Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [adv] [conj] [art] [noun pl] " 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 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 In spirally cleaving eggs the cleavage planes are oblique so that the cells , when viewed from above , take on a spiral arrangement .
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