Example sentences of "['s] [noun] are [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Letterman 's activities are characterized by bustle and urgency . |
| 2 | The group 's activities are located in new purpose built laboratories . |
| 3 | Outside the North Sea and Indonesia , the Company 's activities are focussed on ventures that offer potential for discoveries that will have a material impact on the Group 's reserves . |
| 4 | At Sunbury , XTP 's activities are directed towards helping the business add value by early and expert use of technology — much of which originates from outside in the contractors , competitors , and at BPX sites . |
| 5 | The principal pension scheme 's accounts are audited by a firm other than Touche Ross , which acts for Dixons Group plc . |
| 6 | Several of the Scottish Council 's programmes are aimed at bringing schools and industry closer together and some are described below . |
| 7 | RENFE 's operations are organized by seven geographical ‘ zones ’ which are in turn subdivided on a functional and geographical basis . |
| 8 | The port 's operations are subsidized to some extent by the local authorities but in the main the port is financed by port dues and this had led to a demand that any port land released for development should yield significant port use in order to generate revenue . |
| 9 | Large figurines mainly thrown on the potter 's wheel and decorated in vase-painter 's technique are known from several Greek sites in the late Bronze Age ; and this may be a line where we shall one day be able to trace continuity of production through the dark ages . |
| 10 | If Wheare 's definitions are applied to the United Kingdom , it may be said that there is an unwritten constitution in the sense that it is uncodified . |
| 11 | The instruments do n't have the same clarity as the Calibra 's and some of the Corrado 's switches are masked by the wheel . |
| 12 | Crammed with sausage , potatoes , eggs , bread and ham , the pig 's innards are simmered in salt water for three hours . |
| 13 | If the terms of Bell 's inequality are calculated from the composite wave function I mentioned above then the inequality is found to be violated ; on the other hand , it is always satisfied for wave functions that are simple products . |
| 14 | Richard Lewington 's illustrations are taken from an invaluable reference book , The Butterflies of Britain & Ireland , published by Dorling Kindersley in association with The National Trust at £16.99 . |
| 15 | Applications for next year 's Fellowships are invited from people aged eighteen to thirty . |
| 16 | John Irvine , Ben Martin and Geoff Oldham at SPRU have found that most decisions about research grants are still based on the time-honoured ‘ peer review ’ system : a researcher 's proposals are sent to a handful of experts engaged in similar research . |
| 17 | The profession , in whatever capacity its members act , has a powerful responsibility to ensure that the best quality responses to the ASB 's proposals are made in a spirit of constructive criticism . |
| 18 | If its Secretariat 's proposals are agreed to , " farming will become more rather than less intensive , global brands will erode local foods and developing countries ' food self-reliance will be undermined " . |
| 19 | In some schools the children 's toilets are included in the conducted tour for potential new parents . |
| 20 | Llorens 's policies are entangled in the row , as the works he wants to buy ( Cubist , Surrealist , Informel ) are thought too costly . |
| 21 | The majority of Tom Troubadour 's opponents are coming to the end of much busier campaigns , and the novice Merry Master may prove the main threat . |
| 22 | fashionable street in the West End of London running west from Trafalgar Square ; a number of gentlemen 's clubs are located in it . |
| 23 | More than 3m of the 22m cars ( of all ages ) now clogging Britain 's roads are registered by companies or other organisations . |
| 24 | * C&P 's products are used for , or help make , thousands of every day items : — medicines ; plastic fizzy drink , wine & beer bottles ; rigid food containers & tubs ; disinfectants for home , hospital & swimming pool ; car bumpers , brake fluid & anti-freeze ; paint & paint containers , road markings — including double yellow lines ! ; carpets , inks washing machines & food mixers ; fertilisers ; clothes & dry cleaning products ; soaps , washing-up liquid and washing powders — to name but a few ! |
| 25 | Ensuring that the organization 's products are brought to the attention of existing and potential customers by means of suitable advertising and promotional methods ; |
| 26 | Brian Adair : country 's courts are creaking at the seams |
| 27 | There is , in addition , a cassette which contains many of the extracts and teacher 's notes are provided at the back of the book . |
| 28 | The Last of the Flock ( see pp. 101–3 ) records a similar process of degradation and suffering , as a farmer 's sheep are sold off one by one . |
| 29 | Just two points — the first is that I ca n't imagine what Ruby 's guardians are thinking of to let her brave the London traffic on a moped . |
| 30 | Mrs Gould 's birds are pictured in less adventurous and often more awkward postures , sometimes regressing to the anatomical inaccuracies and stiffness of her previous work . |