Example sentences of "[adj] are [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only native Hawaiian plants and animals that are n't extinct are found on the high mountainsides ( yes , a lot of people live their whole lives in Hawaii without ever coming across a native species ) , and the biggest problem up there is that type of pig that descended from European wild boars and Polynesian pigs . |
| 2 | Some of the companies making this possible are presented in the following pages . |
| 3 | The weak are bullied by the strong , the little by the big , the pious by the irreligious . |
| 4 | Sale opportunities identified by MAS are matched against the recorded criteria on a reactive basis . |
| 5 | The mechanical response is usually determined at low frequencies and over as wide a temperature range as possible and examples of each are described in the following section . |
| 6 | For he moved at once to a post-natal , ecological sorting wherein individual adaptive variants are retained , while the maladaptive are eliminated in the Malthusian crush of population . |
| 7 | Criteria for doing this are developed from the professional knowledge , value base and experience of the practitioner rather than from the policies and constraints of organisations . |
| 8 | The savings that can be made usually justify the collection of statistics during the life of the file , and some ways of arranging this are described in the next section . |
| 9 | Everyone recognises that handling such a volume and variety of art-objects provides the perfect training to become a dealer , and when the art market prospers , some are tempted by the financial opportunities of dealing . |
| 10 | Some are fitted to the accessory shoe on the top of camcorders and operate off their own battery supplies . |
| 11 | Some are situated in the old quarter , which is just as colourful by night as it is by day , and have a characteristic local atmosphere . |
| 12 | Some are based on the total number of dies observed in the sample . |
| 13 | The fear of Cardiff 's rivals is that , without the same resources , they can only lose in a transfer war , and some are looking to the Welsh Rugby Union for legislative salvation . |
| 14 | Although many kinds of trace fossil are known from a long geological time span , some are confined to the Cambrian and could record extinct body plans , as well as details of early metazoan activities such as locomotion and feeding . |
| 15 | Who thought of them can only be imagined , but it is obvious that some are attributed to the physical build or character while others have probably got connections with the work they did , terms which have died with them . |
| 16 | Some are needed for the efficient action of enzymes ; others form essential parts of hormones . |
| 17 | Some are working with the displaced or in the controlled zones , carrying out literacy campaigns and press or political work . |
| 18 | The policy-making group meets to set the time-scale , to plan the introductory sessions and to agree the questions to form the basis of discussions ; some are suggested in the next section . |
| 19 | Some are associated with the sheer lack of resources to apply to the routines of bookkeeping , billing and chasing debts , assessing and settling VAT and tax liabilities and keeping track of liquidity . |
| 20 | Some are used by the alpine training squads for dry land training . |
| 21 | 3.2 Module descriptors which have been revised or developed for session 1989–90 are identified in the National Certificate Catalogue by a first digit 9 . |
| 22 | The young old are brought within the pale and the rest are left outside ; their needs are perceived as different and marginal to the mainstream development of goods and services . |
| 23 | 3.4 Module descriptors which have been revised for session 1988–89 are identified in the National Certificate Catalogue by a first digit 8 . |
| 24 | On the left the frescoes in chapels two , four and six are attributed to the fine fifteenth-century artist Donato di Montorfano . |
| 25 | In our example , x 29 , x 59 and x 97 are basic and so nodes 2 , 5 and 7 are assigned to the second generation and P(2) = P(5) = P(7) = 9 . |
| 26 | All three are caught from the same swims , although not necessarily at the same time , and in every case there are two-tone specimens . |
| 27 | All three are playing in the coca-cola cup this week … here 's the line-up … |
| 28 | We have to conclude , I think , that there is a very wide range of meanings which the progressive can be associated with but that these are determined by the particular choice of lexis and are not independently a property of the grammatical category of aspect . |
| 29 | The aim will be to evaluate the outcomes of the different social security systems and the extent to which these are determined by the particular value mixes which are reflected in their respective systems . |
| 30 | Information is recorded on standard forms at screening and these are sent to the appropriate care management and assessment team , which is responsible for ensuring that each stage of the assessment and care management cycle is completed ( box 3 ) . |