Example sentences of "is [adv] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Bill 86 , admittedly , is mostly a bit of fine-tuning . |
| 2 | Most ( although not all ! ) horses do become less worried about strange objects as they get older , but some old horses are just plain silly about some things , but it is mostly a bit of a game to them and if ignored , they soon settle down ! |
| 3 | The radius of Venus to the cloud tops is about 6120 km , which is only a bit less than the radius of the solid Earth . |
| 4 | Such activity is naturally a bit messy , and those left-over bits of bedding that litter the area around the sett , within the spoil heaps and down the tunnels , are a dead give-away . |
| 5 | To say miserably is perhaps a bit unkind because , for someone who is not a climber , he did in all fairness get further than people thought he would . |
| 6 | By contrast gardening , much as we love it , is generally a bit static . |
| 7 | Look how that flower is just a bit of wire hovering over her hat |
| 8 | ‘ Maybe this year is just a bit too early for me , but I should be reaching my peak in the two or three years after that — who knows ? ’ |
| 9 | In a ‘ market driven ’ world the computer is just a bit of the machinery , the engine , as it were , but not the car . |
| 10 | So , the fact that who works in the green grocers is just a bit of additional information , it 's not necessary for the the main part of the sentence , you can take it out and it 's not going to take , make any difference to the construction or the meaning of the sentence , it 's a bit of additional information . |
| 11 | For some this they hope is the first step on the road to a more stable musicl career to others it is just a bit of fun . |
| 12 | ‘ But it seems it is just a bit of a publicity thing . |
| 13 | He 's what they used to call an alternative comic , although that description is already a bit out of date . |
| 14 | Well I know they do n't mind me spending tens of pounds but spending hundreds of pounds is usually a bit |
| 15 | ONE IS always a bit bashful about asking for blood tests on onself — no one likes to be thought of as a hypochondriac . |
| 16 | At last she said slowly , ‘ What I mean is , looking back over the past is always a bit sad , even if what you 're remembering is happy times , because it 's over and done . |
| 17 | Further , the rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date . |
| 18 | But what constitutes ‘ regular use ’ is still a bit of a grey area . |
| 19 | She is still a bit shy but she 's tremendous with me . |
| 20 | The next message would spill over into the financial pages , though there is still a bit of theology — verses 4 to 8 . |
| 21 | ‘ I had hoped to make it this week , but it is still a bit sore and , with the British Open in mind , I felt another few days rest would be a safer precaution . ’ |
| 22 | There is still a bit to go , though . ’ |
| 23 | The M4 has been a bit slow although only eastbound , and the M25 is still a bit sluggish at the Thames Valley because of an accident , mainly on the clockwise carriageway by the M4 interchange , it 's just er a little slow with a couple of miles queue either side of the M4 interchange itself . |
| 24 | The answer is probably a bit of both . |
| 25 | Middle C is probably a bit too low for , for most sopranos . |
| 26 | Sometimes you have the same person and you have lots of different scores for them and you see whether they 're correlated but most o more often than not what we 're talking about is a number of people and to see whether the pairs of scores in some way are related Now this is probably a bit more important . |
| 27 | However , the work you will be doing in the Art Department is the first two years of the Senior School is probably a bit different from what you have done in previous years . |
| 28 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
| 29 | Needless to say the cuisine is also a bit special . |
| 30 | If your fill is also a bit dodgy you 're more susceptible to CO poisoning , with the risk of blacking out underwater . |