Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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1 | Several good references are listed in the further reading , but you need not worry about them now . |
2 | The fiscal argument is that welfare state benefits for the poor cost relatively less in the more affluent States , because they are drawing on a larger tax base ; the higher the average income in a State , the smaller the effort required to finance a programme at a given level of payments ( because presumably there will be both fewer recipients plus more rich people to tax than in States with low average incomes ) . |
3 | From 30 m to 50 m down , the small copepod Oithona similis becomes plentiful ; below this Oithonia and another small species , Microcalanus pygmaeus , are joined by the larger calanoid copepods Calanus finmarchicus , C . |
4 | The similarity continues if people or animals are examined at a later stage . |
5 | A bewildering number of configurations are now available ( Sigma Instruments , 1972 ; Cassat , 1977 ) , but in this Chapter discussion is confined to the basic drive circuits and the potential benefits of more sophisticated drives are examined at a later stage ( Chapter 5 ) . |
6 | In America it is settled by convention that law is made by statues enacted by Congress or the state legislatures in the manner prescribed by the Constitution , and in England that decisions by the House of Lords are binding on the lower courts . |
7 | Section 6(2) has already been dealt with in connection with violent disorder , and readers are referred to the earlier discussion . |
8 | Readers are referred to the earlier discussion . |
9 | The warehouses are organised in a hierarchical manner with a central one buying from satellite warehouses , which are situated in the poorer residential areas of Cali , so that they are near the homes of the garbage pickers . |
10 | Most of these compositions , however , have a narrow scope ; they discuss issues of immediate concern to members of a particular occupation though sometimes they are addressed to a wider audience . |
11 | Most of the pike fishermen think the best pike are caught in the colder months . |
12 | When the worms are mature , and eggs are aspirated into the smaller air passages and parenchyma , consolidation increases and emphysema is more marked . |
13 | This means that the extra payments received for overtime beyond the scheduled week are earned at an earlier stage in large firms . |
14 | There , four- and even five-year rotations , with only short grass leys between to restore soil structure and fertility , are quite normal on the ploughable land ; permanent grass or long leys are confined to the steeper or more difficult fields . |
15 | Postwar holiday consumption patterns in Britain indicate the rapid growth of package holidays in the 1950s , but the roots of this boom are located in an earlier period before the Second World War . |
16 | Women concentrate in a small number of occupations and most of these are located in the lower rungs of the occupational and grading hierarchies . |
17 | It is because of the concern expressed by my hon. Friend and others that the Government are committed to a further increase in the use of the ’ lane rental ’ method of procurement of motorway repairs . |
18 | We are committed to a saner transport policy including better public transport . |
19 | We are committed to a saner transport policy including better public transport . |
20 | We are committed to a saner transport policy including better public transport and this , as I mentioned , must ultimately benefit the majority of NFC employees . |
21 | I ca n't seem to get the lighting right — some plants are browning on the lower level — others are going brown all over . |
22 | This means ministers are wrangling for a bigger share of the cake . |
23 | Some instances of modern statutory liability are considered in a later section of this chapter but a more generalised revival of the Rylands v. Fletcher idea is proposed in two modern law reform proposals . |
24 | Further information about admissions to individual faculties as well as general course descriptions are contained in the later faculty sections . |
25 | The investments are reported at the lower of cost and net current value , the latter based on the enterprises ' most recent accounts . |
26 | So that when you introduce yourself , you are seen as a haulier , was the phrase you used , er , and we , we 'd all need to spend an awful lot of time and an awful lot of effort into raising ourselves above that image , I mean there 's nothing wrong with being a haulier , all I 'm saying is that we have to raise ourselves above that image . |
27 | International companies try increasingly to evolve a global vision in which their core economic activities are seen in a wider socio-economic context . |
28 | Would this lead to the principle of differentiation being accepted but used for different purposes , so that the goals of interest groups , rather than social welfare , dictate which commodities are taxed at a lower rate ? |
29 | The maximum of pilots keeping a visual lookout for other aircraft has little relevance when fast and slow aircraft are operating in the lower airspace . |
30 | These differences are related to the wider patterns of drug use in society at large in which females are proportionately less likely to engage in recreational drug use then males , as this and a number of earlier studies show ( for example , Belle and Goldman 1980 ) . |