Example sentences of "are [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buildings of Cambridge colleges are predominantly of stone , while those of domestic Cambridge are mainly of brick and slate . |
| 2 | Some of them are rather like cave paintings are n't they and have they 've got this from my a sort of tedious association of the drawings and pictures and er Catherine 's it seems to be suggesting that animals were around , animals and other creatures were around a long time before human beings and that human beings are in some ways intruders therefore in their in their world . |
| 3 | The change has meant that fund managers have , as John Harrison says , ‘ begun to realise that charities with their gross funds are rather like pension funds : they have an institutional nature with trustees involved and this makes them a fund management proposition ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ You are right of course , my lady . |
| 5 | Because it considers that capitalist economies are fundamentally in dis-equilibrium and each regulation system which controls them breaks down eventually , its view of history does not include the regular and predictable cyclical pattern of long-wave theory . |
| 6 | Such people are effectively under house arrest . |
| 7 | A barn owl 's body feathers are mostly for warmth , while the wing and tail feathers are used for flight . |
| 8 | It is also worth noting that , whereas the mills of the Lancashire cotton trade on the west side of the Pennines are mostly of brick , the wool mills of Yorkshire , on the east side , are of the readily available stone . |
| 9 | They are mostly of brick , unlike the woollen mills of Yorkshire , which are nearly always of stone . |
| 10 | Its street frontages are mostly of glass , separated by stone mullions designed to look like cast iron , and the windows are constructed as oriels in very slender iron frames ; it is included in this book because it was a pioneering metal-framed building . |
| 11 | For those who are mostly in bed or in a wheelchair , there are various types of bags , which can also be used at night . |
| 12 | Dr Gordon Moore , Intel chairman , said : ‘ We are badly in need of extra systems capacity and this part of the project will go ahead extremely rapidly . ’ |
| 13 | And , while they are badly in need of such innovations as a massive reafforestation programme , desalination facilities , an organised fishing industry , means to exploit their few mineral resources , and perhaps even tourism , they will not give up easily their island heritage . |
| 14 | Indeed , it is here above all that the contemporary ‘ law-and-order ’ enthusiasts who slap down ‘ permissiveness , as a postwar invention are badly in need of a history lesson . |
| 15 | And my teeth are in bad , all my teeth are badly in need of repair . |
| 16 | Their disadvantage is that the less exotic goods like fittings are rarely on display so you will need to know what you are after . |
| 17 | This small herd of 40 or 50 animals , though enclosed , still has the freedom of 135ha of land and the animals are rarely in contact with humans ; they live as a wild herd and exhibit many interesting behaviour patterns , which have been studied in the past by famous artists and very recently by Cambridge zoologist Stephen Hall , who has published his observations . |
| 18 | The justification usually advanced is that the facts are rarely in dispute and that the judge who has witnessed the incident is the person best equipped to deal with it . |
| 19 | Members of the general public usually only respond and react to media content : they are rarely in control of media work . |
| 20 | When people fall short of their standards , and are thereby in breach of their injunctions , somewhere inside they start to feel badly about themselves , and to begin to doubt their worth and acceptability . |
| 21 | The latter said ‘ We are wholly in favour of a move away from E2L provision being made on a withdrawal basis , whether in language centres or separate units within schools . |
| 22 | German secular songs of this period , like the religious ones , are preponderantly on tenor cantus firmi , the tenors usually being ‘ courtly songs ’ ( Hofweisen ) . |
| 23 | They are mentioned by name on eighteenth-century maps and referred to in Sir Walter Scott 's The Bridal of Triermain ; they are often supposed to mark the county boundary , which they do not , and the most popular theory is that they were erected at the time of the Border raids to delude Scots advancing up the Eden valley , from which they are conspicuously in view , into the belief that an English army was encamped there . |
| 24 | Meanwhile Davies has been busy with the camera and his latest 16 x 20 inch black-and-white prints of sharply-shadowed New York store fronts are on at Sonnabend through to the end of the month . |
| 25 | As for predictable harmonies — ‘ the harmonic cornerstones … emphasize the most primitive harmonic facts ’ ( ibid : 18 ) — each of the four sections begins and ends on the tonic chord , and in between , complications are minimal : the primary triads ( E♭ , B♭ , A♭ — tonic , dominant , subdominant ) are overwhelmingly in charge . |
| 26 | The soft and acid water areas of Scotland , and north-west England are most at risk from lead , and the East Anglian and Staffordshire areas from nitrates . |
| 27 | The Employment Training Programme , set up in 1988 to help the long-term unemployed , gives a low priority to workers over the age of 54 who are regarded as non-mainstream ( indeed those over 60 are not eligible to participate ) , even though it is older workers who are most at risk of experiencing long-term unemployment . |
| 28 | In contrast , school-age children are most at risk to hazards in the outdoors environment , particularly in the roads and in the school playground . |
| 29 | If nurses are to attempt to prevent avoidable accidents to patients , they need to be aware of what and where the hazards are ; when accidents are most likely to occur ; and which patients are most at risk . |
| 30 | As children are those that are most at risk from impact by vehicles in housing areas , any search for safer streets should focus principally on them ( Figure 2.5 ) . |