Example sentences of "are [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Abstract nouns , participles , and relative pronouns are italicized in the above passage . ) |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If as part of the task you specify the effect the programme is to have on the audience , you are building in the criteria by which that audience can judge the programme and you are giving them a purpose in viewing . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The way those clouds are building in the sky , I ought to drive . |
| 6 | The rooms of the museum are furnished in the style of the period , with important collections of authentic period furniture , silver , china and art . |
| 7 | The panels cast a dreamy light in the rooms — which are furnished in the most sparse manner with stone floors , white beds and the odd piece of exquisite antique glass . |
| 8 | Ninety-eight per cent of all criminal cases are heard in the latter courts . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The values of for polyatomic ions and ionic compounds are calculated in the same way as for molecular compounds . |
| 11 | Once the population levels are calculated in the model , the population is converted in to households using marital status and rates . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You will I hope realise that these cases are placed in the context of a diseased sexuality . |
| 16 | Selection for senior posts is therefore more important than training ; if people who display the appropriate qualities are placed in the correct context then they will flourish . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Parents strive to ensure that their children are placed in the best possible schools , follow with avid interest their educational attainments , often placing the children under great pressure if they are relatively unsuccessful . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | During the evening the females are placed in the aquarium , after which some brine shrimp and sifted Daphnia are added . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The arrangement of things into classes , such as the class metal , or the class man , is grounded indeed on a resemblance among the things which are placed in the same class , but not on a mere general resemblance ; the resemblance it is grounded on consists in the possession by all those things of certain common peculiarities ; and those peculiarities it is which the terms connote , and which the propositions consequently assert ; not the resemblance . |
| 25 | The points are placed in the ice with a firm swing of the foot . |
| 26 | These studies are short term and can be extremely useful if they are placed in the context of wider knowledge . |
| 27 | The new industry of salmon-farming has filled the gap as far as the scavenging gulls are concerned : the rearing cages are placed in the sheltered bays and ‘ sounds ’ between the islands and are fed on high-protein , manufactured food in pellet form , which are ferried out in sacks by small boats . |
| 28 | Instead , new versions of the text of entries are placed in the database . |
| 29 | The result is , as we have seen , a tendency towards a teacher-dominated style of interaction , in which children are placed in the passive role of respondents , obliged to accept the teacher 's definition of what is considered relevant . |
| 30 | ‘ By the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 , the defendants are placed in the same position as the ordinary subjects of the Crown ( see section 21 of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 ) and I see no reason why they should not in appropriate cases refuse to refund money paid to them voluntarily under a mistake of law , as the revenue authorities were held to be entitled to do in the case of William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King and National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King . |