Example sentences of "[be] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out-migrants from rural areas are predominantly the younger members of the adult population . |
| 2 | To air : are predominantly the volatile organic compounds [ ie , those which evaporate in air at normal temperatures ] . |
| 3 | If , as we believe to be the case , the unconscious activity of the mind consists in imposing forms upon content , and if these forms are fundamentally the same for all minds — ancient and modern , primitive and civilized |
| 4 | The amphibian 's eyes are fundamentally the same in structure as those of their fish ancestors . |
| 5 | The principles set by the schools on both sides of the Atlantic are effectively the same ; they are vocational training centres which make use of speed-learning techniques in a high-energy learning environment . |
| 6 | Now , if B-1 is the same as R1 , unc so that the methods are effectively the same . |
| 7 | They are numerically the largest group of people at risk , they present the most complex problems and their needs have the most impact on families and communities . |
| 8 | But the extended sets of variations usually on popular songs , but sometimes on dance-tunes or the notes of the hexachord , generally increasing in complication and technical difficulty toward the end , which are arguably the chief glory of virginal music , have been plausibly derived from the diferencias of Cabezon ( see pp. 236–7 ) . |
| 9 | The sermons in which it is presented are arguably the finest contribution to moral philosophy in English . |
| 10 | These commodities are arguably the primitive valuables of early Anglo-Saxon society , used to oil the wheels of social and political activities ( Huggett 1982 and forthcoming ) . |
| 11 | There is n't work for everybody , so people who work are mostly the lucky ones . |
| 12 | He had been right the first time . |
| 13 | The birds arrive on the cliffs in January and February and stay until June or July , and what are presumably the same birds are recorded right along the coast . |
| 14 | In this instance the directors are presumably the same as the shareholders , and the intention was , undoubtedly , to effect the motor vehicles ' transfer and payment of the dividend on exactly the same date to avoid a loan account debit and a s 419 assessment . |
| 15 | If initial position is reserved for theme and if topic always occurs in initial position , then theme and topic are presumably the same thing . |
| 16 | The selection factors are presumably the same , crabs will always take wide-mouthed shells first and elongated shells must always be more vulnerable to wave action : selection produces different results because it is operating on genetically different populations . |
| 17 | For three centuries , however , an incident of landownership has been effectively the sole right to shoot deer on that land , either for sport or to prevent damage . |
| 18 | Yet when all allowance is made for this bias in the evidence , one can not help being struck by the conspicuous part in our story which was played by the Empress Theophanu , the Empress Agnes , the Countess Matilda , St Margaret , the Empress Matilda , Queen Eleanor — great ladies who rose above the limitations of their sex , as commonly understood , as rulers , as saints or as viragos ; and the twelfth century would have been greatly the poorer without the life and work of the English Christina , the Hertfordshire anchoress , or of the French Heloise , the Stoic of the Paraclete , or of the German Hildegarde , the mystic of Bingen . |
| 19 | So it is misleading to suggest , as many psychologists and sociobiologists are prone to do , that these mechanisms are necessarily the prime mechanism affecting awareness and action . |
| 20 | My comments are not meant to seek to prescribe to others how they should go about things , nor are they written in the belief that the ways that I have so painfully worked upon are necessarily the best , or the only ways of doing things . |
| 21 | All this does not mean that the more recent history books are necessarily the best . |
| 22 | The first concerns the continuing insistence that class and class-based processes are necessarily the principal mechanisms underlying uneven development and social change . |
| 23 | This is not to say that the right and left are necessarily the same , but rather that they converge at key points and share an understanding of what is involved in the politics of ‘ race ’ . |
| 24 | Third , they are suddenly the good guys . |
| 25 | They are not the only good things , but they are much the best , at least among good things of which we know . |
| 26 | His complaints against the economic policies of the new Solidarity-led government are much the same as those of Lech Walesa , the Solidarity union leader . |
| 27 | Bus and train are much the same price at the moment though it 's quicker to take the bus . |
| 28 | At Ciba-Geigy the figures are much the same — in 1990 13 out of 34 graduates taken on by the company were women . |
| 29 | The recipes and procedures currently in use are much the same as those used by Thomas Arkell in 1865 . |
| 30 | But things are much the same in countries with strong constitutional traditions . |