Example sentences of "are [adv] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If graded tests are widely adopted within a school and if they are used properly as a means of assessing individual pupils ' ability and knowledge , according to their progress along the path of expertise , then the school must be prepared for classes that are grouped vertically , not horizontally . |
| 2 | For example , the three animal portrait artists interviewed here are successfully engaged with a differentiated public and certainly voice separate considerations regarding their production . |
| 3 | Units are loosely linked by a theme in groups of six , of which the last is always a reading unit . |
| 4 | We should take care to distinguish between instances of the definite article which are textually determined by a previous mention and those which are determined by assumptions about the schemata of the receiver . |
| 5 | A note of warning is necessary here , as the Revenue can sometimes seek to deny the £30,000 exemption under s188 where a departing executive is also a vendor shareholder , on the basis that the sum paid as compensation for loss of office is in reality attributable to the sale of his shares , and they may also challenge the deductibility by Target of such payments , especially if these are effectively funded by a reduced acquisition price for Target . |
| 6 | If left unploughed , these communities are eventually replaced by a Festuca rubra — Trifolium repens sward . |
| 7 | And these negotiations are mostly conducted in a tone of high comedy ; after 1930 Pound 's anger is virtually monopolized by Roosevelt 's USA , and English culture is for him just something that he ca n't take seriously . |
| 8 | Here the vines are mostly grown at a height of between 140 and 180 metres on south-east and south-west-facing slopes although some climb steeply from the outskirts of Hautvillers and rise to a height of around 250 metres . |
| 9 | Used as part of the walls in the later fabric , a number are badly mutilated as a result . |
| 10 | systems are rarely tested in a comparable way , for example in terms of actual input , number of writers , size of vocabulary and so on ; |
| 11 | The saxophones are rarely employed as a group in the orchestra , but the E flat alto has now and again been used for solos , e.g. in Ravel 's orchestration of Mussorgsky 's Pictures from an Exhibition , Vaughan Williams 's Job and Britten 's Sinfonia da Requiem . |
| 12 | The problem has been particularly acute in the top echelons where the blue and grey suits are rarely disturbed by a skirt . |
| 13 | Research posts often have short-term contracts and are rarely held on a tenured basis . |
| 14 | Nicholas Dyer is imagined as the builder of Nicholas Hawksmoor 's churches in the East End of London ; the enlightened edifices of a rational Christianity are thereby ascribed to a devil-worshipper , while the name ‘ Hawksmoor ’ is assigned to the Detective Chief Superintendent who , in the later narrative , frets himself into a delirium over a series of stranglings which takes place in the vicinity of the churches . |
| 15 | While this demonstrates the public 's faith that the police can resolve any situation , the neighbourhood police are thereby presented with a dilemma : they either criminalize formally legal behaviour or disappoint public expectations . |
| 16 | GLT : = Goldeck Loft Technology : A special system developed by Goldeck whereby polyester hollow fibres are spirally crimped in a three-dimensional configuration giving a down-like performance . |
| 17 | All , or at least some are presumably revealed in a slender monthly publication . |
| 18 | They continue to argue for what no one else is prepared to offer and they are wholly isolated in a fantasy world . |
| 19 | They are plushly decorated with a red carpet and a fine wooden floor , and the walls have recessed oil lamps , paintings and hangings . |
| 20 | The schemes are locally run on a franchise basis , by voluntary organizations , schools or employers , and the hope is that in the first phase , up to 1993 , 10,000 people aged between sixteen and twenty-four — immediately dubbed ‘ Charlie 's Army ’ by the press — will join full- or part-time programmes of about twelve weeks . |
| 21 | The resulting competition probably causes the animals to occupy small but adequate territories which are vigorously defended by a monogamous pair . |
| 22 | That such insights are available to gay people ( whether we are writers or not ) should come as no surprise — from birth we are relentlessly socialized into a heterosexual identity that we may later choose to reject but which remains an always familiar landscape — those on the margins of a culture know more about its centre than the centre can ever know about the margins . |
| 23 | One concerns the domains of independence which are most cherished by a particular person . |
| 24 | Although they are constantly condemned as a novelty , ‘ Cud 's ‘ Leggy Mambo ’ shows a new found musical awareness . |
| 25 | Although they are constantly condemned as a novelty , ‘ Cud 's ‘ Leggy Mambo ’ shows a new found musical awareness . |
| 26 | In a framework of this kind the processes of history are necessarily viewed as a decline from a Golden Age . |
| 27 | You are suddenly awoken by a loud noise . |
| 28 | But if you are already a tenant and you are suddenly faced with a crisis , you will need legal advice to solve it . |
| 29 | The road continues on a switchback course , reaching more open ground with wider views and , after a few more miles that seem to be leading nowhere , arrives at the top of a hill where the cottages of Arnisdale are suddenly revealed around a bay ahead . |
| 30 | When these problems are suddenly posed by a book such as ours , they will quite understandably assume the form of revelation , or of sacrilege . |