Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The newer recruits who joined the water authorities after reorganization of the water industry are predominantly young men in their twenties . |
| 2 | These are predominantly agricultural labourers in Bolivia 's main Quechua-speaking areas : Cochabamba , Potosi and Sucre . |
| 3 | Both act as a barrier against the elements in winter , but are rather unsuitable choices for summer . |
| 4 | The games that are supplied are rather poor examples of what should be possible , both the use of graphics and their actual ‘ playability ’ are hardly outstanding . |
| 5 | The metric equivalents are rather odd numbers at 305 or 380mm . |
| 6 | There are rather similar findings for writing . |
| 7 | They are rather common fossils from the Ordovician onwards , and in spite of their small size can be abundant enough to be important as rock-formers ( especially in limestones ) . |
| 8 | This is because there are rather few ways in which an image of the incident light can be formed . |
| 9 | The letter from the plaintiffs solicitors in respect of question of interest one causes , the letter of the twenty ninth of January of nineteen ninety two , asking Mr to confirm , that in addition to the settlement figure of forty two thousand pounds in respect of costs he 'd be paying interest until the date of payment , and er , there was never a mind that erm which find a reply to in , in thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two by Mr , there 's no unqualified agreement in figure of forty two thousand pounds , I do not wish to appear obstructive but your clients must recognise that there are effectively two issues to be resolved , namely the payment of their costs and the division of the parts of other property , surely in all parties interest that none of these are resolved , so it is surely in all party interest that those , those are resolved contemporary and then the letter goes on to dealing with questions of valuation , the bottom paragraph on page thirty two in the bundle says in answer to your letter therefore is that there is no agreement to pay interest , if there is then my client must be credited with interest on his costs , and then it says surgery and finally if ove if overall agreement can not be reached then my client reserves his rights on the issue of costs and I feel that this could lead to an acrimonious and protracted taxation , at the end of the day I suspect it would only be enforced the order for costs about taking a charge in my clients interest in the surgery premises , does that improve your clients position at all , as I say that was the position of the thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two and during the remainder of nineteen ninety two there were then further negotiations , some of them appeared to have been carried out er personally between er doctor and er doctor which seems to of been the partner , dealing with the plaintiffs position and er he says about his non negotiable offer at page forty one in the bundle apparently attached to a letter of the twenty first of December nineteen ninety two and er that had a time limit on , the twenty second of March , there was a reminder on the twenty second of February and erm the plaintiffs solicitors wrote on the fourteenth of April nineteen ninety three raising the question of costs erm say that erm we have now received your clients instructions , that they would be prepared to accept the sum of forty two thousand in respect of their standard basis costs which is inclusive of V A T and disbursements , you remember that our initial schedule of costs which I set part of my letter of the eighth of October total fifty thousand , nine hundred and ninety eight pounds , twenty six pence , in addition to this our client would require interest from the which is as of todays date at seven hundred and sixty days at seventeen pounds , twenty six a day totalling thirteen thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds , sixty , in the circumstances I look forward to receiving your clients cheque for the sum of fifty five thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds and sixty pence within the next seven days and then it says I believe you were certainly agreeing have been very patient concerning your clients costs , but now we wish these to be paid and that was responded to er Mr on the twenty second of April er but why he quite has not been directly involved in the conversation for some time and there was not reasonable expected response for seven days from him , er and then he goes on to say that although he appreciates his firm is still on the record , I shall seek instructions from my client , but it maybe he would wish to give notice of acting in person and indeed that is in fact what happened , what happened in this case . |
| 10 | On the other hand , Hungary , Poland and Czechoslovakia have recently re-formed their agricultural regimes with such rigour that they now have what are effectively free markets in farming . |
| 11 | Measurement of h-parameters demands that the input terminals are effectively open circuit with respect to signals while the output terminals are effectively short circuited as far as signals are concerned . |
| 12 | Some urban estates , partly as a result of allocation policies , are effectively one-class areas with few examples of success , clearly labelled by their architecture and appearance is distinct from the rest of society . |
| 13 | Computers are effectively large arrays of switches , which can be either ‘ on ’ or ‘ off . |
| 14 | Although a plateau will develop in the overall incidence of AIDS , there are strikingly different predictions for each exposure category . |
| 15 | Growth and other manoeuvrings motivated by no logic other than a defensive one are economically damaging by-products of an active market for control , causing a ‘ huge diversion of managerial effort into devising ways to reduce a vulnerability that did not grow out of managerial inefficiency ’ . |
| 16 | But , however many ways there may be of being alive , it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead , or rather not alive . |
| 17 | The end stage of the pathway is represented by CD4 + CD8 - TCR high+ or CD4 - CD8 + TCR high+ cells ( both are said to be in single positive , or SP , stages ) , which are mostly immediate precursors of major histocompatibility complex ( MHC ) class II-restricted helper T cells and MHC class I-restricted cytotoxic T cells , respectively . |
| 18 | It is rarely inherited , and there are rarely two cases in the same family . |
| 19 | Kogan also points out that bureaus are rarely composite elements with a single set of preferences : ‘ educational bureaucracy in Britain is not only multi-level but also a strongly divided group at any one level . |
| 20 | Pollutions are rarely dramatic events in themselves , but are often more striking in their consequences . |
| 21 | Movements of struggle are rarely spontaneous eruptions from below . |
| 22 | There are altogether thirty instances of this in the two sets of interviews , resulting from three different situations which occurred almost equally commonly : need for housing space , death , or desertion . |
| 23 | There are altogether sixteen grounds for possession that the landlord may use . |
| 24 | Even in split schools ( mainly in rural areas ) there are presumably close links between levels , and a high degree of curriculum continuity . |
| 25 | It is not difficult to make similar observations in the case of other adjectives : ( 8 ) a meteorological expert romantic novelists foreign policy a nuclear scientist animate nouns the royal hatmaker All these are wholly respectable phrases of English ( especially the last one ) but , in every case , a test using the sentence " This N is A " will either give a meaning to the adjective which is different from that in the original phrase , or simply produce an unacceptable result . |
| 26 | And there are little black dots on the ground ahead of it . |
| 27 | Comparative anatomists tell us that there are remarkably few differences between our brains and those of monkeys and apes , other than that ours are bigger . |
| 28 | There are remarkably few fumblings between the main historical chapters as the narrative is handed from one writer to the next . |
| 29 | On the other hand , middle-out strategies are computationally explosive methods of search requiring highly tuned scoring methods and matching strategies to constrain the exploration of all the myriad combinations of possible hypotheses . |
| 30 | ‘ Bribery and corruption by large corporations are most serious forms of crime because of their inegalitarian consequences . |