Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't give him cover because the see shield is is quite a heavy cumbers cumbersome thing and it has two handles behind it erm and they are obviously the means of holding it up and f for directing it wherever you want so I 'm holding this all the time so he ca n't pass his weapon to me and he ca n't put his weapon in my holster because my gun was in the holster . |
| 2 | Inputs are thus of great practical importance , but they are only the means , not the ends , of competitive endeavour . |
| 3 | Decisions of either the Council of Ministers or the European Commission are merely a means of enunciating policies or initiating actions . |
| 4 | Or does he concur with the view of the Minister for Housing and Planning that the homeless are merely the people whom one steps over on the way out of the opera ? |
| 5 | The purchaser 's and the vendor 's accountants are normally the people who are asked to agree the completion accounts and their advice must be sought . |
| 6 | Where commercial advantage is possible , patents are normally the means by which such information becomes publicly available , albeit in a form not typical of conventional publication in scientific papers . |
| 7 | Where commercial advantage is possible , patents are normally the means by which such information becomes publicly available , albeit in a form not typical of conventional publication in scientific papers . |
| 8 | Some large enterprises with many component ‘ organizations of associated labour ’ also have ‘ internal ’ banks , which are largely a means of pooling enterprise liquidity . |
| 9 | Chamber music of the visual arts , drawings bring one intimately into the creative presence of a master , for they are generally a means to an end : a means of discovery concerning individual forms or formal composition . |
| 10 | They are just the means by which one refers to clusters . |
| 11 | Post-audits are thus a means of evaluating management expertise . |
| 12 | Constructivism , and its complement , Expressionism , are thus the media of a search for a philosophy in this twentieth century that is commensurate with current technology and scientific discovery . |
| 13 | I , I , well I am afraid that the people who have been audited are exactly the people , I mean you would expect Ian and Tanya certainly to be good , you 'd expect Philip to be good would n't you and Susannah , and Lyn , perhaps less so . |
| 14 | They 're only a quid for a hundred . |
| 15 | You 're just a pair of censorious bachelors ! |
| 16 | These are usually the people you see on the return flight with both legs in plaster . |
| 17 | Buyers are usually the people fearful of their contract being overreached who register an estate contract , but sometimes lessors will register , or require a lessee to register an option for renewal or for the purchase of the reversion contained in the lease , lest they be pursued under their covenant if , in the meantime , the reversion has been sold before an estate contract has been registered . |
| 18 | These are respectively a series of five community studies and a doorstep survey . |
| 19 | As Niki puts it , ‘ you can drive like a god , say nothing but nice things in Italian and always eat spaghetti , it does n't do the slightest good , you are still a swine … |
| 20 | But even so , the government are still the people in charge , and they 're the people who should er , make a final decision or not , er , er , is n't it ? |
| 21 | Thompson 's and Anderson 's choices of their respective definitions are clearly the fruit of a more fundamental attachment — to the underlying assumptions of individualism in Thompson 's case and to holism in Anderson 's — and as the tone of their exchange reveals , they will not lightly give these up . |
| 22 | The most selective feeders , as we have seen already , either have large hunting areas or are nomadic , but these are also the species that live in the most hostile environments . |
| 23 | There are also the fish to consider . |
| 24 | They are also the means of " buying " your way into the publication . |
| 25 | They are also the means by which we shall provide a system of government which commands the confidence of all the people , in which the democratic deficit is made good and in which pluralism is entrenched . |
| 26 | Not only can the middle classes afford solar cookers , they are also the people that the rising price of petroleum products hits the most . |
| 27 | Furthermore , suppose tendency to want to smoke and tendency to lung cancer are linked by inheritance ; a smoking craving might cause some to leave the Mormon faith , but these are also the people with a tendency to lung cancer so that those left behind show a low incidence . |
| 28 | Convinced that they are the ideal match , these lovers who are often the offspring of divorced parents not wanting to repeat their mistakes conspire not to let anything spoil the relationship . |
| 29 | They are often the means by which an organisation synthesises externally generated information with its internal information sources . |
| 30 | We are now a species out of control . |