Example sentences of "are [adv] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some nations are predominantly tea drinkers , others will generally prefer coffee . |
| 2 | The state is nothing but a family and we 're related to his majesty Charles the First just as we are related to our dads as simple as that , you know , the private and the public are identical political relationships are fundamentally family relationships . |
| 3 | Renaissance texts in circulation today are effectively course texts designed , produced , and circulated among students in higher education or among a very small academic elite who make use of institutional libraries . |
| 4 | Freshwater fish and other species are effectively island creatures , as lakes and upper reaches of rivers are isolated from neighbouring lakes , unless there is flash flooding . |
| 5 | However such a distinction can be a narrow one especially since some limitation clauses are effectively exclusion clauses where , for example , the limitation of liability is for a trivial sum . |
| 6 | These days , of course , huge numbers of interactive terminals are also available for simple transactions such as automated bank telling , but these are rarely multimedia applications and we will not cover them here . |
| 7 | Suppose there are altogether N rules . |
| 8 | As Fig. 4.4 shows , the assets of investment trusts are overwhelmingly company securities ; there are very few government securities . |
| 9 | It is now appropriate to consider whether the caustics formed in this way correspond to mere coordinate singularities , or whether they are necessarily curvature singularities as they are in the Khan-Penrose solution . |
| 10 | However , there are obviously time overheads for this packing and unpacking . |
| 11 | So as far as this meeting 's concerned , erm , most of our meetings are basically business meetings , but we , we have tried and we will try to put in speakers and , and do different things from time to time , we had er , er a woman last time who 'd been to Central America recently and she gave us a very interesting talk on a visit to El Salvador and Guatamala , erm , and we , we 'd like to do that more often , but , but what we do really erm , to begin with any rate , is we go th we go through the , the headings on this sheet , on the , on the minutes , we use them as headings for others and erm , items on the agenda and er some may have more to say than others and there are one or two not on there which we 'll pop in as we go along . |
| 12 | She is a stranger , and does n't belong here , and there are long waiting lists already — people who have lived here and paid their rates all their lives . ’ |
| 13 | The source , destination , and editing pattern are all byte strings , and the editing pattern has four possible entries : digit selector ( DS:binary 00100000 ) , significance starter ( SS : binary 00100001 ) , field separator ( FS : binary 00100010 ) , and message character ( MC : any other binary pattern ) . |
| 14 | This is because benefits ( which are entirely fuel savings over the whole system ) are less valuable early in the plant 's life than they become later , as coal and oil prices are expected to rise continuously in real terms . |
| 15 | Sporting heroes are naturally role models for young people . |
| 16 | They exist in a mirror world where they are suspended in a liquid like molten glass , and these images when seen from the mundane are brilliant but they are only mirror images of reality . |
| 17 | Speaking at the funeral of UVF victim Jim Peacock , the Bishop of Connor , Dr Samuel Poyntz , said their ‘ bestial and barbaric acts are only mirror images of PIRA bombers and murderers ’ . |
| 18 | In his sermon he said that their ‘ bestial and barbaric acts are only mirror images of IRA bombers and murderers ’ . |
| 19 | Even mass and solidity are only sense perceptions . |
| 20 | Well , I mean if , they are only cartoon characters after all and Tom and Gerry have got to fit into the exactly that mould , and nobody takes that too seriously . |
| 21 | They are only wind-up birds |
| 22 | In the area there are only limestone rocks which splinter easily and so are unsuitable for an inscription . |
| 23 | Do n't forget we are only business acquaintances . ’ |
| 24 | There are gods , but they too are only material combinations of atoms , and our own consciousness ceases at death on the disintegration of our material bodies . |
| 25 | For causal theorists there are only nerve impulses , all of which are essentially the same . |
| 26 | They are normally working days . |
| 27 | They are normally impact systems , ie a wire is fired at a ribbon in order to leave an inked dot on the page , but thermal and electro-erosion systems are also used . |
| 28 | The shop 's profile is reflected in the sales , which over any given trading year are largely 50% books and 50% non-books . |
| 29 | They are largely monotone engravings but around the beginning of the 19th century a series of itinerant Irish artists recorded the Gorge in all its glory and colour . |
| 30 | Eurobonds are generally bearer bonds ( i.e. there is no register of holders ) , pay interest free of tax , and are usually unsecured but offer a negative pledge . |