Example sentences of "are [adv] [adj] [noun] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , Hungary , Poland and Czechoslovakia have recently re-formed their agricultural regimes with such rigour that they now have what are effectively free markets in farming . |
| 2 | I think there are enough common factors in management , including the role of chairman , that apply to all or most businesses , such as the need for careful succession planning , the need for developing a strategy or a corporate plan . |
| 3 | There are less traumatic events in life that can be quite as overwhelming or perplexing without some form of preparation — a visit to an airport or a dairy farm ; first experiments with make-up and fashion ; and first dates and discos . |
| 4 | They point out that under the first-past-the-post system a small swing in votes tends to produce a major change in parliamentary strength so " exaggerating " a party 's lead in parliament in a way that leads to sharp swings in policy when there are only small shifts in voting and still more limited changes in public opinion . |
| 5 | They are merely arrogant words in praise of himself . |
| 6 | Then there are progressively large decreases in adult survival for each increment in juvenile survival , and hence a convex trade-off curve ( heavy line in Fig. 2 ) . |
| 7 | Telephone switches are just big computers in disguise . |
| 8 | ‘ There are more curious things in life . ’ |
| 9 | Handy for determined sceptics , ex-members of the Socialist Workers Party , liberal intellectuals who want it to be known that there are more important things in life than just getting a green certificate . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't enjoy losing money , but there are more important things in life than money . |
| 11 | ‘ But there are more important things in life , Mr — ’ |
| 12 | There are more physical constraints in council housing than in owner-occupied housing in terms of bedrooms and size , but these are minor compared to the restrictions in the private rented sector . |
| 13 | As will be seen throughout this chapter , there are wide local variations in selection procedures and in training . |
| 14 | There are also various schemes in progress which aim to safeguard space travellers . |
| 15 | Scenes are also still hand-coloured in order to give them the classic Disney feel , but developments in automatic colouring systems could well change this before too long . |
| 16 | As we shall see , there are also significant differences in registration procedures . |
| 17 | But the court has to do the best it can by way of what are really conventional figures in relation to injuries , the court assessing , of course , on the individual facts of the case , what is sometimes called the tariff , making adjustments for particular facts of the particular case . |
| 18 | This is a marked structure , but it is not highly marked because adverbials are fairly mobile elements in English . |
| 19 | LEFT Computers and other electronic devices are now essential tools in archaeology for handling the vast amounts of data that fieldwork produces . |
| 20 | Thinking and perceiving , which might naturally be attributed to an incorporeal mind , are simply complex motions in matter . |
| 21 | These are examples of environmental biotechnology which are relatively recent innovations in comparison with the long-standing use of such techniques in industrial processes like brewing and fermentation . |
| 22 | The opportunity cost of resources are therefore relevant costs in decision-making . |
| 23 | Within these age bands there are very wide variations in capability . |
| 24 | But there are very real changes in attitude that are compounding this change of approach . |
| 25 | Lepidodendron has many spiral rows of lozenge-shaped leaf scars , while Sigillaria has long rows of elliptical scars ; both are very common fossils in association with coal measures . |
| 26 | While there are many areas of common ground between Althusser and Habermas , both are very different writers in style and tradition and they do not refer to each other 's work . |