Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some nations are predominantly tea drinkers , others will generally prefer coffee . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is as if not too many new churches are wanted because they are rather unanglican . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | dominant theories of modernism , inherited from the Enlightenment ( liberalism , marxism , positivism , humanism ) , are fundamentally masculinist or androcentric . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Fall out from nuclear explosions has provided useful for water masses especially as the radio active nucleons are effectively time coded . |
| 15 | Could it be that statements about the professional development of teachers are mostly rhetoric , or at least moral rather than empirical argument ? |
| 16 | Newspapers , radio and television are mostly government owned , but there are no fewer than twenty governments ! |
| 17 | Erm but these are mostly technician people . |
| 18 | APPs are mostly money purchase schemes , that is , they do not have a guaranteed final pension , unlike most occupational pension schemes , nor are they index-linked up to retirement age , unlike SERPs . |
| 19 | Australia 's native animals are mostly marsupial , and — as always show marvellous similarities to the placental mammals of other continents . |
| 20 | The lozenge-shaped objects in the middle section of the cell are mostly mitochondria . |
| 21 | You are mostly Republican . |
| 22 | Potentially pathogenic micro-organisms are usually derived from the gastrointestinal tract and are mostly Gram negative bacilli , such as Enterobacteriacae and Pseudomonas spp , but they also include yeasts , especially Candida spp . |
| 23 | The rectangular vaulting bays are mostly star vaulted in many different designs . |
| 24 | As Fig. 4.4 shows , the assets of investment trusts are overwhelmingly company securities ; there are very few government securities . |
| 25 | Unfortunately the hood and peak are most unuser friendly when battling against the elements . |
| 26 | ‘ As cage birds they are as interesting as can possibly be imagined ; for , independently of their highly ornamental appearance , they differ from all the other members of their family that I am acquainted with , in having a most animated and pleasing song ; besides which , they are constantly billing , cooing , and feeding each other , and assuming every possible variety of graceful position . |
| 27 | Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with . |
| 28 | So far , so good , but finding a set of correlations of this sort still says nothing about whether they are necessarily part of the memory formation process unless I can find a way of showing that they are not simply the aftermath of the unpleasant experience of tasting the bitter bead ; that is , I must meet my own third , reductionist criterion . |
| 29 | It is now appropriate to consider whether the caustics formed in this way correspond to mere coordinate singularities , or whether they are necessarily curvature singularities as they are in the Khan-Penrose solution . |
| 30 | The main types of breach are obviously failure to supply goods or services of the nature or quality promised under the contract , late delivery , and failure to pass a good title to items sold under the contract . |