Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the programmes are predominantly of advanced modules , admissions decisions are made by the relevant Field Chairs . |
| 2 | This research is mainly concerned with how the child uses the computer when performing tasks that are rather like simple games . |
| 3 | These are rather like undated gilts in that they are perpetual instruments , but interest can be waived or reduced if it would cause the issuer to breach capital adequacy requirements . |
| 4 | Medium leys , down from three to five years , are rather like arable crops in that maximum yield during those years is generally the main objective . |
| 5 | The discs between the vertebrae are rather like leathery cushions , acting as shock absorbers . |
| 6 | The Christian Church has always had a good many professing members who are rather like those disciples at Ephesus who , when asked by Paul , ‘ Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed ? ’ replied , ‘ No , we have never even heard that there is a Holy Spirit ’ ( Acts 19:2 ) . |
| 7 | There 's a consoling belief , one that has always held dull sway over critical and receptive minds , that both rock and pop are fundamentally about Good Songs . |
| 8 | It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round . |
| 9 | If we continued to exclude children , we are effectively excluding many women , we are excluding families and in many ways the men as well . |
| 10 | These are mostly of two kinds , first the great abbeys abandoned at the Dissolution , including Rievaulx , Furness and Leiston , and second , castles ranging from Dover in the south , Kenilworth in the midlands , to Norham in the north . |
| 11 | They have fairly regularly staged , what you might call bigger bands who play the university circuit as such and they 're always , you know , dying for people to come along so there 'll , th there 'll be lists published at what time , what events are on at these places if you wan na go and do that and if you wan na go to the top notch bands , Birmingham 's a good venue for that with the Leisure Centre , the M I A the N E C , the K G B etcetera etcetera all that stuff there so there 's always plenty to do , do n't , do n't feel restricted just cos we 're in er the middle of the city centre in this college and there does n't seem a lot to do , there 's a lot going on . |
| 12 | The lights are on for twelve hours a day , and filtration is by two Fluval 4s . |
| 13 | Lighting is by a 20W Triton and a 20W Gro-lux and these are on for ten hours a day . |
| 14 | This has been mostly in agricultural chemicals where tonnages have proved a good fit with Hickson 's type of batch equipment . |
| 15 | Four of the committee members are from developing countries , and the experience of several of the others has been mostly in these countries . |
| 16 | Parents speak approvingly of their timid children , and adults are constantly at great pains to convince others of their own fearfulness . |
| 17 | I think with regard to er I mean the , the general rule of things with regard to educational er issues and time off for them , erm they tend to be let's say reasonable er about it er but that 's been literally on educational issues . |
| 18 | Until recently , CHP systems — combined heat and power , also called co-generation — have been only for large hotels and have meant high capital outlays . |
| 19 | The 80s had been all about obsessional lifestyles , body consciousness , diet fads , work-out videos , designer leotards , Reeboks and Aqua Libra . |
| 20 | These are basically of two kinds : those which are generic to the product category ( clean clothes ; a delicious , easy-to-cook meal ; a safe place for your savings that gives a good rate of interest ; fast , easy , reliable driving ) ; and those which are specific to our product . |
| 21 | These come in many styles but are basically of two types — those where the blades pass each other in a scissor action , and those where a single sharp blade presses down on a block or ‘ anvil ’ . |
| 22 | The sample libraries listed at the end are basically of three kinds . |
| 23 | The couple are together for 90 minutes on a visit to a Nottingham hospital . |
| 24 | Clearly , the issues are less about individual technologies than the requirements of this new order in European education and training . |
| 25 | But this is not a fight Mason imagines he can lose and much of the interest tonight will focus on his ability to handle a taller opponent who has been in with better men . |
| 26 | I was n't afraid of losing my boyfriend while I was in prison , because I 've seen people who 've been in for two years and their boyfriends still come and see them . |
| 27 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
| 28 | If this is to happen then there must be far greater participation than there has been hitherto by all members of the school staff in the establishment of general philosophy and purpose of the school . |
| 29 | In some parts of the country , local authorities are so behind that searches are taking two months or more . |
| 30 | Thames Valley police caught one hundred and fifty four … that s down on last years one hundred and ninety nine . |