Example sentences of "are [adv] [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason seems to be that men and machines are fundamentally complementary rather than comparable , this point was originally made by Jordan ( 1963 ) . |
| 2 | Two specimens of the same species , we normally assume , are numerically distinguishable even if they are qualitatively completely alike . |
| 3 | Unlike other family dependants … women are economically dependent not because they need care but because they give it . |
| 4 | These skirmishes are rarely any more than two males approaching each other and lowering their heads until they are pointing head down in a vertical position . |
| 5 | The smoke contains levels of carcinogenic substances and heavy metals like cadmium , lead and berillium that are way in excess of permitted limits , some of which are much higher anyway than those in West Germany — lead 34 times , berillium 80 times and cadmium 166 times . |
| 6 | We are much clearer now than at the beginning about how to approach science in a more girl friendly way ( see Smail , 1983 , 1984 ) , and the clarity is due in part to the way we have worked with teachers . |
| 7 | That 's what you want , a decent endowment , it takes out all the fluctuations , and er the they 've big reserves , and of course the minute the endowment starts to look a bit poorer , it 's switch back to P E Ps , course I 've always said that P E Ps were a good idea , and the charges are much better now than they were , and I 'm just thinking of the poor chap that 's read the paper two years ago , over his tea and toast on a Sunday and thought mhm good idea , I 'll take an endowment , and two years later it 's the same person saying aha , no , pretty bad news an endowment . |
| 8 | I 'm glad I 'm grown-up now actually because er y'know it 's one of my great pleasures in life to wake up in the mornings and think great I 'm grown-up , I do n't have to go to school and er and I do n't have to live with my parents and er things are much better now than they were say sort of y'know twenty years ago or so , er giving away my age there . |
| 9 | He says east west relations are much better now so it 's not needed . |
| 10 | So the forces acting on the ERM are much stronger today than ever before . |
| 11 | At a national level , there is a debate going on about the need for generic units to underpin those qualifications which are highly occupationally-specific so that , for example , skills in areas such as literacy , numeracy and communication can be promoted . |
| 12 | If the word romance suggests improbability more often than not , then Masefield 's sea-stories are basically realistic rather than romantic , in tone as well as in material . |
| 13 | I trust that my proposals as to where I believe library and information science professionals should direct their efforts are sufficiently clear-cut so as to draw responses from the professionals involved . |
| 14 | Although the relevance of recordable bill of lading data depends upon the type of transaction involved , the following data are sufficiently generic so as to become prime candidates for public registry recording : 1 ) storage of goods in carriers ' warehouse or independent warehouses awaiting carriage ; 2 ) issuance of port to port and combined transport bills ; 3 ) on board loading ; 4 ) carriers ' ( actual or contractual ) names , and electronic signatures or authenticating devices ; 5 ) certificates of carrier , freight forwarder , and other issuer solvency or sufficiency of insurance ; 6 ) inspectors ' and other examiners ' names , electronic signatures or authenticating devices , and certifications of solvency or of sufficiency of insurance ; 7 ) negotiation , transfer , pledge , and presentation ( including cancellation ) of port to port and combined transport bills ; and 8 ) storage of goods upon termination of carriage , and issuance of warehouse and trust receipts . |
| 15 | ( World-system theories are less relevant here because , as was pointed out in Chapter 1 , they pay little attention to the internal structure of national economies . ) |
| 16 | Printers , traditionally an exclusive ‘ closed shop ’ of workers , say that initiation ceremonies for apprentices are less common now than 20 or 30 years ago . |
| 17 | They are less reliable even than the telephones . ’ |
| 18 | I found it an impressive programme and I hope it will not lead Mr Heseltine to conclude that chess sets are less harmful potentially than television sets . |
| 19 | the forces of the countries of the socialist camp are so great today and they are so strong economically that they can fully take upon themselves , on the basis of the development of normal trade relations , the provision of Cuba with all the necessary goods which are denied her by the United States … the Soviet Union is prepared to deliver oil and other goods in amounts fully meeting the requirements of Cuba , in exchange for Cuban goods . |
| 20 | Stoppard 's stage directions are so explicit here that we do not have to watch the TV production in order to appreciate the impact of Anderson 's action . |
| 21 | the forces of the countries of the socialist camp are so great today and they are so strong economically that they can fully take upon themselves , on the basis of the development of normal trade relations , the provision of Cuba with all the necessary goods which are denied her by the United States … the Soviet Union is prepared to deliver oil and other goods in amounts fully meeting the requirements of Cuba , in exchange for Cuban goods . |
| 22 | The catalogues produced by manufacturers and distributors of water pumps are so complex now that they can become difficult territory for the uninitiated , so advice should be sought from all quarters . |
| 23 | Also there are many binaries in which the components are so close together that no telescope will separate them , and they betray their true nature only by means of the spectroscope . |
| 24 | This is because the two components are so close together that they almost touch , and presumably gravitational strains mean that each is distorted into the shape of an egg . |
| 25 | It is yellowish , with a G-type spectrum , and is actually a close binary , though the components are so close together that no ordinary telescope will separate them . |
| 26 | It is actually a binary , but the two components are so close together that they can not be separated with ordinary telescopes . |
| 27 | The Earth and the Moon are so close together that it has been estimated that the exposure of both planets to asteroids and comet debris has been much the same . |
| 28 | The lines are so close together that two of them can be seen crossing the planet Jupiter at any one time . |
| 29 | Taking the last first , there are three villages which are so close together that with any allowance for coalescence , even the one kilometre which I believe was taken in the original look at this problem by the County Council , there would be no possibility of fitting in a settlement er of the size proposed . |
| 30 | All the crew here think the Indians are fantastically primitive just because they do n't have radios . |