Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] are [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Terms such as alternative , natural , unorthodox , or unconventional are closely related but not synonymous .
2 A number of tests to 10000 ft ( 3000 m ) or more are currently drilling or planned in West Virginia and Pennsylvania .
3 Nevertheless , her descriptions of specialist homes show that few are specially designed and few have the enhanced staffing levels that would be necessary for specialist care .
4 We have shown that in over 110000 deliveries there are only small , non-significant differences in perinatal mortality rates between hospitals when the place of booking is considered and that these are further reduced when adjustments are made to allow for the risk factors known at booking .
5 The other notable exceptions are ‘ ordinary wear and tear , ordinary leakage and breakage , inherent vice of the subject matter insured ’ — although these are normally expressed as specific exclusions on the face of the Policy , it should be borne in mind that we have these defences at law .
6 As was pointed out in the previous chapter , the plan of the Victorian house and the Victorian city have this in common : that both are so designed that the few who live on the privileged side of the divide need know nothing of the many who are crowded beyond it into a fraction of the space .
7 According to the World Bank in its report on Energy Transition in the Developing Countries ( 1984 ) , energy supply has the potential almost to double in the years to 1995 provided that available resources both financial and technical are strategically deployed and realistic pricing policies are established and maintained .
8 Some have been toppled , and some are so eroded that they appear to be nothing more than wind-scoured boulders .
9 Bars 11 and 12 are easily played if you finger a 4-string E chord at the 12th fret .
10 There are some differences , however , and these are best understood if we consider first those who may vote in local elections and second those who may be elected as councillors .
11 Examination of the mechanical behaviour shows that there are five distinguishable states in which a linear amorphous polymer can exist and these are readily displayed if a parameter such as the elastic modulus is measured over a range of temperatures .
12 Levels I and II are generally interpreted as follows :
13 These are mostly run by local authorities , but some are privately owned and/or denominational .
14 When wood begins to fail in compression little lines of buckled fibres can just be seen running diagonally or across the grain but these are easily missed unless the surface is clean and you know what to look for .
15 This impression of relative prosperity would be even more the case in physicians ' private offices , but these are unevenly distributed and are largely absent from the poorest parts of the city .
16 The debate is now largely ‘ old hat ’ in the sociology of education and there is a general consensus that schools do indeed impart values , but these are usually modified or developed versions of already existing dominant values of the society of which they form a part , including a number of parental values .
17 The apartments are slightly more uniform than in some more rustic properties but all are traditionally decorated and furnished .
18 The task usually involves explaining the meanings other people 's actions have to them and , because these are rarely isolated or intelligible in isolation , re-creating other mental worlds .
19 Nonetheless , the flow-chart-cum-module model is much more open to interpretation in terms of localization ( if only because both are normally explained and displayed spatially ) , and therefore any explication of consciousness in their terms will tend to be a localized model , or what I referred to as a pinball-machine view of consciousness , one that seems to me a priori implausible .
20 Such formalities as this are easily taught and can even be fun to teach and learn .
21 Specification of the problem in terms of u τ and Θ H is particularly useful in application to the atmospheric boundary layer , as these are often known when the dynamics of the whole system are not .
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