Example sentences of "are [adj] [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conventional wisdom suggests that agreed takeovers in the financial services sector are preferable since they tend to avoid mass defections of staff in the target company . |
| 2 | Musical clergy , on the other hand , may find it hard to accept standards of choice and performance which are lower than they believe they could achieve themselves . |
| 3 | ‘ Present values are lower than they have been for some time , and are sticking . |
| 4 | Thick , textured fabrics are unsuitable as they do not take the stiffening well and also produce too much bulk around the roller . |
| 5 | For the traditional ‘ act ’ utilitarianism acts are right because they maximise ( or at least increase ) welfare , while for rule utilitarianism rules are morally binding because general adherence to them maximises , or would maximise , welfare , individual acts being right or wrong in virtue of their conformity to such rules . |
| 6 | We have to believe they are right because they have played such an important part in our identity and in defining the world for us . |
| 7 | Thus the wing of a bat and the paddle of a porpoise are homologous because they show the same underlying pattern of bones typical of a mammalian forelimb . |
| 8 | I have found that most people have no idea how they behave in a group , and are upset when they watch their behaviour in groups on video replays . |
| 9 | It must be because they are historic that they have been left standing . |
| 10 | In LDCs in general , the poor are disadvantaged because they have low levels of education and training and therefore have few skills or qualifications to help them . |
| 11 | Some countries are rich because they have oil or copper or iron . |
| 12 | That poems are alive but they run away from you , you know and you have difficulty catching them like you have difficulty catching foxes . |
| 13 | ‘ They are alive when they go down , ’ she said . |
| 14 | Otherwise probably that 's why they are dear because they have to do things like that . |
| 15 | No-one I know is proud to admit they are German when they travel abroad . |
| 16 | At the very least they are interesting because they formulated a number of assumptions about literature and literary study that still play a significant part in the academic world today . |
| 17 | His remarks are interesting because they demonstrate a new way of looking at that relationship . |
| 18 | People who already have breathing problems are badly affected if pollution levels are high when they come into the city centre . |
| 19 | Here is what you must memorise : These words are Latin and they form the basis of the secret to this trick . |
| 20 | Some are easier than they appear but many others prove much more difficult . |
| 21 | They are patronising and they insult us by not understanding — and ignoring — the real requirements of our time . |
| 22 | What does it benefit the British people of Northern Ireland ( for the Ulster-born members of the IRA are British whether they like it or not ) randomly to murder British children in Warrington ? |
| 23 | We may not like the fact that they stop exports — they affect some of the exports of my constituency — but they are bloody-minded because they think that they , too , are getting a rotten deal from the CAP . |
| 24 | Competitors such as Bernis , Whitbreads , Bass Charrington , Greenall Whitley and Boddingtons have all begun to offer carefully thought out catering packages which are popular because they meet customer expectations in terms of food quality , quantity , atmosphere , service and price . |
| 25 | They are damp but they do n't feel too bad |
| 26 | Marxist critics argue that functionalist accounts of the state are vacuous because they consist of citing the consequences of particular actions as their causes ( Elster , 1986 ; also note 1 , p. 71 ) . |
| 27 | There is no virtue in producing socially well-adjusted members of society who are unemployed because they do not have the skills . |
| 28 | All of these except reaction ( c ) are spontaneous since they have negative G values . |
| 29 | The sexually-transmitted diseases ( e.g. syphilis , gonorrhoea , AIDS and non-specific urethritis ) are so-called because they occur as a result of direct sexual contact with an infected partner . |
| 30 | ‘ It seems to me that the board are wrong whether they acted judicially or ministerially . |