Example sentences of "[noun] are [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both formal ( e.g. the mass media and educational systems ) and informal institutions are central to this stage , creating a sense of regional membership for the inhabitants : |
| 2 | It might have been thought that the arrival of so many neutral countries would render any Common Security policy impossible , but the Community institutions are alert to this ‘ danger ’ , and have stated that they will be rigorous in their application of the acquis to new members . |
| 3 | The principles for establishing lists of goals for fat reduction are similar to those for sugar reduction , namely , do the things that are easiest first ; use lots of small , easy steps ; spend about a week trying to behave according to that week 's goal ( and with all preceding ones being maintained ) before going on to add the next goal to your repertoire . |
| 4 | Amplex Capsules are refreshing in Original or Ice Mint Flavours . |
| 5 | According to our preferred model only two-thirds of the vacancies are acceptable to teenage men . |
| 6 | Tie tall plants to their supports as they grow , and break off the tips of the main shoot of plants you want to be bushy , just above a leaf or pair of leaves , when they are a few cm ( in ) tall ; basil , rosemary , hyssop , marjoram , mint , sage and savory are some of these . |
| 7 | I think a center back and another striker are important for next year a youngish but proven pair would be ideal . |
| 8 | Legal raves are fun for young people . |
| 9 | New patients ' NHS notes are essential for general practitioners : they contain specific details of past treatment and confirm what the patients say about their current treatment . |
| 10 | ‘ biblical standard , given for the well-being of society ... [ that ] fornication , adultery and homosexual acts are sinful in all circumstances ... [ and that ] Christian leaders are called on to be exemplary in all spheres of morality , including sexual morality , as a condition of being appointed to or remaining in office . |
| 11 | Social services personnel are available on that number which has 19 separate lines . |
| 12 | Oscars are notorious for digestive troubles , and you can avoid future trouble by varying their diet . |
| 13 | The place is devoid of alcoholic recourse , even the bands ' riders are untroubled by hard liquor , shit , we 're all going to have to take crack instead ! |
| 14 | MOST New Yorkers are cynical about current efforts to clean mobsters out of their city 's waste-disposal business — and with good reason . |
| 15 | Alternatively you can try to apply the sensitive etch-resist ink yourself , and special positive-working aerosols are available for this purpose . |
| 16 | All these four reasons are subject to varying degrees of criticism : Unskilled manual jobs may well be done just as well , if not better , by the less educated ; resistance to change in employment can be affected more by the alternative job opportunities that are available than by levels of education ; advanced industrialisation has so atomised and de-skilled the production process that for many workers further or higher education is not necessary in their jobs , etc. , etc . |
| 17 | Our model does predict that long-period comets with kinetic energies in the tens of kiloton range should catastrophically disrupt and deposit the bulk of their energy just above 60km altitude , so the fates of these objects are consistent with cometary airbursts . |
| 18 | It is by definition a complex object , and all complex objects are explicable as logical constructions out of logically simple elements . |
| 19 | The important thing is that circles near heavy objects are different from normal . |
| 20 | The results from PCR are consistent with those from cytogenetic and antibiotic studies . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | However , these defects were largely solved by Litzenberger and Ramaswamy who concluded that risk-adjusted returns are higher for those securities offering higher dividend yields . |
| 23 | Naturally , questions of funding are high on this list . |
| 24 | Gross-paying accounts are best for most children as long as their gross annual income does not exceed their personal tax-free allowance ; £2,785 for the tax year 1989/90 . |
| 25 | Gross-paying accounts are best for most children as long as their gross annual income does not exceed their personal tax-free allowance ; £2,785 for the tax year 1989/90 . |
| 26 | Gross-paying accounts are best for most children as long as their gross annual income does not exceed their personal tax-free allowance ; £2,785 for the tax year 1989/90 . |
| 27 | In some respects these accounts are similar to those in the experimental situation where key characteristics were found to be a common strategy . |
| 28 | Table lamps are ideal for soft lighting and look particularly good in a traditional-style room . |
| 29 | It would appear that states prefer to act legally where possible and it is not possible to claim that states are unaffected by legal prohibitions on war , but the regularity with which such a large proportion of states are prepared to use force illegally — despite their total commitment to law-abidingness within their territories and the apparent lack of any retributive consequences of such illegalities ( unless defeat in war is unhelpfully labelled as a punishment ) — raise doubts about the parallels between municipal and international law in terms of the parameters of the concept of law . |
| 30 | While such states are central to literary studies , it is difficult to describe them precisely or effectively ; and for this reason , although they are of great interest , they are also inevitably weak points in your argumentation . |