Example sentences of "[noun sg] are [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say that the stop signs , the visibility is n't erm again , he 's going to s to erm er he says that the stop signs , the visibility is n't bad enough , that the , the difficulties in visibility are n't bad enough , but he 's going to reexamine that particular situation . |
| 2 | The aspirations of the knightly class at its best and the sense that Christendom must go over to the offensive against Islam are nowhere more succinctly expressed than in this poem , written when the Christian reconquest of Spain was well under way , but when the crusades had only just begun , shortly before or shortly after the launching of the First Crusade . |
| 3 | The bedrooms are all modestly furnished and have a telephone but some superior rooms , which are newly refurbished and boast a sea view , balcony , a colour TV and a mini-bar are also available at a supplement quoted below . |
| 4 | When , on isolated occasions such as the tragic accidents at Basle and Chicago , things really go wrong , it is vital that the accident investigating authorities like the NTSB and the AIB are totally independent of those great and influential organisations that regulate the industry . |
| 5 | Whilst many believe that the free-market and environmental protection are mutually exclusive , others believe that if the CBT plan is successful , the implications for industry will be enormous . |
| 6 | More attention to selection , role clarification and preparation are equally important . |
| 7 | The prospects for establishing bad faith are very limited however , given that virtually any policy that is premised on increasing profits but which will be damaging to employees , such as a plant closure , can be portrayed as being beneficial to the employees in general , for example by making other jobs in the company more secure , thus supporting the claim that employee interests have been sufficiently considered . |
| 8 | Professional expertise and good faith are often valid defences . |
| 9 | Brine shrimp are also available in egg form and can be hatched in warm salt water to provide a continuous source of live food . |
| 10 | The ideas behind DIP are relatively simple . |
| 11 | The office facilities which include a duplicator and photocopier are freely available . |
| 12 | The manner and timing of settlement are equally significant . |
| 13 | A kestrel 's prey might be something as small as a beetle , and as they tend to hover twenty or thirty feet above the ground , their eyesight and the accuracy of their dive are both awe-inspiring . |
| 14 | An alternative expression is evidently unc where the first factor is doubly degenerate ; the remainder are simply degenerate , giving as before a total degeneracy n . |
| 15 | This showed that we have now implemented the majority of the recommendations while the remainder are either well in hand or about to be tackled . |
| 16 | Jupiter is now known to have at least sixteen satellites , though the remainder are much smaller than the Galileans . |
| 17 | Obviously excluding more severe cases results in bias because the remainder are less severe . |
| 18 | Professional restorers , art historians and journalists equipped with variable degrees of real technical expertise are currently all equally ready to take up the cudgels in causes of this kind . |
| 19 | Of course we must remember that the welfare implications of price discrimination are not clear-cut . |
| 20 | I think we have to face up to the fact in the Labour party that quotas , that positive discrimination are essentially clumsy . |
| 21 | The criteria for discrimination are very variable and when European writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries at last began to realize ( perhaps inadvisedly ) that the word religion might be applied to other systems of thought besides Christianity this was one of the factors on which the classification of religions was based . |
| 22 | It can not be said that there are any completely universal cultural devices by which we achieve these ends but certain kinds of taboo-loaded discrimination are very common . |
| 23 | The procedures which voluntary bodies like ourselves have to follow to obtain small amounts of funding are so intimidating that one wonders whether the effort is worth while , because funding is only the beginning — we have to organise the supply of materials , hire or loan of equipment , payment for purchases , as well as getting the volunteers on and off site and ensuring the work is carried out properly . |
| 24 | Dishes special to the canton are a feature , but many have an international menu , in which French and Italian cuisine are both prominent . |
| 25 | If you are using heated rollers , make sure they and your hair are completely cold before you remove them . |
| 26 | Prerogative and privilege are somewhat similar in definition . |
| 27 | The joy and pain of love and separation — not to mention a certain degree of despair at the intractability of the world 's ills and follies — are a constant backdrop to any adult view of human existence ; to teenagers and Robert Smith both exhilaration and horror are perpetually fresh . |
| 28 | ‘ The morals of this story are not good . ’ |
| 29 | Most of the experiments that have contributed to the ideas described in this book fall somewhere between these two extremes , although the proportions contributed by theory and by experiment to the final story are very variable . |
| 30 | And the names in the story are very important . |