Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] are [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reasons for failure are more likely to be due to people problems , which may show themselves by the lack of cooperation when the information system is being developed and a resistance to the changes that occur when the application is implemented . |
| 2 | Ironically , this means that the most exciting objects for play are also the simplest and the cheapest . |
| 3 | Citizens who had the orthodox Soviet version of Ukrainian history rammed down their throats for decades are now being told a completely different version , arguably also coloured by the political prejudices of its authors . |
| 4 | Language policies for education are highly charged political issues and seldom if ever decided on educational grounds alone . |
| 5 | It points out that certain elements of US policies for grain are now partly decoupled , since there is now an element of reducing support by reducing the quantities on which support payments would be made . |
| 6 | The processes that generate patterns during development are almost certainly more complex than Zhabotinsky 's reaction , or the process imagined by Turing , or the generation of a gradient by synthesizing a substance at one point and destroying it at another . |
| 7 | ‘ Plans for Tenby are still open . |
| 8 | Richet 's plans for Montpellier are more advanced . |
| 9 | Similarly , family structures , relationships and interaction between members are widely variable between different societies and between religious/racial groups in Britain . |
| 10 | As well as newspapers , and for those whose literacy level is not up to the language of a newspaper , comics for adults are widely available . |
| 11 | Preferences for partners are probably based on the frequency of reciprocation . |
| 12 | The rival proposals for Stratford are totally unacceptable . |
| 13 | Catherine 's opinions about drugs are much firmer than those of another pop star her own age — Aussie actress turned singer Kylie Minogue . |
| 14 | There may be a collecting bias against the foot bones , however , because they are small and easily overlooked , and so a comparison has been made here between the proximal and distal limb elements , the former being the femur and humerus , and the latter represented by the tibia and radius ( values for ulna are very similar ) . |
| 15 | Notice that the magnitudes of the values for solids are much greater than those for gases . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ I think the values for leasing are perhaps on the low side , considering that people know what they are going to get this year . |
| 17 | The concordance patterns for schizophrenia are very similar to those in other diseases , such as polio and tuberculosis , in which the genetic and environmental factors are well established . |
| 18 | Our results show that patients treated with low dose cyclosporin for PSC are more likely to have a disease course characterised by remission or mild activity than are patients receiving placebo . |
| 19 | They are not intimidated by short-term bans and , as long as the rewards for success are so great , the temptation for them to cheat again seems to be irresistible . |
| 20 | For the purposes of a general survey , changes in various biological groups through time are most usefully analysed in terms of diversity ( or , more strictly , taxonomic richness ) , and changes in spatial distribution by the amount of provinciality or endemism . |
| 21 | As in the case of the EC Merger Regulation , published rules for assignment are probably the best method with negotiation between the authorities to decide borderline cases . |
| 22 | However , the rules for synthesis are fairly complex and may be difficult to operate . |
| 23 | The rules for pronunciation are therefore not necessarily used prior to the generation of possible meanings . |
| 24 | The rules for non-residency are pretty stringent . |
| 25 | The high-technology route is extremely expensive ; the sophistication of America 's weapons and the plaintiveness of its calls for burden-sharing are directly related . |
| 26 | Contracts for services are commonly personal as in such circumstances the customer is likely to have relied upon the individual skill and identity of the vendor . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , in a liberal democracy , normative-re-educative or empirical-rational strategies for change are generally more acceptable than those that are power-coercive . |
| 28 | The last observation about dictionaries or word lists is that they may under-represent similarities between different sign languages : for example , the American and British signs for WALK are quite different , but British signers would certainly use a sign resembling the American sign in certain contexts . |
| 29 | The links between the characteristics of the ward sister , her management style and the provision of clinical experience for learners are clearly demonstrated . |
| 30 | There is no reason to think that their intuitions about /a/ are necessarily better than those of foreign scholars . |