Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the programmes are predominantly of advanced modules , admissions decisions are made by the relevant Field Chairs . |
| 2 | Basic magmas , however , which are predominantly of basaltic composition , have a much lower silica content and are erupted at high temperatures . |
| 3 | The pebble in the conglomerates and sandstones are predominantly of local provenance , and the overall character of these rocks indicates sediment deposition close to source . |
| 4 | Hooligan fans are predominantly from lower working-class backgrounds . |
| 5 | This research is mainly concerned with how the child uses the computer when performing tasks that are rather like simple games . |
| 6 | These are rather like undated gilts in that they are perpetual instruments , but interest can be waived or reduced if it would cause the issuer to breach capital adequacy requirements . |
| 7 | Medium leys , down from three to five years , are rather like arable crops in that maximum yield during those years is generally the main objective . |
| 8 | The discs between the vertebrae are rather like leathery cushions , acting as shock absorbers . |
| 9 | The Christian Church has always had a good many professing members who are rather like those disciples at Ephesus who , when asked by Paul , ‘ Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed ? ’ replied , ‘ No , we have never even heard that there is a Holy Spirit ’ ( Acts 19:2 ) . |
| 10 | There 's a consoling belief , one that has always held dull sway over critical and receptive minds , that both rock and pop are fundamentally about Good Songs . |
| 11 | Animal Rights groups seldom admit humane care of animals is possible because they are fundamentally against all human/animal relationships . |
| 12 | We do the same for the submatrix bordered by the first row and column , and so on , so that finally we reach the unit matrix as the canonical form for A. It is to be observed that , since in using elementary operations I ( i , j ) , I(k) , I(l) on A we are effectively at each stage multiplying together determinants neither of which vanishes , the reduction of A to I must be possible when A is on-singular . |
| 13 | If we continued to exclude children , we are effectively excluding many women , we are excluding families and in many ways the men as well . |
| 14 | These are mostly of two kinds , first the great abbeys abandoned at the Dissolution , including Rievaulx , Furness and Leiston , and second , castles ranging from Dover in the south , Kenilworth in the midlands , to Norham in the north . |
| 15 | The basic street pattern is no doubt as old as the village itself and the street names are mostly of ancient origin . |
| 16 | Real attention to the quite sophisticated concepts with which religion is concerned has tended to be dismissed on the grounds that , apart from a select minority , pupils are incapable of any sustained thought , uninterested in such hypothetical and academically conceived ideas which in any case are mostly of historical interest and irrelevant to the modern world . |
| 17 | ‘ I am virtually unemployable as I am rarely in one place for more than two weeks . |
| 18 | ‘ I have been most of all impressed by the contention that removal to such an area would be damaging to the morale of journalists . ’ |
| 19 | A way of understanding this difference may be to think of formal features as in some way built up in our minds from the black marks which form writing on the page , or from the speech sounds picked up by our ears , while contextual features are somewhere outside this physical realization of the language in the world , or pre-existing in the minds of the participants . |
| 20 | It is sufficient to realise that you , and all your fellow men , are rarely at full stretch . |
| 21 | But these private fictions are rarely of much significance , nor do they affect most people — despite much American talk of ‘ roots ’ . |
| 22 | GPs ' reports are rarely of much help , if only because they do not have the time or the experience to write useful reports and usually resent doing them . |
| 23 | Consequently , weathering profiles are rarely in full equilibrium with environmental conditions ; in most cases the weathering mantle adjusts to long-term average conditions rather than to conditions at a specific time . |
| 24 | Someone 's been right through that wall there , look . |
| 25 | ‘ Gay , you 've always been rather like that , have n't you ? ’ |
| 26 | His role has been rather like that of a stand-up comic warming up the audience for the main event . |
| 27 | The difficulty seems to arise within the membership in knowing exactly what areas of responsibility each section has , what are the rules of debate for sectional conferences , are decisions taken at sectional conferences binding on the union rulebook relating to that section and within all of this sectionalization , what role does the Apex conference now play , as those members , like myself , are presumably within one of the other sections too . |
| 28 | By contrast , industrial co-operatives are wholly about industrial democracy . |
| 29 | This has been mostly in agricultural chemicals where tonnages have proved a good fit with Hickson 's type of batch equipment . |
| 30 | Four of the committee members are from developing countries , and the experience of several of the others has been mostly in these countries . |