Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adj] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we look far enough ahead electric vehicles are eventually likely to replace the internal combustion engine but this will probably be far in the future for a number of reasons . |
| 2 | Members and supporters brought up in the pre-1968 glory days are mostly content to support the White Rose despite their lack of success . |
| 3 | These virtues are especially important given the solitary nature of the job , as an agency head emphasized : |
| 4 | The new media offer , as it were , a prism through which we are better able to understand the existing structures of broadcasting : the threat makes it easier to appreciate what will vanish as well as what will come about . |
| 5 | In a liquid the motion and thus the kinetic energies of particles are sufficiently high to prevent the attractive forces holding the particles together in a crystal lattice . |
| 6 | In photographic terms , this is called backlighting , and the camcorder 's attempt to find a compromise setting generally results in the under-exposure of the foreground , though some machines have metering systems which are sufficiently sophisticated to avoid the worst effects of this . |
| 7 | As a result they are less willing to accept the increasing costs caused by disruption and seek to recover them through claims . |
| 8 | Pimelodus pictus will take smaller fish , such as Neons , but in a densely planted aquarium and if kept well fed , they are less likely to take the smaller inhabitants . |
| 9 | The DAF workers are less likely to attract the same sort of gritty sympathy that the miners have done . |
| 10 | Firms are less likely to make the right choice between alternative investment projects because inflation adds considerably to the uncertainty of expected future yields . |
| 11 | ‘ As there are but few persons who love to meditate upon scenes of death , and too many are only able to view the gloomy side of them , instead of following by the eye of faith the glorious progress of the departing saint , I will hasten to end of my story . ’ |
| 12 | Do you find that you are only able to make the minimum payments on your credit cards ? |
| 13 | Certainly Pétain 's love for the French soldier in 1916 seems to have been entirely naive and genuine , remarkably free ( whatever may have been written more recently ) of bogus popularity seeking ; in any case , soldiers the world over are phenomenally quick to distinguish the genuine from the phony . |
| 14 | It is in virtue of such rules that we can make sense of the idea that we are objectively correct to call the new sensation a pain . |
| 15 | The physical properties of objects revealed in the natural sciences may well have an important bearing upon discussions of the technological constraints on manufacture and utility , but these studies do not differentiate , as a prime dichotomy , between the artefact and the natural substance , and indeed are largely concerned to reduce the former to the properties of the latter . |
| 16 | Some such criteria are already apparent underlying the broadened judicial usage of unreasonableness and fairness . |
| 17 | Dictionary publishers have limited fonts available and the same font may indicate different roles in different parts of the definitions ( human readers are easily able to use the definitional context to determine the function of a particular font change ) . |
| 18 | City are thus able to check the Premier table to find they have eight teams below them with a gap of nine points separating them from the relegation zone . |
| 19 | We are thus able to calculate the total entropy change which accompanies a chemical change and see whether the result obeys the second law of thermodynamics . |
| 20 | Optical discs are soon likely to become the standard means of storing multimedia information . |
| 21 | You 're now ready to knock the joint apart with a mallet or hammer and a block of scrap softwood . |
| 22 | Our group bookings specialists are always pleased to assist the discerning traveller who requires quality , service and value second to none . |
| 23 | Intending applicants ( or their parents ) are always welcome to visit the Medical School or talk to an Admissions Officer to resolve any questions or difficulties . |
| 24 | Folks are always ready to believe the worst . |
| 25 | The improvement has been tremendous , in fact I am more willing to pay the dreaded poll tax just to see this part of Darlington looking as nice . |
| 26 | Unlike their Western counterparts , who usually strive for individual expression and the creation of a new visual language , oriental textile artists are more content to reproduce the time-honoured designs of their ancestors and seek to express a collective rather than an individual view of their world . |
| 27 | For the moment , Italian government authorities are more inclined to see the feral dog question as a potential concern rather than a dramatic problem . |
| 28 | The assumption is made that dissatisfied workers are more likely to leave the one job for another , take time off , or go on strike , but there has been considerable debate about all three measures , and there are cogent reasons for doubting that any of them serve as adequate indicators of job satisfaction . |
| 29 | Certainly , the social psychoanalysis of the oral aspects of the cultural superego seems far easier than the corresponding attempts to analyse pre-Oedipal oral superego elements in the development of the child where the crucial phenomena have occurred long before the acquisition of language , and where analytic ‘ reconstructions ’ are more likely to reflect the theoretical expectations of the analyst than they do the reality . |
| 30 | They are more likely to perform the classical political role ‘ of mediator and reconciler of different interests ’ . |