Example sentences of "are [adv] [adj] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not surprising that many professionals involved in education are rather dispirited and disillusioned at this time . |
| 2 | Some are rather heavy and contain a silicone ingredient which could cause problems — a build-up of silicone on the hair may affect the results of perms , tints , bleaches etc . |
| 3 | However , because the transcriptional properties of ATF1 and CREB are fundamentally different when fused to a heterologous DNA-binding-domain ( 30 ) it is apparent that changes in the relative proportions of ATF1 and CREB will have important consequences . |
| 4 | Animals ( and , to a lesser extent , plants and natural phenomena ) possess souls , spirits or essences which are effectively immortal and endowed with supernatural powers . |
| 5 | Training on offer at present centres mainly on the retailing services where jobs are mostly part-time and aimed at women . |
| 6 | They are mostly technical and make few concessions to the casual browser . |
| 7 | Though there are exceptions , the leaves are mostly palmate or shaped like an outstretched hand . |
| 8 | Even if the use of social class as a speaker variable were feasible in this rather fundamental practical sense , it would be unlikely to yield much insight into the interplay between social and linguistic differentiation ( for the rather obvious reason that a social class index can not distinguish in an illuminating way between members of a group who are mostly unemployed or concentrated in low-status occupations ) . |
| 9 | ‘ I am aware of these people who are professionally famous and turn up on all these clever panel shows , but I think Have I Got News For You is watched by a really wide spectrum of people and that is a big part of its appeal . |
| 10 | In that play the lovers are wholly sensitive and communicate to perfection . |
| 11 | One of the advantages of our business is that the opportunities to progress are remarkably many and varied — there is no one set path which you have to adhere to . |
| 12 | Crocus and hyacinth are most useful when planted in the border where , together with muscari and scilla , they can provide dense ground coverage and a rich carpet of colour beneath . |
| 13 | Nigel Duerdoth of the National Federation of Housing Associations thinks that the new payment system for hostels is ‘ most likely to break down in the inner cities — the areas where stress is greatest and hostels are most concentrated and needed ’ . |
| 14 | The Forestry Commission also are most helpful and have produced a set of pamphlets on their Woodland Grant Scheme , which can be obtained from the Forestry Commission , Private Woodlands Branch , 231 Costorphine Road , Edinburgh EH12 7AT . |
| 15 | b ) These illusions are most likely when trying to fly visually without adequate external cues , and loss of aircraft control may result . |
| 16 | erm I think it 's really encouraged by the fact that the erm gipsy sites which one sees around the County at the present moment because there is very little control over them , are most unsightly and do considerable damage to the countryside , and people do not wish this to happen in their own area . |
| 17 | What , what appear to be , as I said , naive questions very often are most penetrating and bring us up short because they involve things we 've taken for granted for many , many years and perhaps ought to look at again . |
| 18 | These are most attractive and offer first class facilities for the visitor . |
| 19 | These shirts are most attractive and offered at extremely reasonable prices as follows : |
| 20 | All the bedrooms are most attractive and have a private bathroom with a shower or bath and hairdryer . |
| 21 | Without even realizing it , we are constantly passing and using historic buildings and areas , visiting the local library or town hall , high street shops , the cinema or pub , the public park or the hospital . |
| 22 | They are constantly alert and need no urging . |
| 23 | Stories told about Burton at this time are necessarily retrospective and tend to suffer from retrospective grandeur and glamour . |
| 24 | These indicate that three strands have been plied together ; they are obviously thicker and knit up more or less as a double knitting type yarn . |
| 25 | Both it and Eta have M-type spectra , and are obviously orange when seen through binoculars ; it is interesting to compare their colours , and I have often found Eta the more strongly coloured of the two , though the difference is very marginal . |
| 26 | The charges are much higher than needed to run the markets because they are an important source of tax revenue . |
| 27 | These frequencies are much higher than used normally for DMTA and typically lie in the range 20 Hz to 100 kHz . |
| 28 | In pressing ahead we can not er overlook the position of the poorest , the social costs of not adjusting are much higher and affect many more people than the costs of adjusting but we must be prepared to help those at the bottom of society to cope and this is where you , as N G Os can play a special role . |
| 29 | Using data from the 1983 Labour Force Survey , they show that whereas unemployment rates for non-manual workers are low , with little variation between regions , those for manual workers are much higher and exhibit a much wider degree of regional variation ( see columns 1 and 2 of table 8.3 ) . |
| 30 | Rights of audience before tribunals are much wider as noted in chapters 12 and 13 . |