Example sentences of "[adv] be [noun pl] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RARELY are mothers or fathers shown participating in a wide variety of domestic chores not only the ones traditional for their sex ; |
| 2 | RARELY are women and men shown in a variety of occupations . |
| 3 | The conversion into owner-farmers of those who had hitherto been tenants or agricultural labourers provided many for the first time with genuine prospects of making a decent living , unburdened by debts , high rents or heavy taxes . |
| 4 | At a stroke , we might almost say , political ideas which had only been aspirations or dreams in the minds of philosophers or popular radicals , were placed on the agenda of real politics , not only in France or even Europe , but globally . |
| 5 | Within the overall Upward trend there have naturally been fluctuations and current and capital expenditure have not always behaved in the same manner . |
| 6 | It was small wonder that anti-war and pacifist groups flourished in the labour movement of the time , though rarely among seamen and , it seems , hardly at all among their leaders , though initially " hating the Hun " was far from easy , for German seamen had long been colleagues and comrades , not only aboard ship , but also in organisations affiliated to the International Transport Workers ' Federation . |
| 7 | He put out his arms and caught her and held her , and they stood there on the gravel path in the grounds of Hilderbridge General Hospital , embraced as if they had long been lovers and had known each other with profound emotion and physical joy and had been parted only to meet again now , by chance , so felicitously . |
| 8 | An unfortunate ornate gilt altar screen obscures the simplicity of the vertical lines of the great eastern apse , but above is visible the mosaic in the conch depicting the Virgin against a gilt background ; below are saints and apostles . |
| 9 | Below are shafts and dosserets which form shallow buttresses . |
| 10 | Politeness and truth are often mutually incompatible ( how do we answer the friend who asks whether we like his new hairstyle , for example ? ) and so are politeness and brevity . |
| 11 | I mean okay so we 're here , but so are elephants and fruit flies and centipedes and tape worms and things erm nothing special about us. erm we 're rather successful right now , but we do n't play any very special role . |
| 12 | So are rocks and the air and other inanimate objects . |
| 13 | They are animals , but then so are insects and so are we . |
| 14 | It is not good enough to say that badgers are lovely creatures ; so are foxes and salmon . |
| 15 | Although those who work with old people will have observed for themselves that in this group there are a significant number of male carers , the implications have not been fully drawn out because so many old disabled people at home alone are women and so many younger women carry the main burden of informal care at home . |
| 16 | The great majority of the elderly living alone are women and this proportion increases with age from 79 per cent of those under 70 years of age to 86 per cent of those aged 80 or more ( Table 5.3 ) . |
| 17 | Should they be seen as the overall enforcers of the regulations , or should they merely be ombudsmen or watchdogs that only act on customer complaints ? |
| 18 | Stone floor panels dating from 883–612BC , uncovered in the Assyrian royal palaces at Nimrud , Balawat and Nineveh , contain patterns that are generally accepted as carpet designs ; thee are also a number of reliefs and carvings showing men carrying what can only be tapestries or rugs . |
| 19 | The model being offered here suggests that far from merely being tools or means , they to a large extent constitute our stances in and towards the world ; in this sense , they lie across the base of the pyramid in Figure 2.1 . |
| 20 | Well , I said , floundering a little , boys were notoriously backward and so were twins and , really , did n't he think … |
| 21 | Course , the other thing you 've got ta invest in is tables and well you do n't need chairs , but tables , I mean as you can see we 've got two hundred of those poly-cotton chairs in there which is erm can be used . |
| 22 | He put down is pliers and looked up at her . |
| 23 | The times and places of striking advance in productivity have by no means generally been times and places of educational advance ; nor , where they have been , is it clear whether this is cause and effect or , if so , which is cause and which effect . |
| 24 | The trades union confederations demanded a forum for dialogue on the issue with the government , whereas the government said that there had already been consultations and that it could not " be expected to cease adopting decisions on crucial and pressing problems because of artificially created procedural obstacles " . |
| 25 | Unless the contract clearly indicates otherwise , these express terms ( not being stipulations as to the time of delivery ) will then normally be warranties and not conditions . |
| 26 | Thus , if an organisation chooses not to recognise its e-mail messages as having formal record status and its procedures accurately reflect this , then they would not be records and vice versa . |
| 27 | Tom told himself that beggars could not be choosers and if he jibbed at playing the flute in this company he could always sing . |
| 28 | That 's what Engels is trying to say , all that stuff about there not being mines and machinery in Siberia , where the natural circumstances ought to favour it , but only in England . ’ |
| 29 | We 've always been outcasts and we never thought we 'd be accepted . ’ |
| 30 | There had always been men and once he had cared a great deal about that . |