Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [conj] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that even a good working knowledge of credit costs helps consumers only if that knowledge affects their shopping decisions . |
| 2 | It 's crucial that even a basic name and address system can get at a particular name , or group of names , as quickly as possible . |
| 3 | The second method is appropriate when only a small number of arithmetic operations are to be performed on each of a large number of initial items of data . |
| 4 | Formally , B is A 's subordinate but informally a good part of the organisation centres upon B with little reference to A. |
| 5 | But every letter is unique and even a retained copy , the equivalent of a modern carbon , does not detract from that essential quality : so that criteria are not so stern . |
| 6 | First-hand experience is invaluable but only a limited amount of it can be arranged and you certainly ca n't have large numbers of trainees sitting at the back of the same class . |
| 7 | However the supply voltage must also be increased to maintain the phase current at its rated value when the motor is stationary and consequently a large d.c. power supply is needed . |
| 8 | ‘ It is scandalous that only a tiny fraction of cars in the UK have catalysts fitted . |
| 9 | He 'll undergo surgery tomorrow morning and if it is more than just a simple fracture , it could mean an early end to his cricketing career . |
| 10 | An augmented product is more than just a tangible product or service . |
| 11 | An augmented product is more than just a tangible product or service . |
| 12 | The concept of a cognitive map , in O'Keefe and Nadel 's hands , is more than just a topographic representation of the space in which the animal is located ; it also describes the distribution of cell systems concerned with the analysis and integration of spatial cues within a framework of behavioural meaning for the animal . |
| 13 | Religion therefore is more than just a personal affair and its influence in society is more than the sum of its influences on individuals . |
| 14 | This is more than just a subtle interweaving of his own and Proust 's problematics . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ The Manchester bid is more than just a superb technical achievement . |
| 16 | To followers , he is more than just a guiding light — he is the Messiah . |
| 17 | But Voyager is more than just a pretty face ; one would expect no less from Volker Schlondorff . |
| 18 | But the countryside is more than just a pretty picture . |
| 19 | PLAYBOY beauty Pamela Anderson is more than just a pretty face — she 's got real sax appeal . |
| 20 | Ivanisevic , touted as having an all-court , grass game , likes to remind people that he is more than just a big server . |
| 21 | A group is more than just a random collection of individuals . |
| 22 | But a CD-Rom is more than just a giant data store ; it provides a quick and easy way of finding information . |
| 23 | With his new film , Johnny Suede , he 's out to prove he 's more than just a pretty face |
| 24 | ‘ So there 's more than just a missing husband , ’ Myra mused . |
| 25 | It is plain that only a small community closely knit by ties of kinship , common sentiment , and belief , and placed in a stable environment , could live successfully by such a regime of unofficial rules . |
| 26 | The infant 's eye is elastic and so a raised intra-ocular pressure causes the eyeball to enlarge . |
| 27 | International harmonization of competition policies is essential and probably a supranational competition authority as well . |
| 28 | The same anonymous writer who heard Spurgeon in 1884 went across the river to the City Temple but again was not complimentary : ‘ If you can forgive a bad delivery with occasional dropping of aspirates , and the incessant introduction of Gladstonian politics in connection with holy things , you will find in Dr Parker 's sermons much that is impressive and certainly a great deal that is novel . ’ |
| 29 | It is true that once a useful co-ordinating convention is established every person has reason to adhere to it , a reason which is independent of the existence of the authority , a reason deriving entirely from the existence of the useful convention . |
| 30 | Although there still exists the notion that administration should be or is apolitical and merely a neutral tool of the government , this is palpably not so in practically all states , industrialised or less developed or ‘ socialist ’ . |