Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] [adj] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally they recognise that their pupils are exposed to sophisticated and easily accessible media which graphically , and at times gratu-itously , portray the violence and disharmony that exists in society . |
| 2 | These external benefits are enjoyed by all and so are non-rivalrous . |
| 3 | Green shoots or otherwise , the effects of recession continue to bite and booksellers and publishers are looking for innovative and more profitable ways of doing business . |
| 4 | This occurs where general offers are made by two or more separate offerors for the same target company . |
| 5 | The Americans owe the company money and they 're waiting for that and also the , they sold one of the machines at the exhibition so , and they 've had some enquiries , so hopefully they 'll bring some work in . |
| 6 | you 're holding like that and then I 'm cutting there |
| 7 | It has always been a fishing village and trawlers from here and from Machico are used for deep-sea and more distant fishing trips such as to the North African coast . |
| 8 | Most cheeses are crammed with fat and horribly high in calories . |
| 9 | Standard weepers are produced by budding and sometimes grafting , rambler types into stems a foot ( 30cm ) or more higher than bush types in order to enhance the weeping effect . |
| 10 | Whereas businesses are moving to more and more decentralized operations , business units still need to have instantaneous access to information . |
| 11 | A skim across the occupations of sportsmen 's parents reveals that most are employed in skilled or partly skilled or unskilled jobs as such things as carpenters , electricians , fitters , machine tool operators , assemblers , plumbers and porters . |
| 12 | Some systems are characterized by rapid and sometimes revolutionary change . |
| 13 | There are various procedural requirements applicable to a reduction in the standard number , including a duty of the proposer to publish details of the proposals and to refer the proposals to the Secretary of State if objections to them are raised by 10 or more local government electors or by the LEA or governors ( whichever of them is not the admissions authority ) . |
| 14 | Our holiday funds are raised by countless and most often unnamed people who work hard all through the year to swell our funds . |
| 15 | It is abundantly clear that Mr Radice has two main objectives — to ensure that the Department of Health is required to give its reasons why a product licence for a medicine is granted , revoked , or suspended , and to ensure that patients are provided with better and more comprehensive information about the risks and benefits of the medicines that are prescribed for them . |
| 16 | He claims that doctors are bombarded with new and more expensive joints each year with no proof that they 're any better than the cheap ones . |
| 17 | Farmsteads are found in nucleated or closely grouped settlements ( ie , villages and hamlets ) , in small groups of two or three farms , or they are isolated . |
| 18 | Some backward tribes inhabited the remoter mountains and jungles but the main population was of the same race ; today they are known as Vietnamese but then the outside world knew them as Annamites or Annamese . |
| 19 | Natural law and rights theories , positivism and contextualism , are in this sense no longer incompatible theories of the law but enter into the legal languages or dialects which are spoken in different or even in the same legal systems . |
| 20 | Surveys of top pay are coming in thick and fast . |
| 21 | Replies are coming in thick and fast to the invitations , and as yet there have been no refusals — the charm of McBride and his way with words will undoubtedly see that there will be a full quota on parade . |
| 22 | Each of these countries are characterised by disciplined and politically mature Communist ruling élites with a formidable apparatus of coercion behind them . |
| 23 | The current moves to encourage still further the provision of private occupational-pensions in preference to state schemes may serve only to emphasize the inequalities between some elderly people who are supported by one or even two occupational pensions , and those , particularly widows , who have only their state pension . |
| 24 | Higher than predicted ( positive ) gravity values occur over the oceans because they are underlain by thin and relatively dense crust . |
| 25 | If , for example , they are tested with full-strength or even half-strength milk , they show no preference for the more or the less sweetened examples . |
| 26 | Although they describe harvest feasts in an opposed manner , Leapor and Duck are engaged in more or less the same argument . |
| 27 | If you extend £100,000 of credit for a period of one year and during that year the inflation rate averages 10 per cent per annum , you will have effectively lost £1 0,000 even if you are paid in full and right on time . |
| 28 | Although many economists would argue that capital gains , as for example when ICI shares are purchased for 2 and subsequently sold for 3 , are as much income as the dividend component of the return on an asset , in practice the Inland Revenue assesses and taxes capital gains separately . |
| 29 | At the moment , sad to say that physical vertical is the most effective means of slowing people down and and narrowings and visual erm signs and that kind of thing , road markings , do not have the same effect er but we are working on that and hopefully in our next batch of schemes we will start to experiment with things like speed cushions and what have you which , which have a lesser effect on , on erm on both minibuses and buses . |