Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stars are queueing up for treatment at Holby Hospital — the setting for the controversial BBC series Casualty . |
| 2 | Of the eastern deputies who pipe up in parliament , some ( like the eloquent former communist Gregor Gysi ) are heard out with wrath , most only with amused disdain . |
| 3 | Firstly , the masses are dismissed out of hand : |
| 4 | The servants , who did much of the living which is commemorated here , and his parents , who did so little of it , are placed well within reach of an impartial sympathy in a work which nowhere feels vindictive , and which declines to settle for any final understanding of what went on . |
| 5 | When two sentences are placed together in sequence by a writer who does not want us to consider them as a continuous text , their separateness or disconnectedness must be positively indicated . |
| 6 | Two passages are relied on to support that view from judgments of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in recent cases . |
| 7 | Then the neighbours and family who are relied on to share some daily task become more evidently part of the social system , or family system of that elderly person . |
| 8 | The initial writ requires to identify the licensing board 's failures and specify the circumstances which are relied on to show that the hoard erred ; it is not sufficient to recite without specification all the statutory grounds of appeal ( Sutherland v. City of Edinburgh District Licensing Board , 1984 S.L.T. 241 ) . |
| 9 | They take place in the mornings , while the afternoons are given over to discussion groups which follow on from the morning 's lecture . |
| 10 | Vast areas are given over to car parks and souvenir shops . |
| 11 | Items like hand , band , in which [ α ] is now stereotypically expected , are given simply as han , ban , etc . |
| 12 | Antoine Becquerel ( 1852–1908 ) observed that similar rays are given off by uranium . |
| 13 | The tokens are given only on completion of a specified desirable behaviour . |
| 14 | Suggestions are given below for preparation and study of rock faces , slices and slabs , and the way in which these preparations support examination of thin sections in a broad-based approach to sedimentary petrography . |
| 15 | Treaty does not preclude a nationality requirement of the type at issue in the main proceedings , because discrimination on grounds of nationality can arise only where , under the law of a member state , persons are treated differently on account of their nationality . |
| 16 | I confirm that all claims to benefit are treated strictly in accordance with the law , and benefit would not be paid to any person unless the entitlement was valid . |
| 17 | He , however , looks rough before he shaves and dresses , demonstrating the still prevailing differences between the way men and women are treated aesthetically on screen . |
| 18 | Where it has n't , the farmers are using generally for storage areas , that sort of thing a and access . |
| 19 | Here various common disease or symptoms are listed alphabetically for ease of reference . |
| 20 | The commands and statements are listed alphabetically for ease of reference , they are not separated into 2 sections . |
| 21 | Wind players are listed separately from string players , while those who play continuo instruments and accompany singers form yet another unit . |
| 22 | The various operators are listed below in priority order . |
| 23 | In SAS style officers from the Royal Ulster Constabulary bomb disposal squad are flown in by helicopter . |
| 24 | The big western lakes , Conn , Corrib and Mask , are producing little at present and the Galway Weir produced only five salmon for the week in spite of excellent conditions for fly fishing . |
| 25 | Constitutional provisions affirming each Union Republic to be a ‘ sovereign Soviet socialist state ’ with the rights to secede and to enter into foreign relations are honoured faintly in appearance , but by no means in substance . |
| 26 | It only stops when it ( and you ! ) are crushed out of existence at the central point of the hole ( or a little earlier when the stretching and crushing forces wreck it ) . |
| 27 | Two cars are drawing up outside Number 17 and quite a lot of people are going in the front door . |
| 28 | But the functionalist starting-point is still the idea that people are socialised strongly into conformity and that social phenomena can be explained in terms of the functions they perform . |
| 29 | The two are joined together with clay and the whole unit is heated in the furnace . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , the mummies of the pharaohs , removed from display by President Sadat in 1970 , are to go back on show in the Cairo museum in May . |