Example sentences of "[pron] [am/are] [adj] and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The development is adjacent to the lands of the Kugapakori Indians , most of whom are uncontacted and therefore vulnerable to disease brought in by project workers .
2 Although the fees they receive are small , most of them are faithful and often long-serving .
3 The club now has a 20-year lease on the ground with an option to buy , and relieved chairman Ken Bates said : ‘ I am delighted and very appreciative of the totally supportive role taken by the Royal Bank of Scotland , who have been instrumental in keeping Chelsea at Stamford Bridge .
4 Number-taking outside polling stations is a fine occupation for the elderly , the infirm , and the lazy ( clue : I am young and reasonably fit ) .
5 My husband says I am calmer and more relaxed and that I have had a much more positive outlook on life !
6 In these days I am middle-aged and relatively inexperienced , ’ he joked .
7 ‘ But I was so ready to become a mother , and I 'm happy and more confident than I 've been before .
8 Goodey has not looked at it satisfactorily as far as I 'm concerned and as far as many of the scheme members are concerned , I mean he has concluded that the employers are still entitled to er do what they like with the surplus , the only thing that he recommends that they do it with the approval of the regulator himself , but he the other thing that the
9 However , this , of necessity , raises questions about issues which are controversial and politically sensitive ; it is these issues which will confront the future citizen .
10 There are forms of care which are absent , certain kinds of intimacy , and friendship , no touching , for instance , but it 's compensated by other kinds of care which are possible and not risky .
11 If they compress more on one side than the other , try differentiated densities , which are firmer and less likely to compress .
12 So far compliated clean-up procedures have been suggested which are expensive and not compatible with large numbers of templates .
13 Rohm and Haas has introduced a new range of floor polish polymers which are zinc-free and thus free of the high levels of ammonia required to complex the zinc .
14 These little blisters enlarge and eventually burst to form ulcers which are shallow and acutely painful to touch .
15 In particular , there can be serious outcomes on what are perceived as ‘ soft ’ subjects , like the arts , which are unexpected and frequently unintended by schools .
16 There is an obvious contrast in Ashton 's Enigma Variations between the youthful Dorabella 's playful and loving arabesques in front of Elgar and the arabesques of his Wife , which are calm and tenderly sympathetic when she dances with him .
17 I 've seen several big sombreros which are unusual and rather pretty .
18 What we can say , though , is that the picture which emerges from these is not of a monolithic bloc but of a constantly mutating organism made up of elements which are symbiotic and mutually contradictory at the same time ( see , for example , Sanjek 1988 ; Hirsch 1969 ; Peterson and Berger 1971 ; Hardy n.d. ; Frith 1978 ; 1983a ; 1988a ) .
19 Develop and market quality products which are wholesome and environmentally healthy
20 There are several spine-like papillae at the apex of the jaw , distal to these papillae the jaw appears to be covered by irregularly spaced oral papillae which are smaller and more rounded than those at the apex .
21 The resistance to taking mental events as spatial seems also to have to do with something less specific , pertaining to those of them which are perceptual and also those which are representative .
22 Yet I did not want to leave things alone entirely , without making an effort , but it is restricted to the expression of two things — the cypresses — the olive trees — let others who are better and more powerful than I reveal their symbolic language …
23 There are emotional types and there are some who are matter-of-fact and fairly cold in their emotional response .
24 Particular difficulties arise , perhaps , in establishing relationships with those who are smaller and less powerful and , possibly , to some extent dependent .
25 But if you are honest and up front with them , and tell them exactly what you 're doing and why you 're trying to do it , eventually over time , you get them And we started this in nineteen eighty five , eighty six .
26 The spongs are home to another source of interest — food — if you are desperate and very quick , because lemming live beneath them .
27 You will probably find that this comes naturally and that you are happier and more confident than you thought you would be .
28 In doing this , you maintain status by showing that you are aware and not ashamed of what is going on .
29 ‘ No , sir , not just because you 're older and more experienced than me .
30 One of Luther 's great statements about justification was that of our standing before God as simul justus et peccator — that we are sinful and yet righteous before God at the same time .
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