Example sentences of "are [adj] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interiors are light owing to the large clerestory and aisle windows . |
| 2 | The fibre layers are different according to the required stiffness at that point of the frame . |
| 3 | It is assumed that all trains are of equal length and are all moving at the same speed , so that they each take p seconds to pass the crossing . |
| 4 | Although all separate entities , they do co-operate with each other as , naturally , they are all working towards the same ideal . |
| 5 | ‘ We are all working for the same goal , ’ he says . |
| 6 | ‘ We are all working for the same country , after all . |
| 7 | the team leader at work who is concerned to ensure that members of the group are all pulling in the same direction towards greater productivity or an improved service . |
| 8 | The nuclei of certain atoms resemble tops in that they have an intrinsic angular momentum — or spin , such atoms are said to be polarised when they are all spinning in the same direction . |
| 9 | The usual view is that they are all suffering from the same disease and yet it is plain that there are marked differences between the reaction of one patient to that of another . |
| 10 | ‘ They are all fighting over the same cake . |
| 11 | The distal oral papillae are spine-like arising on the adoral shields , occasionally there is a supplementary papilla on the oral plate ( see Mortensen , 1933a , Fig. 36 ) . |
| 12 | Only those acting at the second and third stages have been described in the present chapter , but the most important agents for small mammal bone accumulations are those operating at the first stage of taphonomic modification . |