Example sentences of "[pron] are [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 None of this is a matter of syntax ; the intensional relations and the syntactic constructions which realize them are just the ones we have discussed in previous chapters .
2 The largest of them are also the country 's teaching hospitals , affiliated to the faculties of medicine in the universities .
3 While the functions of the primary and secondary markets differ it is no accident that the financial institutions participating in them are often the same , because an efficient secondary market , in which existing securities can be bought or sold easily , contributes in several important ways to the strength of the primary market .
4 In another sense most of them are quite the opposite , namely rejections of modern modes of political organisation , both national and supranational .
5 Now many people seem to think that technology means machines and equipment , but machines and equipment and the software that run them are only the products of technology .
6 My Mum and I are now the very best of friends , not really like mother and son .
7 Dally goes as far as to state that it indicates a bad prognosis for the disease , but I am glad to be able to report that although my jealousy continued into my adolescence , including the anorexic period , it did not deter my recovery , and that my sisters and I are now the best of friends .
8 The last lines quoted , which are also the last lines of the Canto , reveal this clearly for those who know The Cantos : the paradoxical coupling of the fluid ( the waves ) with the fixed ( the crystal ) is what Pound regularly sees as the essence of the authentic artifact .
9 But Britain and France , which are also the main suppliers of fuel-cycle services , are worried that changes will impose unnecessary regulations on the nuclear trade .
10 Its basis lies , significantly , in ‘ pythons in the stomach ’ which are also the source of witchcraft .
11 There is certainly a continuing interest in Ankara in irredentist Turkish claims on Kirkuk and Mosul in northern Iraq , which are in the homeland 5m Kurds and which are also the centre of Iraq 's northern oil fields .
12 Thus he explains that the lower part of active life consists in the works of mercy and charity in society , the higher in the activities involved in penance and meditation which are also the lower part and the groundwork for contemplative knowledge of God who is beyond the ability of man 's active faculties to comprehend .
13 They all study Building Services Engineering , known as BSE , which are also the initials for mad cow disease .
14 First , there are scores which are simply the quantitative scores from a set of separate subtests .
15 Custodial Investments are essentially bearer instruments and readily disposable investments held for a client and which are neither the subject of a discretionary management agreement nor held in connection with any personal appointment and which the firm can sell without the client needing to authorise such sale .
16 ( 1 ) incomplete adaptation — since not all features of JC would be sufficiently salient to be " noticeable " for the purposes of adaptation , some of these would " slip through " and would fail to be adapted ( 2 ) inconsistency — due to possible learning or memory constraints , or perhaps for other reasons not well understood , some adaptations would be made haphazardly , so that the same item might appear sometimes in its LE variant , sometimes in its JC form ( 3 ) misadaptation — where the systems of JC and LE differ in such a way that adapting correctly requires recognising a contrast that exists in JC but not in LE , we would expect LE speakers to " get it wrong " some of the time , creating forms which are neither the target ( JC ) nor LE .
17 The conceptual hotch-potch of the traditional curriculum , based on subjects which are a random assortment of content-based , concept-based , skill-based and moral-based collections of ideas ( whose confusing absurdity is in part exemplified by the NCC 's cross-curricular skills which are exactly the same as the curricular subjects ) has never been designed from first principles to do the basic job of a curriculum , which is to help achieve aims in the most effective and efficient way .
18 It 's essential to our plans for being a lower cost producer , in paint markets which are probably the most competitive in the world . ’
19 So I thought we could look at results now , which are probably the thing that 's most interesting .
20 It is a duty for public officials to advise , when called upon to do so , on policy choices which are ultimately the responsibility of political executives .
21 Crystal ( 1969 ) defines paralinguistic features as : ‘ … vocal effects which are primarily the result of physiological mechanisms other than the vocal cords , such as the direct results of the workings of the pharyngeal , oral or nasal cavities ’ but this does not seem to me to fit the facts .
22 But asking bureaucrats to try to separate out the factual premises of decisions from the ethical premises which are properly the reserve of politicians is still desirable .
23 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 .
24 It is easy to be cynical and think that new prospective customers will only give you their favourite trade references ; which are just the ones you do n't want .
25 Now what has happened in the last decade or so , through the advent of radioastronomy , is that we 've discovered that there are vast clouds of molecules between the stars and they 're just chock a block with very intriguing molecules , many of which are just the sort of things we would expect to be in the prebiotic soup .
26 Do you have arguments which are largely the result of a clash of views , or do you use arguments to clarify actions or values ?
27 Some essential and irreplaceable tissues , like the brain , kidney tubules , intestinal mucosa and red blood corpuscles , can take up glucose in the absence of insulin , which other tissues , notably muscles which are normally the largest consumers of glucose , need its presence .
28 We meet our main deadlines , which are normally the key deadline normally the S and C.
29 In real circumstances , the ‘ nation ’ summarizes very complicated social and economic interests and classes which are not the same at different times , nor in different places .
30 The second of the new areas covered provides guidance on the extent of auditors ' responsibilities in relation to an investment business 's compliance with those rules and regulations , for the conduct of investment business , which are not the subject of specific regular reporting by auditors .
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