Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [adv] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosaline is very much a match for Berowne ; this is her last challenge to him , at a moment in the play when death has blown all comedy away . |
| 2 | Grief is not only a reaction , though , it is a process , so your bereaved parent will need your help through all its various stages of numbness , yearning , quiet or vocal distress , anxiety , depression and adjustment to her new situation ; and the way she behaves during the grief process will depend very much on her personality type , her previous life experiences and the strength of the tie that has been severed , as well as the amount of support you can give her . |
| 3 | In contrast , the population of the inner ring is now nearly four times the size it was at the beginning of this century and the population of the outer ring is nearly twice the size . |
| 4 | Consciousness is not always a patterning in words . |
| 5 | ( Dennett and Hofstadter , 1982 , p. 7 ) It is indeed a consequence of such a conception that consciousness is not necessarily an attribute only of persons and other organisms . |
| 6 | The even strength of his fingers and his robust eloquence ( James Huneker would never have found the Scherzo from the B minor Sonata ‘ as light as a harebell ’ after this ! ) and assurance are often awe-inspiring ; few young pianists have found a more direct path to musical truth , or heeded Jorge Bolet 's adage that speed is so often the enemy of excitement . |
| 7 | The way people express emotion is not simply a gender , it 's not simply about how men and women behave , it 's have how erm people behave in different parts of this country , or between England , say , and France . |
| 8 | And then there is the risk of failure , which inflates the damages on the basis that the defendant is not merely a defamer , but a defamer who has persisted in the injury to the last . |
| 9 | Indeed , reciprocation is really only the solution of a particular set of linear algebraic equations , in which the vectors p are successively unc For a single set , in pace of e1 we use the single vector p . |
| 10 | Yet a staggering eight out of 10 disagreed strongly with the idea AIDS is n't really a risk for young people . |
| 11 | Daily we are becoming more aware that AIDS is as much a development issue as it is a health issue . |
| 12 | In each case the result is not only a problematization of the real , but a problematization of the positioning of the subject . |
| 13 | It is arguable that differences in attitude between worker and management — ‘ us and them ’ — are inevitable while there are groups of people who carry those labels ; the great divide is too much a fact of organisational life , part of the fabric of ‘ norms , that each new recruit is taught . |
| 14 | To be a spinster is not quite the abnormality it was in Austen 's day , but it is still a fate to be avoided . |
| 15 | It 's very difficult , though , to say what the right kind of photograph is , for obviously actors are very different , but remember that a good photograph is not necessarily an art photograph . |
| 16 | Running a drug-testing programme is not just a matter of buying a lot of paper cups . |
| 17 | The detailed work programme is not only a tool for analysing time-scale and resources , it is also a valuable document in controlling the project once it leaves the office and work commences on site . |
| 18 | Mozambique 's new IMF programme is almost entirely the work of Washington draughtsmen . |
| 19 | Social anthropology is not just a branch of biochemistry . |
| 20 | And yet sometimes I wonder if the wittiest , most resonant irony is n't just a well-brushed , well-educated coincidence . |
| 21 | The Old Cumberland Beggar is more obviously a sermon addressed to the political economist , who believes that only ‘ people who show a profit ’ are important , and that people who are poor or old or ill should be shut away because they are ‘ useless to society ’ . |
| 22 | In this regard criminal law shares a problem with contract law , which adopts the ambivalent posture of holding both that the devil himself can not know the mind of man and that the state of a man 's mind is as much a question of fact as is the state of his digestion . |
| 23 | A judge has said that the state of a man 's mind is as much a fact as the state of his digestion . |
| 24 | But what sticks in the mind is how easily the City was able to use the self-regulatory nature of the investor protection system — ‘ we pay for it , so get him off our backs ’ — to twist the arm of the government . |
| 25 | To the OUP , the Department is not only a team of writers producing commercial publications . |
| 26 | ( The Head of Department is normally also the postgraduate contact . ) |
| 27 | In any case , it is not appropriate to dwell to much on the past , as Highlander is very much an organisation of the present , and an institution which moves towards areas in which the controversial new issues are beginning to take place . |
| 28 | A person who is responsible for stringing a keyboard instrument is not necessarily a person who feels comfortable about manipulating numbers by formulas . |
| 29 | Dostoevsky 's groping backwards past Crime and Punishment towards Notes from Underground is not just a matter of arriving at Stavrogin . |
| 30 | Yet however we may judge deviation , whether negatively or positively , being a social outsider is very much a case of non-conformity to the norms and regularities of discourse structure . |