Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [prep] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such units are sentence-like in that they are syntactically combined sequences of words but they seem to be stored in the mind ready for use as preformed unitary items , like words , already assembled for immediate access . |
| 2 | Complete dry dog foods are complete in that they contain all the nutrients essential for a dogs good health and are balanced in that these nutrients are in correct proportions to each other . |
| 3 | If , the Hopf bifurcation does not occur for any positive r , and are stable for all otherwise C " + are stable in and unstable in . |
| 4 | From this perspective , all organisations are political in that they are characterised by bargaining , compromises and conflicts between individuals and groups . |
| 5 | This is to be expected , since the purpose of a domain-specific dictionary is to capture precisely those collocations that are specific to and therefore representative of that domain , in preference to any others with which the individual words may otherwise be associated . |
| 6 | We are grateful to and for their cooperation in putting this article together , and , of course , the last word comes from them : |
| 7 | The scheme is less helpful for the person who is handicapped from youth and has no experience of work , and it is not always suitable for those who are unused to and ill-suited for industrial work , for example , those from clerical work or service trades . |
| 8 | Merrill Lynch 's statistics are interesting in that they indicate that companies prefer to give expatriates coming to Britain financial assistance towards buying property rather than towards renting it . |
| 9 | This is the sense that is represented by the title Aesop 's Fables : used of unrealistic stories ( Aesop 's fables are unrealistic in that they present anthropomorphized beasts and birds ) which may nonetheless present a valuable and pertinent moral to their readers . |
| 10 | Our study shows that the guidelines are acceptable to and suitable for use by general practitioners and suggests that they can substantially reduce referral levels and reduce patients ' exposure to radiation . |
| 11 | State organizations are responsive to and controlled by legitimately elected elites . |
| 12 | ‘ The English — and of course I do n't want you to take this personally — the English are peculiar in that they have very little culinary self-esteem . |
| 13 | I am interested in whether the police national computer is linked with poll tax registers , electoral rolls and telephone numbers . |
| 14 | The rates of pay which an agency may require vary and are dependent on whether you want someone qualified . |
| 15 | I can not emphasize enough , however , the importance of learning all that you possibly can about the varieties you are interested in before you buy and plant . |
| 16 | ‘ We are interested in whether he 'd want to come back . |
| 17 | A system is that part of the world which we are interested in or which we are investigating . |
| 18 | Make a note of the job number that you are interested in and take it along to the clerk at the desk . |
| 19 | It is only car cases of the larger mammals that kites are interested in and help to remove . |
| 20 | They are atypical in that the approach adopted focuses on social and historical aspects of language and language-use rather than on language as a set of abstract forms . |
| 21 | Utterances a and b are different in that the action specified is to follow the utterance , immediately in the case of a , but after some expanse of time in b . |
| 22 | So although the two models are observationally equivalent they are different in that they make different predictions about what would happen if the economic environment changed . |
| 23 | The double answer — schools are different from but they are also the same as other organizations — was confirmed when Handy and Aitken ( 1986:34 ) asked whether , in their essentials , schools were just like other organizations . |
| 24 | ‘ Counter cultures ’ are groups of people within society whose values and norms are different from and go against those held in the wider society . |
| 25 | They see labour as something which can be bought and sold and , for them , that is all there is to it ; when they use that idea of labour they are unaware of and unconcerned with what has caused it . |
| 26 | At ward level , managerial changes often seem to have little impact or significance on clinical practice , and experience suggests many nurses are unaware of or uninterested in the implications of such reforms . |
| 27 | Local people are dubious about whether that will ever happen . |
| 28 | We are distinct from but in partnership with the public sector . |
| 29 | In the ommatidia they occur as proteinaceous granules in the pigment cells surrounding the crystalline cone and retinulae ; they are distinct from and sometimes masked by the ommochrome pigments that may also be present . |
| 30 | The songs are consistent in that they are uniformly as confused as an Asian skinhead , as profound as a boiled egg , and as lifeless as a dick in a refrigerator . |