Example sentences of "are [adv] [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Bribery and corruption by large corporations are most serious forms of crime because of their inegalitarian consequences . |
| 4 | Between these two extremes there are obviously many degrees of importance , so we can hardly make hard and fast rules which suit all occasions . |
| 5 | Children are highly motivated learners of language , a disposition no doubt by now ‘ wired in ’ to our species . |
| 6 | There are basically two types of thief : the opportunist and the pro . |
| 7 | There are basically two kinds of argument and constellations of opinion . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There are basically three types of lighting : general ( or background ) lighting , task lighting , and atmospheric lighting . |
| 11 | There are basically three types of network cable : thick Ethernet , thin Ethernet and twisted pair . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There are so many works of art in the church that it has been declared a museum and is included as such on the official list of Milanese museums . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | It is presumably because of this innate variability of habitat that there are so many species of organism on land : probably anything between 10 and 70 or more million , compared with maybe only a few hundred thousand in the oceans . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There are so many forms of fear . |
| 18 | Estimates vary widely because there are so many definitions of abuse . |
| 19 | ‘ There are so many kinds of charcoal , for so many different uses , for heating . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There is no specific title to this section because there are so many applications of biotechnology with implications for environmental quality . |
| 22 | There are so many varieties of technique , style and tone that you can use with a pencil . |
| 23 | There are so many varieties of technique , style and tone that you can use with a pencil . |
| 24 | The price of justice THERE are so many maladministrations of justice exposed by successful appeals in the law courts that many people wonder what is the cause . |
| 25 | positional signals are only one kind of communication between cells . |
| 26 | New alignments between literature and history are only one feature of theory 's impact on readings of Renaissance texts . |
| 27 | These complexities are only one item of culture 's cost for managers in our sample companies . |
| 28 | 1.3 At the simplest level , we assume that there are only two types of element possible in human linguistically structured thought , entities and properties . |
| 29 | They are only two types of doubt among many others , but they introduce us directly to the heart of our problem . |
| 30 | Of course it can never be known whether the right answer has been reached ( unless somebody dredges up a ‘ living fossil ’ from the depths of the ocean ) — there are only varying degrees of probability . |