Example sentences of "[noun pl] are [adv] [adj] of the " in BNC.

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1 The survey also found that 74 per cent of the heads of institutions are not confident of the Government 's ability to develop and implement a coherent and successful higher education policy .
2 It can therefore be assumed that the Soviet commanders are fully aware of the situation , if not totally in control of it .
3 The organization of the state is not all social organization ; the ends for which the state stands are not all the ends which humanity seeks ; and quite obviously , the ways in which the state pursues its objects are only some of the ways in which within society men strive for the objects of their desire .
4 These illustrations are simply suggestive of the complexities which are likely to be involved when we attempt to understand patterns of ‘ tending ’ within families of different cultural background .
5 There is an overwhelming body of evidence that British employers are more aware of the importance of training for their future than has ever been the case in the past .
6 Defenders of the Wild : Sundays at 7pm. 12th , The Sting of Jose Truda Palazzo : Poachers and loggers are just two of the groups this Brazilian conservationist has to contend with .
7 Top Cajun Band The Flatville Aces are just one of the host of outfits on parade at the Farnham Folk on April 26th .
8 Unions are demonstrating a growing sophistication and success in their use of the law , while the courts are increasingly aware of the difference between an employer who is frivolously testing his rights to its limits and an enterprise with genuine reason for seeking an interim injunction .
9 As the quotations at the opening of this chapter suggest , the Soviet authorities are not unaware of the seriousness of their own problems .
10 The availability of cash support has ensured that virtually all local authorities are now aware of the position of the cycle in national transport policy and have their own cycle plan , usually integrated with their overall transportation plan .
11 Is this sort of thing on the increase because the authorities are more aware of the need to control and manipulate the photographers , or to present them with carefully chosen opportunities and photographers are under increasing pressures ?
12 Those who deal with firearms are generally aware of the attendant risks , and the days when those involved in motoring and other forms of transport could make light of the risks to life have now long passed , as various air , sea , rail , and road disasters have occurred .
13 Many of those enquiries coming from schoolchildren , which prompted WasteWatch to develop an information pack for use in schools , to ensure that future generations are less wasteful of the world 's resources .
14 In turn , those values are partly constitutive of the form of life held to be valuable by the adherents of the discipline .
15 GEC Ferranti , British Gas , Procter and Gamble , Logica and Scottish Widows are just some of the major companies backing the courses .
16 Other campaign groups are also critical of the NRA 's performance ; the Clean Rivers Campaign describes the NRA 's workforce as " sadly apathetic and demoralised " .
17 Furniture makers , distilleries and sweet manufacturers are just some of the many British industries that rely heavily on the US export market .
18 Such triple-time endings or interpolations are highly characteristic of the English fantasia and Byrd 's finest examples , two of those in six parts , are both marked by them .
19 As we have said , animals are superbly aware of the way a mind is reflected in body posture and there is no way that the hunter Jim Corbett could have concealed his alertness and readiness for attack , whatever disguise he adopted .
20 Barbie 's eyes are probably two of the last pits in Britain .
21 Not that the other parties are n't full of the sweetest intentions — Mr Major 's determination to preserve the right of women to earn £2 an hour can not be doubted , nor can the sincerity of Mr Ashdown 's belief that women 's concerns should permeate every government department .
22 For young people , the main attractions are not those of the daylight hours , because this is the ‘ latest ’ resort we 've ever seen .
23 I should add that some of the most interesting echinoderms are also some of the rarest — peculiar , plated animals that do not fit comfortably into the array of living forms .
24 Er and also it 's not always easy , I mean there 's all this youth work business and sort of detached youth work and so on in erm er you know in the very underprivileged areas , but actually I , I think people say that the erm er the disaffected teenagers are actually some of the most difficult people to relate to at all .
25 The authors are very understanding of the ‘ formula-shy , and they even help by providing the sequence of key punches on a pocket calculator .
26 But in time term " , these limestones are very much of the same age as those in Europe and , as I have said elsewhere , " the Niagara Falls are nothing more than the Niagara River falling over an escarpment of Wenlock Limestone " .
27 This last part corresponds to Rosch 's ( 1973 ) idea of prototypes in concepts , where certain words are more typical of the concept .
28 Encouragement has been made through tax incentives , so that pension savings are now one of the most tax effective investments available .
29 Giving voice to the demands , and warning about the constraints on teachers buying books , Pat Clark , a teacher and member of the Federation of Children 's Book Groups , reminded booksellers and publishers alike that ‘ books are only one of the resources needed by teachers ’ .
30 While other European Community countries are increasingly aware of the vulnerability of land , however , Britain 's pioneering national field-by-field soil survey remains incomplete , 53 years after it began .
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