Example sentences of "are [verb] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ( Abstract nouns , participles , and relative pronouns are italicized in the above passage . )
2 The bedrooms are furnished in a traditional style and have air-conditioning .
3 The bedrooms are furnished in a traditional style and have double glazing .
4 A lift serves the roomy bedrooms which are furnished in a simple , modern style with balcony .
5 The bar and lounges are furnished in a refined and contemporary style and the charming restaurant spills out onto the terrace under a canopy of trees .
6 All the room are furnished in a comfortable , rustic style and have a private bathroom , telephone and radio .
7 MORRISSEY and organisers of the ill-fated Madstock Finsbury Park concerts are embroiled in a legal battle , with both parties threatening to sue each other over Morrissey 's non-appearance on the Sunday bill .
8 The guerrillas are embroiled in a civil war against an alliance of rival Tamil groups , the Tamil National Army , in areas from which the Indian Peace-keeping Force has withdrawn .
9 Ninety-eight per cent of all criminal cases are heard in the latter courts .
10 Taxable profits , which are calculated in a similar way to companies ' taxable profits , are treated as personal income to the sole trader , or split between partners in proportion to their share of profits in the year of assessment .
11 The values of for polyatomic ions and ionic compounds are calculated in the same way as for molecular compounds .
12 Often the squares are placed in a central position and enclose a figured medallion .
13 But you are placed in a great difficulty .
14 Beakers containing the fluids are placed in a ventilated oven and dried at 100°C for at least 24 hr , cooled in a desiccator , and weighed to 0·001 g
15 The technology is based on the observation that , when particles are placed in a rotating electric field , they too rotate in a characteristic way .
16 To explain the difference between the two structures , they are placed in a realistic context .
17 If , however , they show no sign of ability to make contact or to learn by five years they are placed in a special school , welfare institution or returned to family surroundings .
18 It is essential , however , that all donations are placed in a special envelope or paid by cheque or by Standing Order .
19 Starfish , flatworms and other early animals use a slightly refined system in which the eye-spots are placed in a cup-like depression .
20 The almost exclusive concentration on the formal political process has been replaced by accounts that take in crucial determinants outside this sphere , and which are placed in an explanatory framework that allows links to be made with wider sets of social relations .
21 The effect of such a rule is that the lineage of the bride and the lineage of the husband are placed in an asymmetrical wife-giver/wife-receiver relationship ; the wife-givers then receive " valuables " of some sort in return for the women that they give away .
22 Selection for senior posts is therefore more important than training ; if people who display the appropriate qualities are placed in the correct context then they will flourish .
23 Parents strive to ensure that their children are placed in the best possible schools , follow with avid interest their educational attainments , often placing the children under great pressure if they are relatively unsuccessful .
24 c It is suggested that Adverts are placed in the following papers , depending on the areas involved in the Consultation Exercise : Scotsman ( Friday ) Evening News ( Friday ) Dalkeith Advertiser ( published weekly , Thursday ) East Lothian Courier ( published weekly , Friday ) Lothian Courier ( published weekly , Thursday )
25 The result is , as we have seen , a tendency towards a teacher-dominated style of interaction , in which children are placed in the passive role of respondents , obliged to accept the teacher 's definition of what is considered relevant .
26 It 's the cause of the divisive broad band streaming which I think some comprehensives have been persuaded to use , and I 'm forced to say how can a child really value himself or herself if they are placed in the bottom band of such a school throughout the time when they are at that comprehensive ?
27 The new industry of salmon-farming has filled the gap as far as the scavenging gulls are concerned : the rearing cages are placed in the sheltered bays and ‘ sounds ’ between the islands and are fed on high-protein , manufactured food in pellet form , which are ferried out in sacks by small boats .
28 The arrangement of things into classes , such as the class metal , or the class man , is grounded indeed on a resemblance among the things which are placed in the same class , but not on a mere general resemblance ; the resemblance it is grounded on consists in the possession by all those things of certain common peculiarities ; and those peculiarities it is which the terms connote , and which the propositions consequently assert ; not the resemblance .
29 ‘ By the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 , the defendants are placed in the same position as the ordinary subjects of the Crown ( see section 21 of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 ) and I see no reason why they should not in appropriate cases refuse to refund money paid to them voluntarily under a mistake of law , as the revenue authorities were held to be entitled to do in the case of William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King and National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King .
30 Firstly the scientific ideas are altered in a particular way by their transmission .
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