Example sentences of "are [adv] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lampreys ( Petromyzon ) are rather nasty external parasites of other fish , to which they attach themselves with a sucker , and proceed to rasp away at the living flesh . |
| 2 | Although it is true that the legal provisions are mostly protective minimum standards which can be improved upon via collective bargaining , the fact remains that collective bargaining itself does not have the same range as might be the case if legal provisions were fewer ( Blanpain , 1982a ) . |
| 3 | The colours in the collection are mostly deep purple , plum , khaki , olive green , browns , black and tones of old gold . |
| 4 | ‘ Dolmus ’ are incredibly cheap shared taxis which roam the many quiet bays , beaches and villages of the peninsula . |
| 5 | While many directors and senior staff in social services departments are professionally qualified social workers , a relatively small proportion of the staff is engaged in social works . |
| 6 | They are very abundant on the desert surfaces of the American south-west , but are presumably rare localised in deep sea deposits . |
| 7 | Every act of political corruption rewards corruptibility in politics and exacerbates the social selection into public office of those who are most adeptly corrupt . |
| 8 | NCp7D lacks two of the three regions of basic amino acids which are most likely involved in interacting with nucleic acids ( 6 ) and is thus unable to form a stable complex with the DNA . |
| 9 | For while the program is an object there are necessarily multiple small pieces of code within it . |
| 10 | The autumn colours are especially lovely this year . |
| 11 | These are quite common , but instead of being featureless , uninteresting ‘ lumps ’ , they are highly distinctive natural glasses . |
| 12 | It is also clear that there are highly specific ritual constraints of a universal , or near universal nature for example , nearly all cultures seem to have greeting and parting routines ( see Ferguson , 1976 ) . |
| 13 | A natural by-product of the body 's oxidative processes , free radicals are highly reactive toxic molecules which have been implicated in the onset of many degenerative conditions because of their ability to damage cells and disrupt the bodily functions . |
| 14 | In December the City Committee of the Belgrade Party ( which is the largest city organization of communists in Yugoslavia , with nearly a quarter of a million of members , many of whom are highly influential federal and Serbian bureaucrats ) elected as its new president Professor Radoš Smiljković , professor of political science at Belgrade University . |
| 15 | The silicon ingots are highly perfect single crystals and on the atomic scale the cutting has to proceed through breaking bonds . |
| 16 | All our teachers are highly qualified native speakers . |
| 17 | We avoid areas of very high technology … [ and ] businesses which are highly capital intensive and where decision-making has to be centralised . ’ |
| 18 | Both cruises are highly enjoyable 1 hour round trips and include a commentary from the skipper . |
| 19 | All Tri-Plates are highly collectable these days , but as Hawaiian star Sol Hoopii 's famous guitar remains undiscovered and blues-player Tampa Red 's legendary gold-plated model remains just that — a legend — the ultimate collector 's Tri-Plates must be the presentation models the company made for certain employees . |
| 20 | You could say , that er , a Hobbesian view of human nature , that people are basically anti-social egoistic and er , aggressive , and that if left to themselves , life would be a war , war against all , is what we might call a pessimistic view of human nature . |
| 21 | The chord types here are basically dominant sevenths ( root , major 3rd , 5th and ♭7th ) and Shaun goes for notes from the corresponding mixolydian mode in each case . |
| 22 | And I think you see people are basically green minded Marg . |
| 23 | Among the other species which can be considered as useful for the heated aquarium , but are less popular due to one reason or another , the following are worthy of being listed . |
| 24 | The other two churches are less interesting due to alterations and restorations in later periods . |
| 25 | Thirdly , specific dictionaries are less reliable due to their inconsistency . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They like cats especially , it seems , because cats are apparently good strong dreamers . |
| 28 | This third group of mystics are apparently disenchanted ex-coven members who have grown tired of the ‘ backbiting and bitchiness ’ in the occult . |
| 29 | It is estimated that half of the 700,000 lakes in the six eastern provinces of Canada ( south of 52 °N ) have alkalinity ( acid neutralizing capacity ) values below 50 µ eq/l , that is , they are extremely acid sensitive . |
| 30 | In other words , the overall management of an organisation that is in many ways similar to a small hotel or guest house , where most of the guests are extremely frail elderly people . |