Example sentences of "they [am/are] [adj] and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the fees they receive are small , most of them are faithful and often long-serving . |
| 2 | The children who have gone to the country are much taller , stronger and better fed , they sleep longer and in every way they are alert and more easy to teach . |
| 3 | They are strong and reasonably easy to work with but do n't always produce natural looking ponds . |
| 4 | However , the very fact that they are mass-produced and relatively cheap means that they are too frequently seen . |
| 5 | Even so , they are uncomfortable and unpleasantly damp and dark , and the need for artificial lighting and heating can produce fumes that make the situation inconvenient . |
| 6 | And we have to think about Carnach and Garrafad Rorim ; they are leaderless and almost unreachable through the snow . |
| 7 | They are poor and often hungry but they shared what they had with us . |
| 8 | It said : ‘ I am returning your chemicals , as they are impure and therefore useless . |
| 9 | Compared with the Fontenay Trio ( Teldec ) , they are richer and more responsive to the music 's latent unease , less so to its elegance . |
| 10 | Senior 's should start when they are 45 and not 50 . |
| 11 | The disadvantages are that they are expensive and only available from Garrett outlets . |
| 12 | London 's capital markets and financial services have grown vigorously because they are innovative and highly competitive . |
| 13 | Detailed observations and discussion provide valuable information but they are time-consuming and therefore expensive . |
| 14 | However good a child may feel about themselves , they are small and totally dependent on their parents . |
| 15 | Do these tyres put an extra strain on the vehicle as they are bigger and probably heavier than Michelin 7.50 x 16 . |
| 16 | They are costly and highly dangerous in the hands of those who might use them for the destruction of life . ’ |
| 17 | Her members have to cope with varying degrees of immobility — one lady has an artificial — but they are enthusiastic and even ambitious , setting before themselves the movements of Torvill and Dean as an ideal to follow . |
| 18 | ‘ Ma chère , they are wonderful and so expensive ! |
| 19 | The traditional ‘ trade-off ’ for the secure tenure of senior British civil servants has been that they are anonymous and politically impartial . |
| 20 | They have advantages over larger fixed pads in that they are transportable and less prone to variation caused by moisture , and they give a more uniform distribution of the radioelements . |
| 21 | Historical sites and ancient monuments that are badly presented , providing little or no explanation , seldom achieve popularity as tourist sites unless they are unique and already world-famous , as in the case of Stonehenge , in Wiltshire . |
| 22 | It seems also to have a special magnetism for their children , who look forward to spending all day playing video games until it 's time to try and get served by a barman who does n't notice they are 15 and only four feet ten . |
| 23 | And coming from the pen of Kev Reynolds — that doyen of guide-book writers — they are interesting and eminently readable into the bargain . |
| 24 | Compared with sheet vinyl , they are easier and less wasteful to lay in awkwardly-shaped rooms . |
| 25 | They are larger and more diffuse than subgovernments and owe their development to a variety of factors : the rapid growth of federal spending , the growth in private and semi-private organizations which are used to administer many federally funded policies , the growth in ‘ public interest ’ organizations and the great increase in the ranks of professional administrators in all fields , for example planning , health , welfare , education and housing . |
| 26 | We are looking for people who know their needs and wants , their likes and dislikes — but who are realistic about when they are likely and not likely to be fulfilled . |
| 27 | In the Mediterranean , where many such frugivores overwinter , bird fruits tend not to ripen until winter , and show some of the attributes of tropical specialized fruits in that they are drier and more nutritious than northern fruits and can provide a complete diet for the birds . |
| 28 | They 're shallow and rather rough , but there 's no smell of death or disease and they 're perfectly sound . |
| 29 | Like if an older band started saying some of the things that we do then they 'd be sexist because they 're older and more respectable . |
| 30 | Because they 're unofficial and therefore unprescribed they are where ideas are tested and creative solutions devised , and are essential to the success of the organization ( see Chapter 7 for more details ) . |