Example sentences of "are [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These areas are rather regularly distributed in controlled transition , more randomly in uncontrolled transition . |
| 2 | These provisions are rather awkwardly drafted as a result of the need to accommodate both the use of the system of Central Authorities and the other permitted modes of transmission . |
| 3 | Moorhens , for example , are rather poorly adapted to parasitising their own . |
| 4 | Indeed despite the small proportion of women councillors they are rather better represented in local councils than in Parliament . |
| 5 | The causes of weakness in adhesion are rather less understood at present than they are in cohesion but no doubt they are generally similar in character . |
| 6 | The most highly specialized crustacea are probably the barnacles ( Cirripedia ) and individual barnacle plates are rather commonly encountered in rocks of Cretaceous age and younger . |
| 7 | Many researchers come to the electronic version of the BL catalogue with experience of its printed version , and so are arguably more fitted by experience to know its idiosyncrasies and quirks . |
| 8 | Fear of intimacy , especially with the same sex , overdependency on sex as a source of comfort , resorting to forms of physical and emotional bullying are rarely even noticed in many work set-ups , and it 's unlikely they would ever become a real obstacle to career advancement . |
| 9 | With regard to Audrey it is difficult to identify the goals to which she aspires since these are rarely explicitly referred to , and she appears less often . |
| 10 | Using a bar code reader and a suitable computer system greatly speeds things up of course , and the books of codes are presumably only needed for reference and checking purposes . |
| 11 | The modern paradox , that the areas of Yugoslavia which are most richly endowed with mineral resources and other industrial raw materials are the least economically developed , can only be understood in the context of the long centuries of neglect from which Yugoslavia south of the Danube-Sava line suffered during the Ottoman period . |
| 12 | Hobhouse ‘ presented a kind of fusion of Spencer and Green ’ insofar as he believed in the scientific importance of the idea of evolution but felt that the most highly evolved society is one ‘ in which the efforts of its members are most completely coordinated to common ends , in which discord is most fully subdued to harmony . ’ |
| 13 | Looms are most frequently indicated by loom-weights , annular in form , for weighing down the warp threads on upright looms ; they are occasionally found in rows in the base of sunken buildings where they may have fallen or been taken off the loom , or originally stacked in a column . |
| 14 | On the lower parts of the marsh , which are most frequently covered by the tide , accretion at the rate of almost 1 cm per year has been recorded at Scolt Head Island , while at higher levels , where the frequency of flooding by the tide is less , this is reduced to one half or less of the rate at the lowest levels . |
| 15 | Here he says that of all cases of hypertrophy of the external genitalia in women , physicians are most frequently consulted regarding the nymphae ( the inner labia ) and the clitoris , and that the causes of this condition , though not well understood , might be due to ‘ masturbation , excessive venery , or even the rubbing incident to a pruritis ’ . |
| 16 | But this booklet is a serious attempt to highlight some of the questions which are most frequently asked about the role which alcohol plays in society . |
| 17 | In this chapter I shall set out all those questions which are most frequently asked by prospective patients , and which have not already been covered in Chapter 1 ; and in Chapter 3 , by giving details of the progress of one particular case , I shall endeavour to provide some idea of what to expect during a typical regression therapy session . |
| 18 | It is divided into three sections : the first records the books that are most frequently referred to in the dictionary , the second lists the books in numerical order , the last registers the books in alphabetical sequence . |
| 19 | They are most frequently stuffed with bright red pimentos , providing an eye-catching garnish and a good ingredient for adding to stews and casseroles . |
| 20 | Commercial valuations are most frequently required for : |
| 21 | These hierarchies are most easily demonstrated by concrete nouns ( e.g. collie ISA dog ISA animal , etc . ) |
| 22 | Early mouse embryos and their component cells are most easily manipulated during fixation and immunocytological staining if stuck down to coverslips . |
| 23 | Experimental results are most easily explained by ‘ interference ’ theories , in which the memory of one task is most efficient when no other task is being memorized . |
| 24 | First , that wise choices about health are most easily made by people who feel good about themselves and are able to talk to their partners . |
| 25 | Perhaps with their greater freedom they are most easily blinded by the options and may forget to take account of the special needs of those who live alone . |
| 26 | Variants of binary variables ( which are implicitly assumed to be discrete ) are most easily handled as percentages ; table 5.1 for example lists zero realizations of ( h ) as a percentage of the total number of occurrences of both variants . |
| 27 | Two we wish to draw attention to are most easily discussed in symbolic terms . |
| 28 | Typical of these is the use of hidden cameras linked to some form of eye-scan monitor so that a reader left in a waiting room with a magazine can be watched , to see how the magazine is read and which bits of a particular page or ad are most carefully looked at . |
| 29 | As many parts of the brain contain cells of varying size , which may not all be involved in the same functions , biases of this sort may determine which functions are most strongly associated with unit activity . |
| 30 | Different levels of use according to sex of speaker are particularly evident in Ballymacarrett , where it appears to be younger female speakers who are most strongly associated with the incoming raised variants . |