Example sentences of "[am/are] [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 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | If initial position is reserved for theme and if topic always occurs in initial position , then theme and topic are presumably the same thing . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | All this does not mean that the more recent history books are necessarily the best . |
19 | The first concerns the continuing insistence that class and class-based processes are necessarily the principal mechanisms underlying uneven development and social change . |
20 | 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 ’ . |
21 | Third , they are suddenly the good guys . |
22 | They are not the only good things , but they are much the best , at least among good things of which we know . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Bus and train are much the same price at the moment though it 's quicker to take the bus . |
25 | At Ciba-Geigy the figures are much the same — in 1990 13 out of 34 graduates taken on by the company were women . |
26 | The recipes and procedures currently in use are much the same as those used by Thomas Arkell in 1865 . |
27 | But things are much the same in countries with strong constitutional traditions . |
28 | Especially since the ‘ efficiency savings ’ from 10 years of government cuts are much the same size . |
29 | The criteria that determine the court 's decision are much the same as those employed earlier by the superintendent . |
30 | Sara and Patsy are much the same age and are very fond of each other . |