Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the main criticisms levelled at US and European transnational corporations in Asia , Africa and Latin America is that their operations are predominantly of the export processing variety , employing low wage workers ( mainly ‘ nimblefingered ’ young women ) in monotonous and often physically debilitating labour , the products of which constitute a small proportion of the value-added of the final commodity . |
| 2 | Account-holders are predominantly in the A , B and C1 social categories and mainly live in the South East or London . |
| 3 | In doing so I am rather like the doctor by the patient 's bedside , who knows ; although of course he does not tell the patient — that the outcome of the disease will depend upon something in the constitution of that patient which he can not control nor further influence and which he can not even ascertain , except by the event . |
| 4 | We are rather at the point of arguing that the state , and in particular its bureaucracy , may be free from subordination and manipulation by the ruling class in order to preserve its interests in the long run and as a whole . |
| 5 | In the case of the evidence produced by informal interviews we , the readers , are rather in the position of hearing a case put by only one counsel and not the other . |
| 6 | These are rather like a water heater and storage cylinder in one . |
| 7 | Most are rather like a sandwich with the steel springs embedded in a honeycomb of foam . |
| 8 | Later , in the 1840 s , Emil Du Bois-Reymond ( 1818–96 ) showed experimentally that the impulses travelling along nerves are rather like the flow of electrical currents along a wire ( the similarity is in fact even closer than he imagined ) . |
| 9 | They are rather like the markers teachers use to signal transitions in lessons : ‘ Right ! ’ , or ‘ OK , let's get started ! ’ |
| 10 | Hence they are rather like the overdraft limit placed on a private sector customer by its bank . |
| 11 | These are rather like the process of bereavement , with shock , denial , guilt and unhappiness , acceptance and resignation . |
| 12 | Yeah , I mean , the next pubs are right over the side of the hospital , |
| 13 | The student chooses their own subject ; most of these subjects are right on the fringes of the course , or overlap several different courses , and what surprised me when I sent round a questionnaire was how much the students said they enjoyed essay-writing . |
| 14 | One of the odd features when you first arrive in the area is that there is no advance warning of what 's to come — nothing visible of the Grand Canyon until you are right on the edge . |
| 15 | For example , the Eskimos , who as hunters and fishermen are right at the bottom of Marx 's and Engels 's technological scale , have a kinship terminology which does not classify relatives any more than the English system does — a sign for Morgan of the presence of monogamy — while the Malays , who have possessed for a very long time highly advanced agricultural techniques , use a kinship terminology which Morgan and Engels associated with the earliest stages of evolution . |
| 16 | So I think I made this point before that the people who are right at the top of politics are the ones who are very good at flattery , duplicity , manipulation and so on and these , are these really the qualities we want in our government ? |
| 17 | Images of parties and party leaders are right at the margin between perceptions and attitudes . |
| 18 | You see those two are right at the end , and those I do n't know whether those ought to be together before XX . |
| 19 | And the French are right at the forefront of design again . |
| 20 | Employees are right behind the scheme … |
| 21 | Chief executive Alan Smith said : ‘ Board members are right behind the team and the people responsible for picking it . ’ |
| 22 | Having said all that , the famous Ipsos nightlife is practically on the doorstep as these apartments are right in the middle of town . |
| 23 | These two buildings , owned and managed by the Kendler family , are right in the middle of St Gilgen , and only two minutes walk from the lake and promenade . |
| 24 | The important thing about these volcanoes is that since they are right in the middle of the Pacific , they are basaltic , and their basalts are hot and very fluid . |
| 25 | ‘ We are right in the middle of watching one of our favourite programmes , ’ Mr Wormwood said . |
| 26 | It will probably start on Boxing Day when we are right in the middle of winter . |
| 27 | I am blatantly against the use of monkey climbers because small movements can be undetected which in turn could lead to deep hooked pike . |
| 28 | The authoritarian parent or dutiful child attitudes that so often characterized these relationships in previous generations are thankfully on the way out . |
| 29 | ‘ So I am somewhere near the truth ? ’ |
| 30 | When male students are numerically in a minority , do they form a ‘ minority group ’ ? |