Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] they are [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bivariate relationship between terminal education age and preparedness to break the law suggests a different conclusion about the relationship between education and respect for the law in Britain in 1984 : more of those who left school at 16 or above say they are prepared to break the law ( 0.364 ) than do those who left at 15 or younger ( 0.274 ) , a difference of +0.090 . |
| 2 | Aromatic herbs are the ones most used in cooking ; no two are alike and some are so difficult to describe that even to say they are clove-like gives the wrong idea . |
| 3 | Diode-pumped , solid state miniature lasers are another promising area of research since if sufficiently powered they are capable of driving non-linear optical devices , while the development of fibre lasers is being investigated as an alternative to laser diodes . |
| 4 | In contrast to white , black is widely employed to represent evil , terror , darkness , decay , the appropriate colour for mourning — a range of depressing associations perhaps ultimately deriving from the alternation of night and day ; we share these with the Ndembu and readily assume they are universal . |
| 5 | Where listed buildings stand empty and completely abandoned they are able to carry out emergency work themselves and send the bills to the owners . |