Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the bond market , the Bank does not actively try to sell at a time when prices are falling ; indeed its spokesmen have often asserted that it can not sell in such conditions , that the views of investors in the short-term are predominantly extrapolative and that few will wish to buy stock when the price is falling . |
| 2 | The emigrants are predominantly young and skilled : Hong Kong is now losing more graduates each year than it produces . |
| 3 | The recent sediments contain soot characteristic of fuel-oil , which has been extensively used only since 1940 , and magnetic particles which , says Battarbee , ‘ are predominantly spherical and can be identified as power station fly-ash . ’ |
| 4 | As you will realise , some offences are predominantly working-class and others predominantly middle-class , and it is important that self-report studies do not include too many offences typical of one group or class . |
| 5 | When a sergeant congratulated one section on the improvement in the language in the guard room over the last few hours when the field-worker had been present , one constable shouted , ‘ Fucking good job too , Sir ’ ( FN 2/2/87 , p. 6 ) , and the occupational culture of the station soon reasserted its typical forms of expression , which are widespread in all police forces and occupational cultures that are predominantly masculine and working class . |
| 6 | Recent volcanic rocks , including extensive sheets of volcanic ash , are predominantly acidic and intermediate in composition since the magmas have risen through continental crust . |
| 7 | Like feminist psychologists in general , lesbian psychologists are predominantly white and middle class . |
| 8 | The grasses selected for medium leys are predominantly Italian and perennial rye-grasses with small amounts of timothy , cocksfoot and meadow fescue . |
| 9 | Low voltage lights are widely available and simple to install with no worries about safety . |
| 10 | The majority of hostels now offer family accommodation and all provide excellent , free , self-catering facilities , though breakfast ( £2.30 ) , packed lunch ( £1.95 ) , and evening meal ( from £3.50 ) are widely available and some hostels even run to a wine list . |
| 11 | Sniffable products are widely available and they are portable . |
| 12 | Miniature roses , growing no more than 40cm are widely available as house-plants . |
| 13 | Geographers are well represented in industry , commerce , government and the professions , and are widely sought-after as graduate trainees . |
| 14 | Increasingly satirical and ambitious , they are unpretentiously direct and witty in style , imaginative in using her experience , and firmly focused on social and political problems . |
| 15 | Probably the most interesting object is the open cluster NGC 2244 , round the star 12 Monocerotis ( 5.8 ) ; it is quite easy to locate with binoculars , and I am rather surprised that it is not included in the Messier list . |
| 16 | ‘ I am rather surprised that he made it public , but we will be taking it very seriously — have no doubt about that — and it will be raised at the Anglo-Irish Conference meeting in London . ’ |
| 17 | I am rather surprised that Martin Frears has found himself in this predicament . |
| 18 | ‘ I am most upset that you have been treated so badly by my countrymen , ’ Gennaro said in a quiet steady voice . |
| 19 | ‘ There is no reason in it , I am most unreasonable and know it . |
| 20 | ‘ Your Grace , I am most anxious and deeply troubled by the rumours put about by evil men . |
| 21 | Cutter-bar and rotary mowers are rather unsuitable because they leave the swathe lying in the direction of cut with heads and butts mixed ; it is then difficult to pick up , sort , and bind the sheaves . |
| 22 | These procedures are rather awkward and most languages based on the relational algebra ‘ cheat ’ and have an ADD and DELETE operator as well as the standard operators discussed above , although strictly these are not necessary . |
| 23 | For example a couple of weeks ago there was a thing on tit for tat and this week there 's a fascinating thing on snakes and female sexuality which erm illustrates er some of the points I 'll be , I 'll , I 'll be making and although as Sue rightly says erm , most of the articles in Nature are rather technical and difficult to understand if you 're not a specialist they do make concessions to the rest of us by publishing very often erm summaries er in the first part of the journal erm and there is one on this and er I can recommend that . |
| 24 | Males erm are rather coy and , and retiring and er submit to er females planting their eggs inside their pouches . |
| 25 | Maybe some of your pictures are rather dark and muddy-looking . |
| 26 | Yugoslav statistics of foreign trade are rather unsatisfactory and difficult to interpret . |
| 27 | In particular , the positions of each gear are rather vague and more-than-average effort is needed to shift from one to another . |
| 28 | His own choices are rather limited since the Pru owns 3.5% of the stockmarket . |
| 29 | It is not surprising that many professionals involved in education are rather dispirited and disillusioned at this time . |
| 30 | ‘ Although these claims are true , they are rather misleading and are an attempt to generate fees by the businesses concerned , ’ says tax specialist Peter Howarth . |