Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has signed a deal worth £500,000 with Sony and is secretly recording a new album at the studios owned by Ray Davies of The Kinks in Muswell Hill . |
| 2 | Now there are two ways that the new composite sentence token will be of a type that is eventually to acquire a constant significance . |
| 3 | The degree of reciprocity in the relationship is rarely thought an important issue to research . |
| 4 | However , feeding weekly mashes with different ingredients from the daily feeding routine is effectively producing a sudden change in diet , something we are continually told not to do because of the potentially harmful results . |
| 5 | THE fight is on to include an old power station site within a country park . |
| 6 | Pamela , the maid , is constantly beating a breathless retreat up and down back stairs , or pressing her back to walls to let the gentry pass ; her ascendancy to wife is dramatized by her spacious and easy progress from room to room . |
| 7 | Dennis is personally providing a free pack with a poster , stickers , sponsor forms , and lots of fun ideas on how to take part . |
| 8 | Most of the , what has happened I think , over the last two and half years , that I 'm aware of , erm , is basically happening a long time before that , I , I ca n't say yes or no . |
| 9 | Amstrad has eschewed the popular PenPoint operating system on the grounds that it is overly complex for the PDA 's requirements — which is basically to emulate a paper-based organiser , and that it requires too much processor horse-power . |
| 10 | He is merely makin' a formal proposal of marriage and is simply askin' you as the girl 's father to think about it . |
| 11 | One of the most important aspects of bereavement help is perhaps enabling a grieving person to talk about their negative thoughts as well as their sad thoughts ( which are the ones it is presumed we want to hear ) . |
| 12 | Interestingly , the draped xoanon representing the deity on the Agia Triadha sarcophagus is apparently wearing a full-length sheepskin robe ; this may be to emphasize his antiquity or his rustic origins ( Figure 47 ) . |
| 13 | This is obviously having a detrimental effect on textile exports from the region . |
| 14 | He is merrily accumulating a large bag of smaller fish when Fred Smith comes along with inadequate tackle , throws a lump of luncheon meat in the margins and lands the largest fish in the lake . |
| 15 | Music is generally accorded a low priority and is underfunded , and standards of performance are unsatisfactory in many places . |
| 16 | The extent and variety of these activities are astonishing , but while almost everyone is aware of them , and although the majority of us fiddle in one way or another , fiddling is generally considered a trivial activity without serious implications . |
| 17 | Traditionally , the people 's singing has been delegated to a choir which is generally paid a nominal fee . |
| 18 | Each area is scored out of 10 and the company is thus given an overall rating out of 200 . |
| 19 | The first rule for a reader of articles is thus to find a sympathetic publication . |
| 20 | The Church in Wales is soon to appoint a full-time priest to help in the area . |
| 21 | The Prince 's Trust is soon to launch a pioneering initiative which will eventually involve large numbers of Britain 's young people in voluntary work . |
| 22 | To be concerned simply for Jesus ' message , a message which anyone could have preached and which is now acknowledged quite independently of the person who preached it , is not to hold a Christian position . |
| 23 | The idea is not to replace an active form with an active one and a passive form with a passive one ; it is always the function of a category rather than the form it takes that is of paramount importance in translation . |
| 24 | But Clough is adamant , saying : ‘ Pearce is not getting a new contract . ’ |
| 25 | Hatton , for example , summed up the delinquency of Reggie Smashem and Billy Dustup as ‘ nothing more serious than the symptoms of healthy , vigorous , adventurous adolescence ’ : ‘ I propose to make a practical examination of this question of the ‘ hooligan ’ ’ , for I am seriously concerned that he is not getting a fair deal . ’ |
| 26 | The stated aim is to bring product engineering closer to customers ; the Wall Street Journal quotes a senior DEC manager saying president Ken Olsen feels DEC is not getting an adequate return on its $1,600m annual investment in product engineering . |
| 27 | The circle has to be broken if the Book Trade is not to miss a major opportunity for a logical , practical and lucrative diversification . |
| 28 | Kemira is not seeking a complete ban of imports from the East . |
| 29 | Kemira is not seeking a complete ban of imports from the East . |
| 30 | Obviously to say that an ontological existent qua possible topic of discourse is such that on different occasions it can be referred to as " the same A " is not to say a great deal unless a clarification is given of the distinction and the relationship between these two kinds of sameness . |