Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] and [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its grounds are private and to the west of the lodge the trail leaves the road to cross Kenmure Moss . |
| 2 | ‘ The insurance and financial services are profitable and without our commercial activities the subscription would have to be much higher , ’ he said . |
| 3 | those items that are profitable and within its competence ; |
| 4 | those items that are profitable and within its competence ; |
| 5 | Thus , systems are hierarchical and at each level the unit is considered as a functional rather than a physical entity . |
| 6 | It has one of the finest outlooks on the Solway coast ; the views of the bay and beaches are panoramic and in the far distance Lake District peaks can be seen . |
| 7 | Formal observation techniques and equipment are designed to reduce this discrepancy to a minimum but the nursing process depends on much more than can be obtained by this means ; therefore it is important for the teacher to have some understanding of the factors that affect the formation of percepts so that she can help the nurse to make accurate judgements where these are possible and to be sufficiently receptive and mentally flexible to consider more than one possible judgement as basis for action . |
| 8 | If you are pregnant and under the age of sixteen , it is compulsory that you receive some sort of education until you reach this age . |
| 9 | This kind of response is based on the view that women are one of those ‘ minorities ’ ( sic ) who are disadvantaged and for whom the mission of adult education is to provide the wherewithal to cope with their misfortunes . |
| 10 | This approach does not reduce to a simple acceptance that the child or the family are deficient and in need of ‘ treatment . ’ |
| 11 | The remains are extensive and in good condition showing frescoes , mosaics and marbles . |
| 12 | In fact , if we look at a conversation like Conversation B or Conversation D , where all the participants are British-born and in their late teens or twenties , it is most often the case that a Creole utterance does not receive a Creole response . |
| 13 | An alternative form might be for the corporation to sell a proportion of its products at strictly cost price to those sections of the community who are under-privileged and in need of these occasional subsidies . |
| 14 | But he employed the new Italian style in the sacred works which occupied him almost exclusively , so that his secular compositions are few and for the most part negligible . |
| 15 | Discounting exceptions , which are few and of short duration , there is everywhere a governing class , not large in membership , which maintains itself in power partly by force and partly by the consent of the governed . |
| 16 | Elves live long lives but their children are few and in recent centuries the birthrate has declined steeply . |
| 17 | We begin work feeling that certain codes of dress and conduct are acceptable and within six months we have agreed with the norms that indicate that certain codes of dress and conduct are certainly not acceptable . |
| 18 | It also provides the context in which to consider both the claim that for the later Foucault knowledge is absolutely determined , leaving him in the impossible situation of requiring something outside this for any prospect of critique , as well as the question of exactly how power and resistance are interdependent and to what extent they are separable . |
| 19 | All are interdependent and to a certain extent intermixed . |
| 20 | Colour is strong ; shapes are exciting and above all , the choice is yours ! |
| 21 | They will be put under the strain of doing jobs for which they are unsuited and as a result will either leave after a short time , have the humiliation of being told they are unsuitable , or cause difficulties for other staff who have to rely on them or cooperate with them . |
| 22 | Some parts of the connection are old and in need of review . |
| 23 | All of these introductions are personal and to the point . |
| 24 | This is not to assume that these interests are homogeneous and without serious contradictions ( Chambliss 1981 ) . |
| 25 | These apply to isotropic materials which are homogeneous and of regular shape . |
| 26 | Five , six and seven year olds are perfectly capable of working on drama for an hour and a half or more at a time , but they need very clear tasks , strong images and narratives which are intriguing and above all dramatic . |
| 27 | The visible glamour and affluence of the likes of Maurice Hope , Justin Fashanu and Daley Thompson are seductive and in many cases , irresistible . |
| 28 | The VGA graphics used are colourful and in high resolution as you would expect . |
| 29 | Comment : The procedures are vague and in practice delegated almost entirely to schools . |
| 30 | He was a natural you find them sometimes if you 're lucky and from the damnedest backgrounds . |