Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The standards it sets on promotion are lower even than Britain 's . |
| 2 | Banks ' base rates are lower now than they were in September 1992 , though their cost of funds is unchanged . |
| 3 | Example sentences are corpus-based so that students will learn the most popular and up-to-date usage of words |
| 4 | Because so many of our boundaries are economic rather than administrative , it is most important that the patterns of settlement at different periods are identified and the likely land uses within them postulated . |
| 5 | Many of these sections are descriptive rather than prescriptive and contain sentences such as ‘ Most legislators are not lawyers , however , and need to rely on skilled advice ’ . |
| 6 | If , despite that , there is very little direct democracy in most contemporary societies , the reasons for that are political rather than practical or technical : those who occupy positions of power and authority simply do not want it , and actively resist any attempt to bring it into being . |
| 7 | It helps , though , if the conclusions are specific rather than global or ‘ motherhood ’ . |
| 8 | Nearly all the foregoing are in some measure examples of transgressions against the laws of the country , and subject to punishment , but are rife mainly because the forces of law and order are stretched beyond capacity , and do not get the help they should from that all-important first line of defence against evil , the constraints of the individual conscience . |
| 9 | Either the physical limits of the item are wide , so that the design and production of the mating parts become difficult and expensive , or they are narrow so that they can only be produced by expensive processes . |
| 10 | Either the physical limits of the item are wide , so that the design and production of the mating parts become difficult and expensive , or they are narrow so that they can only be produced by expensive processes . |
| 11 | Meantime IBM Corp 's first quarter figures are due today and analysts are generally predicting an operating loss of about 50 cents a share on a decline in turnover of 10% or more — with a swingeing 20% or more decline in mainframe business : a year ago , IBM reported net of $1.12 a share before an accounting gain . |
| 12 | For each item included in creditors due after one year , disclose separately : amounts payable otherwise than by instalments more than five years hence amounts payable by instalments any of which are due more than five years hence , and the total of such instalments |
| 13 | amounts payable by instalments any of which are due more than five years hence , and the total of such instalments |
| 14 | Links with tradition and superstition are strong here and weddings , often still arranged marriages , are particularly impressive in the Albanian villages of the Sila . |
| 15 | Apart from Simon Hughes 's redoubt in Southwark and Bermondsey , the Liberals today are strong only where the Liberals were strong in the '50s and '60s — in Scotland , the West Country and parts of Wales . |
| 16 | Men who can cling to overhanging rocks thousands of feet above their companions , men who climb into perilous situations in the knowledge they are inches from death , men who are strong enough and man enough to meet any physical challenge , these are the men who call for their mum when they find they left the jungle Formula back in the car . |
| 17 | The second , smaller but also growing band , will be teachers who are strong enough and courageous enough to stick their necks out publicly . |
| 18 | Erm he then goes on to talk about erm eliminating banditry erm wh which basically erm where the peasant associations are powerful enough erm , you know , where the people rise up bandi bandits do n't exist because the people have risen up and you know are , are , are strong enough because they 've got swords , because they 've got spears , they 've joined together to , to get rid of the bandits . |
| 19 | Errors in searching are possible only if the searcher chooses the wrong subject heading in the published lists ; this too is regarded as an unlikely event . |
| 20 | Some of them are frail physically but are as bright as a button in their minds . |
| 21 | The evaluators have identified eight events which are attributable mainly if not exclusively to the project and its panel . |
| 22 | In sum , as far as employment is concerned , ethnic minorities are disadvantaged even if there are differences between different minorities . |
| 23 | Low interest rates are inflationary only when they coincide with an overheating economy as they did in 1987–8 . |
| 24 | The environs of the waterfall are pleasant enough and there is no suspicion of the Peril 's dark secret unless a small opening under the overhang of the cliff alongside is noticed : this insignificant hole admits to the largest cave system in the valley , underground passages extending for more than half a mile below and far beyond the road in a succession of tight crawls and large caverns . |
| 25 | But I am mindful in the midst of my own troubles ma'am that you are not in good health for Miss Blagden has told me so and I am sorry to hear it and to think of you unable to leave your room and I am sorry too that the Rome winter does not prove as gentle as you had hoped . |
| 26 | Most pupils now attend what are termed comprehensive schools , schools whose enrollment criteria are geographic rather than academic . |
| 27 | First , the models are one-dimensional only and can not be applied to a real solid . |
| 28 | The conditions for the application of the defence are cumulative rather than alternatives , so that if the publisher fails to meet any one of them , the defence fails . |
| 29 | Consequently , the semantic information used by the present project is acquired either from ( a ) machine-readable dictionaries , which contain encyclopaedic knowledge as well as the purely semantic sense definitions ( and should strictly be referred to as pragmatic in nature ) or ( b ) from text corpora ( which are syntagmatic rather than semantic in nature ) . |
| 30 | For instance , all verbs agree with their subjects in gender and number , which means that links between the two are clear even when they are separated by a number of embedded clauses with their own subjects and verbs . |