Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Customers are predominantly members of the public , but some contract work is also undertaken for bodies such as local authorities . |
2 | Some nations are predominantly tea drinkers , others will generally prefer coffee . |
3 | Fixed contract workers , on the other hand , are predominantly men : women account for only 37 per cent . |
4 | In practice , of course , this has n't been the case , largely because the controlling influence in adult education historically , and those who monopolise the current debate and the definitions of issues in adult education are predominantly men . |
5 | Many wo n't talk to psychiatrists or psychologists , who are predominantly men . |
6 | The farmers of the region are predominantly peasants , who depend mainly on family labour , as nearly four-fifths of the agricultural sector are smallholders , cultivating one-fifth of all farmland . |
7 | Rose ( 1868 ) , do not obviously suggest serious historical study , but are rather part of a long series of more popular works on Mary , in which Jean Plaidy and Madeleine Bingham are among the most recent exponents ; and there is a certain charm about the publication , in 1793 , of a work by one J. F. Gaum , Marie Stuart und Marie Antoinette in der Underwelt . |
8 | They are rather areas where a special planning regime exists and which have their own special planning committee . |
9 | Discursive practices are rather fields of play , capable of infinite substitutions . |
10 | It is as if not too many new churches are wanted because they are rather unanglican . |
11 | Yeah , and I say , you know I mean obviously it 's too big but I mean not from from the point of view that the buildings are right outside of them ai n't they ? |
12 | The central proposals , ie that District Health Authorities should receive an allocation based on their population and should be responsible for providing or acquiring health care services to meet the needs of that population , are fundamentally Type I. However , there are several proposals in Working for patients which introduce elements of a Type II system into the activities of DHAs . |
13 | For example , despite her attachment to an extra-textual and pre-linguistic domain of mental activity , Nathalie Sarraute 's work , according to Heath , should not be limited by interpretative strategies which are fundamentally referentialist in orientation . |
14 | Deltas are fundamentally features of river deposition , not marine deposition , though marine sediments may be incorporated in their fronts and intercalated with river deposits if phases of subsidence alternate with phases of delta building . |
15 | dominant theories of modernism , inherited from the Enlightenment ( liberalism , marxism , positivism , humanism ) , are fundamentally masculinist or androcentric . |
16 | Since these qualities are fundamentally expressions of values , attitudes and feelings within the persons , traditional in-service training approaches which concentrate on conveying new knowledge , imparting particular skills or prescribing certain patterns of behaviour are insufficient for headship development . |
17 | The state is nothing but a family and we 're related to his majesty Charles the First just as we are related to our dads as simple as that , you know , the private and the public are identical political relationships are fundamentally family relationships . |
18 | We sign in , have our boat inspected by that nice man from Eclipse and are duly body tagged with a nylon cord bracelet and a number . |
19 | ‘ The major record companies and the retailers are effectively cartels , and indeed partly interlocking cartels . ’ |
20 | Renaissance texts in circulation today are effectively course texts designed , produced , and circulated among students in higher education or among a very small academic elite who make use of institutional libraries . |
21 | In other words , we need to recognize that many apparently independent units of production are , without being legally owned subsidiaries , so dominated through subcontracting and purchasing arrangements , that they are effectively part of a single unit of capitalist production . |
22 | The finales to both Acts are effectively concerts , the sort of agreeably naff rock'n'roll revival that might just about pass muster as a Capital Gold one-nighter down the Hammersmith Palais . |
23 | These are effectively IOUs certifying that there is a sum of money on deposit for a stated period and at the end of the period the holder of the CD will have title to the principal and interest . |
24 | Freshwater fish and other species are effectively island creatures , as lakes and upper reaches of rivers are isolated from neighbouring lakes , unless there is flash flooding . |
25 | However such a distinction can be a narrow one especially since some limitation clauses are effectively exclusion clauses where , for example , the limitation of liability is for a trivial sum . |
26 | Pedulla say that these basses are effectively customs without the exorbitant custom price tag . |
27 | Fall out from nuclear explosions has provided useful for water masses especially as the radio active nucleons are effectively time coded . |
28 | All are effectively stores of solar heat . |
29 | The truth is , not all exciting stories are properly thrillers . |
30 | Lina Stimpson thinks this is because the residents are mostly Londoners who have ‘ bettered themselves ’ and are ‘ putting their confidence in what they aspire to be ’ . |