Example sentences of "is [adv] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These civil laws allow judges to grant an " interim injunction " to stop publication until the trial of the action — which is usually at least a year afterwards . |
| 2 | Although I am convinced that the prime management problem is ‘ making it happen ’ , one has to accept that in life there is always at least an evens chance that one is going the wrong way . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , over in Summit , New Jersey , Unix System Labs says it is pleased with the DRA technology , though its ANDF effort is still at least a year away from release . |
| 4 | An inquiry is underway into how a tube train with passengers on board took off without a driver and travelled for a mile and through a station before being halted by an automatic signal . |
| 5 | A full investigation is underway into how a rapist was able to attack a , a girl of eleven in a children 's ward at a hospital in Surrey . |
| 6 | By eliminating ploughing , soil disturbance is kept to a minimum and wind erosion is reduced by the fact that the soil is never without either a crop cover or a binding layer of roots . |