Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [am/are] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The young people , in particular , as they become better educated are reluctant to work the land — which is very hard work for a low income .
2 The value of this constant has been chosen so that the lists of collocations so produced are comparable in size with the definitions taken from machine-readable dictionaries .
3 Temporary workers hired for a fixed-term in excess of one year were not identified by WIRS , although other than in the academic/research area numbers so employed are likely to be small .
4 Hardest hit are small businessmen and the unemployed who get sucked into a string of debt , partly as a result of easy credit , added Mr Milburn .
5 Ask a neighbour to collect your post , water your plants ( dead plants or plants that are regularly on windowsills suddenly removed are tell-tale signs ) and perhaps to draw your curtains every night .
6 Can I say Chairman on on this report of the policy of the old policy and resources committee on the internal management of local authorities that was a very important issue because it 's I all issues are important but in particular the the seal the report is to inform the council of comments which the policy and resources committee has agreed to make the association of county councils on the recommendation of the joint working party on the internal management of local authority Now I 'm sure you , you 've waded through the report at least some of the during the last er week or so that er that you 've had it well I would advise you to turn to page thirty and thirty one because there 's lot eas and it 'll make life easier for you , if you do that and there on the bottom half of page thirty you will see the decisions of the policy and resources committee .
7 Accordingly , women may abandon them and try to fit into institutional patterns which make no sense to them but which they are constantly assured are superior .
8 Resting , sleeping and generally vegetating are obvious ways of unwinding .
9 And not forgotten are great series from the past — the Can-Am challenges and the Australian Tasman Cup .
10 Also not included are fixed charges on bank accounts and , more importantly , fixed charges on shares held in a subsidiary .
11 An additional and severe problem is that the volumes of data which are already collected are huge by the standards of only a decade ago .
12 But your Major alas … ’ ‘ … while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen : for the things which are seen are temporal ; but the things which are not seen are eternal … ’
13 The result is that it is very complex ; in addition , I must note that quite a few words are given stress patterns that I do not feel are acceptable in present-day English .
14 He 's not going are mad
15 Soon to vanish are German toyboy Dieter Schultz , played by Kai Maurer ; beach bar brothers Allan and Gavin Hindle ( Jon Morrey and Darren Newton ) ; restaurant owner Bunny ( Roger Walker ) ; Irish handyman Snowy ( Patch Connolly ) ; and French teenager Arnaud Leduc ( Mikael Philippe ) .
16 Similarly , health and safety legislation can be designed to protect workers from agreeing to work in conditions which they do not realize are unsafe .
17 So , you must either plan the flowers that are to be pressed in advance , or check that the flowers already used are suitable .
18 ACT is discriminatory , and it discriminates against the kind of companies that generally speaking are good for Britain
19 It is widely recognized among those involved with education that one of the most significant aspects of certification procedures is that aspects of educational endeavour which are not assessed are unlikely to be taken seriously by either teachers or pupils .
20 Tax is imposed as a rate or series of rates ; e.g. income tax is levied at just 20% , 25% and 40% of taxable income whilst VAT items that are not exempted are zero-rated or pay 17.5% .
21 Similar Trommelbass accompaniments but filled out and not figured are rare in the published works of Eckard , whose left-hand parts , except for some long stretches of Alberti bass and other broken-chord patterns , are notable for their variety of texture .
22 But I only have reason to believe that my experience makes that proposition probable if I have reason to believe quite generally that events which I have not observed are similar to events which I have observed .
23 Newspapers that do not change are likely to be the exception rather than the rule .
24 For example , some states that can be easily identified are bilingual or multilingual , others can be viewed as bidialectal , and yet others as monodialectal ( but still variable ) .
25 Nevertheless , the creatures we generally think are alive are not clays ; they are dogs and humans and trees and mosses .
26 Jobs not shopping are key to recovery
27 Jobs not shopping are key to recovery
28 Yet hypnosis can produce seriously distorted memories which the witness nevertheless believes are true
29 For information relating to short times , two approaches that have been widely used are dynamic mechanical thermal analysis ( DMTA ) and dielectric thermal analysis ( DETA ) .
30 In fact , the limits within which voluntary resources can be effectively used are narrow ; and they can only be effectively used even within those limits if professional full-paid effort is put into making it happen .
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