Example sentences of "are [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the main criticisms levelled at US and European transnational corporations in Asia , Africa and Latin America is that their operations are predominantly of the export processing variety , employing low wage workers ( mainly ‘ nimblefingered ’ young women ) in monotonous and often physically debilitating labour , the products of which constitute a small proportion of the value-added of the final commodity . |
| 2 | Account-holders are predominantly in the A , B and C1 social categories and mainly live in the South East or London . |
| 3 | We are rather at the point of arguing that the state , and in particular its bureaucracy , may be free from subordination and manipulation by the ruling class in order to preserve its interests in the long run and as a whole . |
| 4 | In the case of the evidence produced by informal interviews we , the readers , are rather in the position of hearing a case put by only one counsel and not the other . |
| 5 | Later , in the 1840 s , Emil Du Bois-Reymond ( 1818–96 ) showed experimentally that the impulses travelling along nerves are rather like the flow of electrical currents along a wire ( the similarity is in fact even closer than he imagined ) . |
| 6 | They are rather like the markers teachers use to signal transitions in lessons : ‘ Right ! ’ , or ‘ OK , let's get started ! ’ |
| 7 | Hence they are rather like the overdraft limit placed on a private sector customer by its bank . |
| 8 | These are rather like the process of bereavement , with shock , denial , guilt and unhappiness , acceptance and resignation . |
| 9 | Yeah , I mean , the next pubs are right over the side of the hospital , |
| 10 | The student chooses their own subject ; most of these subjects are right on the fringes of the course , or overlap several different courses , and what surprised me when I sent round a questionnaire was how much the students said they enjoyed essay-writing . |
| 11 | One of the odd features when you first arrive in the area is that there is no advance warning of what 's to come — nothing visible of the Grand Canyon until you are right on the edge . |
| 12 | For example , the Eskimos , who as hunters and fishermen are right at the bottom of Marx 's and Engels 's technological scale , have a kinship terminology which does not classify relatives any more than the English system does — a sign for Morgan of the presence of monogamy — while the Malays , who have possessed for a very long time highly advanced agricultural techniques , use a kinship terminology which Morgan and Engels associated with the earliest stages of evolution . |
| 13 | So I think I made this point before that the people who are right at the top of politics are the ones who are very good at flattery , duplicity , manipulation and so on and these , are these really the qualities we want in our government ? |
| 14 | Images of parties and party leaders are right at the margin between perceptions and attitudes . |
| 15 | You see those two are right at the end , and those I do n't know whether those ought to be together before XX . |
| 16 | And the French are right at the forefront of design again . |
| 17 | Employees are right behind the scheme … |
| 18 | Chief executive Alan Smith said : ‘ Board members are right behind the team and the people responsible for picking it . ’ |
| 19 | Having said all that , the famous Ipsos nightlife is practically on the doorstep as these apartments are right in the middle of town . |
| 20 | These two buildings , owned and managed by the Kendler family , are right in the middle of St Gilgen , and only two minutes walk from the lake and promenade . |
| 21 | The important thing about these volcanoes is that since they are right in the middle of the Pacific , they are basaltic , and their basalts are hot and very fluid . |
| 22 | ‘ We are right in the middle of watching one of our favourite programmes , ’ Mr Wormwood said . |
| 23 | It will probably start on Boxing Day when we are right in the middle of winter . |
| 24 | The authoritarian parent or dutiful child attitudes that so often characterized these relationships in previous generations are thankfully on the way out . |
| 25 | While bank deposits have stagnated over the past three years , mutual funds , which are mostly outside the banks ' domain , have grown by two-thirds . |
| 26 | Among the dozens of glues now available the arguments for and against are mostly on the grounds of ease of application , durability and cost . |
| 27 | Filters are mostly of the low-pass , high-pass , band-pass or band-stop varieties . |
| 28 | Once fully saturated with culture , food , drink or any combination of the three , it is possible to escape the tourist honeypots , which are mostly in the centre and south of town . |
| 29 | The third category , 98 sheets , are mostly in the Highlands of Scotland : they scored low in comparison with the sheets chosen for full or part resurvey . |
| 30 | The issues are mostly in the open . |