Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have noticed in this puritan America of ours that beautiful women are rarely permitted to be clever . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly , different viewpoints have emerged over the range of activities which can be justified under the name of academic freedom , over the kinds of threat which are most felt to be present , over the circumstances in which appeal can be made to academic freedom , and over the justifications which academics employ to claim a right to ‘ academic freedom ’ . |
| 3 | It frightens me to think that not only are we so vulnerable to these monsters but also that we are constantly blamed for being provocative or careless . |
| 4 | All too frequently , Conservative Members are wrongly accused of being anti-local authorities . |
| 5 | ‘ A lot of people are obviously going to be disappointed , but others who are willing to take a chance right up until the match may be lucky to get their hands on a ticket . ’ |
| 6 | She 's got no practice ones for the two , the other two she 's got to do which are obviously going to be harder and she 's got no idea , not , well she 's got the guidelines but no real paper to sit and look at . |
| 7 | Since neither its eyes nor its ears are sufficiently developed to be functional at this stage , it probably finds its way to the pouch by smell . |
| 8 | ‘ If you are on £3,000 a week with a mercedes and a lovely wife to put the tea on you are naturally going to be softer than the sportsmen who has nothing . |
| 9 | . The patched lines on the plan which you have in front of you erm are only intended to be indicative . |
| 10 | They 're not trying to push , they are only trying to be helpful , but I think it is a material matter for the committee to consider . |
| 11 | Many collars , sprays and powders are only claimed to be effective against fleas . |
| 12 | Their requirements may be similar to those of others , but at present the vast majority of goods and services on offer are only designed to be user-friendly for fit , athletic members of MENSA ! |
| 13 | These do not meet the sentencing requirement but are nevertheless deemed to be arrestable offences . |
| 14 | People are normally considered to be risk-averse over amounts of the order of magnitude of their incomes . |
| 15 | There are generally recognized to be two major sources of error when converting vector maps ( either paper or digital ) into gridded or raster format . |
| 16 | But this explanation is not sufficient to explain the phenomenon : there is a definite difference between , shall we say , an amoeba and a crystal , yet the crystal grows and ( in a very limited sense ) reproduces — two activities that are generally assumed to be characteristic of living material . |
| 17 | Controlled processes are generally assumed to be voluntary , flexible and capacity limited while automatic ones are highly efficient , unavoidable , resistant to modification , not subject to capacity limitations and able to occur without awareness ( LaBerge , 1981 ) . |
| 18 | Immunological abnormalities are generally accepted to be involved in the pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis . |
| 19 | Such enzymes do exist — they are known as reverse transcriptases — but they are generally believed to be exclusive to RNA viruses , which need them to transcribe their RNA genes into DNA for replication inside cells . |
| 20 | Partnerships between education and business are generally believed to be good , useful and worthwhile . |
| 21 | Many of these straits are noted for strong tidal currents , but although such currents may assist in moving away the debris of erosion , they are generally held to be impotent as a cause of marked marine erosion , at least of those which outcrop in this locality . |
| 22 | We should not underestimate the power of official systems of classification of children , even when they are generally held to be inadequate by those that work with them . |
| 23 | It has to provide the financial resources for at least a minimum number of services — defence , roads , education , income support , etc. — which are generally deemed to be necessary for the survival of any modern society . |
| 24 | Rational thought and behaviour are generally thought to be dependent in some ways upon an ability to reason logically . |
| 25 | C. oncophora and C. curticei are generally considered to be mild pathogens in calves and lambs respectively although in some studies they have been associated with inappetence and poor weight gains . |
| 26 | Road conditions in the county are generally considered to be inadequate and the construction of the remaining Maidstone-Ashford section of the M20 is programmed for completion in 1991 . |
| 27 | But in that there is common ground with Psychiatry : people who believe that they themselves are God are generally considered to be insane . |
| 28 | All they are interested in — all they are generally permitted to be interested in — is whether they get a reasonable pension at the end of the day . |
| 29 | When women complain about men calling them by endearment terms , it is often thought rather silly — the men are just trying to be friendly , after all , they do not intend any sexist slur . |
| 30 | The different approaches are thus seen to be distinct , but perhaps not in conflict ; each approach is seen as an area of specialism , rather than as an area of commitment . |