Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Body language is mostly unconscious and therefore more reliable than words . |
| 2 | Most fountains shoot water into the air , but a quite modest feature known as a pebble fountain is most restrained and yet very attractive . |
| 3 | Masud Hoghughi , director of Aycliffe children 's centre , said : ‘ It is most regrettable that so long after the Children Act this ambiguity continues . |
| 4 | I find that his vitality , his sort of erm sense of rightness is incredibly interesting and much more rewarding than a lot of things that are going on on the Continent . |
| 5 | There seems to be absolutely no evidence in favour of this second , crucial assumption ( nor is there evidence against ; the issue is remarkably unresearched and rarely even regarded as worth discussing ; see Mays and Bevan , 1987 ) . |
| 6 | Does he agree that the use of national insurance contributions as an underhand tax is fundamentally dishonest and that early retirers , widows and those on limited incomes would be hurt by the imposition of a savings tax as proposed by the Labour party ? |
| 7 | In some countries , such as Nigeria , Ghana and Kenya , developments have been very considerable but the process is necessarily slower and perhaps deeper and more lasting for that . |
| 8 | In this area our language is highly expressive and almost invariably derogatory , infantilising or pitying . |
| 9 | Now , we should not quibble about Schmitter 's definition of pluralism ( which is somewhat different and rather more wordy than is our own perspective on this theory ) since Schmitter is intent on making the point that the system of interest politics as it currently exists is at odds with the pluralist viewpoint in crucial ways that bear on the nature of interest groups and the access of particular interests to the state . |
| 10 | Austria is probably the best bet for summer skiing because , as the skiing is only possible until about 2pm , the prettiness of the villages and the gorgeous , unspoilt alpine meadows give plenty of scope for non-ski activities . |
| 11 | And in the depths of the forest , the humming is still strong , and the wind is still swirling all about us , and something is stirring , something that is so strong and so purely magical that no one has ever been able to resist it … |
| 12 | Dimples mischievously collide with each other at odd places around his face as he glances at me and wonders how on earth I could ask a question that is so dumb and yet so fundamental . |
| 13 | It is so simple and yet so effective . |
| 14 | Generally speaking , the machine system of section-making is so gentle that only very difficult lithologies and loose sediments will need impregnation . |
| 15 | The damage done by these species is so great that only rarely do they produce enough identifiable remains for them to be countable . |
| 16 | For example ‘ Lord Of The Flies ’ on symbolism , no other book I have read is so well and so believably put together with everything fitting together perfectly . |
| 17 | You can now see why Christianity is so radical and so down to earth . |
| 18 | Speech processing is so complex and so little understood that we want as few assumptions built into the development architecture as possible . |
| 19 | This is not so difficult in the tropical rainforest where the rainfall is so heavy and so well spread throughout the year that the centres of many plants are permanently filled with water . |
| 20 | Perhaps in this case the injunction can be ignored since the pattern is so widespread and so instinctively attractive . |
| 21 | The spacing of such steps on pointe is so minute and so fast that it is not possible to see the change of feet as one succeeds the other . |
| 22 | Note that this redistribution of income is entirely arbitrary and therefore potentially inequitable . |
| 23 | Shooting is extremely difficult and more often than not the fox is wounded rather than killed outright . |
| 24 | It was difficult because Penny , who is now the Bishop of Otago and Southland , is extremely busy and often not at home , so we really appreciated going to stay with them . |
| 25 | Is the Minister aware that it is extremely unfortunate that once again Labour Members of Parliament in the House of Commons have to protest against racism , Nazi hooliganism and Nazi thugs operating on German soil ? |
| 26 | This kind is more often exercised in private than in public places , the concept of ‘ legitimate authority ’ tends to be irrelevant to it , and it is less visible and less easily amenable to sociological analysis . |
| 27 | The task setting and vigilant approach to gaining control of your time is less analytical and more practically orientated . |
| 28 | A second line of clothing is less dreary and perhaps slightly more attuned to what people might actually want to wear . |
| 29 | Presentational infidelity is less clear-cut and less readily identifiable than selectivity or measurement distortion . |
| 30 | ‘ It seems to me that everyone thinks he 's ill merely because he is less rude and rather more bearable than he has been in the past , ’ the head said irritably . |