Example sentences of "are [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | One of the main criticisms levelled at US and European transnational corporations in Asia , Africa and Latin America is that their operations are predominantly of the export processing variety , employing low wage workers ( mainly ‘ nimblefingered ’ young women ) in monotonous and often physically debilitating labour , the products of which constitute a small proportion of the value-added of the final commodity . |
2 | The atoms that are involved in these interactions are predominantly from the heavy chain backbone , but use both main chain and side chain atoms from protein G. The complex is stabilized further by the association of exposed nonpolar residues from Fab and protein G , providing a continuous hydrophobic core which is shielded from solvent . |
3 | Account-holders are predominantly in the A , B and C1 social categories and mainly live in the South East or London . |
4 | We are rather at the point of arguing that the state , and in particular its bureaucracy , may be free from subordination and manipulation by the ruling class in order to preserve its interests in the long run and as a whole . |
5 | In the case of the evidence produced by informal interviews we , the readers , are rather in the position of hearing a case put by only one counsel and not the other . |
6 | It is difficult to see , for example , how the relation earlier/later can be made clear sense of without allowing the possibility of developing complexes , i.e. complexes which are not complete , but are rather in the " process of completion " . |
7 | Lane has argued that ‘ ruling class ’ interpretations of the Soviet Union are inappropriate because the holders of state power do not possess and inherit property but are rather in the same market position as other wage-earners . |
8 | Later , in the 1840 s , Emil Du Bois-Reymond ( 1818–96 ) showed experimentally that the impulses travelling along nerves are rather like the flow of electrical currents along a wire ( the similarity is in fact even closer than he imagined ) . |
9 | These are rather like the process of bereavement , with shock , denial , guilt and unhappiness , acceptance and resignation . |
10 | Hence they are rather like the overdraft limit placed on a private sector customer by its bank . |
11 | They are rather like the markers teachers use to signal transitions in lessons : ‘ Right ! ’ , or ‘ OK , let's get started ! ’ |
12 | Yeah , I mean , the next pubs are right over the side of the hospital , |
13 | One of the odd features when you first arrive in the area is that there is no advance warning of what 's to come — nothing visible of the Grand Canyon until you are right on the edge . |
14 | The student chooses their own subject ; most of these subjects are right on the fringes of the course , or overlap several different courses , and what surprised me when I sent round a questionnaire was how much the students said they enjoyed essay-writing . |
15 | Images of parties and party leaders are right at the margin between perceptions and attitudes . |
16 | For example , the Eskimos , who as hunters and fishermen are right at the bottom of Marx 's and Engels 's technological scale , have a kinship terminology which does not classify relatives any more than the English system does — a sign for Morgan of the presence of monogamy — while the Malays , who have possessed for a very long time highly advanced agricultural techniques , use a kinship terminology which Morgan and Engels associated with the earliest stages of evolution . |
17 | These are the rhyolites , which are right at the other end of the spectrum from basalts ; that is to say they are acid , contain a lot of silica and have the same composition as granite . |
18 | And the French are right at the forefront of design again . |
19 | So I think I made this point before that the people who are right at the top of politics are the ones who are very good at flattery , duplicity , manipulation and so on and these , are these really the qualities we want in our government ? |
20 | You see those two are right at the end , and those I do n't know whether those ought to be together before XX . |
21 | Chief executive Alan Smith said : ‘ Board members are right behind the team and the people responsible for picking it . ’ |
22 | Employees are right behind the scheme … |
23 | But regulars are right behind the pink pub . |
24 | But regulars are right behind the pink pub . |
25 | Having said all that , the famous Ipsos nightlife is practically on the doorstep as these apartments are right in the middle of town . |
26 | These two buildings , owned and managed by the Kendler family , are right in the middle of St Gilgen , and only two minutes walk from the lake and promenade . |
27 | The important thing about these volcanoes is that since they are right in the middle of the Pacific , they are basaltic , and their basalts are hot and very fluid . |
28 | ‘ We are right in the middle of watching one of our favourite programmes , ’ Mr Wormwood said . |
29 | It will probably start on Boxing Day when we are right in the middle of winter . |
30 | The authoritarian parent or dutiful child attitudes that so often characterized these relationships in previous generations are thankfully on the way out . |