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 | Firstly the curriculum ‘ must promote development in all the main areas of learning and experience which are widely accepted as important ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | But , for all their youthfulness , they are widely experienced and shrewd , and possess not only uncommon physiques but rare bowling actions . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Creativity and ingenuity are widely distributed and evident in the natural activities of children outside school . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Of 32 planned gas-fired power stations , three-quarters are badly designed and likely to waste more than half the gas they use . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Casual workers are rarely paid when absent because of sickness , nor are they normally entitled to paid holidays or other paid time off . |
| 19 | ( 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 . |
| 20 | Both the level of available resources and their deployment are constantly adjusted as necessary to counter the foreseeable threat . |
| 21 | Ideas about baby feeding and weaning are constantly changing and actual practice can have a profound effect on child health . |
| 22 | Conversely , the images used on coins of the Anglo-Saxon kings — for example , Edward the Confessor — are greatly varied and inconsistent ( unbearded and bearded ) . |
| 23 | In the Ephemeroptera and certain Lepidoptera and Diptera the mouthparts are greatly reduced or non-functional . |
| 24 | Because taekwondo was originally designed as an art of self-defence , blocking techniques are highly developed and refined . |
| 25 | The definition of the Confederation of British Industry of the United Kingdom work force as ’ under-educated , under-trained and under-qualified ’ ironically does not apply to the majority of refugees , many of whom are highly qualified and skilled . |
| 26 | I have found an excellent team of people who are highly committed and motivated and who work for N C V O as honorary officers , of staff , as members of all the various committees and working groups , task forces , er , and think tanks , and any other name that we can think up to involve you . |
| 27 | More significantly , it counterpoised the acquisition of land by the church — ‘ whereby the services which are due from such fees [ i.e. freehold ] and which were provided from the beginning for the defence of the realm are unjustifiably withdrawn and chief lords in respect of them lose their escheats ’ — with the good of the realm , for which the present ban is imposed . |
| 28 | In general , the picture is still painted with a very broad brush and later stages are better characterized than early ones . |
| 29 | Modern research backs claims that plant extracts , such as lotus , used for greasy skin , are better tolerated than synthetic substitutes . |
| 30 | In addition their jaws are better developed and similar in structure to those of the ophiacanthid subfamily Ophiotominae . |