Example sentences of "are [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Most are rather like a sandwich with the steel springs embedded in a honeycomb of foam .
2 These are rather like a water heater and storage cylinder in one .
3 When male students are numerically in a minority , do they form a ‘ minority group ’ ?
4 The remaining songs are mostly of a more cheerful nature , sometimes with an occasional function .
5 Comedians and sportsmen , who are mostly from a working-class backround , will be limited to the OBEs , MBEs and CBEs .
6 Perhaps we think our friends see us as calm and capable while we know that we are secretly in a state of panic .
7 you are on to a good thing , you 'll end up with knitteds that suit you because they fit .
8 I think we are on to a loser with this one , but good luck …
9 All I can say on that is that , as regards the delivery of patient care in the areas from which we have received trust applications , we are on to a winner .
10 If er , scientists and his team works on a , or think they are on to a discovery or something that needs researching , can get , the necessary funding , office , or firms that they benefit , say this in the previous paragraph , that 's fine , but to concentrate on topics which are I do n't think that happens .
11 Many directors who take dividends in lieu of salary may think they are on to a good thing .
12 Judging by the trade and the spirited bidding , Scotland 's hill farmers now know that they are on to a good thing .
13 With our high standard of food and a quality presentation , we are on to a winner and the school has been very impressed so far . ’
14 No we 're not putting any more films on Aaron cartoons are on in a minute
15 The Dawson International Executive Share Option Scheme 1993 ( ‘ the Executive Scheme ’ ) provides for share options to be granted to those senior employees who are most in a position to affect the fortunes of the Company .
16 Bangladeshi infants are constantly in a busy social and tactile environment , whereas Welsh babies grow up in smaller households in which independence is encouraged .
17 We are necessarily at a distance from them , detached .
18 In contemporary societies these are necessarily of a cultural or social nature ; nationality and territory being crude and highly approximate signifiers of shared ancestry .
19 As dawn appears in the sky our progress quickens ; after crossing a few fields and climbing several hedgerows we are suddenly on a road with farm buildings a short distance away .
20 However , a group of assessors under the President of Ukraine and President Kravchuk himself are obviously of a different opinion ; they are credited with the authorship of the agreement .
21 Burrowing species are obviously at a disadvantage in such situations , although some species are able to escape by swimming .
22 On the first issue , teachers are obviously in a crucial position to detect cases of abuse of children in their care .
23 It was very handy , being so close to town , and as the Lock family are much of an age with our boys we had a very jolly time together .
24 Starting and finishing at the Hill Inn , the walk passes through a district liberally pockmarked with caves and potholes of which Bruntscar and Gatekirk Cave are especially worth a halt to inspect the outsides .
25 Starting and finishing at the Hill Inn , the walk passes through a district liberally pockmarked with caves and potholes of which Bruntscar and Gatekirk Cave are especially worth a halt to inspect the outsides .
26 Two to three tablespoons of tinned tomatoes are enough for a sauce made from 2 lb. of the fresh fruit or for 3 pints of stock .
27 Tonight they are together at a banquet aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia to mark the EC summit .
28 Earlier marriages with fewer children means that couples are together for a long time after their children have left home .
29 It is assumed that the fact that teachers and pupils are together in a special classroom implies the presence of an educational programme relevant to the development of children ; also that the presence of a teacher provides effective educational programmes … in practice none of these desiderata have been met .
30 For a discipline which has made a speciality of the modern world we are somewhat at a disadvantage compared to journalists .
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