Example sentences of "are [adj] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results suggest , therefore , that tariffs are preferable to quotas if the market was initially more competitive than Cournot . |
| 2 | Screw-on glazing bars are preferable to snap-fits as they hold this flexible glazing sheet more securely in place |
| 3 | More generally it has meant that although religious freedom is formally guaranteed by the constitution , yet Bibles are unobtainable in bookshops , the printing of Bibles is forbidden , seminaries are rigidly controlled by the state , religious education in schools has been virtually eliminated , church publishing and information is under government control and Christians are discriminated against in gaining admission to colleges and in seeking professions of their choice . |
| 4 | Second , at each age mortality rates are lower for women as compared with men ( this is considered in more detail below ) . |
| 5 | This is supported by evidence that hospital stays and admission rates are lower in HMOs than under fee-for-service systems ( Petchey , 1987 ) . |
| 6 | The study also confirms that referral rates are lower in areas where there is no local renal unit nearby . |
| 7 | Both are lower in calories than practically any other first course you might pick — if they are enjoyed without buttered rolls . |
| 8 | When employees are dissatisfied with aspects of formal organisation ( eg. they dislike the work they do or the person they work for ) they are likely to rely more and more heavily on an informal organisation at work to satisfy their personal needs in their work situation . |
| 9 | Some cleansers help loosen simple blackheads , but are unsuitable for whiteheads , inflamed pimples or cysts . |
| 10 | And for those who say that some pubs are unsuitable for children because they might have some evil influence , then is n't it about time those pubs were cleaned up ? |
| 11 | Something has to be done about it to make parents realise that these are classified as unsuitable for children because they genuinely are unsuitable for children . ’ |
| 12 | Mechanistic systems are unsuitable in conditions of change because they tend to deal with change by cumbersome methods . |
| 13 | The tadpoles that develop from them are complete with mouths and external gills and they feed within the oviduct on tiny white flakes secreted from its walls , nibbling them just as though they were independent creatures browsing in a tiny pond . |
| 14 | First , union organization is weak compared with BR , and the majority of employees are unrepresented by unions . |
| 15 | Although chemical weathering reflects the tendency for new minerals to be formed which are stable under conditions prevailing at the Earth 's surface , the rate at which these stable forms are produced is often very slow . |
| 16 | It has been argued up to now that although word-meaning is in a sense infinitely variable , nonetheless discrete units — ‘ atoms ’ or ‘ quanta ’ of sense — can be identified which at least in some respects are stable across contexts , and which are the appropriate basic units for lexical semantics . |
| 17 | These allied to an apprehension of the uselessness of qualifications anyway — blackness being seen as the immovable obstacle to career progress — produce a situation in which black kids are receptive to alternatives , to different life plans . |
| 18 | Advances to customers are profitable to banks but highly illiquid . |
| 19 | Personal computers are too fragile to cope with viruses and must be replaced with sophisticated systems which are resilient to viruses in the first place . |
| 20 | The main strength of the theory is that it directs attention to the entrepreneurial or innovative personalities who seem to be so important in the developmental process , but even here the theory does tend to ignore the inconsistencies and contradictions that are inherent in explanations based on individual characteristics . |
| 21 | I ca n't stand people who are cruel to animals . ’ |
| 22 | The RSPCA says magistrates are too soft on people who are cruel to animals . |
| 23 | Young people are ill-served by arts programmes . |
| 24 | Since Roberts 's book focuses on women , she necessarily highlights patterns of exchange which are specific to women , and it is quite possible that both duty and affection were ( and are ) more prominent in exchanges between women than when men are involved . |
| 25 | These granules ( 300–500 nm ) store many proteins , some of which are specific to platelets such as platelet factor 4 , β-thromboglobulin , low-affinity platelet factor 4 and platelet-derived growth factor . |
| 26 | One essential paradox is that it is those groups who are poorest in terms of resources to cope with difficulties who are beset with the greatest problems . |
| 27 | Horror stories are rife of ex-cons setting up their own security companies , with all the obvious risks that entails . |
| 28 | The factories are rife with diseases needing attention and routine dosing of the animals with vitamins and drugs takes place , often to the point of dependency . |
| 29 | I hate men like you who proclaim that they are supportive of women and their efforts for equality . |
| 30 | when we do use our staff , we have the advantage that they are not restricted to a fixed location , but are mobile within districts and organise themselves with minimum supervision and are already capable of using high productivity equipment . |