Example sentences of "are [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think you are rather a vain girl and thinking too much about your figure . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , ’ he said slowly , still looking at her in that peculiar way , ‘ you really are rather a remarkable person . ’ |
| 3 | And there are rather a lot of photographs of one particular consultant obstetrician gynaecologist , Yehudi Gordon . |
| 4 | Beliefs are not conjured up out of nothing but are rather a response to experience . |
| 5 | There are rather a lot you know |
| 6 | Oh , we 're talking about sixth forms , Bill , and we 're talking about all schools which have sixth forms and you 're conscious that there are rather a lot of schools with sixth forms in the county and who will feel that it is a significant change . |
| 7 | Armed with your bridging loan , you are effectively a cash buyer , not caught up in a chain , and you can use this position to your advantage , demanding and getting a good discount . |
| 8 | Professional musicians are mostly a cynical lot — they 've heard it all before and played it all before too . |
| 9 | Good photography or colour reproductions can enhance the quality of a book , but are rarely a crucial factor outside the obvious field of the visual arts . |
| 10 | Hotels , whatever people say , are rarely a problem . |
| 11 | This would avoid civil actions , which are often defeated because individual victims , even when they decide to act co-operatively , are rarely a match for corporations who decide it is better to be prudent than just . |
| 12 | Yet elections are rarely a verdict on a single issue , especially one concerned with foreign affairs . |
| 13 | Wars between nations , he suggests , are wholly a product of people 's territorial natures . |
| 14 | After all , leg ulcers are overwhelmingly a nursing problem . |
| 15 | Marines are most a risk , as salt water conducts electricity more easily , but certain Discus breeders have also reported good results from earthing their water . |
| 16 | Breton and Wintrobe object to the assumption that the factors which go to make up the bureaucrat 's utility function — salary , ‘ perks ’ , and so on — are necessarily a positive monotonic function of the total budget . |
| 17 | Food preferences are obviously a very individual matter . |
| 18 | Warwick are obviously a firm who stand by their products and the people who use them . |
| 19 | Individual differences are obviously a consequence of the particular past experience of each person who has thereby acquired a unique set of skills based on a natural endowment which was also unique . |
| 20 | ‘ And you , señor , you are obviously a warm-blooded Mediterranean , but … ’ she paused and her eyes danced mischievously ‘ … you are … ’ she let her eyes travel the length of his body ‘ … dare I say it … taller than most of your kinsmen . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We are obviously a step closer now . |
| 22 | he says we could either put it forward because the windows are obviously a lot wider |
| 23 | Yes , I mean , I feel very strongly in terms of women 's rights , but I think there are obviously a lot of differences between women and you ca n't generalize women , the same as you ca n't generalize individual personalities traits on for men . |
| 24 | Complaints against police are obviously a problem for all of us , and we as managers throughout the rank structure are concerned about the complaints and it 's simply that , whilst I was in operational command , I had a direct influence in hopefully preventing complaints . |
| 25 | OK , he said all clothes are basically a way of attracting the opposite sex . |
| 26 | Apples are basically a mixture of water , sugar , dietary fibre and little else . |
| 27 | Patterns for these are readily available and are basically a petal of one double crochet , one half treble , and a few trebles , one half treble and one double crochet all into a chain loop behind the previous row of petals . |
| 28 | All three types of pattern , ( written , diagrammatical and digital or Form ) , are based on a tension , or gauge , swatch ; without this , the pattern would not exist at all in any form , because all knitting patterns are basically a notation of how to knit a shape with a given yarn and stitch type , mathematically calculated from the original swatch . |
| 29 | The Duveen Galleries are basically a large hallway formed by three separate but continuous rooms strung out in a line , which empty into the side galleries to the right and left . |
| 30 | Erm and there are basically a short term pension is available . |