Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The warblers ' own young are turfed out of the deeply cupped reed nest by the cuckoo chick soon after it hatches and the foster parents find themselves feeding an enormous monster with a huge red gape and insatiable appetite — a monster which will eventually grow to three times their size . |
| 2 | These charges , and any interest payable on an overdraft , are calculated up to the first Friday in March , June , September and December , and deducted from your account 14 days later . |
| 3 | Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas . |
| 4 | It 's that time of year when theatres everywhere are given over to the mayhem that is panto … when men are dames and the principal boys are girls . |
| 5 | The canal is lined by a membrane resembling the tunica arachnoidea , and is situated above the fissure of the medulla , being separated by a medullary layer : it is most easily distinguished where the large nerves are given off in the bend of the neck and sacrum , imperceptibly terminating in the cauda equina . |
| 6 | To achieve this it will be essential to create a culture where services are given back to the people and delivered with the attitude that the ‘ customer is sovereign ’ . |
| 7 | Mrs Leinen fears if they are flown back to the United States she 'll lose custody forever . |
| 8 | If there are no clubbers at all then any netted enemy are jumped on by the netters themselves , and damage is resolved with a strength of 3 as normal . |
| 9 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 10 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 11 | These are faults — which is where John McEnroe comes in — that are smoothed out by a second distillation . |
| 12 | That there 's more to Normski than his manic public persona is obvious here , with the music playing , and the beaming photos of himself and Janet Street-Porter that are propped up through the house . |
| 13 | Toilet seats are propped up against the wall , in the unlikely event that someone might want to buy them in a country where hygiene is pathological . |
| 14 | In the UK anyway , the published products of historical scholarship , monographs and articles in learned journals , are still the principal criteria upon which promotion and professional recognition are meted out within the humanities . |
| 15 | So all the excavations are filled in for the sake of tidiness , and all the bolt-holes and entrance holes are filled in to help assess what 's been left . |
| 16 | 6/Highlights are masked out while areas are filled in with a thin wash . |
| 17 | The dots are filled in with the appropriate names like this : |
| 18 | Other details of this allegedly gentle pre-war street life are filled in by the writings of youth club workers — Butterworth 's Clubland ( 1932 ) , Hatton 's London 's Bad Boys ( 1931 ) and Secretan 's London Below Bridges ( 1931 ) — which are teeming with rowdy incident , outbreaks of hooliganism , shoplifting sprees , youngsters terrorising old ladies , foul language , youth club riots and vandalism . |
| 19 | When it is grabbed , its elongated , sharp-pointed ribs are pressed out through the sides of its body and into the lining of the mouth of the hapless hunter . |
| 20 | CFCs are broken down in the upper atmosphere by UVB , and release chlorine atoms . |
| 21 | How detritus and fish excreta are broken down in the filter |
| 22 | As fibre-rich waste products are broken down in the large bowel , a number of products are formed apart from the release of calories . |
| 23 | Injection pipettes are made in exactly the same way as holding pipettes except that they are broken off at a smaller internal diameter . |
| 24 | Bikini bottoms look more like high-waisted hot pants , while swimsuits are squared off across the thighs or skirted . |
| 25 | Most of your belongings are stacked up in the hall and the bedroom . |
| 26 | The curved planks or tubes of cork are stacked out in the sun for three months or more to dry , then boiled for an hour or so with fungicides and antiseptics to kill off any bugs and moulds , and to soften the bark by extracting tannins and minerals . |
| 27 | All steel parts are checked through on a magnaflux machine . |
| 28 | It is in the interview that many of these aspects of the post are checked on with the candidate . |
| 29 | The disputes procedure , that has been in place for some time , and enables us to resolve disputes locally , if they can not be resolved locally , then they are referred up through the management systems . |
| 30 | Subjects that they care about are fended off by the pupils with the familiar complaints that they are ‘ boring ’ or ‘ stupid ’ . |