Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because educational institutions are largely staff ed by professionals , there has , in the past , been a tendency to allow individuals a lot of freedom to use their professional judgement in deciding how best to achieve the aims of the organisation . |
| 2 | As you are aware , these two institutions are not charity organisations ; their programmes are conditional on real progress being made on reform . |
| 3 | They will have some feeling that the sacred books of the religions are really fairy stories , that religious people are out of date and a bit silly , that the clergy are figures of fun . |
| 4 | The practitioner can and probably should ask Customs to confirm in writing that the fee notes are not tax invoices , which is important because Customs can recover from the supplier any VAT shown on his invoices ( VATA 1983 Sch 7 para 6 ( 1 ) — ( 3 ) ) . |
| 5 | These notes are largely extracts and only contain a limited amount of comment . |
| 6 | The notes are mainly extracts and comments on Morgan 's Ancient Society , H. S. Maine 's Lectures on the Early History of Institutions , which deals in large part with Irish history , J. B. Phear 's The Aryan Village in India and Ceylon , and The Origin of Civilization by Sir John Lubbock . |
| 7 | If the borrower happens to be another bank , then the notes are usually certificates of deposit . |
| 8 | The finales to both Acts are effectively concerts , the sort of agreeably naff rock'n'roll revival that might just about pass muster as a Capital Gold one-nighter down the Hammersmith Palais . |
| 9 | Sinful acts are not Bauthumley 's concern as such , but it is not difficult to see why The Light and Dark Sides of God was regarded as a dangerous work when it appeared to undermine Christian certainties : ‘ I have made God mutable as my self . ’ |
| 10 | Speaking at the funeral of UVF victim Jim Peacock , the Bishop of Connor , Dr Samuel Poyntz , said their ‘ bestial and barbaric acts are only mirror images of PIRA bombers and murderers ’ . |
| 11 | In his sermon he said that their ‘ bestial and barbaric acts are only mirror images of IRA bombers and murderers ’ . |
| 12 | The club 's debts are still £6m and the viability of the package could depend on Keegan committing his long-term future to the club and survival in the Second Division relegation battle . |
| 13 | Tell yourself that , like the dung beetle and the greater horned toad , secret intelligence personnel are also God 's creatures . |
| 14 | Many aerosols are now atmosphere friendly , but refrigerators are still using damaging chemicals . |
| 15 | However , this view was challenged since ideologies are only resources to draw upon and not some kind of categorical imperative that governed decisions . |
| 16 | In these theories the basic objects are not particles , which occupy a single point of space , but things that have a length but no other dimension , like an infinitely thin piece of string . |
| 17 | The ‘ blue ’ objects are generally stars or clusters of stars that are hotter than IRS 7 . |
| 18 | Only the basic entities are said to qualify as genuine ontological objects ; all other objects are merely quasi-objects , i.e. they are explicable as logical constructions from ontologically fundamental items , and can be treated as a sort of convenient logical artefacts . |
| 19 | Two things can be said about this to avoid the impression that the different tendencies are simply expressions of a ‘ national character ’ , or of the irresponsibility of entertainment against the social purposiveness of public service — though the latter explanation , if understood historically rather than morally , is not completely without foundation . |
| 20 | Over 150 states are now parties to these conventions — by far the highest number of states parties to any laws-of-war agreements . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Hatchets are not problem fish |
| 23 | Uplights are simply downlights in reverse and meant to stand on the floor . |
| 24 | Yet these two enemies are also enemies of each other , which poses a question . |
| 25 | Tests at elevated humidities are normally tests of the pack and not of the product , i.e. , the contents . |
| 26 | For a great many people , Europe is fine for business and fine for holidays because the sun shines and the booze is cheap , but Germans are still chaps whom we beat in wars , and the French still let you down and think only of themselves . |
| 27 | The groupings that form around academic disciplines are both cultures and anti-cultures . |
| 28 | And ( as will be shown later in this section ) when a physical or sexual abuse investigation , for example , does develop , such investigations are often time consuming and stressful and have to be conducted in the context of other duty work . |
| 29 | Lecturers are not teachers . |
| 30 | Obviously the Russians are not fools . |