Example sentences of "[adv] is [conj] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 What seems to have happened over the last twenty years or so is that a higher proportion of juveniles are being dealt with officially by the police rather than being dealt with unofficially or warned .
2 But what becomes apparent straight away is that a considerable amount of craftsmanship has gone into its building .
3 The irony for him now is that a third success could relegate the club he supported as a boy .
4 What I wish to indicate here is that a new emphasis on a text 's negotiation with history does not allow us to reduce literary texts to the status of documents , writing which only exemplifies the preoccupations of certain periods past and present .
5 The central idea here is that a proper name qua proper name not only picks out one object only , but unlike a descriptive phrase designates that same object in " every possible world " ; a " possible world " being understood as representing a possible but unactualised situation , or a series of situations , of which the given object might be a feature .
6 The argument here is that a high correlation between an item and the overall test score means that the item contributes little new information which is not already tapped by other items .
7 One of the legends here is that a local authority inspector told a tenant that her furniture was too near the floor and thus rotting her carpet .
8 Thus , the most general consequence of concentrating on standard English here is that a multidimensional history of phonology is made to appear as unidimensional — it becomes ‘ a single-minded march ’ towards RP and standard English ( Lass , 1976 , xi ) .
9 The suggestion then is that a fourth clause be added requiring that there be no other truth such that Henry 's believing it would have destroyed his justification for believing that q .
10 The recommendation before , therefore is that a second phase of the county experiment be implemented for a period of three months to six months , whichever is felt necessary , to allow the effects of
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