Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both act as a barrier against the elements in winter , but are rather unsuitable choices for summer . |
| 2 | There are rather similar findings for writing . |
| 3 | On the other hand , Hungary , Poland and Czechoslovakia have recently re-formed their agricultural regimes with such rigour that they now have what are effectively free markets in farming . |
| 4 | There are altogether sixteen grounds for possession that the landlord may use . |
| 5 | It is not difficult to make similar observations in the case of other adjectives : ( 8 ) a meteorological expert romantic novelists foreign policy a nuclear scientist animate nouns the royal hatmaker All these are wholly respectable phrases of English ( especially the last one ) but , in every case , a test using the sentence " This N is A " will either give a meaning to the adjective which is different from that in the original phrase , or simply produce an unacceptable result . |
| 6 | On the other hand , middle-out strategies are computationally explosive methods of search requiring highly tuned scoring methods and matching strategies to constrain the exploration of all the myriad combinations of possible hypotheses . |
| 7 | ‘ Bribery and corruption by large corporations are most serious forms of crime because of their inegalitarian consequences . |
| 8 | Therefore , we are not implying that patients with classic Crohn 's disease are necessarily good candidates for reservoir surgery , nor does the recent experience of The Cleveland Clinic support such a view . |
| 9 | Between these two extremes there are obviously many degrees of importance , so we can hardly make hard and fast rules which suit all occasions . |
| 10 | But since there are much larger numbers in relation to the dominant person in the schoolroom than there are at home a distinct psychological break is experienced in the transition from one to the other . |
| 11 | Children are highly motivated learners of language , a disposition no doubt by now ‘ wired in ’ to our species . |
| 12 | And there are highly qualified instructors on hand to advise you . |
| 13 | There are basically two types of thief : the opportunist and the pro . |
| 14 | There are basically two kinds of argument and constellations of opinion . |
| 15 | There are basically three kinds of sediment involved ( figure 7.2 ) : ( i ) cross-bedded yellow and buff sands ; ( ii ) laminated beds of alternating layers of clay ( or lignite ) and sand ; and ( iii ) glauconitic or sandy clays with marine fossils . |
| 16 | As far as we are concerned , there are basically three types of music a producer can use in a production : commissioned , commercial or production/library music , commissioned music being an original piece written specifically for the producer by the composer . |
| 17 | There are basically three types of lighting : general ( or background ) lighting , task lighting , and atmospheric lighting . |
| 18 | There are basically three types of network cable : thick Ethernet , thin Ethernet and twisted pair . |
| 19 | Between these race-going tales the book charts the growth of gambling from modest and sleazy origins into a multi-million-pound industry and , if some of the material here is rather stodgy , top-heavy with facts , there are enough exotic characters on view to hold the attention . |
| 20 | I think there are enough common factors in management , including the role of chairman , that apply to all or most businesses , such as the need for careful succession planning , the need for developing a strategy or a corporate plan . |
| 21 | There are less traumatic events in life that can be quite as overwhelming or perplexing without some form of preparation — a visit to an airport or a dairy farm ; first experiments with make-up and fashion ; and first dates and discos . |
| 22 | Excluding the interesting view of God offered by the various sects , there are apparently different forms of theism promoted by Jews , Christians , Moslems , Sikhs , Hindus and perhaps Buddhists in Britain alone . |
| 23 | ‘ There are so many scumbags in boxing — but I have to thank Barry Hearn and the American referee Joe Cortez for standing up for me . ’ |
| 24 | The stages of the journey are so many acts of self-questioning and self definition : its end a moment of self-recognition which is , however , also a reversal of the narrator 's image , as in a mirror ( Roux the pursuer is identified with Xavier the pursued , the first and last letters of their names are switched , Xavier is now Mr Nightingale , or rouxinol in Portuguese ) . |
| 25 | Indeed there are so many newspapers in contrast to the two television networks , that relatively few voters ( as a percentage ) read even the best-selling paper . |
| 26 | It is a tribute I suppose to the English language that there are so many forms of circumlocution that it is remarkably easy to persuade yourself that you have made a bold statement , or conveyed the bad news , whilst in reality there is no conceivable possibility that the recipient has actually understood what you are talking about . |
| 27 | There are so many forms of fear . |
| 28 | Estimates vary widely because there are so many definitions of abuse . |
| 29 | ‘ There are so many kinds of charcoal , for so many different uses , for heating . |
| 30 | The larvae of ichneumid wasps are parasitic on the developmental stages of insects or spiders , which egg laying females locate by searching narrowly circumscribed micro-habitats ; they are as much niche-specific as host-specific , and it is because there is such a range of niches in a garden that there are so many kinds of adult wasps . |