Example sentences of "are [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm The whole nature of the stock of teachers has changed and on , I 'm afraid , anybody 's reckoning , there are rather too many of them . |
| 2 | ‘ Is there any legislation or codes of practice covering circular letters of this kind , which are effectively just another form of advertising ? ’ |
| 3 | It is important to realise that serious books of this kind , which form the backbone of the libraries and were first laid down by the Victorians , are most often those which are not taken out or ‘ issued ’ at all . |
| 4 | So Andrew , Kevin and Karen are together so that 's alright , then it 's Michelle and Mutty and Paul and it 's Nana and Adrian , my brother 's |
| 5 | Speed , consistency , and the ability to answer questions as they arise are the three great benefits of such a system One of the difficulties which personnel managers encounter whenever they get involved in computerisation is that there are apparently so many options available . |
| 6 | Tam Dalyell 's views on the Brandt Commission 's second report ( Forum , 7 April , p 40 ) are perhaps just another addition to the literature on the subject . |
| 7 | The first is that drowned valleys down to about 90 m ( 300 ft ) are explicable as features related to low glacial sea levels and later drowned , but if they are deeper then this subsidence must have taken place . |
| 8 | At each stage there are only around half a dozen cases in any one year which are the focus of major interest which impinges upon the national press in a sustained manner . |
| 9 | ‘ You are only so much rubbish ! |
| 10 | They 're on a worldwide scale rather than a national scale , but you have to recognise that there are only so many hours in the day in which you can be efficient . |
| 11 | There are only so many things you can sell to someone who merely requires to be kept warm and dry as they walk up a hill . |
| 12 | There are only so many different varieties of coat colour for moggies , and if the family cat was a tabby , or a black cat with a white flash on its chest , then the owners are not to be blamed for thinking that their long-lost friend has finally found its way home . |
| 13 | There are only so many people you can watch jumping up and down , and only so many slogans you can be bombarded with before the brain goes into defensive shutdown . |
| 14 | There are only so many ways to describe a pitch and there is very little need to alter descriptions if the existing ones work perfectly well , thus cutting down on the number of major rewrites required . |
| 15 | It takes just five seconds for him to realize that there are only so many hours in the working day to establish the key priorities and apply his mind to them . |
| 16 | With a price of $25,000 there are only so many people who can afford the latter ! |
| 17 | This continues until the list consists entirely of tableaux which have been processed , which must eventually happen since there are only finitely many possible tableaux . |
| 18 | There are nevertheless still some school , borough and county choirs which flourish and some music centres which also promote choral singing . |
| 19 | Japan has few energy resources of its own and it has learnt to be frugal : energy prices are approximately twice those in Britain . |
| 20 | The surface energies of glue-solid interfaces are generally rather less than the free surface energies of strong solids , but not very greatly so . |
| 21 | It turns out that there are generally not enough dislocations originally present in most crystals to account for the very extensive slip which can take place in a ductile material . |
| 22 | There are already too many question marks hanging over this Government and too many lame ducks in it . |
| 23 | The results of research have indicated that there are already too many fast food operators providing meat in burger form . |
| 24 | And it is thus perhaps not surprising that there are already so many of them among our genes . |
| 25 | It is worth remembering that many contemporary historians using conventional paper archives are already very much dependent upon archivists for access to material , and for guidance in identifying and selecting sources . |
| 26 | But the plain truth of the matter is that there are just not enough jobs available for all the newly qualified divers pumped out by these companies . |
| 27 | The trouble is that there are just not enough places available at the moment , and in recent years local authorities have been unable to provide more owing to the shortage of funds and the cash limits imposed on local authority expenditure by central government . |
| 28 | But , they will assure you , there are just too many seats that Labour has to win , in all the wrong parts of the country . |
| 29 | The trouble with this attitude is that there are just too many bands around for that to happen . |
| 30 | We may feel that there are just too many dichotomies here for us to cope with . |