Example sentences of "are [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | We can , however , blame the culture that is dominated by masculine values , in which women are widely perceived as less intelligent , and as sex objects and prisoners of their biology . |
2 | Vocatives in general are an interesting grammatical category , again underexplored , Vocatives are noun phrases that refer to the addressee , but are not syntactically or semantically incorporated as the arguments of a predicate ; they are rather set apart prosodically from the body , of a sentence that may accompany them . |
3 | First , they are rarely posed as clearly as this ; things tend to happen incrementally or interstitially . |
4 | This simplicity is , of course , in many respects the precise object of their management , because energy and nutrients are thereby channelled as directly as possible into human consumption with few sidechains and reduction in the losses involved in transferring energy between trophic levels . |
5 | Laser Raman spectroscopy revealed that near to the rector cores , the bitumen is less graphite and pyrolysis GC-MS showed that the aromatics are less condensed here too . |
6 | Prejudices , we 're all born with them , they 're if you like perceptions which are only changed very often through experience . |
7 | Men who stray are somehow seen as more exciting and desirable than good old Mr Steady ( remember how Paddy Ashdown 's poll popularity grew after he 'd ‘ confessed ’ ) . |
8 | The advantage of this method is that profits are normally taxed only once ; the drawback is that firms have some leeway to relocate profits , paying inflated prices for imports from group subsidiaries in low-tax countries . |
9 | And even if the weather is passable , low level walks will take you to places you 'd perhaps never have tried if you 're one of the many walkers whose sights are normally set pretty firmly on the heights . |
10 | Such judgements , however , are best made as close to the action as possible rather than on a theoretical basis a long way away . |
11 | When the patient is fit enough these measures are best performed as frequently as every 12 minutes . |
12 | One reason for this is that more women are first offenders , who are generally treated more leniently . |
13 | The presentation of policies in this section will be sketchy because they are generally covered more fully in the appropriate detailed chapter later in the book . |
14 | This makes it possible to study subtle processes of coordination : for example , when words are repeated they are generally pronounced less clearly after the first time , but only if they are being used to refer to the same thing . |
15 | Where students are already experienced then perhaps some very precise detail will be required . |
16 | Small nuclear explosions underground ( they are already banned everywhere else ) are just about impossible to distinguish reliably from other sorts of man-made bangs or earthquakes . |
17 | However , those who operate the law are well aware that it will only be respected to the extent that it conforms with public opinion : the reason why journalists and broadcasters are not prosecuted much more often for undoubted infringements of the letter of the laws of contempt and official secrecy is simply that the authorities are well aware that up-to-the-hilt enforcement of these vague laws would bring the law into further disrepute , and precipitate precisely the sort of clash between government and the press that it has been the British genius to avoid , whenever possible , by cosy arrangements . |
18 | Look for accumulations of dust and cables which are not pushed fully home . |
19 | Things are not altered so quickly or coarsely by common people as they are by fashionable people … |
20 | If women are not treated equally either in pay or promotion prospects , it is either because absolute equality has to be refined to incorporate differences in education or productivity , or because the constitution ignores the wish of Japanese women to give priority to their household duties . |
21 | However , the decline in resources directed to the public sector and the encouragement of moves towards owner-occupation under the Conservative government have prompted criticism that the three main forms of tenure ( owner-occupation , private-rented and public-rented ) are not treated even handedly . |
22 | After the weekend the couple go their separate ways again and are not seen together again until : OCTOBER 14 |
23 | For the main part , however , basic techniques are not employed correctly yet within the framework of a method the standard achieved is dependent on technique . |
24 | Searches are not made as frequently as staff would like , because they say , shortages mean there simply are n't enough officers to do it . |
25 | The French , Italian and Austrian Alps have their spectacles , but they are not presented so conveniently for the the idle downhill skier ( or even non-skier ) as the great set-pieces of the Swiss . |
26 | what 's interesting is that those rivalries are not focused as strongly as they used around the very big clubs , and we 're talking less here about what 's gon na happen at Manchester United and Chelsea and perhaps more about the difficulties of Wolves and and Stoke . |
27 | However , firms must consider that moving to a new area can break ties with existing customers and suppliers and could lead to a loss of business if new links are not forged straight away . |
28 | With very fine seed try mixing it with fine silver sand to ensure the seeds are not sown too closely . |
29 | ‘ under English law , a convicted prisoner , in spite of his imprisonment , retains all civil rights which are not taken away expressly or by necessary implication … |
30 | In the last issue of Observations , M. Ross raised two issues which are of ongoing concern to many classroom teachers ; that teachers views on education matters are not taken seriously enough by the decision makers and that to get on in education you must parrot the latest jargon . |