Example sentences of "are [adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Beliefs are not conjured up out of nothing but are rather a response to experience .
2 It seems to me that formulation of the precise grounds upon which overpayments of tax ought to be recoverable and of any exceptions to the right of recovery , may involve nice considerations of policy which are properly the province of Parliament and are not suitable for consideration by the courts .
3 Apples are basically a mixture of water , sugar , dietary fibre and little else .
4 The nationalized industries are basically the part of government production that covers the provision of private goods for sale through the market place .
5 But Cousins stresses they are only a part of community care .
6 I mean Christmas ones are only a couple of foot apart , there 's only about that much between them , you know ?
7 Although there are only a handful of breeding peregrines known in the Lothians , there are sites where they have been seen regularly at the start of the breeding season , and then mysteriously disappeared .
8 On the contrary , the rules of Equity are only a sort of supplement or appendix to the Common Law ; they assume its existence but they add something further .
9 ‘ Blur are only the present of rock'n'roll . ’
10 They are of great importance in any full characterization of consciousness , and are rightly the subject of inquiry of several kinds , sometimes in the endeavour to give a limited characterization of the mind .
11 The systematic answers reveal that love is essentially in the inner heart of man not in works , which are merely a sign of love , though it is true that " luf wil noght be ydel : it es wirkand som gude evermare " ( 111.96 – 7 ) .
12 This rules out the possibility that autoantibodies are merely a consequence of hepatitis C virus infection .
13 The concept of ideology here signifies the collection of ideas that are merely the product of thought and that have no material basis .
14 These are largely a matter of choice .
15 What evidence can be gleaned for the ‘ Queen Margaret ’ school , or for the counter-argument that such changes are largely a matter of style rather than substance , by examining the procedure and mechanics of government since 1979 ?
16 Preferences between wholemeal bread and white bread are largely a matter of habit .
17 There are already a number of church-based , alternative news agencies in Latin America , but most cover one particular area of the region .
18 Indeed , this would be nothing new , since many tests devised by university departments of education are already the subject of research and development .
19 You are not a child of Star Zoo .
20 Lower sales are not a sign of weakness of industry and commerce — just weakness of demand .
21 Members must have been trading in the UK for at least two years and must disclose their turnover and profits — lack of profits are not a bar to membership however , he added , because ‘ we would hate to disallow the big international business machine companies ’ .
22 There are of course the court of protection costs which are to be calculated and are not a source of disagreement .
23 A second answer is that long working hours are not a cause of housework dissatisfaction because they are an expected part of the housewife role .
24 Consultants are not a waste of money , it was decided by an overwhelming majority at one of the liveliest debates of the 1993 BAIE convention .
25 ‘ You are not a waste of time , Jenna . ’
26 In coming to terms with conflicting feelings about the relationship between their parents , and being helped to do so , children assimilate the capacity to manage other relationships in which they are not the centre of attention and from which they may be excluded .
27 These square panels from high up on a building , with only one , two or at most three figures on each , are not the kind of model on which the vase-painter drew for his battle .
28 ‘ They are not the kind of thing we want in this town and certainly not near my hotel . ’
29 ‘ They are not the kind of thing we want in this town and certainly not near my hotel . ’
30 ‘ They are not the kind of thing we want in this town and certainly not near my hotel . ’
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