Example sentences of "are [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | These are rather like a water heater and storage cylinder in one . |
5 | Most are rather like a sandwich with the steel springs embedded in a honeycomb of foam . |
6 | 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 ) . |
7 | Hence they are rather like the overdraft limit placed on a private sector customer by its bank . |
8 | These are rather like the process of bereavement , with shock , denial , guilt and unhappiness , acceptance and resignation . |
9 | Yeah , I mean , the next pubs are right over the side of the hospital , |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 ? |
13 | Images of parties and party leaders are right at the margin between perceptions and attitudes . |
14 | You see those two are right at the end , and those I do n't know whether those ought to be together before XX . |
15 | And the French are right at the forefront of design again . |
16 | Employees are right behind the scheme … |
17 | Chief executive Alan Smith said : ‘ Board members are right behind the team and the people responsible for picking it . ’ |
18 | Having said all that , the famous Ipsos nightlife is practically on the doorstep as these apartments are right in the middle of town . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | ‘ We are right in the middle of watching one of our favourite programmes , ’ Mr Wormwood said . |
22 | It will probably start on Boxing Day when we are right in the middle of winter . |
23 | The authoritarian parent or dutiful child attitudes that so often characterized these relationships in previous generations are thankfully on the way out . |
24 | When male students are numerically in a minority , do they form a ‘ minority group ’ ? |
25 | Filters are mostly of the low-pass , high-pass , band-pass or band-stop varieties . |
26 | Once fully saturated with culture , food , drink or any combination of the three , it is possible to escape the tourist honeypots , which are mostly in the centre and south of town . |
27 | The issues are mostly in the open . |
28 | The issues are mostly in the open . |
29 | Since the SADS-L is normally used in a face-to-face interview situation these items are mostly in the form of questions and here the original wording was retained . |
30 | For the majority who book half board , main meals are mostly in the evening and served on the Yali Han terrace . |