Example sentences of "are [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As each financial year passes , the bow-wave does , indeed , dissipate as research and development programmes meet snags ; as decisions are delayed in the labyrinth of Whitehall committees ; as procurement contracts slip behind schedule ; and as units expend less than they asked for due to similar delays in their day-to-day training and operations . |
| 2 | The way those clouds are building in the sky , I ought to drive . |
| 3 | If you try and fudge it and set up three or four , say they can all discuss the same thing , you are building in the ability for major conflicts . |
| 4 | The rooms of the museum are furnished in the style of the period , with important collections of authentic period furniture , silver , china and art . |
| 5 | The interest rates are calculated in the way required by the Consumer Credit Act and do not take into account any tax relief that could be gained for a home improvements loan . |
| 6 | Once the population levels are calculated in the model , the population is converted in to households using marital status and rates . |
| 7 | Yet the prevailing treatment of women workers defines them as a particular and different sub-group of the general category ‘ workers ’ ( this parallels the role they are assigned in the study of deviance ) . |
| 8 | Women 's role and position in the social stratification system husband and wife working in a paid job or career ? vicarious role they are assigned in the sociology of stratification . |
| 9 | The points are placed in the ice with a firm swing of the foot . |
| 10 | During the evening the females are placed in the aquarium , after which some brine shrimp and sifted Daphnia are added . |
| 11 | Advertisements are placed in the press , and potential purchasers are invited to telephone or fill in a coupon for further details . |
| 12 | The metal telephone cases are placed in the Man Holes with an electric light shining on them . |
| 13 | The quality and accessibility of materials have to be high if this approach is to succeed and no organisational barriers are placed in the way of learning . |
| 14 | Jim Hopkins is responsible for the final inspection of all goods before they are placed in the warehouse . |
| 15 | Tranchettes — These are issues of small blocks of existing stocks which are placed in the Bank 's own portfolio of gilts for direct sale into the secondary market ( see Fig. 9.2 ) . |
| 16 | Again , you are placed in the situation of having to work quite hard to impose a personality or style on the guitar , which , if you think about it , is how things perhaps should be . |
| 17 | Instead , new versions of the text of entries are placed in the database . |
| 18 | Tables showing the current level of intervention stocks in the United Kingdom and the EC are placed in the Library of the House each month . |
| 19 | Rather like English fairies , kuei will shy away from weapons made of iron or steel , and will not trouble a house where these are placed in the doorway . |
| 20 | When the fish are placed in the breeding tank courtship will normally start within minutes , the male displaying to the female and driving her into the floating mops . |
| 21 | If all goes as planned , fertilised eggs are placed in the woman 's womb in the hope that pregnancy will result . |
| 22 | You will I hope realise that these cases are placed in the context of a diseased sexuality . |
| 23 | Although Handy 's model is essentially abstract it does assume significance when schools are placed in the context of local management of schools and the National curriculum . |
| 24 | In addition students choose a total of four units from : Theory and Practice of Direction ( 2 units ) , Theory and Practice of Community Drama ( 2 units ) , Administration and Management ( 1 unit ) , Press , Publicity and Print ( 1 unit ) ( the last two units are placed in the context of theatre ) , as well as a range of elective units from the Faculty programme . |
| 25 | These studies are short term and can be extremely useful if they are placed in the context of wider knowledge . |
| 26 | Besides , wrote Goldberg , you have only to see where Brighton are placed in the League to wonder at the wisdom of associating with them in any capacity . |
| 27 | Many of the costs are hidden in the time of teachers who are distracted from their primary task by the managerial and administrative requirements of examinations . |
| 28 | In grassland colonies the nests are hidden in the greenery and the males have developed especially prominent aerial displays which attract females to the territories . |
| 29 | The general entry requirements are set out below , and particular course requirements are given in the course information section of the prospectus . |
| 30 | The fieldwork is conducted monthly on a quota sample of two thousand individuals selected to be representative of the adult population of Great Britain ; more details about opinion polling companies and their methods are given in the appendix to this chapter . |