Example sentences of "are [adv] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 By now you should have discovered whether you are predominantly left or right-brained , thought about developing your creativity and learned about the influences on your mind and how to quieten it .
2 Barthes 's ‘ Introduction to the structural analysis of narrative ’ deals with more than one level of narrative , but presumes that they are hierarchically arranged and that , therefore , to a certain extent , they can be discussed separately .
3 Firstly the curriculum ‘ must promote development in all the main areas of learning and experience which are widely accepted as important ’ .
4 Even with the ending of East-West confrontations and the prospect of nuclear armouries being run down rapidly , it is hard to imagine a world in which civil reactors are widely regarded as safe and the problems of acceptable disposal of nuclear wastes are overcome .
5 As for helmets , I have never been convinced that they have much to offer , and my views are broadly confirmed by recent reviews in the CTC magazine and the journal ‘ New Cyclist ’ ( neither organisation being anti-helmet ; the reviews are widely based and fair ) .
6 But , for all their youthfulness , they are widely experienced and shrewd , and possess not only uncommon physiques but rare bowling actions .
7 Their residential courses held throughout the year for both beginners and advanced students are widely known and popular ; students come from all over the world .
8 Creativity and ingenuity are widely distributed and evident in the natural activities of children outside school .
9 The four subjects chosen ( English , maths , history and geography ) represented key subjects were communication skills are widely used and teacher-pupil dialogue at its greatest .
10 Statistical approaches to this problem are widely used and some of the basic ideas are introduced below .
11 Statistical approaches to this problem are widely used and some of the basic ideas are introduced below .
12 It is equally important to ensure that all joints and connections between the wires , uprights , and anchorages are properly made and strong enough for the job ( see Figure 13 ) .
13 Financial accounting concerns the need to have systems in place which ensure that financial transaction ( such as the payment of wages ) are properly conducted and that appropriate records are maintained .
14 Eastern bloc countries are uniformly analysed as quasi-totalitarian regimes controlled by a unified , corporate ( single body ) elite , which fuses political and administrative powers and monopolizes all decision-making .
15 The arguments against housing mentally handicapped people in such institutions are not founded , in the main , on the premise that they are badly run or insensitive to the needs of their ‘ patients ’ , but rather that no mentally handicapped person should be institutionalised and segregated from the community as a whole unless they require hospital and medical care .
16 Have a knife handy to cut away any really old slings which are badly bleached or frayed , or else exhibit scorch marks from the friction of the ropes of previous parties .
17 Of 32 planned gas-fired power stations , three-quarters are badly designed and likely to waste more than half the gas they use .
18 Sanding floors : Where old floorboards are very uneven , or you want to leave them exposed and they are badly stained and marked , hire a floor sanding machine .
19 Although some protection is provided by appeal to the Mental Health Review Tribunal or nearest relative right to discharge , in practice both are rarely undertaken or successful , relative to the total sectioned .
20 The task usually involves explaining the meanings other people 's actions have to them and , because these are rarely isolated or intelligible in isolation , re-creating other mental worlds .
21 For instance , it has been reported ( 15 ) that after propagation in S.cerevisiae , YAC vectors are rarely replicated as linear minichromosomes when transferred into S. pombe cells .
22 Casual workers are rarely paid when absent because of sickness , nor are they normally entitled to paid holidays or other paid time off .
23 Most of them are locally based and each is responsible for a group of schools or colleges ; they are under seven divisional inspectors .
24 ( iv ) When the actor engages in the medical treatment or examination of the victim in a manner or for purposes which are medically recognized as unethical or unacceptable .
25 The White Lions are powerfully built and stronger than most Elves , and in battle they wield fearsome double-handed war axes .
26 Both the level of available resources and their deployment are constantly adjusted as necessary to counter the foreseeable threat .
27 Ideas about baby feeding and weaning are constantly changing and actual practice can have a profound effect on child health .
28 Conversely , the images used on coins of the Anglo-Saxon kings — for example , Edward the Confessor — are greatly varied and inconsistent ( unbearded and bearded ) .
29 In the Ephemeroptera and certain Lepidoptera and Diptera the mouthparts are greatly reduced or non-functional .
30 Because taekwondo was originally designed as an art of self-defence , blocking techniques are highly developed and refined .
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