Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [prep] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They are given a topic straight away to revise for the first exam — which is at 9am the following morning . |
| 2 | There was a man born among these Jews who claimed to be , or to be the son of , or to be one with the something which is at once the awful haunter of Nature and the giver of the moral law . |
| 3 | It has to contain organic matter , which is at once the moisture-retentive component and the source of plant nutrient as it decomposes to its simple chemical components . |
| 4 | The Earth is just the right distance from a star , the Sun , which is of just the right kind of size . |
| 5 | Where the property of A is mixed with that of B which is of substantially the same nature and quality and they can not practicably be separated ( grain in a bin , oil in a tank ) the mixture is owned in common in proportion to the quantity contributed by each and the law is the same whether the mixing is wrongful or by consent . |
| 6 | The UK branch , which is by far the largest , will be most affected by the decision . |
| 7 | For example , each person aged 65 and over who lives alone and has mobility problems attracts £729 for personal social service provision , which is by far the largest component in the relevant formula . |
| 8 | ‘ She 's by far the biggest influence on my writing , ’ affirms Emily . |
| 9 | 2 The product itself is by far the best giveaway . |
| 10 | In making such judgments one is in much the same position as a journalist describing a battle after it had taken place from the bar of a hotel , for the pressures in the 'sixties were very great and very immediate and those of us in the Ministries of Education responded to them as best we knew how . |
| 11 | It 's from here the new subtitling system will be operated . |
| 12 | Indeed it is at once the changing social history and the complex sociology of the changing institutions and relations which take us beyond these formulas to the possibility of more precise analysis . |
| 13 | Enclosure is manifest in many forms ; it is at once the womb-like interior of airplane , the surface of the body , the frame of a window , the border between countries , and the boundary between discourses . |
| 14 | That it is by far the funniest and most essential comedy show on television ( fourth series imminent in October , kids ! ) is a sad indictment , I mean , all that money Roy Clarke earns … |
| 15 | It is by far the best single-source reference on this ever-growing subject available . |
| 16 | The first of these was chosen because it is by far the shortest sentence of the story , whilst the remaining two contain , respectively , explicit and symbolic allusions to death . |
| 17 | Some of this land is not its responsibility , for while it is by far the biggest operator in the china-clay industry it is not the only one , and there are mica dams , abandoned pits and spoil tips where neither the writ nor the sheep of Derek Owen run . |
| 18 | His choice is wealth : he is at once the traditional hero of British fiction in search of a happy marriage and prosperity — Tom Jones or David Copperfield — and , in his brisk competitive zeal , the first fictional yuppie . |
| 19 | He is in exactly the right job : streets ahead of most others in the UK in his number-crunching agility — ‘ in the country 's top 5 per cent , at least ’ , Bloch says — and ‘ unbelievably good ’ at critical reasoning , with a score of 90 . |
| 20 | ‘ He is in exactly the right frame of mind to do the business . |
| 21 | I know Macca comes in for a lot of stick from certain members but he 's by far the classiest midfielder in the country and a damm sight better than alot of the so called european geniuses . |
| 22 | YOUR editorial ‘ Home Truths ’ ( BT 17/8/93 ) together with map B ( BT page 2 20/5/93 ) point clearly to what is by far the best solution to our present predicament in this province ; viz re-partition . |