Example sentences of "[adv] [is] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Will " is driven by love and desire and so is like the Holy Ghost . |
| 2 | None of the three arguments mentioned above is of the strongest type , since none attacks our notion of understanding . |
| 3 | This may not always be in the best interests of the company but as , on the whole , the Press acts in this area with reasonable restraint , it generally is in the best interests of investors and the public . |
| 4 | These examples show that , as in all cases , whether an adjective counts as restrictive or not depends on what exactly is in the mental focus of the speaker on any particular token occasion , and definitely not on any relation of inclusion that might exist between the meanings of the adjective and noun as type elements , such as could be found in the dictionary ( or more accurately between those parts of an external world which might be correlated with the meanings of the adjective and noun ) . |
| 5 | There always is with the British government . |
| 6 | There are unlikely to be dramatic improvements in noise levels and air quality as a result of these speed reductions , simply because 80 per cent of the traffic now is on the main roads . |
| 7 | ’ Summing up , ’ said Nilghard , ‘ I must say that the only place where I have seen correspondingly bad situations in Central Europe before is around the biggest airports in West Germany . ’ |
| 8 | Appenzell really is off the beaten track . |
| 9 | Service today is of the utmost importance . |
| 10 | Otherwise , what can be seen of Patrington today is of the 18th century or later . |
| 11 | Commentary : Here 's to the wobbly bits |
| 12 | Thanks to Scottish Amicable and here 's to the next competition . |
| 13 | This was known as — ‘ Here 's to the next time ’ and was followed by a man 's voice which says — ‘ Good evening ladies and gentlemen . |
| 14 | Here 's to the 800th issue , due out on Monday 17th of July in the year 2000 . |
| 15 | The evaluation reported here is of the first versions of the lexical access component ( LA ) and of the project 's acoustic-phonetic front-end ( SEGLAB ) . |
| 16 | The level of presentational skills used here is of the highest ilk — totally absorbing . |
| 17 | , looks like Pam , oh no she 's not on it , she 's not doing quoits , I tell you a lie , but somebody here is for the British Polio Linda S five |
| 18 | Chapter 3 discusses the overall macro-economic issues in more detail , for example the extent to which monetary union might produce faster growth , but the principal concern here is with the spatial implications . |
| 19 | Persuasive as White consistently is in the jazzy syncopations of the American songs , he and his Scottish accompanist , Graeme McNaught , make the Caribbean rhythms of these last three songs even more winning . |
| 20 | For instance , ‘ a building for lodging horses ’ is an adequate definition of stable ( or at least is on the right lines ) ; but while ‘ a stable-dwelling animal ’ might serve to identify horse , it is not an adequate definition . |
| 21 | The larger number of claims and a larger problem out there is with the cumulative trauma . |
| 22 | the steak out there is about the same price as mince here . |
| 23 | Erm he 's saying that the way forward is through the cooperative movement erm and this , this again is , ties in with the fact that you 've got peasant associations erm and that you 're gon na be , that , that the average peasant 's gon na be a lot stronger in the cooperative moment system . |
| 24 | The three-region Northern Province however is in the bigger league of population — large enough , as already mentioned , to stand international comparison . |
| 25 | No one else is on the outer reef trip I 'm on . ’ |
| 26 | I du n no what get , I do n't know , it gets on my wick out there , there always like , every country linked with religion for some bloody stupid reason , I mean its so primitive , no body else is in the modern world are they ? |
| 27 | And yours truly is in the drivin' seat . |