women running for office , and Emily 's List , a group that funds only Democratic women running for office , has seen its membership grow by more than 300 per cent since the Hill-Thomas hearings . |
| 23 | Applications are heard in chambers unless otherwise directed . |
| 24 | Such appeals are heard in chambers unless the judge otherwise directs . |
| 25 | Normally such personal statements are heard in silence . |
| 26 | Some people would argue that many applications for judicial review which are heard by courts in fact involve wider political and administrative issues ; and that the rules of evidence and procedure in such cases should be changed to allow interested third parties to ‘ intervene ’ in the proceedings and to allow relevant information to be given about the likely impact of a decision one way or the other on the administrative process and on the public at large . |
| 27 | Existing ESA payments are calculated as compensation for not intensifying production . |
| 28 | But if the damages are calculated without reference to income tax that will not be so . |
| 29 | Unit trust prices are calculated on computers using market information supplied by the WM Company . |
| 30 | The indirect costs of two children over the mother 's lifetime are calculated at £135 000 . |