Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [adv] [subord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Nearly all the foregoing are in some measure examples of transgressions against the laws of the country , and subject to punishment , but are rife mainly because the forces of law and order are stretched beyond capacity , and do not get the help they should from that all-important first line of defence against evil , the constraints of the individual conscience . |
2 | Apart from Simon Hughes 's redoubt in Southwark and Bermondsey , the Liberals today are strong only where the Liberals were strong in the '50s and '60s — in Scotland , the West Country and parts of Wales . |
3 | Errors in searching are possible only if the searcher chooses the wrong subject heading in the published lists ; this too is regarded as an unlikely event . |
4 | The circulation is erm is has grown every year we 've had it and that 's very important because erm a lot of the subscrip a lot of the circulation of Les Echo is in fact a subscription in advance such it 's cash generating qualities are high even when the profits are down . |
5 | The level of natural unemployment can be defined as the number of persons who are unemployed even when the labour market is in an equilibrium state : that is , when the total demand for labour is equal to the supply of labour at the prevailing level of real wage rates . |
6 | The causal explanation must be that old age causes poverty , not that poverty causes people to be old ; in a cross-tabulation of age by poverty , it is more natural to examine the proportion of each age group who are poor rather than the proportion of each income category who are old . |
7 | Not only do the results have no bearing on rankings — and therefore do not matter — but they are forgotten so far as historical records are concerned almost before the players have walked off the court . |
8 | I believe that that money has been carried forward , which means that funds are available today if the Minister should decide to pay the Axminster practice . |
9 | Conversely , if the intermediary is a market counterparty ( see page 29 below ) , the intermediary rules are irrelevant even if the client is identified ; the intermediary is not a customer and therefore the rules do not apply . |
10 | Relapses are common immediately after the drug is withdrawn ( Blackwell and Currah 1973 ) . |
11 | Two points on the top face of B are close together if the parts of their symbolic descriptions near the central mark are the same . |
12 | Trust dispositions are valid only if the trustee has received a benefit under the testator 's will . |