Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect is strikingly original and so successful that several more rooms have been decorated in the same way . |
| 2 | It is a basic but rarely articulated feature of the modern economic system that the highest pay is given for the work that is most prestigious and most agreeable . |
| 3 | John insisted that the ballerina 's costume must take account of the fact that the pas de deux ‘ is most unfrivolous and very tender — in all the other movements I have used a faint taint of period , but this , being the most lyrical … is completely classical . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Of all the people who have ever worked in the centre , she is most punctual and very reliable . |
| 5 | He eyed the Controller coldly and the younger man quailed visibly as his superior continued , his tone now dripping with acid , ‘ What is important , however , is that Agent Red Sixteen is most resourceful and extremely ruthless . |
| 6 | It 's at this stage that the work is most interesting and most difficult . |
| 7 | There 's one detail which is rather interesting And rather touching , too . |
| 8 | ‘ We believe the case is overwhelmingly strong and extremely important for the heritage of the country ’ , Mr Empson said . |
| 9 | When Mrs Whatsit asks him tonight why her little Johnny is n't making more progress with his English , Iain McWhirter will reply that progress is not to be expected from a boy who is abysmally lazy and congenitally stupid . ’ |
| 10 | Although still used for storage , the mill is slowly deteriorating and largely silent , long since stripped of its fulling stocks , its Boulton and Watt steam engine and water wheels . |
| 11 | From Stop Your Fussin , with a subtle reggae beat to the haunting Where 's The Ocean and finally the memorable Let The Rain Come Down , insinuating animation and acquiescence from a failed relationship , the album is tremendously good and truely ambitious . |
| 12 | ‘ Some productions of Macbeth have one and others decide not to , which is artistically good but commercially dubious . |
| 13 | The exchange of tiny glances that partners must practise in any pas de deux is artistically valuable and technically important . |
| 14 | The most that Europe can hope to achieve , or should aim for , is an expanded economic free trade area made up of sovereign states all contributing to a cultural diversity that is economically stable and ecologically sustainable . |
| 15 | Again , this is brilliantly simple and probably wrong . |
| 16 | It is necessarily selective and undoubtedly subjective in choice of material , and the author apologises where appropriate . |
| 17 | The information here is necessarily internal and more exacting and precise . |
| 18 | As regards the presence of outposts of overseas companies in this country , it has been observed that though ‘ the British economy is not dominated by foreign investment , the foreign presence in Britain is highly visible and statistically important . |
| 19 | The concept of ‘ disadvantage ’ is highly subjective and entirely relative . |
| 20 | Its importance lies not in its detail , which is highly confusing and often contradictory , but in its broad outline . |
| 21 | It is highly embarrassing and totally inappropriate for doctors to shuffle through sheets of notes to locate one item of information while the patient sits waiting expectantly . |
| 22 | That this is a big paddock , and in the bottom of the right hand corner , if you stand on the road looking at it , there is a triangle of land that is tucked away , that you can hardly see from the roadside , that in my opinion is sufficiently secluded and sufficiently near to other services to allow us to go out to consultation . |
| 23 | Their debut EP , ‘ Ground Zero ’ , is a wonderful piece of bewildering dance alternatives , while the album , ‘ Jo In Nine G Hell ’ , is instantaneously strange and cautiously painful . |
| 24 | The positive heuristic , that aspect of a research programme that indicates to scientists the kind of thing they should do rather than what they should not do , is somewhat vaguer and more difficult to characterize specifically than the negative heuristic . |
| 25 | By this we mean a change which is so wide-reaching and so fundamental in its effects as to constitute a dramatic alteration of the status quo . |
| 26 | Though the very fact that it is so traditional and so formal a poem in the pastoral tradition , held in the tightness of all the conventions that it employs , not only allows , but in some strange way makes possible , the intensity of personal feeling that it contains . |
| 27 | The land is so dry that only isolated juniper trees and low scrub freckle the surface of the cliffs and the rock strata , some soft , some hard , are clear and stark . |
| 28 | He tends to me as one would a convalescent child delirious with a terminal but ticklish illness ; he tends to the outermost hazards of my body ( he is so violent and so tender ) and back to a cave of foetal musk , molested by warmth . |
| 29 | When the grand collapse starts , it is so violent and so rapid that nothing can halt it . |
| 30 | Obviously I would n't be happy with someone who is so selfish and so uninterested in me , so I suppose he 's doing me a favour , really , making it so clear . |