Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meantime IBM Corp 's first quarter figures are due today and analysts are generally predicting an operating loss of about 50 cents a share on a decline in turnover of 10% or more — with a swingeing 20% or more decline in mainframe business : a year ago , IBM reported net of $1.12 a share before an accounting gain . |
| 2 | Links with tradition and superstition are strong here and weddings , often still arranged marriages , are particularly impressive in the Albanian villages of the Sila . |
| 3 | Men who can cling to overhanging rocks thousands of feet above their companions , men who climb into perilous situations in the knowledge they are inches from death , men who are strong enough and man enough to meet any physical challenge , these are the men who call for their mum when they find they left the jungle Formula back in the car . |
| 4 | The second , smaller but also growing band , will be teachers who are strong enough and courageous enough to stick their necks out publicly . |
| 5 | Some of them are frail physically but are as bright as a button in their minds . |
| 6 | The environs of the waterfall are pleasant enough and there is no suspicion of the Peril 's dark secret unless a small opening under the overhang of the cliff alongside is noticed : this insignificant hole admits to the largest cave system in the valley , underground passages extending for more than half a mile below and far beyond the road in a succession of tight crawls and large caverns . |
| 7 | First , the models are one-dimensional only and can not be applied to a real solid . |
| 8 | Yet the evidence of such changes in the period 1914–18 are clear enough and have been well documented . |
| 9 | Both the beauty and ecological importance of this area of southern California are clear enough and just three months ago , George Bush , a former oil man , banned further oil development here as part of a general moratorium that covered several coastal areas . |
| 10 | Outside there are scudding clouds , but they are high up and the sun occasionally breaks through . |
| 11 | Now again if you take a good look round the retired people in town there is , you just sit down on one of those benches in town and watch people for a bit , and you 'll see that a lot of them are deteriorating physically and that is making them , making it difficult for them to get about socially , shopping- wise and so on . |
| 12 | Baked beans are cheapest here but our vices are punished — cigarettes and alcohol cost more in Britain . |
| 13 | If I were still at Bewick , I should still have my vision of myself quite obliterated by your violent view of how I should be , but I am free now and you can not put the chains back on , it is too late , I am growing up . ’ |
| 14 | Stress needs to be dealt with not just through one-day workshops that some teachers are brave enough or desperate enough to attend . |
| 15 | This takes on an added significance when it is remembered that geriatrics and the terminally ill are regarded as the failures of the health service and are often consigned to the young and inexperienced who , as one doctor recently put it , ‘ do strive very officiously to keep people alive because they are interested scientifically and they want to use every method they can as part of their training ’ . |
| 16 | The liberal regime remains , though rules are tougher now and there are more lawyers about the place . |
| 17 | The various plastics and composites are different again and we shall come to these presently . |
| 18 | The mane and the wing of the Corinthian pegasus are visible beneath and to the left of the corn ear of Metapontum . |
| 19 | Such Byzantine domes are visible externally and are not obscured by timber roofing . |
| 20 | Subscriptions are payable annually and fall due on 1 December . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the fact that these bound states arose from the well-defined N = 8 theory should enable us to make a number of predictions that could be tested at energies that are accessible now or will be in the near future . |
| 22 | I never said anything then he er I could see he 'd gone cos he just stood there for about ten minutes like th and everybody else was working , he just stood there like this for about ten minutes by the rack see him doing nothing I never said nothing he come charging through with a rack and knocked all the pallet over what they just stacked up with fifty boxes on so we had to make that right and he stacked a load of L T M boxes which are temperamental anyway and he had n't pulled the wrap tight so as soon the bloke lift them up with the forklift , they fell all over ! |
| 23 | Jonny says : ‘ Rowing is the sort of sport that , if you 're tall enough and weigh enough , you can get pretty good at it — if you 're willing to put all the hours into training . |
| 24 | Yeah they 're interested actually and they 're quite quick as well . |
| 25 | You know , how demoralised they are and the state of the hospitals and things and she said , oh well , nurses er , they , they 've always complained that they 're hard up and , |
| 26 | And my doctor my doctor said , You ca n't have the dog you need because you 're sick on and off all the time . |
| 27 | It 's like , what was he , he was going , oh that 's right , he keeps going , I ca n't , but they 're cold now but he was like , at the dinner table once , right , and Ryan and Gran argue continuously , and he was going erm , and he went , Gran , and Gran went , yeah , and he went , do you know what you are , and Gran went no , and he went , well , I ca n't remember what it 's called , he goes , they 're this , I think it 's a hybrid , he goes , you 're a hybrid . |
| 28 | Being submissive is the co point where what happens when you 're submissive you keep it inside you do n't feel you 're worthy enough or you have n't got you have n't got the self esteem to rate yourself as being able to have what it is that you want , so you keep it inside and you do n't say anything and then you walk away should 've said this and should 've said that and all it does is eat away at you and it does that to you physically as well I mean scientific tests are already showing now that physically these sort of things you do if often be submissive enough what that does it pretty much helps helps you to eat your body up from the inside and causes physical problems which pretty much do that anyway . |
| 29 | ‘ Eventually they can turn professional if they 're good enough and earn a fair bob or two . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's a wonderful thing that they 're all here and all OK , ’ he said . |