Example sentences of "are [adv] [adj] that " in BNC.

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1 The normal Chinese day starts at 8 a.m. , and of course is 6 days working a week , so we are rather lucky that the course leaders have allowed us to start at 8.30 .
2 Well I was I 've looked , Peter Davis , North Yorkshire , I 've just glanced down the table at certainly at the er my Greater York district colleagues , and er certainly we er are rather surprised that er you have the impression that you have the impression that er erm we could do without the erm the new settlement , quite clearly erm erm certainly Harrogate , Selby , er and Ryedale , and the County Council , believe the the new settlement is absolutely essential , erm and I think that 's erm erm certainly a matter of agreement between er us and those three districts , it 's absolutely essential .
3 They are keenly aware that these forays are the latest signs that British broadcasting is becoming increasingly commercial — and competitive .
4 Government attitudes towards interest groups must also differ sharply , for public officials are keenly aware that groups are ‘ by-products ’ of the ability to develop selective incentives .
5 Ministers in particular are keenly aware that whereas it is uphill work to gain popular support for specific policies , it is very easy to lose public confidence in the way that crime is handled .
6 We are keenly aware that a University can seem a large and forbidding place to those on the outside .
7 Instead , they think women want understanding , though they are uneasily aware that this , too , is a dimension on which they do n't score highly .
8 ‘ It 's when things are economically difficult that the time is right to mount operations like this ’ he said .
9 Is my right hon. Friend aware that a significant number of my right hon. and hon. Friends are bitterly disappointed that during today 's Consolidated Fund Bill debate only one and a half hours have been allocated to discussing pension funds ?
10 Manufacturers are acutely aware that the only way of stopping parallel trade in the Community is uniform pricing .
11 In the current climate Take That can do no wrong , but they are acutely aware that their success may not last forever .
12 We are acutely aware that it will not succeed without much prayer and a mutual pulling together .
13 But the FA are acutely aware that any such union would jeopardise the international identity of the Home Countries .
14 But Mr Salinas 's people are acutely aware that lack of competition and cosiness with the state have resulted in the squandering of billions and led to insufficient capital investment .
15 Some ministers admit privately that unemployment could continue to rise for another 18 months and they are acutely aware that fear of unemployment could hold back spending and delay any economic recovery .
16 However we are acutely aware that these changes have all meant a loss of the more social aspects of the day , which are very important , and which we all enjoy .
17 For if , as ordinary people , we are acutely aware that when it most matters the words we say are not thunderbolts from heaven but hostages to fortune , ways in which we reveal ourselves in our limitedness and imperfection .
18 We are most worried that the Burmese Government have disregarded not only the United Nations Commission on Human Rights but the foreign minister of the Philippines who went to Burma on behalf of the Association of South-East Asian Nations but was allowed to make representations only on his own behalf .
19 They fail to appreciate that all elderly people are constantly aware that they are approaching the last great event in their lives : their own death .
20 ‘ We are obviously happy that the statistics of our case have been agreed , but if the politicians are not convinced , our bid will fail .
21 These two mutations are highly suggestive that the normal protein product of atk is functioning as a protein-tyrosine kinase .
22 Assume further that the probe lengths are sufficiently small that they may be treated as points in comparison with the clones , and that the probes are all single-copy .
23 And at the end of that fifty thousand years , if that 's what it is , the populations are sufficiently different that I 'd think you 'd want to put them into a different species if — I mean how are you to know , but I mean it 's a reasonable judgement .
24 When these " giant " blastocysts have expanded they are sufficiently large that a razor blade , scalpel or sharp glass needle can be used under a dissecting microscope to sever the mural TE from the other pole of the blastocyst containing ICM and polar TE ( 32 ) .
25 However , in the case of the risk premium , the differences between commodity and index futures are sufficiently large that the results for commodity futures are not very informative about index futures .
26 Nevertheless the data given in Table 7.2 are the most widely quoted , and illustrate that the area already affected is immense and that average rates of deforestation in these regions are sufficiently high that there is a real danger that forests will disappear altogether in the next 200 years , especially as reforestation is replacing only c. 10 per cent of the cleared forest ( Lanly 1982 ) .
27 Thus it follows that the utility loss from union dues , , is decreasing in w , and therefore is lower at A than at B. At A , wages are sufficiently high that those workers whose commitment was too low to joint the union at a wage level of w are now willing to join , attracted by the relatively smaller utility loss from union dues .
28 We are exceedingly fortunate that many of our products and our customers are relatively recession resistant .
29 We are entirely confident that our figures are correct and we would be happy for the Secretary of State to be the judge of those . ’
30 So unless we are entirely convinced that there are no such organic wholes , we should remain open to the possibility that some of Moore 's organic unities are really organic wholes .
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