Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the programmes are predominantly of advanced modules , admissions decisions are made by the relevant Field Chairs . |
| 2 | Basic magmas , however , which are predominantly of basaltic composition , have a much lower silica content and are erupted at high temperatures . |
| 3 | The pebble in the conglomerates and sandstones are predominantly of local provenance , and the overall character of these rocks indicates sediment deposition close to source . |
| 4 | This research is mainly concerned with how the child uses the computer when performing tasks that are rather like simple games . |
| 5 | These are rather like undated gilts in that they are perpetual instruments , but interest can be waived or reduced if it would cause the issuer to breach capital adequacy requirements . |
| 6 | Medium leys , down from three to five years , are rather like arable crops in that maximum yield during those years is generally the main objective . |
| 7 | The discs between the vertebrae are rather like leathery cushions , acting as shock absorbers . |
| 8 | The Christian Church has always had a good many professing members who are rather like those disciples at Ephesus who , when asked by Paul , ‘ Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed ? ’ replied , ‘ No , we have never even heard that there is a Holy Spirit ’ ( Acts 19:2 ) . |
| 9 | There 's a consoling belief , one that has always held dull sway over critical and receptive minds , that both rock and pop are fundamentally about Good Songs . |
| 10 | There 's an oil stain beneath it , but I bet it has n't been on since last February . |
| 11 | It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round . |
| 12 | I 've been on to this morning , asked me to and they have got thirty palettes there at the moment . |
| 13 | We do the same for the submatrix bordered by the first row and column , and so on , so that finally we reach the unit matrix as the canonical form for A. It is to be observed that , since in using elementary operations I ( i , j ) , I(k) , I(l) on A we are effectively at each stage multiplying together determinants neither of which vanishes , the reduction of A to I must be possible when A is on-singular . |
| 14 | If we continued to exclude children , we are effectively excluding many women , we are excluding families and in many ways the men as well . |
| 15 | These are mostly of two kinds , first the great abbeys abandoned at the Dissolution , including Rievaulx , Furness and Leiston , and second , castles ranging from Dover in the south , Kenilworth in the midlands , to Norham in the north . |
| 16 | The basic street pattern is no doubt as old as the village itself and the street names are mostly of ancient origin . |
| 17 | Real attention to the quite sophisticated concepts with which religion is concerned has tended to be dismissed on the grounds that , apart from a select minority , pupils are incapable of any sustained thought , uninterested in such hypothetical and academically conceived ideas which in any case are mostly of historical interest and irrelevant to the modern world . |
| 18 | ‘ I am virtually unemployable as I am rarely in one place for more than two weeks . |
| 19 | It is sufficient to realise that you , and all your fellow men , are rarely at full stretch . |
| 20 | GPs ' reports are rarely of much help , if only because they do not have the time or the experience to write useful reports and usually resent doing them . |
| 21 | But these private fictions are rarely of much significance , nor do they affect most people — despite much American talk of ‘ roots ’ . |
| 22 | Consequently , weathering profiles are rarely in full equilibrium with environmental conditions ; in most cases the weathering mantle adjusts to long-term average conditions rather than to conditions at a specific time . |
| 23 | Someone 's been right through that wall there , look . |
| 24 | By contrast , industrial co-operatives are wholly about industrial democracy . |
| 25 | They have fairly regularly staged , what you might call bigger bands who play the university circuit as such and they 're always , you know , dying for people to come along so there 'll , th there 'll be lists published at what time , what events are on at these places if you wan na go and do that and if you wan na go to the top notch bands , Birmingham 's a good venue for that with the Leisure Centre , the M I A the N E C , the K G B etcetera etcetera all that stuff there so there 's always plenty to do , do n't , do n't feel restricted just cos we 're in er the middle of the city centre in this college and there does n't seem a lot to do , there 's a lot going on . |
| 26 | The lights are on for twelve hours a day , and filtration is by two Fluval 4s . |
| 27 | Lighting is by a 20W Triton and a 20W Gro-lux and these are on for ten hours a day . |
| 28 | At Reitzel , Emily Chang 's newest abstractions are on until 30 May and at June Kelly there are recent works by Edwin Rudz ( 15 May–23 June ) . |
| 29 | This has been mostly in agricultural chemicals where tonnages have proved a good fit with Hickson 's type of batch equipment . |
| 30 | Four of the committee members are from developing countries , and the experience of several of the others has been mostly in these countries . |