Example sentences of "[is] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Differentiation between remission/mild and moderate disease is mostly a function of stool frequency . |
| 2 | But Bill 86 , admittedly , is mostly a bit of fine-tuning . |
| 3 | Implicit in this stance is a conception that criminal law enforcement is properly a matter of compulsion , which leads , inexorably it seems , to a conclusion that regulation has failed . |
| 4 | There is rather a lot of evidence that what laymen especially valued was the propitiatory function with God of beautiful worship , with splendid chants , vestments woven by the most skilful women , and lavish expenditure of gold on the book covers seen in church and on the altar crosses . |
| 5 | It could be said that the We/ Us/Our form is rather a mode of self-description when the poet wishes to present his beloved and himself to the world ( as shown by Donne in the Songs and Sonnets ) , and that Shakespeare prefers to keep the relationship on an interpersonal level . |
| 6 | It 's mostly a matter of timing … but I 'll do what I can . |
| 7 | The former is basically a source of revenue , while the latter is overwhelmingly a source of expenditure . |
| 8 | I , too , think it 's rather a lot of money . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ There 's rather a lot of paperwork here , things that you should be aware of . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Then surely it 's rather a waste of time to bury yourself away on a Saturday night when you 'll have the bulk of the work to contend with tomorrow — when the club 's closed . ’ |
| 11 | Just how much they obtain there from is known only to themselves , but this could well be a final act born of an inextinguishable instinctive knowledge that there is somewhere a source of power available to the individual whereby he can supplement his capacity to face a fading future , or any other of life 's unwelcome experiences , at least with less apprehension , if not with absolute serenity . |
| 12 | The deck and superstructure is effectively a sandwich of foam contained within two fibre reinforced plastic sheets . |
| 13 | ’ I would n't call it ‘ confiding ’ exactly , but I ca n't pretend it 's altogether a matter of indifference to me , can I ? |
| 14 | The same section further provides that ‘ … any enactment passed or to be passed … shall be construed and have effect subject to the foregoing … ’ and since the doctrine of supremacy of Community law is arguably a part of Community law this provision appears to have the effect , so long as it remains law , of establishing the primacy of Community law , ( s.2 ( 4 ) ) . |
| 15 | One possible reason could be that in addition to a general sense of guilt associated with the organs of sex and reproduction , there is the added fact that most surrogate mothers belong to the economically disadvantaged classes ; and it is arguably a case of exploitation if a woman is driven to use her reproductive organs to escape from a state of poverty . |
| 16 | It will take time and we need to introduce some practical initiatives to help what is fundamentally a change in attitude , to take place . |
| 17 | Thirdly , ideology is necessarily a distortion of reality insofar as : it is an abstraction , it is socially determined and its production is dominated . |
| 18 | This is necessarily a source of weakness for the banks in the competitive struggle against the building societies . |
| 19 | The physics department would tell you that chemistry 's only a bit of physics anyway . |
| 20 | Oh , so it 's only a bit of corn . |
| 21 | And it 's only a bit of entertainment , and we must really stand up and say this is our game and , it belongs to us ! |
| 22 | The mind reels at such extremes of scale , yet the man responsible dismisses it lightly : ‘ It 's only a bit of fun . ’ |
| 23 | It 's only a bit of fun . |
| 24 | If there 's only a bit of beef you have the beef and I 'll have some cheese . |
| 25 | and erm , James said you not going out in this surely , yeah , yeah , it 's only a bit of rain and he come home and he was drenched right the way through top to bottom |
| 26 | Well , er the C B I and other bodies are pressing for them to come down at once , er John Major has said it 's only a question of time . |
| 27 | ‘ She 's only a circumstance of self that nothing reconciles . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , I know all about that , ’ she returned airily , ‘ but it 's only a drink of rum , after all … ’ |
| 29 | Yeah it looks like a satellite dish , it 's only a yard in diameter . |
| 30 | It 's only a pile of rubble now the Great Killer has finished with it . |