Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 BLACK MUSLIMS FROM the Nation of Islam are gathered in force outside the Hackney Empire .
3 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 .
4 Existing ESA payments are calculated as compensation for not intensifying production .
5 But if the damages are calculated without reference to income tax that will not be so .
6 The table below gives an indication of possible early encashment values per £1,000 of single premium invested and are calculated in accordance with the rules prescribed by the Securities and Investments Board ( SIB ) .
7 Annual rate bills are calculated by reference to rateable values and the rate multiplier .
8 These are calculated by reference to the regulations and allowance is made for dependants , income tax , national insurance , housing costs , and work expenses .
9 Gains on property disposals are calculated by reference to historical net book value to the Group .
10 Our charges are calculated by reference to an hourly rate .
11 If you are dismissed with pay in lieu of notice , or without notice , and you obtain new employment during the notice period , you are bound to bring into account those earnings .
12 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 .
13 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 ’ .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 Also , since some children in care are placed at home on trial , this explanation is blatantly false .
17 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
18 Timbers are placed on top of the existing roofing , secured through the existing roof covering into existing supports .
19 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 .
20 These are placed on top of a complete pudding basin cake made in the normal way .
21 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 .
22 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 ) .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 The financial criteria are altered from time to time by regulations .
26 The rules appear to assume that a higher level of disclosure should be made to private customers , but unless the common law rules are altered by reference to the entirety of the rules and the assumptions in them rather than to a specific rule , this result may not be achieved .
27 Ninety thousand tonnes of pesticides , solvents , metals and plastics are incinerated per year in burn zones just 100 miles off the British coast .
28 Sidonius Apollinaris ' lines et te Massiliensium per hortos sacri stipitis , Arbiter , colonum ( Carmen 23. 155–6 ) " You , Petronius , who in the gardens of Marseilles were the worshipper of the sacred tree-stock " are given as evidence for the Massaliote origins of Petronius .
29 Demonstrations of Prestel are given as part of the information skills courses and pupils have the opportunity to try out the system .
30 In the following account , details are given for preparation of high quality thin sections by automatic and semi-automatic means .
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