Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geographers are well represented in industry , commerce , government and the professions , and are widely sought-after as graduate trainees . |
| 2 | Of course then we may find that there is no real conflict at all and that the objective aims of the disputants are rather sordid and mercenary . |
| 3 | Firstly , Art & Language 's piece ‘ Ralph the Situationist ’ expresses considerable misgivings about the Situationist project : ‘ The texts are effectively incorrigible and self insulating … ’ ; ‘ … bland incoherence — a self-contradictory absurdity — a moral ground to give up reading and remembering … ’ , and so on . |
| 4 | Yet the two sets of Lieder are vastly superior as music . |
| 5 | For example , in Conversation C , the players in the domino game are mostly male and Jamaican-born . |
| 6 | The songs are mostly short and flash . |
| 7 | But Mr Salinas 's people are acutely aware that lack of competition and cosiness with the state have resulted in the squandering of billions and led to insufficient capital investment . |
| 8 | Some ministers admit privately that unemployment could continue to rise for another 18 months and they are acutely aware that fear of unemployment could hold back spending and delay any economic recovery . |
| 9 | Microcomputers ( see next page ) , by comparison , are altogether smaller and lighter , and do not require any special environment . |
| 10 | Many are little more than effluent channels , while some , by an accident of catchment , contain water fit for potable supply . |
| 11 | But military analysts in Bangkok pointed out that casualty figures are low , many of the positions along the sparsely-populated Route 69 are little more than bamboo huts sheltering two or three soldiers , and no big towns have been threatened . |
| 12 | Licence fees are little more than department administration costs . |
| 13 | They are most useful if discussion is programmed in afterwards . |
| 14 | These ratios are most helpful when income is constant . |
| 15 | These ratios are most helpful when income is constant . |
| 16 | punchlines are much better than sort of er . |
| 17 | Trivial names are much better as memory aids as well . |
| 18 | You can not put stock around them because trees are much tastier than grass . |
| 19 | Spring-tined cultivators with tines at about six-inch spacing , are much lighter than chisel ploughs . |
| 20 | In the classical limit when the gravitational field is weak and slowly varying where all the components of the tensor h are much less than unity . |
| 21 | The chapters on immune disorders of pregnancy and recurrent pregnancy loss , however , are especially informative and Claman is here to be congratulated for summarizing succinctly a large body of data in a balanced and objective way . |
| 22 | These fears are especially strong where man himself might become directly involved . |
| 23 | So far , we have discovered that particular movements are especially distressing while noise has no apparent effect on the birds . |
| 24 | Coalitions are especially important when change is needed because innovation — new projects or developments — generally involve going outside of current sources of organizational power . |
| 25 | We prepare for the worst-case slope and then are agreeably surprised when disaster takes longer to come than expected . |
| 26 | Habits , body forms , growth potential , and colours are highly diverse and care should be taken when selecting species for a particular aquarium setting . |
| 27 | O. bidentata can be distinguished from other Ophiacantha species by the form of the spinelets which are either rugose granules or trifid spinelets , the larger specimens usually having more abraded spinelets ; the arrangement of the oral papillae ; the shape of the oral shields which are basically rhombic although variable in shape ; and the texture of the arm spines which are finely rugose . |
| 28 | Julian says the conventional sewage treatment plants being installed by Severn Trent are less efficient and cost 10 times as much to build.Severn Trent says it ca n't comment on the seven million pound claim until the court hearing . |
| 29 | As would be expected , own solicitors are less available than duty solicitors and rota schemes perform better than panels . |
| 30 | Some of their policies — notably on taxation — are less moderate than Labour 's . |