Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adj] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sniffable products are widely available and they are portable . |
| 2 | Probably the most interesting object is the open cluster NGC 2244 , round the star 12 Monocerotis ( 5.8 ) ; it is quite easy to locate with binoculars , and I am rather surprised that it is not included in the Messier list . |
| 3 | ‘ I am rather surprised that he made it public , but we will be taking it very seriously — have no doubt about that — and it will be raised at the Anglo-Irish Conference meeting in London . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I am most upset that you have been treated so badly by my countrymen , ’ Gennaro said in a quiet steady voice . |
| 5 | About 30 of the shops are now profitable , according to Mr Bishko , but not profitable enough to cover overheads — which are rather higher than he had anticipated . |
| 6 | The mark-ups are rather higher than he 'd like , but for as long as the walking stick remains an art form , Keith 's in business . |
| 7 | Cutter-bar and rotary mowers are rather unsuitable because they leave the swathe lying in the direction of cut with heads and butts mixed ; it is then difficult to pick up , sort , and bind the sheaves . |
| 8 | The details of FSP theory are rather complex and there are several distinct approaches within the Prague tradition itself . |
| 9 | The exact origins of what we recognize as apples are rather obscure but they are generally thought to come from the Caucasus Mountains in Asia Minor , near where seventeenth-century historians located the Garden of Eden . |
| 10 | There is no great demand for pen computing from Western users of mid-range systems , but things are rather different if you happen to be Chinese — and 1,200m people in the People 's Republic alone are — and are constrained to use thousands of ideographic characters , and Communication Intelligence Corp , Redwood Shores , California has gone to IBM Corp for an OEM agreement on its AS/400 computers and plans to fit the terminals with its PenDOS and Handwriter Recognition System software and integrate the machines into its pen-based computer product line being designed for China ; Communication Intelligence plans to market its Chinese pen-based office automation system through partnerships with the Chinese government , with the first out in 12 months . |
| 11 | Disraeli Gears from Tesside are rather different as they look to the energy and rawness of the Sixties rather the dull produced stomp of Nineties ' heavy rock/ metal . |
| 12 | Under the general safety requirement , retailers are criminally liable if they knowingly expose an unsafe product for sale , whereas in civil law , under the product liability regime , retailers are liable to third party victims only if they present themselves as the producer or can not identify the person who supplied them with the product . |
| 13 | The missions are mercifully short so you 'll often lose it only seconds from home , encouraging you to have another try to get through one more mission . |
| 14 | This is not strictly so , however , since if the husband takes the car for work , the remainder of the family ( which could include one or more members attempting to reach work or services themselves ) are effectively marooned until he returns ( Moseley 1979a ; Phillips 1981 ) . |
| 15 | Similarly , some travellers born-and-bred are effectively homeless when their parents ' caravan becomes too crowded . |
| 16 | I am acutely conscious that I have been a source of aggravation to Pa recently over my stupid allergy to vegetables ; it can not be pleasant to see the products one has slaved over summer and winter being regurgitated on to the dinner plate of one 's elder child . |
| 17 | Will my right hon. Friend reflect on the fact that when he attends those international meetings and many others in the EC he will discover that Britain 's standing , authority and reputation are vastly higher than they were a few years ago ? |
| 18 | They are mostly small and there is a good physiological reason for this : gigantism is mechanically difficult for animals with external skeletons , and above a certain size it is difficult to get enough oxygen into the organism to sustain activity . |
| 19 | In the current climate Take That can do no wrong , but they are acutely aware that their success may not last forever . |
| 20 | We are acutely aware that it will not succeed without much prayer and a mutual pulling together . |
| 21 | The instruments of war , the machinery that was necessary to prosecute what I think was , if any war could be just , a truly just war , these implements and machines are tremendously important but they are passing , they are transitory . |
| 22 | In reality they are mercilessly small when you realize for how long they have to be eked out ! |
| 23 | Most of these are presumably extragalactic but they include the pulsar PSR1706–44 , although this was not recognized at the time . |
| 24 | Tags such as Modern , Post-Modern , High-Tech or even Neo-Classical are wholly redundant when you stare at this subtopian , A-road architecture . |
| 25 | Assuming that the organisation that is established to give help to prisoners in the Caribbean is based in England or Wales and is unconnected with any other charity , it will find it difficult to persuade the Inland Revenue that its activities are wholly charitable unless it is registered with the Charity Commission . |
| 26 | No matter how much care the drafter puts into the preparation of a set of standard terms , the terms are wholly useless unless they are effectively incorporated into the contracts they are intended to govern . |
| 27 | But I am jolly sure that they would not let the government of the day , or their contemporary House of Commons , forget how important it is to supply water and to look after the sewers and drains . |
| 28 | Surplus component boards etc. are most useful if they contain expensive semiconductors , and are probably something that are best left to those who have a few years experience of electronics behind them . |
| 29 | They are most malicious when they prey on liars , murderers and thieves , for they hate to see injustice . |
| 30 | In the wild the newly hatched chicks are most vulnerable when they emerge exhausted by their struggles to dig their way out of the sand . |