Example sentences of "[adv] are [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herein are contained significant elements of the dominant nineteenth-century ideology of local government-depoliticisation , economy and utilitarianism — around a limited conception of municipal enterprise that bore few traces of the brand of municipal socialism forced onto the political agenda by the labour group . |
| 2 | Ensure flexi card and any other relevant items ie. keys , warrant cards etc. are returned prior to departure . |
| 3 | Some , such as carnations , radishes , scarlet pimpernels and clover , flower in the spring when the days are lengthening , and so are called long-day plants . |
| 4 | The cabinet of curiosities might be rudely described as a well-organised attic ; and national museums are the national attic , where things too good to throw away are kept safe . |
| 5 | Some restrictions go too far in their precision and thus are judged unreasonable whilst others are struck down as being too imprecise and/or wide . |
| 6 | As long as an MP declares he or she is on the take these payments somehow are deemed acceptable . |
| 7 | The difficulty with any kind of platonism that claims the ontological primacy of qualities — or any kind of universals — is that in presenting its case it implicitly relies on certain assumptions about existentially unique particulars , which no sooner are made explicit than the whole platonist case is shown to be built on sand . |
| 8 | The deposits may not be economic to mine now , though they could be either if the world recession lifts and demand grows , or if supplies from elsewhere are cut short . |
| 9 | With frequencies less than one kHz apart both are rendered unusable over a large area by light aircraft with the aforementioned ADF equipment . |
| 10 | A formal garden with a raised , brick-built pond among its raised flower beds is quite different to a traditional cottage garden , but both are considered valid , and both can be very attractive . |
| 11 | The minorities of today are kept happy by the prospect of a brighter tomorrow : the present majority is restrained from abusing power by the thought that it will be defeated at some subsequent election . |
| 12 | Guests here are offered special rates in the hotel 's restaurant and can share the hotel facilities . |
| 13 | Here are held temporary art exhibitions . |
| 14 | Here are scattered numerous slate boulders which have been carried by glacier action and dumped on a limestone shelf . |
| 15 | Too many pilots seem to believe that they can cope with these failures and then are proved wrong . |
| 16 | When it rains , those who predicted otherwise are proved wrong and those who refuse to believe it is raining get as wet as anyone else . |
| 17 | Since they still have the milkweed 's toxin within them and , like the caterpillars , are vividly coloured , they too are left alone by birds . |