Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slow , badly coordinated vector graphics are awful at the best of times , but when they 're trying to convey the scintillating action of such a classic film their inadequacy is more poignant . |
| 2 | But it is more likely that a physical restraint influenced the swirling liquids — just as bad weather cyclones and hurricanes are anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise south of the equator of spinning planet Earth . |
| 3 | For such a task crude approaches to semantic processing are preferable to the detailed analyses found in understanding systems since they are computationally tractable , robust and are not restricted to a small language domain . |
| 4 | He suggests that gradual movements in share prices caused by insider dealing are preferable to the erratic jumps in prices brought about by enforced disclosure . |
| 5 | Destructiveness and self-doubt are preferable to the enfeebled body politic and the parasitic Church . |
| 6 | It is easy to perceive that so long as this group of entrepreneurs is active in the market , and so long as they are alert to the changing prices their own activity brings about , the market process can proceed in an entirely normal fashion . |
| 7 | Decisions still emerge which are redolent of the pre-1964 era , such as those which manipulate the distinction between rights and legitimate expectations . |
| 8 | References to experts are private in the same way that arbitrations are . |
| 9 | Given employers ' lack of knowledge about qualifications and the relatively arbitrary way in which they use them , it is difficult to give credence to the widespread notion that they are dissatisfied with the educational levels of young workers . |
| 10 | Half of all the failures are because patients are dissatisfied with the functional results of this operation . |
| 11 | The Gongsters are complete for the 3 years 48–51 except for the first two issues . |
| 12 | To date , the fuselage , rudder and rear wing are complete with the front wing well underway . |
| 13 | A second problem is that utterances like ( 101 ) Harry can only speak this loud are token-reflexive to the physical properties of the utterance itself , so that not only do the enormous technical problems of dealing with token-reflexives in a logical manner have to be solved , but all the physical properties of an utterance will also have to be available as indices ( requiring , again , an indefinite number of indices ) . |
| 14 | ( Actually , the Brits are right about the European space effort , but that is not the point . ) |
| 15 | The inverted repeats of IS1151 are homologous to the corresponding sequences of the IS231 and IS4 insertion elements but diverge from those of IS186 and of IS421 . |
| 16 | In the case of Japanese enterprise groups many of these hierarchical relationships are arranged through complex subcontracts and the extensive use of quasi-democratic work teams using horizontal relationships to substitute for functional arrangements which more typically are hierarchical in the modernist bureaucracy . |
| 17 | A recent study by INSERM , the national institute of health and medical research , revealed that French specialists are under-represented on the editorial boards of medical reviews in relation to the strength of French biomedical research . |
| 18 | To achieve a fine white printing quality , the paper is oxygen bleached , thereby having none of the detrimental effects on the environment which are inherent in the conventional chlorine bleaching process . |
| 19 | Bloodletting is popular among the doctors and apothecaries , but herbal medicine , witchcraft and spells are rampant in the general population . |
| 20 | Indeed , it will be interesting to determine whether atk is involved in any human neoplastic diseases that are specific to the B-cell lineage . |
| 21 | Racism becomes defined in terms of features which are specific to the black ( or Afro-Caribbean ) experience , for example , or to the peculiarities of English history , so that anti-semitism , or the specific articulations of racism which have developed in , say , the Irish or Scottish contexts , or in other European countries , are treated as ‘ special cases ’ , because their inclusion would ‘ deconstruct ’ the ideal type . |
| 22 | The development of economy-wide agreements for both Scandinavia and the Netherlands reflects , however , not only those influences which are specific to the various countries themselves but also more general factors . |
| 23 | The colours produced by different atomic sized defects are specific to the particular defect . |
| 24 | However , the critical questions are specific to the particular ad , and they are the ones that really matter . |
| 25 | 1989 : As CD outsells vinyl for the first time , rumours are rife about the impending arrival of a blank , recordable CD . |
| 26 | If I am right about the masculine character of the women pioneers of agriculture we can see that the fact that the followers of the Phrygian mother-goddess castrated themselves is a nice illustration of Freud 's idea of the ‘ shadow of the object falling on the ego ’ : the ultimate reproach against the new agricultural mother was that she was masculine , and therefore the self-punishment came to fit her crime while confirming the identification with her in the most exact way possible . |
| 27 | These are picture-based at the earlier levels , and text-based at the higher levels . |
| 28 | ( d ) The reverse of the above , so that it is the children who are marooned on the alien planet , the teacher who is the alien offering them passage back to earth providing the children can explain the way of life on earth . |
| 29 | More than 7,000 jobs were moved in 1989 and almost 20,000 more are due over the next two years with the government in the van , say researchers Jones Lang Wootton in a survey published yesterday . |
| 30 | Further announcements are due over the next two years . |