Example sentences of "area are [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Few rural areas are beyond the ambit of a town or city and much of the increase of population in many parts of rural Britain reflects the underbounding of urban administrations .
2 How useful this vision is will depend on where the undamaged areas are on the retina .
3 In the Auvergne the main mountain areas are in the west , southwest , southeast and east of the Region ( Figure 1 ) , rising to a maximum altitude of 1,886m at Puy de Sancy .
4 Whitlow 's survey also shows that non-agricultural land in Zimbabwe is not seriously affected by erosion , since 95.2 per cent of these areas are in the lowest erosion classes ( Fig. 7.3 ) , and that in Zimbabwe there are 1.83 × 10 6 ha of eroded land overall , of which 83 per cent occurs in the Communal Lands .
5 They do not purport to explain fully why peripheral areas are in the condition in which they find themselves , nor do they regard one dimension ( in this case , the political ) as offering the complete explanation .
6 Not all the ski areas are in the most sensitive ‘ mountain core ’ areas .
7 Other Areas are in the throes of heavy training schedules and will create a highly competitive spirit in Portlaoise .
8 Not only is the one space the inevitable extension of the other , but as often as not these days , the kitchen and dining areas are in the same room anyway .
9 For historical and political reasons , these border areas are among the most lawless regions in the world .
10 With the exception of earrings , the limits on jewellery in a low risk area are at the discretion of the personnel manager , providing it is in keeping with the company image .
11 Mr Kido says that almost 70% of the company 's customers in the Tokyo area are under the age of 29 .
12 The numbers of spawning cod in the area are among the lowest ever recorded .
13 Colbert went wet again in 1982 , there 's an active local theatre group , and some people in the area are in the process of restoring and reopening the Ritz — which had survived mainly as a warehouse , and briefly as a recording studio in 1957 — putting on plays , and possibly a film series too .
14 As you would expect , most of the routes in this area are in the 7a-plus league , including a quartet of 8a+ 's taking the hanging stalactites : Quart de Siécle , Maelstrom , Eau de Colonne and Pipe Line .
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