Example sentences of "[coord] are [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 It is interesting to speculate whether the boys ' attitudes are a result of their own experiences or are simply a reflection of the attitudes of the adults in their household .
2 Realistically the scope for change in 1992 – 93 was low but it will be interesting to see whether the present flurries of consultation bear fruit in future or are simply a public relations exercise .
3 The former can not be defined by any objective criteria and are largely a matter of personal taste , although if you wish to guarantee a reasonable resale value , it is crucial to make sure that your tastes coincide with more universally held views on aesthetic appeal .
4 Market loans account for some 26 per cent of banks ' sterling assets and are thus a major source of liquidity to individual banks .
5 Cover-up sticks or creams and lighteners are too heavy and are invariably a different colour from the foundation .
6 These people and their children differ from the so-called mixed race children only in terms of time , and are only a few generations removed from the point at which the mixture occurred .
7 They were first developed on seaplanes to encourage them to take off at lower speeds and are now a common feature on speedboats .
8 Nectarines are a smooth skinned variety of the fuzzy peach , and are usually a deeper , red-orange colour .
9 Publishers ' blurbs — i.e. the brief descriptions of books on the insides of dust covers — may sometimes be used as selection information by librarians , and are certainly a very important factor for readers selecting from library shelves , though they constitute at best a dubious selection instrument for librarians and readers alike .
10 Sir , it 's our submission and the evidence of what you have heard and what you will see , that the two sites proposed to be excluded from the greenbelt are functionally part of the village , and distinct from the land the open agricultural land to the north , and are visually a part of the village , unrelated to the open countryside to the north .
11 Patterns for these are readily available and are basically a petal of one double crochet , one half treble , and a few trebles , one half treble and one double crochet all into a chain loop behind the previous row of petals .
12 In shape , such apertures were roughly square , although circular openings began to appear in the early nineteenth century and are often a conspicuous feature of the brick-built Victorian estate barns of Cheshire .
13 Parent governors and those parents that help around the school are well motivated and are often a great source of feedback on how well the school is doing in the eyes of its adult audience .
14 The historical associations of the object of art noted by Benjamin ( 1973 ) pertain almost inevitably to any object which can be said to have passed through the hands of the ancestors , and are often a pivot around which social identity is constructed .
15 The big , dark backs slice the water and are often a sign that feeding will begin .
16 Bradshaw and Morgan demonstrate that children whose parents are in receipt of supplementary benefit suffer from deficiencies of iron and calcium and are below a basic clothing standard .
17 Vine fruits — that is , currants , sultanas and raisins — are full of invert sugars which are readily absorbed and assimilated by the body and are therefore a good supply of immediate energy .
18 Students , because their money is not tied up in big items such as mortgages , spend a lot on goods such as jeans , beer and cheap travel , and are therefore a target group .
19 Good photography or colour reproductions can enhance the quality of a book , but are rarely a crucial factor outside the obvious field of the visual arts .
20 Beliefs are not conjured up out of nothing but are rather a response to experience .
21 Small containers are best for small flowers , but are also a good way to display blooms with short or broken stems .
22 His observations made in 1695 are not only an important source of early medicine ( and therefore of world significance ) but are also a vital source of Hebridean social history .
23 These can reach 3ft under optimum conditions but are commonly a foot less and very attractive , with their close-packed whorls of spiny bracts from which slender-tubed flowers appear .
24 Such a construction put on the word ‘ nuisance ’ however renders the public health legislation ineffective in controlling odours which are neither prejudicial to health nor amount to a nuisance at common law but are still a source of annoyance and it still leaves environmental health officers with the task of assessing whether the odour complained of amounts to a common law nuisance .
25 They were trained as gun-dogs unfortunately , but are nonetheless a very affectionate breed .
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