Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the attractions are due simply to the landforms and some due to the features made by people . |
| 2 | The high level of crime and the resultant number of people in prison are due directly to the policies of the Government , which have created people who are greedy and selfish , a society where people are supposed to be on their own , a society which destroys the morale and the will of people who happen to be on benefits and on the poverty line . |
| 3 | Because there is no ozone radiative feedback in either simulation , the dynamical evolutions are identical , and therefore differences are due entirely to the changes in chemistry . |
| 4 | The costs are low enough for the schemes to be applied to whole towns … it is estimated that the measures will be amortized within three to six years on account of saved accident costs . ’ |
| 5 | Here the notion of speaker-meaning is best explicated , once again , by reference to Grice 's concept of meaning-nn , for we are interested only in the inferences overtly and intentionally conveyed . |
| 6 | Some puppets are simple enough for the children to improvise for themselves once the teacher has introduced the idea . |
| 7 | ‘ They 're well away from the places my work takes me to . |
| 8 | But-when you 're stuck halfway down the steps to the Central Line platform , unable to proceed as the platform is so packed , unable to retreat as there 's a crush of bodies behind you-the bizarre rendition of Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree adds to your dread as it echoes around the halls . |
| 9 | Er so maybe you 're both even under the covers naked all right |
| 10 | Hysen , Thern , Ekstrom and Magnusson give the side a strong backbone , but they are suspect defensively on the flanks . |
| 11 | The ventral adductors are present only in the Apterygotes and some lower Pterygotes . |
| 12 | The embodiment of such interactions , though not necessary to the understanding of the morning peak hour movements to work or education which have often been the primary focus of transport planning , is important to the understanding of other less straight-forward parts of the daily pattern of travel , which are important both to the travellers themselves and also to those concerned with the planning and provision of transport . |
| 13 | I am concerned here with the powers of my own mind , its sweep and its insight , rather than the appetites of my own body . |
| 14 | In this chapter , we are concerned primarily with the problems of defining and measuring a country 's stock of money and with describing the methods employed in the United Kingdom to influence the money supply . |
| 15 | Many feminists are concerned also with the complexities and contradictions within gendered subjectivities . |
| 16 | A criticism that has been levelled at clinicians in the past is that they are concerned only with the patients they actually see and not with the wider population . |
| 17 | Both Brazilians say they are happy away from the pressures of a big club and that they want to stay . |
| 18 | Comparable figures are available only for the years 1984 and 1988 . |
| 19 | The young people I know pay no attention to such dictates and in that sense they are far ahead of the politicians and the priests . |
| 20 | And the investigations she is proposing to undertake are eccentric even by the standards of visiting academics . |