Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emigrants are predominantly young and skilled : Hong Kong is now losing more graduates each year than it produces . |
| 2 | When a sergeant congratulated one section on the improvement in the language in the guard room over the last few hours when the field-worker had been present , one constable shouted , ‘ Fucking good job too , Sir ’ ( FN 2/2/87 , p. 6 ) , and the occupational culture of the station soon reasserted its typical forms of expression , which are widespread in all police forces and occupational cultures that are predominantly masculine and working class . |
| 3 | Some nations are predominantly tea drinkers , others will generally prefer coffee . |
| 4 | The huts are predominantly in valleys near rivers , and invariably the local area was swarming with mosquitos . |
| 5 | The motion states : ‘ To recruit almost exclusively from the narrow minority group of Guardian readers whose views are predominantly leftwing is contrary to the spirit of the obligations of political balance in broadcasting and is an explanation of the self-righteous and unctuous hostility of broadcasters towards the present Government . ’ |
| 6 | If they are predominantly female , and 83 per cent of part-timers are , the equal pay legislation may entitle them to the same benefits and conditions as their full-time colleagues . |
| 7 | The recent sediments contain soot characteristic of fuel-oil , which has been extensively used only since 1940 , and magnetic particles which , says Battarbee , ‘ are predominantly spherical and can be identified as power station fly-ash . ’ |
| 8 | jobs which represent an extension of the wife-mother role , such as nursing and teaching , and those which require an attractive image , such as secretaries , are predominantly filled by women . |
| 9 | The farmers of the region are predominantly peasants , who depend mainly on family labour , as nearly four-fifths of the agricultural sector are smallholders , cultivating one-fifth of all farmland . |
| 10 | Lest the reader may point out that the examples so far are predominantly drawn from small countries and affecting only small populations , others , such as areas of China and India are discussed elsewhere in this book . |
| 11 | British soap opera and crime series , on the other hand , are predominantly ‘ naturalist ’ in the sense in which Todorov used the term . |
| 12 | These areas are predominantly used to rear hardy beef cattle and sheep which are sold in the autumn to be finished elsewhere . |
| 13 | The grasses selected for medium leys are predominantly Italian and perennial rye-grasses with small amounts of timothy , cocksfoot and meadow fescue . |
| 14 | If most of your ticks are against the statements in section A , then you are predominantly left-brained ; whereas If you have placed more ticks against the section B statements , you are predominantly right-brained . |
| 15 | If most of your ticks are against the statements in section A , then you are predominantly left-brained ; whereas If you have placed more ticks against the section B statements , you are predominantly right-brained . |
| 16 | By now you should have discovered whether you are predominantly left or right-brained , thought about developing your creativity and learned about the influences on your mind and how to quieten it . |
| 17 | The buildings of Cambridge colleges are predominantly of stone , while those of domestic Cambridge are mainly of brick and slate . |
| 18 | The major large lipid molecules of plasma — triglycerides , cholesterol , cholesterol esters and phospholipids — are predominantly transported by stable complex water-soluble macromolecules , designated lipoproteins . |
| 19 | Hooligan fans are predominantly from lower working-class backgrounds . |
| 20 | As you will realise , some offences are predominantly working-class and others predominantly middle-class , and it is important that self-report studies do not include too many offences typical of one group or class . |
| 21 | Otherwise Avocets are predominantly spring passage migrants in Sussex ; the paucity of autumn records seems remarkable and has always been a feature of the species ' occurrence in the county . |
| 22 | These materials are predominantly based on siloxy methacrylates , which contain branched dimethyl siloxane substituents on a methacrylate stem . |
| 23 | In all of the cells for which lipid compositional asymmetries have been described the negatively charged phospholipids are predominantly located in the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane , while the zwitterionic phospholipids , containing the phosphorylcholine headgroup , are found in the outer leaflet . |
| 24 | Account-holders are predominantly in the A , B and C1 social categories and mainly live in the South East or London . |
| 25 | Lewis and Meredith ( 1988 ) reveal similar tensions and problems although the picture which they draw is less bleak , showing a number of women whose recollections of caring for their mothers are predominantly positive , even if stressful . |
| 26 | These are predominantly coarse-grained red-beds comprising conglomerates and coarse sandstones , but some beds of grey mudstone and siltstone have also been noted . |
| 27 | The pebble in the conglomerates and sandstones are predominantly of local provenance , and the overall character of these rocks indicates sediment deposition close to source . |
| 28 | Like feminist psychologists in general , lesbian psychologists are predominantly white and middle class . |
| 29 | Like male subjects , female subjects are predominantly white , heterosexual , middle-class and well-educated , but in their case these imbalances are even more likely to be overlooked . |
| 30 | All of these explanations are predominantly psychologistic in their understandings ( or misunderstandings ) of both teacher thinking and teaching quality ; and they are particular kinds of psychologistic explanation that take very little account of how teachers themselves understand , interpret and deal with the demands that their work situation makes upon them . |