Example sentences of "are [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both act as a barrier against the elements in winter , but are rather unsuitable choices for summer . |
| 2 | There are rather similar findings for writing . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Bribery and corruption by large corporations are most serious forms of crime because of their inegalitarian consequences . |
| 7 | Therefore , we are not implying that patients with classic Crohn 's disease are necessarily good candidates for reservoir surgery , nor does the recent experience of The Cleveland Clinic support such a view . |
| 8 | Children are highly motivated learners of language , a disposition no doubt by now ‘ wired in ’ to our species . |
| 9 | And there are highly qualified instructors on hand to advise you . |
| 10 | Between these race-going tales the book charts the growth of gambling from modest and sleazy origins into a multi-million-pound industry and , if some of the material here is rather stodgy , top-heavy with facts , there are enough exotic characters on view to hold the attention . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But these are only indirect duties of kindness since our direct duty is not to animals but to our fellow human beings whose objections to cruelty constitute genuine rights against us . |
| 17 | Throughout his discussion , terms such as ‘ individual ’ or ‘ person ’ appear in quotation marks , to indicate that they are only convenient figures of speech , not to be confused with the subjects of bourgeois ideology . |
| 18 | They are merely arrogant words in praise of himself . |
| 19 | In the same fashion , Kant maintained , the nature of our knowledge can not be understood if we assume that it is simply fed into us from outside ourselves , and that we are merely passive recipients of information from the world around us . |
| 20 | The implication behind this hierarchy of the forms of absence in James is that secrets , ghosts and death are merely pale prefigurations of art as absent essence , and therefore that any significance they might have in the functioning of the tales derives from their status as anticipatory metaphors of art itself . |
| 21 | On this model of organic relationships , the lower animals are merely immature versions of humankind : they develop along the same scale but mature at an earlier point in the process . |
| 22 | Haeckel revived the old belief that the ‘ lower ’ species are merely immature versions of humankind . |
| 23 | It is sad to report , then , that both shows are utterly conventional pieces of theatre . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | You see , data files are just dumb chunks of information , parts of which are read into memory as required . |
| 26 | I think all you would-be spacemen are just little boys at heart , wanting to play an elaborate game . |
| 27 | After the horror stories about the dogs I hesitate to go near my first one , but with us they are just big balls of fur . |
| 28 | Telephone switches are just big computers in disguise . |
| 29 | ‘ These are totally different kinds of conversation , ’ she said . |
| 30 | There are always fresh flowers on show . |