Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The kind of products they handle are mostly fibres , films and acetate flake , going into end uses ranging from clothing and imitation suede to food packaging , confectionery and spectacle frames . |
| 32 | Some of them are , of course , capital cities , comparable only to London , but most of the others ( we tend to forget ) have equally been great urban centres for many hundreds of years , while Britain 's biggest cities are mostly products of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 33 | Butterflies and their caterpillars are mostly vegetarians , the one munching leaves , the other sipping nectar . |
| 34 | They are mostly Ryes from Moor . |
| 35 | ICI currently has 850 part time workers , who are mostly women and mainly working in job share schemes . |
| 36 | They are mostly women with little formal education who render basic primary health care to people in their villages . |
| 37 | NALGO 's members , who are mostly women , are bitter that they 've been pushed to take industrial action . |
| 38 | The aluminium is corrosion resistant , giving it a long life and our systems are made to BS 2997 and are mostly BBA approved . |
| 39 | The 14 senior staff of the Centre are mostly members of the LSE Economics Department . |
| 40 | Could it be that statements about the professional development of teachers are mostly rhetoric , or at least moral rather than empirical argument ? |
| 41 | Newspapers , radio and television are mostly government owned , but there are no fewer than twenty governments ! |
| 42 | Erm but these are mostly technician people . |
| 43 | These are mostly species of wide arctic distribution , morphologically distinct from their nearest kin outside the Arctic , suggesting a long-term commitment to polar life . |
| 44 | They are mostly Brazilians , except that there are also one or two Argentinians , Uraguayans , and Americans amongst them . |
| 45 | APPs are mostly money purchase schemes , that is , they do not have a guaranteed final pension , unlike most occupational pension schemes , nor are they index-linked up to retirement age , unlike SERPs . |
| 46 | These users , unsurprisingly , are mostly housewives . |
| 47 | Australia 's native animals are mostly marsupial , and — as always show marvellous similarities to the placental mammals of other continents . |
| 48 | They are mostly stories in rhymed couplets , and their subject is local scenes or people . |
| 49 | The crowds are mostly supporters , but if there is barracking from a foe so much the better . |
| 50 | The lozenge-shaped objects in the middle section of the cell are mostly mitochondria . |
| 51 | The inhabitants of Tali-fu are mostly Min Chia , a population with a distinctive language of their own , and to Hsu 's personal dismay he was treated as a stranger : " though regarded sympathetically , I was always an outsider , despite the fact that as far as physical appearance is concerned I seemed no different from those who made up the community " . |
| 52 | You are mostly Republican . |
| 53 | Other species of fish , whales and seals feed in mid-water or on the sea-bed , where their prey are mostly fish and squid . |
| 54 | The sheep here are mostly Herdwicks and run on Holme Fell . |
| 55 | Cynics retort that these are mostly shops , selling western consumer goods and damaging the balance of payments . |
| 56 | Or that people are mostly crooks ? |
| 57 | This time there are mostly couples — significant or otherwise — in full-length upper bohemia regalia and a gaggle of single , face-only cut-outs mounted atop head-high poles . |
| 58 | As for the physical appearance of the people who left behind their stone tools and food refuse , Singer and Wymer can say little because , compared with animal bones , there are few human remains in the deposits and they are mostly fragments of skulls and jawbones and teeth . |
| 59 | The remaining 16 occurrences are mostly combinations of at least two of the described problems . |
| 60 | We are mostly Asians in our section , but our shop steward is a white woman . |