Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The solid , silvery bubbles are most probably a species of algae called Sailor 's Eyeballs ( lovely name ! ) , which live in small , harmless colonies . |
2 | While men and women under 30 are most often the victims of crime , the impact is greatest upon those over 50 . |
3 | And so it goes on : cases which are obviously only the tip of the iceberg since they relate to repeated absence caused by serious illness of a relative . |
4 | But whereas neurosis is , in a sense , a private affair , affecting mainly the person who suffers from it , delinquency and acting-out of neurotic conflicts are much more the concern of society as a whole and are certainly likely to affect others to a greater degree than is normally true of the symptoms of a conventional neurosis . |
5 | You will be buying fish that have been fully acclimatised to the British seasons , and which are long past the ailments associated with new imports . |
6 | We are long past the stage where talk about the curriculum could be left to the academics ; beyond the stage where the views of the professions and the wider society had to be sought . |
7 | Does the Minister agree that we are long past the stage of apportioning blame ? |
8 | The East Sussex region is interesting because it has a very high retired population and it also has quite a long of young people , particularly in the Brighton area , and a relatively small workforce , rather low in industry , certainly in the primary industries , erm service occupations are perhaps almost the mainstay of the local populace — now how would an area such as that rate in your chart as to needs ? |
9 | In the work of Bottomley and Coleman ( 1981 ) criminal statistics are so much a function of highly variable administrative practices that they seem almost incapable of telling us anything about anything . |
10 | To confront the anger of God in the way the ancient Israelites dared to do , to face it as directed against ourselves and the society of which we are so much a part , is to escape the romantic pretence , the unrelieved jollity , or the easy , unthinking speech of so much that passes for Christian belief and worship . |
11 | Any would be magnificent and there is time to knit several of them for ‘ specials ’ but I have n't said anything yet about small ‘ fun ’ presents and decorations which are so much a part of Christmas . |
12 | Once more , such a situation is not necessarily incestuous but since love and sexual partnership are so often a matter of emotional dependence it is often hard to differentiate it from a quasi-marital partnership . |
13 | The carelessness born of fatigue and the complacency that follows victory are so often the preconditions for disaster , and they have to be fought with great patience and total concentration . |
14 | Take for example the level of wages and working practices of the print unions in Fleet Street which are so obviously the result of the use of naked power . |
15 | It would n't be in here , quotations are only normally the question from a pre-suppliers ? |
16 | Such accounts of the British ‘ constitution ’ are only superficially the result of the absence of a constitutional document . |
17 | Furthermore , there are literally only a handful of really big-time string manufacturers in the world , and a short burst of brain-power will lead you to the correct conclusion that there are a lot of companies buying strings in bulk from the big makers and putting their names on them . |
18 | I am not normally a vodka drinker but well , why not , it slipped down very easily with the sardines ! |
19 | I am not normally a follower of the daily horoscopes in magazines as I could not see how one small horoscope could possibly influence so many millions of people born under a particular starsign . |
20 | ‘ I am not just a child . ’ |
21 | While many of the 200 young mothers , grandmothers , shoppers and office workers who drifted into the Women 's Education Day might never have thought of themselves in this light , they probably identified immediately with the cartoon on the fact sheet : ‘ I am not just a housewife , I am an accountant , vet , nurse , negotiator , teacher , cook , red coat , driver … ‘ . |
22 | I am not just a snake he said . |
23 | I am not just a teacher , I 'm so much more than that ! |
24 | Though I am not particularly a Christian , I thought with sadness of my beloved dead . |
25 | ‘ I am not always a villain , ’ he added quietly . |
26 | ‘ I am not always a monster who will attack you . ’ |
27 | ‘ I am not quite the Hochhauser rapist I am made out to be , but I expect a little peck , just here , on the cheek . ’ |
28 | ‘ I do n't have to prove to anyone that I am not only a serve and volleyer . |
29 | I am not really a hero , they were only small daysacks , but my fitness surprised me . |
30 | I am not really a coward or even a ‘ nervous ’ person . |