Example sentences of "[conj] are [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But does the one cause the other , or are both due to an unknown third factor ?
2 Such people often have a fragile sense of identity or are desperately frightened of a feeling of emptiness within themselves .
3 Mother says : People only lose because they 're not strong enough , not because they do n't want to fight or are n't good at fighting .
4 Some workers are supported by strong trade unions whilst others have only weak unions or are not unionised at all .
5 The cases where or are also similar in their path to full information , so we will examine these cases together .
6 Whether your students are planning to attend holiday courses in Britain , or are merely curious about the lifestyle , customs , and civilization of the British , When in Britain is designed to encourage them to think about not only the British way of life , but also about their own .
7 Section 7(4) imposes a duty on the disposal authority to issue such a notice where it appears that continuation of activities to which the licence relates would cause pollution of water , a danger to public health or are seriously detrimental to amenities of the locality , and can not be avoided by modifying the conditions specified in the licence .
8 The auxiliaries may be divided into two groups according to whether they can be used anywhere in the scheme ( common auxiliaries ) or are only appropriate to specific parts of it ( special auxiliaries ) .
9 SENSITIVE gardeners who baulk at using pesticides , or are too unfit for hoeing , should instead eat their way to a weed-free garden , it is suggested today .
10 These neither exist nor are necessarily desirable on planning grounds .
11 Here we shall merely try to summarise the main points that are immediately relevant to the topic of this book .
12 It is migration patterns that are primarily responsible for these shifts , and they are also related to changes in residential preferences and to trends in the location of employment and housing opportunities .
13 A particular theoretical diagnosis of American urban crisis achieves a certain respectability and is assumed to generate policy templates that are universally useful in all post-industrial societies , as applicable in Newcastle as in New York .
14 The first and foremost is natural selection ; individuals that are particularly well-adapted to their environment reproduce more than their fellows and so copies of their genes become more common .
15 At the same time , for quite different reasons , animals have evolved sensory systems that are particularly good at picking up biologically important features of the environment .
16 On occasions however , some individuals that are particularly fussy about their food may require encouragement to maintain their appetite in a strange place .
17 Three Greek terms that are particularly involved in marriage are eros , phileo and agape .
18 The dorsal and anal fins of both male and female are a light burgundy to purple at the base , darkening at the outside , and they appear to be covered in small iridescent blue spots that are particularly striking under the right light .
19 It should also have defined measures of performance , a mechanism for recognising when deviations occur , and a means of taking control action when necessary , factors that are particularly relevant to the Procedure Audit process .
20 The Attorney General tells the story of what happened and indicates those aspects of the accident that are particularly relevant for close examination .
21 These initiation sites may represent areas containing calcium stores that are particularly sensitive to activators such as InsP 3 .
22 Do n't be swayed by the fact that many players have an optical digital output socket instead ; this ‘ higher tech ’ alternative is invariably audibly inferior , and is usually fitted to ensure compliance with RFI ( Radio Frequency Interference ) regulations in countries such as Germany that are particularly strict on the subject .
23 There is a range of specific grants which meet a part of the costs of certain services that are particularly important to central government .
24 Developing Community rules will make it possible to comply with requirements in such areas as company law , securities listing , and insider dealing , that are either uniform in the different member states , or at any rate are regarded as being equivalent , instead of complying with a variety of different rules in different member states .
25 Dawson and Smith also recognized that some of the veined and pervasively metasomatized peridotite xenoliths from the Bultfontein Floors mine dumps at Kimberley have replacement mineral compositions that are broadly similar to those of the MARID suite ( although the relationship between the two is not simple and some important chemical distinctions remain , possibly reflecting different degrees of interaction between veins and peridotite wall rocks ) .
26 In reality the prognosis of this condition is a good deal better — several groups having reported both short and long term survival rates that are broadly comparable with those found in younger patients .
27 Whereas formerly he had been the subject of history , taking pride of place in God 's historical scheme from creation onwards , now ‘ the human being no longer has any history : or rather , since he speaks , works , and lives , he finds himself interwoven in his own being with histories that are neither subordinate to him nor homogeneous with him ’ ( 368 — 9 ) .
28 This frees valuable time for the supervision and training of trainee psychiatrists and other team members in the assessment and management of patients and for the developmental , managerial , and audit tasks that are increasingly necessary for the efficient running of a modern comprehensive psychogeriatric service .
29 PETER CAPON on two species that are increasingly available for fans of brackish water set-ups .
30 The organisation has concluded that emissions from eight key power stations urgently need restriction to save areas that are acutely vulnerable to acid rain .
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