Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 We are accused of being the poor men of Europe , and I think we are economically and industrially the poor men of Europe or at least our performances have n't been very good in this respect since the War , but the other side is that because we are the poor men and are self-conscious about it , that we have compensated , in a sense , in the vitality of our music and of our culture , and certainly in the pop culture .
2 These may of course in practice be confused or entangled with each other , as they are in Northern Ireland , or as they are in any state where the elections are largely or wholly a political ritual or a way of mobilizing mass support or approval for a regime in which party and state are indistinguishable , and electoral choice between contestants for office non-existent .
3 Whilst surely representing the pinnacle of guitar mass-production ( 500,000 per year sometimes ) you 're right that only a small percentage seem to have survived in the UK .
4 Well they 're more or less no different to what we 're walking down here now .
5 I am more or less a consultant to them . ’
6 When partners are more or less the same age , this slower response will be balanced by the older man 's more delayed reactions .
7 Before I first visited I supposed wrongly that , since the latitudes are more or less the same , the coastline would be vaguely similar to that of Maine or New Brunswick .
8 They are situated on practically adjoining hills and are more or less the same distance away from Gubbio .
9 Selvedges are more or less the same on all items , but the fringes are secured in a number of distinctive ways .
10 Having said that , it is beginning to gel as a discipline ; Mr D said that staff rarely discussed the aims of the course now , there being a ‘ general assumption that the ground rules are more or less the same [ as when we started ] ’ .
11 Liquid Crystals These are more or less the opposite to glass .
12 I mean they are more or less the same at the end as they were at the beginning .
13 Even if you are more or less an appropriate weight to begin with , you can benefit from exercise to tone the muscles .
14 They are also as much a potential source of recommendations as the client .
15 The way that these arrangements for the responsibility and control of book provision work out are often as much a matter of personalities and university politics as anything else .
16 Nor does it apply to claims which are solely or mainly the respect of physical injury or illness or the consequences of such injury or illness .
17 Magic thus represents a view of causation utterly at variance with the concepts of the Christian scientific West , which are now as much a part of the African 's world as is ancient tradition . ’
18 The Smiths had their day , made the '80s safe for ironic excitement and indie pop that was n't crap , and are now as much a part of the nostalgia industry-chart museum as The Rolling Stones .
19 But they and the families which ran them are now as much a part of local history as pits and shipbuilding .
20 He 's got a musical test which says do n't they 're tired they 're tired and then he said the pig says I 'm not and then the people said Oh dear and then he said I 'm hungry and then they said they 're hungry and he says I 'm not and he 's sleepy .
21 The benign types , 6 and 11 , are found in condylomas and low grade intraepithelial neoplasia but are seldom if ever the only virus types in invasive carcinomas .
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