Example sentences of "are [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 Instead of one group of market participants who do not learn from experience and another ( entrepreneurial ) group who do , we can work with market participants who are alert to changing buying and selling possibilities .
2 Soundposts are an important feature of bowed instruments but are unsuitable for plucked instruments and will deaden the sound of a dulcimer .
3 A repetition of the analysis just given shows that stellar cores of mass less than M(Chandrasekhar) are stable against further collapse and form neutron stars .
4 In terms of subject areas ethnic minority teachers are under-represented in modern language and feel marginalised as in some cases these posts are section 11 funded or concentrated in the areas of special needs .
5 By establishing the practice of job rotation workers become generalists so that their skills and experience are specific to particular firms and therefore less transferable .
6 Such behaviour may depend at least partly on the teacher 's skill in setting up situations which will elicit the best from each child : most people are shy in some situations and confident in others , and different people 's responses to the same situation may vary sharply .
7 Staff work together and are supportive of each other and have been involved in the decision-making process through the various ‘ teams ’ that make up the management of the school .
8 Without being overcomplicated or analytical , many of our sensitivities are due to early life and subsequent experience .
9 Blistering of the felt , splits and cracks will occur in most felt roofs and are due to thermal movement and brittleness resulting from exposure to ultra-violet light and locked-in vapours .
10 Many cases of severe mental handicap are due to medical conditions and the causes are better understood , but there are still difficult areas of definition .
11 Accidents do occur , and too frequently , usually to climbers on its dangerous cliffs , but these are due to human frailty and misjudgments , not to venomous attacks by the Ben .
12 We are due for another service and it 's this month , the yearly service .
13 You do n't realise how many inflections are possible in one word and every important word the wrong inflection was used you know .
14 Some argue that high returns are possible in declining industries and that this is inconsistent with the harvest/divest strategies indicated in the BCG and McKinsey-GE matrices .
15 Others rely more heavily upon aerobic respiration ; they are dark in colour , because they are rich in oxygen-carrying myoglobin and mitochondria .
16 These islands warmed by the Gulf Stream , are rich in natural history and heritage .
17 They are rich in natural food and do not encourage over-breeding .
18 Clement Wilson Park , Barnett Demesne and Lagan Meadows are rich in seasonal colour and interest , with the last being managed primarily for wildlife and education .
19 We have all worked very hard to make sure that our district societies are representative of all members and I am sure that a breakdown of the composition of committees would prove this .
20 Class I molecules devoid of peptides are unstable under these conditions and lose the epitope recognized by W6/32 ( ref. 22 ) .
21 These are high in fat content and should be eliminated during the course of the Inch Loss Plan .
22 It is not a good model for human relations , and some of the people who are aflame with political zeal and want to put the entire world to rights are in fact hell to live with .
23 I would suggest that initially one of the things we ought to be doing is making approaches to the private sector through their organisations where they exist and say , look we really have to begin to get into the kind of discussions that you have been talking about earlier between health and social work ; health , social work and the voluntary side to talk about the issues of planning and the issues of quality and the issues of the form and shape of services and what sort of developments are acceptable in client-need terms and what are not acceptable .
24 They are light to dark green and dull .
25 There is the fact that the very rocks on which we live — no matter where — may have originated through volcanism ; that much of the gold and many of the other economic minerals that we use every day are linked with volcanic activity ; that most of the world 's best coffee and tea come from volcanic areas , and that there may be areas on the Moon and Mars which are analogous to terrestrial continents and oceans .
26 If then any acts of animals are analogous to human acts and spring from the same principles we have duties towards the animals because thus we cultivate the corresponding duties towards human beings .
27 After all , the physical facts of life are commonplace throughout the universe ; the biological , so far as we know , are peculiar to this planet and then for only a very brief part of its history .
28 Stock options are not much use as incentives if the price at which they are exercisable is dauntingly out of reach , so IBM Corp is offering a new stock option plan for mid-to-senior level executives — chairman Louis Gerstner offered the plan due to concern ‘ about keeping managers at IBM and motivated ’ : the plan is aimed at the tier of about 1,200 managers just below the most senior level , will offer new options for old ones that were exercisable at prices ranging from $89 to $169 ; the new options are exercisable at $47.88 , and managers will have to swap anywhere from 2.5 to 10 old options for one new one , depending on the original option price ; the options are exercisable after two years and the price must rise 50% above the $47.88 level to $71.82 and stay there for 30 days ; only 50% of the options can be exercised the first year , and 25% for each year after , but the terms do not look particularly attractive .
29 Instead we have to recognise that all practices are dependent on each other and are interdefined .
30 We actually need to be out in the community working with people who are dependent upon those services and at the same time we 've got to recognize that our nationally agreed terms and conditions are under serious threat .
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