Example sentences of "[noun pl] are [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps the ancient fairies are looking after things round here . ’ |
| 2 | Institutions are viewed as expressions of collective purposes which maintain vitality so long as they are able to maintain a clear sense of purpose . |
| 3 | Does the Minister accept that when universities and other educational institutions are used as centres for terrorist activity . |
| 4 | Government and legal — administrative institutions are moulded in forms which optimally sustain capital accumulation , whether or not the state is directly controlled by capitalists and irrespective of the precise balance of class forces . |
| 5 | Institutions are rushing after shops in cathedral towns . |
| 6 | The insects may be attracted by volatiles , in the way that heartwood borers are attracted from distances up to 2 km to felled Shorea robusta trees in India , as the resin is collected from wounds in the trunk . |
| 7 | He distributes dollar bills to his supporters and these notes are kept as talismans to ward off evil . |
| 8 | It therefore follows that technical personnel are assigned to divisions on the basis of discipline , and for the purpose of accountability , control and maintenance of professional standards . |
| 9 | Returning to the operations and planning room , our aircraft commanders are briefed on factors likely to affect the sortie , and then it 's into the tactical briefing . |
| 10 | Courses , seminars and discussions are held at intervals within an individual college or within a broader catchment in order to improve college teaching . |
| 11 | Objects are bounded by surfaces . |
| 12 | Actions and objects are treated as signs that in certain situations form meaningful structures — myths . |
| 13 | Objects are analysed as myths which provide artificial resolutions to real contradictions in society . |
| 14 | And if you 're going to try and look inside one of these things then you 're going to have to use very high energy particles , which in quantum physics means something that is very short wavelength that you can actually look inside , and when you look inside these things by , say , scattering electrons from them , very high energy electrons , it appears that inside a proton and inside a neutron is mainly again just free space , and there are other point like objects inside these particles , and these objects are know as quarks . |
| 15 | How is it possible for a creature to form means — end plans for reaching a desired object , plans within which other objects are represented as instruments to the overall end ? |
| 16 | At present the objects are defined in terms of the departments of local government : education , health , highways . |
| 17 | where individual C S M R returns are entered by individuals |
| 18 | Butler sometimes talks of a passion as directed at one 's ‘ having ’ its object , but it seems more satisfactory to say that particular passions are directed at occurrences , and that the basic one can not be directed ; t the occurrence of pleasure for oneself since this always stems from having something occur one wished to do so . |
| 19 | Nearly all the political prisoners are detained without charges and never brought to trial . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When these accounts are compared with amounts which should have been received and which should have been paid ( as shown in the budget ) much vital information for a public sector organization is shown . |
| 22 | So long as we adopt a broadly ‘ functionalist ’ philosophy of mind — in which mental states are defined in terms of their causal relations to sensory inputs , motor outputs and to one another — this ‘ computational theory of the mind ’ is a very satisfying general account of the mind-body relationship . |
| 23 | Within it , the citizens of member states are provided with markets and employment opportunities much wider than national frameworks . |
| 24 | In vivo , disease states are associated with changes in matrix components and in the expression of matrix degrading enzymes and their inhibitors by non-parenchymal cells . |
| 25 | To see how far contrasts in the institutions of two different welfare states are reflected in patterns of employment and family building , collaborators in Sweden are running parallel analyses of the event histories of Swedish women . |
| 26 | The notion of monotonicity does not mean anything if states are portrayed as terms . |
| 27 | Under the amended Regulations , PEP investment can only be made in a ‘ non-qualifying ’ trust if at least 50% of its investments are held in shares . |
| 28 | Originating from an initiative by the Lothian Headteachers Association and named after Robert Reid , a past headmaster in Lothian , the fellowships are offered as secondments for a term by the Region . |
| 29 | Secretarial skills are taught in Years I and II . |
| 30 | the knowledge and skills are matched to outcomes and performance criteria in SCOTVEC modules and units |