Example sentences of "are [verb] in [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With regard to the War Department , I quite agree with Panmure , that the best course will be to lodge that Department in an unpretending but suitable manner in Pall Mall , and to carry that arrangement into effect at the same time that a Foreign and Colonial Office are building in Downing and Fludyer Street .
2 The answer to his first point is that it is absolutely clear that a number of people who break their bail conditions are remanded in custody when they are brought back to the court ; but that happens in only about six out of 10 cases , and in four out of 10 cases when those who break their bail conditions are brought back to the court , it seems that they are no longer remanded in custody but are again let out on bail .
3 BLACK MUSLIMS FROM the Nation of Islam are gathered in force outside the Hackney Empire .
4 The spacious rooms have large bay windows and cast-iron fireplaces with marble surrounds , and are furnished in Laura Ashley fabrics and antiques .
5 After all , unless we can show that we are able to do better with the totality of the sums , and the totality of the business , why should any shareholder believe that we know better how to deal with his money if we are to invest in areas outside our particular expertise , than he can by individual investments ?
6 ‘ We see ourselves as a specialty chemical company and the strategies are to invest in facilities and R & D , to emphasise Europe as we go forward and to continue to improve the quality ’ .
7 SOME of the biggest names in Irish literature are to gather in Londonderry next month for a five-day ‘ Languages of Ireland ’ literary festival .
8 Thus , although Patterson has gellon for ‘ gallon ’ and care for ‘ car ’ , and although similar pronunciations are heard in Ulster rural dialects , our Belfast data show that the rule has receded in an orderly way through a series of environments .
9 Many voices are heard in favour of more women running for office , and Emily 's List , a group that funds only Democratic women running for office , has seen its membership grow by more than 300 per cent since the Hill-Thomas hearings .
10 Applications are heard in chambers unless otherwise directed .
11 Such appeals are heard in chambers unless the judge otherwise directs .
12 Normally such personal statements are heard in silence .
13 The table below gives an indication of possible early encashment values per £1,000 of single premium invested and are calculated in accordance with the rules prescribed by the Securities and Investments Board ( SIB ) .
14 It 's to do with the way the er the totals are calculated in table eight , erm the split is divided in totals of the proportion of Greater York and the rest of the district .
15 Effectively , then , the two distinctions , which undoubtedly exist within strong syllables , are neutralised in RP .
16 Purchasers should be aware that the recent House of Lords ' decision in Litster v Forth Dry Dock Engineering Company Ltd [ 1989 ] IRLR 161 has radically altered the position of purchasers for liability where persons are dismissed in connection with a business transfer .
17 Since the effects of the damage are largely restricted to language , the disruption can not affect the whole brain , so in that sense we are justified in thinking of the brain as consisting of functionally independent modules .
18 These violations of laws of purity and holiness are justified in terms of more fundamental principles , concern for the inner ethical motivations of the person , rather than their external bodily state , and respect for all persons , regardless of gender or ethnicity .
19 The rewards for those who do conform , and the penalties on those who do not , are justified in terms of a cultural tradition which places the group first and the individual second .
20 Non-basic beliefs are justified in terms of the basic and the basic are justified in some other way ; the asymmetry lies in the fact that justification is all one way , from non-basic to basic .
21 There is no word-class corresponding to RP/ ? / , so that , for example , the two lexical items in the phrase good food are assigned in Belfast to the same rather than to different classes as in RP /g?d fu:d/ .
22 This not only affects how the male public react to policewomen in the province , it also influences how male colleagues treat policewomen in the work environment and the sorts of duties they are assigned in practice ; and the dearth of senior female officers makes it easy for male colleagues to impose such limits on the role of policewomen .
23 Three percent are classed as ineducable and either stay at home with their families or are placed in welfare institutions — parents wishing to have teaching for these children have to pay privately .
24 The data for band 1 are placed in memory bank 1 which provides the red input to the TV monitor display .
25 Again , taking South Hams as an example , applicants are placed in queues for one of five housing sub-districts and also in one of five groups according to family size , marital status and number of children .
26 It is no wonder , when so many police officers appear to be doing the duties which prison officers should be doing and so many prisoners are placed in police cells .
27 For example , the supervisor call instruction on the IBM 370 range passes a one-byte literal to the supervisor , to indicate the type of request being made : any further parameters are placed in accumulators .
28 The effect of the " dominant impact " test is to enable the courts to take account of the psychological realities of reading and film viewing , in so far as the audience is affected by theme and style and message , so that isolated incidents of an offensive nature are placed in context .
29 ‘ Where children are given responsibility they are placed in situations where it becomes important for them to communicate — to discuss , to negotiate , to converse — with their fellows , with the staff , with other adults .
30 Anyone who has visited a number of medieval castles will know how admirable their sites often are : how they command distant views , or river crossings , or are placed in situations of great natural strength .
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