Example sentences of "are [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buildings of Cambridge colleges are predominantly of stone , while those of domestic Cambridge are mainly of brick and slate . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Since the programmes are predominantly of advanced modules , admissions decisions are made by the relevant Field Chairs . |
| 4 | One of the main criticisms levelled at US and European transnational corporations in Asia , Africa and Latin America is that their operations are predominantly of the export processing variety , employing low wage workers ( mainly ‘ nimblefingered ’ young women ) in monotonous and often physically debilitating labour , the products of which constitute a small proportion of the value-added of the final commodity . |
| 5 | Basic magmas , however , which are predominantly of basaltic composition , have a much lower silica content and are erupted at high temperatures . |
| 6 | Hooligan fans are predominantly from lower working-class backgrounds . |
| 7 | The atoms that are involved in these interactions are predominantly from the heavy chain backbone , but use both main chain and side chain atoms from protein G. The complex is stabilized further by the association of exposed nonpolar residues from Fab and protein G , providing a continuous hydrophobic core which is shielded from solvent . |
| 8 | Examples used in photomicrographs are predominantly from ‘ grain-supported ’ rocks ( sandstones , grainstones/packstones ) as many petrofabrics are more readily apparent within these sediments . |
| 9 | The archivists in this collection are predominantly from institutions which hold electronic data , usually created via official social surveys or opinion polls . |
| 10 | The huts are predominantly in valleys near rivers , and invariably the local area was swarming with mosquitos . |
| 11 | Account-holders are predominantly in the A , B and C1 social categories and mainly live in the South East or London . |
| 12 | Even John Stuart Mill who , as one would expect , greatly admired Socrates , describing him in On Liberty , rather extravagantly , as " the head and prototype of all subsequent teachers of virtue " and " the acknowledged master of all the eminent thinkers who have since lived , " was moved to protest at this probably misplaced generosity : " The Athenian Many , of whose irritability and suspicion we hear so much , are rather to be accused of too easy and good-natured a confidence , when we reflect that they had living in the midst of them the very men who , on the first show of an opportunity , were ready to compass the subversion of the democracy . " |
| 13 | We are rather at the point of arguing that the state , and in particular its bureaucracy , may be free from subordination and manipulation by the ruling class in order to preserve its interests in the long run and as a whole . |
| 14 | Certainly the most difficult ideas in statistics have little to do with mathematics but are rather about what is knowable and how it may be known . |
| 15 | David Wilkie , the actuary , concluded that the loss of the Tory majority , then 21 , was ‘ not impossible but the odds are rather against it . ’ |
| 16 | Their strengths are rather in clearing the ground of preconceived ideas about the arts , and putting new points of view . |
| 17 | In the case of the evidence produced by informal interviews we , the readers , are rather in the position of hearing a case put by only one counsel and not the other . |
| 18 | It is difficult to see , for example , how the relation earlier/later can be made clear sense of without allowing the possibility of developing complexes , i.e. complexes which are not complete , but are rather in the " process of completion " . |
| 19 | Lane has argued that ‘ ruling class ’ interpretations of the Soviet Union are inappropriate because the holders of state power do not possess and inherit property but are rather in the same market position as other wage-earners . |
| 20 | ‘ Actors , ’ he once said , ‘ are rather like gangsters : people on the edge of society , ruthless people who suffer . ’ |
| 21 | People concerned about their recently deceased relative or friend are rather like me in my garden . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | FILMS about the human sex act are rather like books on the same subject . |
| 24 | Most are rather like a sandwich with the steel springs embedded in a honeycomb of foam . |
| 25 | The change has meant that fund managers have , as John Harrison says , ‘ begun to realise that charities with their gross funds are rather like pension funds : they have an institutional nature with trustees involved and this makes them a fund management proposition ’ . |
| 26 | Later , in the 1840 s , Emil Du Bois-Reymond ( 1818–96 ) showed experimentally that the impulses travelling along nerves are rather like the flow of electrical currents along a wire ( the similarity is in fact even closer than he imagined ) . |
| 27 | These are rather like the process of bereavement , with shock , denial , guilt and unhappiness , acceptance and resignation . |
| 28 | The discs between the vertebrae are rather like leathery cushions , acting as shock absorbers . |
| 29 | Hence they are rather like the overdraft limit placed on a private sector customer by its bank . |
| 30 | They are rather like the markers teachers use to signal transitions in lessons : ‘ Right ! ’ , or ‘ OK , let's get started ! ’ |