Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buildings of Cambridge colleges are predominantly of stone , while those of domestic Cambridge are mainly of brick and slate . |
| 2 | The pebble in the conglomerates and sandstones are predominantly of local provenance , and the overall character of these rocks indicates sediment deposition close to source . |
| 3 | Since the programmes are predominantly of advanced modules , admissions decisions are made by the relevant Field Chairs . |
| 4 | One of the main criticisms levelled at US and European transnational corporations in Asia , Africa and Latin America is that their operations are predominantly of the export processing variety , employing low wage workers ( mainly ‘ nimblefingered ’ young women ) in monotonous and often physically debilitating labour , the products of which constitute a small proportion of the value-added of the final commodity . |
| 5 | Basic magmas , however , which are predominantly of basaltic composition , have a much lower silica content and are erupted at high temperatures . |
| 6 | Hooligan fans are predominantly from lower working-class backgrounds . |
| 7 | The atoms that are involved in these interactions are predominantly from the heavy chain backbone , but use both main chain and side chain atoms from protein G. The complex is stabilized further by the association of exposed nonpolar residues from Fab and protein G , providing a continuous hydrophobic core which is shielded from solvent . |
| 8 | Examples used in photomicrographs are predominantly from ‘ grain-supported ’ rocks ( sandstones , grainstones/packstones ) as many petrofabrics are more readily apparent within these sediments . |
| 9 | The archivists in this collection are predominantly from institutions which hold electronic data , usually created via official social surveys or opinion polls . |
| 10 | The huts are predominantly in valleys near rivers , and invariably the local area was swarming with mosquitos . |
| 11 | Account-holders are predominantly in the A , B and C1 social categories and mainly live in the South East or London . |
| 12 | In doing so I am rather like the doctor by the patient 's bedside , who knows ; although of course he does not tell the patient — that the outcome of the disease will depend upon something in the constitution of that patient which he can not control nor further influence and which he can not even ascertain , except by the event . |
| 13 | Even John Stuart Mill who , as one would expect , greatly admired Socrates , describing him in On Liberty , rather extravagantly , as " the head and prototype of all subsequent teachers of virtue " and " the acknowledged master of all the eminent thinkers who have since lived , " was moved to protest at this probably misplaced generosity : " The Athenian Many , of whose irritability and suspicion we hear so much , are rather to be accused of too easy and good-natured a confidence , when we reflect that they had living in the midst of them the very men who , on the first show of an opportunity , were ready to compass the subversion of the democracy . " |
| 14 | We are rather at the point of arguing that the state , and in particular its bureaucracy , may be free from subordination and manipulation by the ruling class in order to preserve its interests in the long run and as a whole . |
| 15 | Certainly the most difficult ideas in statistics have little to do with mathematics but are rather about what is knowable and how it may be known . |
| 16 | David Wilkie , the actuary , concluded that the loss of the Tory majority , then 21 , was ‘ not impossible but the odds are rather against it . ’ |
| 17 | Their strengths are rather in clearing the ground of preconceived ideas about the arts , and putting new points of view . |
| 18 | In the case of the evidence produced by informal interviews we , the readers , are rather in the position of hearing a case put by only one counsel and not the other . |
| 19 | It is difficult to see , for example , how the relation earlier/later can be made clear sense of without allowing the possibility of developing complexes , i.e. complexes which are not complete , but are rather in the " process of completion " . |
| 20 | Lane has argued that ‘ ruling class ’ interpretations of the Soviet Union are inappropriate because the holders of state power do not possess and inherit property but are rather in the same market position as other wage-earners . |
| 21 | ‘ Actors , ’ he once said , ‘ are rather like gangsters : people on the edge of society , ruthless people who suffer . ’ |
| 22 | People concerned about their recently deceased relative or friend are rather like me in my garden . |
| 23 | Medium leys , down from three to five years , are rather like arable crops in that maximum yield during those years is generally the main objective . |
| 24 | FILMS about the human sex act are rather like books on the same subject . |
| 25 | Most are rather like a sandwich with the steel springs embedded in a honeycomb of foam . |
| 26 | The change has meant that fund managers have , as John Harrison says , ‘ begun to realise that charities with their gross funds are rather like pension funds : they have an institutional nature with trustees involved and this makes them a fund management proposition ’ . |
| 27 | Later , in the 1840 s , Emil Du Bois-Reymond ( 1818–96 ) showed experimentally that the impulses travelling along nerves are rather like the flow of electrical currents along a wire ( the similarity is in fact even closer than he imagined ) . |
| 28 | These are rather like the process of bereavement , with shock , denial , guilt and unhappiness , acceptance and resignation . |
| 29 | The discs between the vertebrae are rather like leathery cushions , acting as shock absorbers . |
| 30 | Hence they are rather like the overdraft limit placed on a private sector customer by its bank . |