Example sentences of "and are [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 The former can not be defined by any objective criteria and are largely a matter of personal taste , although if you wish to guarantee a reasonable resale value , it is crucial to make sure that your tastes coincide with more universally held views on aesthetic appeal .
2 Market loans account for some 26 per cent of banks ' sterling assets and are thus a major source of liquidity to individual banks .
3 Cover-up sticks or creams and lighteners are too heavy and are invariably a different colour from the foundation .
4 These people and their children differ from the so-called mixed race children only in terms of time , and are only a few generations removed from the point at which the mixture occurred .
5 They were first developed on seaplanes to encourage them to take off at lower speeds and are now a common feature on speedboats .
6 Nectarines are a smooth skinned variety of the fuzzy peach , and are usually a deeper , red-orange colour .
7 Publishers ' blurbs — i.e. the brief descriptions of books on the insides of dust covers — may sometimes be used as selection information by librarians , and are certainly a very important factor for readers selecting from library shelves , though they constitute at best a dubious selection instrument for librarians and readers alike .
8 Sir , it 's our submission and the evidence of what you have heard and what you will see , that the two sites proposed to be excluded from the greenbelt are functionally part of the village , and distinct from the land the open agricultural land to the north , and are visually a part of the village , unrelated to the open countryside to the north .
9 Patterns for these are readily available and are basically a petal of one double crochet , one half treble , and a few trebles , one half treble and one double crochet all into a chain loop behind the previous row of petals .
10 In shape , such apertures were roughly square , although circular openings began to appear in the early nineteenth century and are often a conspicuous feature of the brick-built Victorian estate barns of Cheshire .
11 Parent governors and those parents that help around the school are well motivated and are often a great source of feedback on how well the school is doing in the eyes of its adult audience .
12 The historical associations of the object of art noted by Benjamin ( 1973 ) pertain almost inevitably to any object which can be said to have passed through the hands of the ancestors , and are often a pivot around which social identity is constructed .
13 The big , dark backs slice the water and are often a sign that feeding will begin .
14 Bradshaw and Morgan demonstrate that children whose parents are in receipt of supplementary benefit suffer from deficiencies of iron and calcium and are below a basic clothing standard .
15 Vine fruits — that is , currants , sultanas and raisins — are full of invert sugars which are readily absorbed and assimilated by the body and are therefore a good supply of immediate energy .
16 Students , because their money is not tied up in big items such as mortgages , spend a lot on goods such as jeans , beer and cheap travel , and are therefore a target group .
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