Example sentences of "are [adv] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easiest to discuss these in terms of the human requirements upon notation ; indeed , even with computer-based catalogues and indexes , people will be required to use and write or remember notation ( at least until the day when document arrangement is no longer relevant , or when machines are widely available to re-file information , regardless of size or form ) . |
| 2 | A biography of an artist is a tricky proposition for a writer , since the artist may prefer to be judged through art , not life ; the incidentals of an everyday activity , not altogether under the artist 's control , are rather unimportant compared to the artist 's concentrated effort to create paintings or sculpture . |
| 3 | Catalysts are rather esoteric thins which look — in the form industry uses them — either like macaroni or granules and they come in any colour of the rainbow . |
| 4 | In fact , its code is incorporated into the searcher , so that the two are rather hard to tell apart . |
| 5 | But some are rather hard to spell |
| 6 | An outsider to consider in the County Championship at attractive odds would be Derbyshire , who are rather over priced at 16–1 with Coral-Ladbrokes for instance go 8–1 . |
| 7 | The origins of fingerspelling are rather difficult to trace , though there are better records than for signs . |
| 8 | With their abundant documentation , monastic estates are rather easier to study . |
| 9 | Now one of the problems is that doctors are rather reluctant to do that because it 's very difficult for them to be sure that a particular headache or a particular skin rash has been caused by one of the medicines which the patient was taking , so the doctors are not very good at filling in the yellow cards and these are not a very good way of reporting adverse reactions , and to get over that we are starting now to use computers . |
| 10 | There are rules of interpretation which judges are said to follow and which prevent arbitrariness in the process , but in fact there are so many conflicting rules that judges are effectively free to choose which to follow . |
| 11 | If we look far enough ahead electric vehicles are eventually likely to replace the internal combustion engine but this will probably be far in the future for a number of reasons . |
| 12 | The proportion of men aged 65–69 who are economically active has decreased particularly quickly , from 30 per cent in 1971 to only 11.4 per cent in 1986 ( Table 5.6 ) . |
| 13 | Members and supporters brought up in the pre-1968 glory days are mostly content to support the White Rose despite their lack of success . |
| 14 | Parents are mostly unwilling to carry it out unless they are very desperate and nothing else has worked . |
| 15 | Most applications for development are dealt with very rapidly by urban local-planning authorities , which are mostly eager to acquire new economic activity . |
| 16 | Detailed faults are incredibly complex to put right . |
| 17 | A word of warning here , I have seen tiny Neons for sale , but these are incredibly hard to keep alive for the newcomer to the hobby . |
| 18 | Nor should my observation imply that the book lacks ‘ added value ’ although the facts and arguments that are recognizably new occur at uneven intervals , being sometimes sparse and sometimes dense . |
| 19 | It is notoriously difficult to research its prevalence , not least because older people and carers are rarely willing to talk about it . |
| 20 | Service industries are rarely able to improve their productivity , service quality , or competitiveness by their own efforts alone . |
| 21 | The invariably rigid separation and lack of contact between different aspects of education and training means that educational systems are rarely able to create an impact even in situations of serious social and economic disadvantage . |
| 22 | ( You are rarely able to sample rhythms as often as you would like. ) ( a ) Are your 4 hours of observations made in a single session or a number of sessions ? ( b ) If it is a single session , is this at the same time or at different times each day ? ( c ) If it is at different times , then how do you arrange them ? ( d ) If it is a number of sessions , then how many ? |
| 23 | Despite the ‘ rights ’ parents are given under the Act this is a form of power that parents are rarely able to exercise . |
| 24 | Historians are rarely able to get to the truth of the matter in this way , but family stories often suggest that drunkenness was the reason for an otherwise inexplicable decline , not just in the Tudor and Stuart era but in much later times . |
| 25 | In brief , if schematic knowledge is in short supply on a particular occasion , then the more we need to invoke systemic knowledge as a means of compensating for the deficiency and if we are thereby able to convert symbol to index , then the act of meaning negotiation itself has the effect of extending or altering the schematic knowledge we started with . |
| 26 | In the final category , both parties to the transaction are acting in the course of business , and are presumably able to take care of themselves . |
| 27 | The production is cleverly controlled by Gerardine McDermottroe 's understated direction , and the tone and pace of the 40 minute monologue are skilfully animated to prevent it ever becoming tedious … the poetic torrent of Frank McGuinness ' text comes to life with a terrifying and portentous symbolism for a rivetting piece of drama . |
| 28 | The secret — which I now divulge — is that they are dead easy to grow . |
| 29 | Consultant paediatrician Dr John Holmes-Smith , who selected children to go on the trip , said : ‘ As long as they are medically fit to go on the rides , there 's no reason why they should n't . |
| 30 | Since the weekend , there has been ample sign that they and those who share their views are little inclined to let the matter die down . |