Example sentences of "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 . |