Example sentences of "[am/are] [prep] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But normally , but er the , they are for just that sort of product . |
| 2 | Alexis and Paul Gilmour are behind the campaign and they are after as many signatures as possible . |
| 3 | Now some relationships are of just this kind . |
| 4 | Of course , warranties and maintenance contracts are all very well , but — as customers of Ti'ko and Olympic Technology know to their cost — agreements with manufacturers are of precious little use if the company goes bust . |
| 5 | The Common Law takes little interest in the goods , which are of far less importance , and especially of far less public importance , than the land . |
| 6 | The corollary of the theory , of course , is that ads for the cheap , day-to-day , convenience type of product are of so little interest to anybody that they should carry a minimum of information , and that they will even then have great difficulty in achieving any very active response from customers . |
| 7 | Indeed , as Wolfram points out , such relationships are of so little importance within British kinship that there are no recognized kinship terms for many of these relationships gained through marriage ( Wolfram , 1987 , p. 4 ) . |
| 8 | International comparisons are of relatively little value because they tend to highlight the different priorities and practices of different countries . |
| 9 | In fact the different Greek roots for the Devil in the Septuagint — diabolos/apollyon — are of very little importance , for what emerges is the concept of the Devil as the supreme Evil One , the Dark Power . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're in deep this time , my friend , are n't you ? ’ |
| 11 | On for nearly another hundred years , and we are with yet another poet , whose early work was written under the pen-name of Owen Meredith . |
| 12 | As you know , it 's pretty easy to stay within R & A guidelines as long as any kinks in the shaft are within so many inches of the putter head and so on . |
| 13 | [ Under the Italian dual-control tradition ] when everything goes of its own accord , I am in quite another world . |
| 14 | The new products are priced at from $17,800 to $128,000 including software , and shipment dates are from late this month to early September . |
| 15 | If we fail to accept this fact we may spend our lives seeking a " better " parent who can do more for us — and many social work clients are in just this situation of seeking . |
| 16 | There are in almost all animals two main axes , the antero-posterior which defines the ‘ head ’ and ‘ tail ’ ends and the dorso-ventral axis which is at right angles to it . |
| 17 | Then , on closer inspection , it emerges that there are oddities in this particular instance ( as there are in so many cases ) and the quest is on to identify the survival value of these particular idiosyncrasies . |
| 18 | It is one of the humbling lessons we learn from living with companion animals , namely that we are in so many ways their inferiors , even though as a species we have come to dominate the planet . |
| 19 | People in Great Britain really have no idea how fortunate they are in so many ways — the right to free speech , and even the ‘ right ’ ( ! ) to throw an egg at the Prime Minister and only receive a bill for the dry cleaning . |
| 20 | Experienced shearers like Michael are in so much demand they can find employment right across the globe . |
| 21 | They are without right half Chris Maitland , who is on holiday , and reserve goalkeeper Chris Routes , who has a knee injury , but otherwise had every reason to be confident . |
| 22 | Cyclists are at substantially less risk from exhaust fumes than car drivers , according to a new report by Greenpeace . |
| 23 | Nevertheless within most jobs there are at least some tasks which are amenable to this kind of training and the benefits are considerable . |
| 24 | The other reason is that there are at least some rules for judging advertisements , but most of these are based firmly in the objectives which the ads are trying to achieve : if we do not know what the objectives are , any judgement we may make is without a real foundation . |
| 25 | ( This contrasts with the two large energy privatisations of gas and electricity where there are at least some areas of direct competition between the two industries — the privatisation of electricity is considered next . ) |
| 26 | This point is stressed by Professor Helmut Koester of Harvard University Divinity School , who argues that in the ‘ … vast treasure of non-canonical gospel literature there are at least some writings which have not found their rightful place in the history of this literary genre ’ . |
| 27 | The nilgai 's woodland ancestry shows in the fact that it inhabits areas where there are at least some trees to give shelter during the hottest part of the day . |