Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] are [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , in a liberal democracy , normative-re-educative or empirical-rational strategies for change are generally more acceptable than those that are power-coercive . |
| 2 | Well yes it 's it I du n no it 's you know I do n't know want to say You know basically the facilities for change are really in the hands of of the politicians are n't they you know ? |
| 3 | The differences between authorities are particularly marked in the case of special education . |
| 4 | Intra-marital complaints about money are more " legitimate " in the public mind than those about sexual dissatisfaction . |
| 5 | The numbers wintering off Sussex are always small , the largest winter totals noted since 1947 being 90 birds in 1958 , and 102 in early 1974 , when a flock of 100 was seen in Rye Bay on 23 February . |
| 6 | The European Bleak was commonly used as scales are very reflective and pearlescent . |
| 7 | This is of great importance in providing a basis for the cultivation of cereals and the grazing of animals in an area where opportunities for agriculture are severely restricted . |
| 8 | The induction rates for lung cancer and for leukaemia are somewhat lower , and those for other organs for which estimates are obtainable appear to be lower still ( UNSCEAR , 1977 ) . |
| 9 | The Canadian government has drastically reduced catch quotas for cod after admitting that stocks of the fish on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland are dangerously low . |
| 10 | Emerging concepts about objects are closely linked to the child 's growing understanding of space , spatial relations and the notion of objects and people being located in a common space . |
| 11 | In one sense , Dr G 's claims for physics are much less grand than Dr L 's ; at the same time , his view of physics is a far broader one : |
| 12 | Frontline , produced quarterly , has 14,000 readers , mainly Dixons staff in Britain , through copies are also sent to Silo , the company 's American subsidiary , and to City analysts and stockbrokers . |
| 13 | Ironically , this means that the most exciting objects for play are also the simplest and the cheapest . |
| 14 | The studies used as a basis for judgement are generally lacking in control because of the finality of educational decision making and placement ( in the sense that we can not return the child to an original or alternative placement a year later and be able to start from the same point again ) . |
| 15 | Whereas these booklets for instance are certainly retained because they 're a two year thing . |
| 16 | The main concern with cash is to ensure that the method and arrangements for payment are clearly stated in the sale agreement and that the purchaser has adequate notice of whether a banker 's draft or telegraphic transfer is required . |
| 17 | The criteria for discrimination are very variable and when European writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries at last began to realize ( perhaps inadvisedly ) that the word religion might be applied to other systems of thought besides Christianity this was one of the factors on which the classification of religions was based . |
| 18 | However , from the preceding sections it should be clear that habitats that are rapidly diminishing or becoming unsuitable for birds are particularly those associated with wetland , heathland , and on coastal and downland sites . |
| 19 | Cost differences between products are mainly attributable to the differing proportions of sequestrants as these are the most expensive components . |
| 20 | My personal reaction to Tomlinson is that its conclusions about Barts and the other hospitals scheduled for closure are fundamentally wrong . |
| 21 | Attendance rates and truancy levels as performance indicators for schools are only part of the story . |
| 22 | This is not to say that the share of overseas assets reached a peak in 1989 Q4 ; it simply implies that the conditions for investment are relatively free in that any remaining controls can be thought of as prudential rather than prohibitive . |
| 23 | Yet the accuracy requirements for research are just as stringent as those relevant to routine monitoring . |
| 24 | The UFC 's recently-announced grant allocations for 1992–93 hand out rewards and penalties to different institutions , and the allocations for research are markedly different from those for teaching . |
| 25 | We might begin to explain this paradox by recognizing that not only is much of what we call knowledge socially constructed , the boundaries between subjects are also socially constructed . |
| 26 | Although we may disagree about detail , semantic relationships between subjects are reasonably stable and reflect the consensus of opinion concerning their connections . |
| 27 | The two construction projects chosen for study are both 50 unit social housing projects in Le Mans and Bolton . |
| 28 | However , it was reported that , as LEAs are always under pressure from schools to assign teachers to direct teaching posts , funding professional development teachers appeared to remain insecure as long as no external financial support was available from central government . |
| 29 | Skilful individuals such as Gazza are very much also-rans , though they do have their uses . |
| 30 | Live foods such as daphnia are very beneficial . |