Example sentences of "[verb] are [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The simple molecules from which the DNA is mainly built are of only four kinds , but they are grouped in trios and arranged in a particular and significant order on the immensely long DNA molecule . |
| 2 | It may be argued that such distinctions between what machines can do and what only humans can do are of merely temporary interest , since in principle there is nothing that a human can do that a machine might not be devised , some day , to do . |
| 3 | Most of the fossils recovered are of wholly or partly aquatic amphibians , the sort that were easily preserved in the coal swamps that were characteristic of the Carboniferous non-marine environment . |
| 4 | In addition , the assignments on which contract computing staff operate are of much longer duration . |
| 5 | ‘ Head counts ’ of quangos are the more difficult because , as Hood ( 1979 , pp. 9–10 ) observes , ‘ the ‘ heads ’ involved are of enormously differing size and importance — on a scale more like the difference between the head of an ant and an elephant than the difference between one human head and another' . |
| 6 | But the skills involved are at least equalled by those lavished on some of the base metal objects , such as the iron sword with its complex design of pattern welding ( see p. 88 ) and the intricately cast and decorated escutcheons on the hanging bowls . |
| 7 | Surveys just before this Truth in Lending Act , just after , and again in 1977 , have shown a steady growth in the proportion of American consumers whose estimates of the APRs being charged on the credit they use are at least reasonably close to actual market rates . |
| 8 | Expansion in the number of users and disk storage supported are on there way . |
| 9 | The highest counts so far recorded are of c. 2,400 on 13 October 1973 , and 2,480 on 25 September 1976 . |
| 10 | Scattered among the hundreds of central London houses he manages are at least 100 empty properties . |
| 11 | Clearly what you need are at least two helpers . |