Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] are [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this chapter , then , the term ‘ permissiveness ’ is subjected to further critical scrutiny , and an attempt is made to isolate those ‘ factors ’ or characteristics that are most usually invoked by moral entrepreneurs in their discussions of the ‘ permissive society ’ . |
| 2 | Er , if they say that er , they should be er , a balance or reserve put in by constituent authorities then we will have the money available to do that , if we did n't then they may have frozen the reserves that are already there and asked us to put some more money in as well . |
| 3 | The social welfare indicators that are most commonly agreed to be of relevance here are the degree of literacy , the distribution of health and educational services , the infant mortality rate and the life expectancy of the population . |
| 4 | Investing in capital does not mean preserving units that are no longer needed . |
| 5 | What like dried up , dried grapes prunes that are no longer in top condition . |
| 6 | It is divided into three sections : the first records the books that are most frequently referred to in the dictionary , the second lists the books in numerical order , the last registers the books in alphabetical sequence . |
| 7 | The use of images that are subtly out of tune with our inner world can be extremely damaging and many of the images and practices applied by practitioners can cause new problems while attempting to solve existing ones . |
| 8 | The cars that are always ahead of you at the lights . |
| 9 | But Johnson they 're often old words that are totally out of use erm and we 're not even used to Johnson 's vocabulary because |
| 10 | The young reader wonders how one human being could invent such an interesting story , and write it all in words that are so easily read . |
| 11 | Unlike the original metal-insulator-metal technology , the new Super-MIM can provide pictures that are just as good as those using thin-film transistors , the firm claims . |
| 12 | This innovation makes it possible to produce rugs that are almost twice as long as the distance between the horizontal beams . |
| 13 | Most decent councillors have been placed in an impossible position because of the failure of the Government 's housing and economic policies to deliver the affordable rural homes that are so desperately needed . |
| 14 | Comet debris , as its name suggests , is derived from comets , and much of this debris lies in orbits that are far more eccentric than most of the asteroids ' orbits , and which in many cases carry debris far beyond Jupiter . |
| 15 | Among those elongated tails that are apparently sexually selected , the marginal costs of graduated tails greatly exceed those of streamer-shaped tails ( that is pintails and deep forks ; Fig. 1 ) . |
| 16 | Many of its main weapons , from tanks and aircraft to submarines , were bootlegged and upgraded from Soviet designs that are now up to 40 years old . |
| 17 | Leucistic individuals have normal-coloured eyes and are thus easily distinguished from albinos . |
| 18 | So those issues about ‘ blood ’ relations as ‘ natural ’ bonds have been dealt with in some grand , melodramatic way in the American soaps and are now also coming into the British soaps , in less melodramatic forms , but it 's significant that there 's a lot of concern , not around motherhood but actually more around fatherhood . |
| 19 | Ponies nearly always have the bonus of excellent temperaments and are much more agile than horses . |
| 20 | Ponies nearly always have the bonus of excellent temperaments and are much more agile than horses . |
| 21 | Who are the migrants ? with regard to age , they are mostly young adults , who have fewer ties and are therefore more mobile and who are also more likely to be attracted by the ‘ pull ’ factors . |
| 22 | Rinse additives tend to be very expensive but are used in very low concentrations and are invariably mechanically dosed . |
| 23 | yep , and we developed theo that business here in fact in Suffolk , we were the very first Fire Brigade to , to do it in the seventies , er our own workshops made them erm the units and are now still making them , and the ideas were original ideas on , on , on the equipment and we made about three or four in , in when I retired and I think they made several others now like canteen vans , and erm breathing apparatus , er and so on . |
| 24 | Many young children stay at the mince and mash stage for many months and are often still reluctant to chew meat when they start school . |
| 25 | These have a slightly wider range of shapes and are often much bigger than their wooden counterparts but much lighter . |
| 26 | City pundits see troubles for the economy in the coming months but are much more optimistic about prospects a year or more from now . |
| 27 | A treatise of the nature … of such simples as are most frequently used … ( 1652 ) . |
| 28 | Erm th the reduction in the cost of discretionary awards which is partly the result of the policies that are partly also changing the , in the national situation and increased recruitment funding and in an area into which officers put in a great deal of time to try to make sure that we do the equivalent they should be getting . |
| 29 | What follows from that is that the last thing we should do is to introduce policies that are almost specifically designed simply to increase unemployment . |
| 30 | Perhaps it is the results of such non-philanthropic attitudes that are more clearly seen than the actual attitudes themselves . |