Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Customers are predominantly members of the public , but some contract work is also undertaken for bodies such as local authorities . |
| 2 | Discursive practices are rather fields of play , capable of infinite substitutions . |
| 3 | Deltas are fundamentally features of river deposition , not marine deposition , though marine sediments may be incorporated in their fronts and intercalated with river deposits if phases of subsidence alternate with phases of delta building . |
| 4 | Since these qualities are fundamentally expressions of values , attitudes and feelings within the persons , traditional in-service training approaches which concentrate on conveying new knowledge , imparting particular skills or prescribing certain patterns of behaviour are insufficient for headship development . |
| 5 | Pedulla say that these basses are effectively customs without the exorbitant custom price tag . |
| 6 | All are effectively stores of solar heat . |
| 7 | Some of them are , of course , capital cities , comparable only to London , but most of the others ( we tend to forget ) have equally been great urban centres for many hundreds of years , while Britain 's biggest cities are mostly products of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 8 | They are mostly women with little formal education who render basic primary health care to people in their villages . |
| 9 | The 14 senior staff of the Centre are mostly members of the LSE Economics Department . |
| 10 | They are mostly stories in rhymed couplets , and their subject is local scenes or people . |
| 11 | As for the physical appearance of the people who left behind their stone tools and food refuse , Singer and Wymer can say little because , compared with animal bones , there are few human remains in the deposits and they are mostly fragments of skulls and jawbones and teeth . |
| 12 | The remaining 16 occurrences are mostly combinations of at least two of the described problems . |
| 13 | We are mostly Asians in our section , but our shop steward is a white woman . |
| 14 | White holes , by contrast , are presumably areas of intensely strong antigravitational repulsion . |
| 15 | Apart from the fuel used directly to power farm equipment and to transport food , processed or unprocessed , to the consumer , the fertilizers and pesticides which are an integral part of modern cultivation methods are overwhelmingly derivatives of oil . |
| 16 | But it would be a mistake to assume that Prime Ministers are necessarily mouth-pieces of their Lord Chancellors when making the most senior appointments . |
| 17 | Questions about the scope and limits of the doctrine of sovereignty are necessarily questions about the proper relations between the courts and Parliament . |
| 18 | However , as Bell and Szekeres have shown , there are necessarily discontinuities in the derivatives of the metric function V across the initial boundaries of this region . |
| 19 | It does not follow , however , that incised meanders are necessarily signs of rejuvenation , as if a stream starts to meander before it attains grade it may incise its own meanders to some extent without being rejuvenated . |
| 20 | He may not be able to see the political and general interest wood for the specialist trees , and there is a sense in which there are obviously dangers of that kind erm and the generalist has always taken the view that it 's for the specialist to be able to explain his problems in language which , after all , politicians who take the final decisions will have to be able to understand . |
| 21 | While there are obviously problems in developing and using this type of notional scale it has some utility . |
| 22 | There are obviously loads of guitar overdubs on it , but they 've managed to keep it sounding like a record made by a three-piece band . |
| 23 | There are obviously loads of permutations . |
| 24 | There are obviously improvements to be made ; more science should be taught , and there is a great need for more specialists in the class-room , even if they have to be peripatetic teachers , shared between a number of schools . |
| 25 | There are obviously individuals like that . |
| 26 | The other two types of charters are basically contracts of affreightment . |
| 27 | Mostly musicians spend their time jerking off in front of others and guitar and bass-playing readers are basically fans of the idea of that , but the truth is that it 's all individual — every neck on every guitar just has to feel a certain way . |
| 28 | This piece of writing sums up Owen 's feelings of war and his poems , we see , are somewhat warnings of things to come . |
| 29 | Youthful offenders were also believed to be getting younger , and according to one magistrate parental authority was at such a low ebb that ‘ it is melancholy to find that some parents are not ashamed to confess that children of seven or eight years old are entirely beyond their control ’ , while another thought that ‘ in nine cases out of ten , children are entirely masters of the position ’ . |
| 30 | By simplifying and emphasizing the features of major strokes we can make them easier to teach but paddle strokes are only copies of the real thing . |