Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " 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 | Of the eastern deputies who pipe up in parliament , some ( like the eloquent former communist Gregor Gysi ) are heard out with wrath , most only with amused disdain . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Firstly , the masses are dismissed out of hand : |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We are spat out of fevered loins , or punctured rubber , or drunken grapplings in creaking beds . |
| 7 | We are spat out of fevered loins , or punctured rubber , or drunken grapplings in creaking beds . ’ |
| 8 | Then the neighbours and family who are relied on to share some daily task become more evidently part of the social system , or family system of that elderly person . |
| 9 | Two passages are relied on to support that view from judgments of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in recent cases . |
| 10 | The initial writ requires to identify the licensing board 's failures and specify the circumstances which are relied on to show that the hoard erred ; it is not sufficient to recite without specification all the statutory grounds of appeal ( Sutherland v. City of Edinburgh District Licensing Board , 1984 S.L.T. 241 ) . |
| 11 | You know , they , they yes , yes they go to the Madechie shops and Athena or whatever and there looking at the best , and you ca n't afford it See Maryann and Richard are given up on erm buying Christmas presents because she says your buying things for people they do n't really want , everybody , therefore I think tokeny things are the best , and that 's what I 've bought this year . |
| 12 | Today , entire journals are given over to this work . |
| 13 | Leapor often compliments other women in her poems , and two poems , ‘ Song to Cloe , playing on her Spinnet ’ and ‘ Silvia and the Bee ’ , are given over to praising the beauty and the accomplishments of particular friends . |
| 14 | They take place in the mornings , while the afternoons are given over to discussion groups which follow on from the morning 's lecture . |
| 15 | Vast areas are given over to car parks and souvenir shops . |
| 16 | Large portions of the Education Bill are given over to procedures for the creation and financing of grant maintained schools , a cornerstone of government policy . |
| 17 | Visit Bodrum on market day , a lively occasion when whole streets are given over to selling spices or fruit , day old chicks or melons , and the most colourful variety of vegetables . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Antoine Becquerel ( 1852–1908 ) observed that similar rays are given off by uranium . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | STM hinges on quantum theory , which suggests that electrons are given off in clouds from solids and will tunnel through a vacuum to other nearby conductors . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | Fuelling this propaganda are free supplies of birth control pills , capsules and IUDs are given out to Timorese who are used to paying a small fortune just to consult a doctor . |
| 24 | Mrs Leinen fears if they are flown back to the United States she 'll lose custody forever . |
| 25 | In SAS style officers from the Royal Ulster Constabulary bomb disposal squad are flown in by helicopter . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It only stops when it ( and you ! ) are crushed out of existence at the central point of the hole ( or a little earlier when the stretching and crushing forces wreck it ) . |
| 28 | These words are pointed out by means of accent . |
| 29 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 30 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |