Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [conj] are [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In the long run , persistent current account deficits are difficult and costly to sustain and are damaging to an economy .
2 This can be measured in terms of its domestic and transnational political organization , direct and indirect TNC interference in host country politics and the extent to which these constrain and are constrained by the domestic and/or transnational labour movement .
3 These emerge and are released into water as tadpoles .
4 Many fail and are abandoned by the receding tide to die as thousands more swim in the shallows , pressing forward to take their turn .
5 They can distinguish between two sounds which are only 18 inches apart at a distance of 60 feet ; they can separate with ease two sounds that are coming from the same direction , but at different distances ; and they can differentiate two sounds that have only a half-tone of difference between them .
6 At up to £35 a kilo , they are now too expensive to eat and are bought for restocking rivers with edible eel in Europe and elsewhere .
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