Example sentences of "[verb] are [prep] [art] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its pleasingness rests purely within the intrinsic aesthetic since the similarities intended are of a purely visual nature . |
| 2 | If this sounds like a trite tear-jerker , the writing and acting are of a highly intelligent quality and Joan Knight 's production never becomes mawkish . |
| 3 | Nature , Sickert insisted , is not going to sit still and wait till you have got what is there — all the most interesting things that happen are of the most momentary description . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , in terms of the numbers of temporary workers involved , the industries we consider are amongst the most important ones . |
| 5 | I remind the hon. Gentleman that since the Government took office all the redundancies in the British coal industry have been voluntary and that the terms offered to miners affected are among the most generous in British industry and can reach £37,000 per man affected . |
| 6 | The CNAA , in its desire to ensure that the courses which it validates are of a sufficiently high standard , has necessarily concerned itself with the resources and ethos of institutions as a whole and has not hesitated to pass judgment on them , going , some would argue , beyond the responsibilities laid upon it by its Royal Charter . |
| 7 | For example , many of the houses which they buy are in the most remote or inconvenient situations and would otherwise have been abandoned by the local residents . |
| 8 | The differences between schooled and unschooled children that Greenfield 's material suggests are at a less universal and profound level than her descriptions imply . |