Example sentences of "is [adv] [adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This case is rather more complex than either Dubbingtons or Hardy Hall , and you probably need to use a more structured approach within the sections . |
| 2 | In tropical countries , where disease due to D. viviparus may occur intermittently , the epidemiology is presumably quite different and probably depends more on pasture contamination by carrier animals such as may occur during flooding when cattle congregate on damp , high areas , rather than on the prolonged survival of infected larvae . |
| 3 | The aim of this analysis is altogether more modest and more specific . |
| 4 | To the player it is all too real and even from the prime position in the middle of the fairway he can barely pick out the top of the flag amid the brightly-coloured hues of the spectators . |
| 5 | Now it is all too commonplace and scarcely commented on . |
| 6 | If , for example , we survey the field of regulation in airline operation , financial services , and so on it is all too obvious that hitherto it is the member state governments that in the main have clung on to their controls and the EC Commission that has been in favour of deregulation and more competition . |
| 7 | A relationship is only as deep and as effective as its communication . |
| 8 | And it seems to me that this is so profoundly tragic because surely if we talk about the body of Christ there is not only a relationship of every limb and member to the head , but of every limb and member to every other limb and member . |
| 9 | Even if the court can not point to the actual error , nevertheless , if the figure is so extravagantly large or so inadequately small that the only conclusion is that he must have gone wrong somewhere , then the court will interfere in much the same way as the Court of Appeal will interfere with an award of damages if it is a wholly erroneous estimate . |
| 10 | But the prize is so infinitely rewarding and so badly needed that a little hurt surely should be acceptable on the way . |
| 11 | Not at all ; good writing is so infernally difficult that even the most modest achievement ( and Pound 's claims for some of these poets are modest indeed ) should not go unacknowledged . |
| 12 | The paradox about all this information explosion or whatever it is called is that the speed of its distribution is so high and the actual receiving of it by a human being is so necessarily slow and far more inefficient than it is achieved by other methods , such as reading printed marks on paper . |
| 13 | There are two broad categories ; the one type is available off the peg , supported by large software houses and is designed for general application ; the other is tailored specifically for the employment agency market and is naturally more expensive but usually more user friendly since it is written to perform a specific set of operations . |
| 14 | Given the traditional English attachment to the extravagant version of the judicial independence doctrine , it is perhaps not surprising that even these modest calls for reform should have fallen on deaf ears . |
| 15 | Clause 7.9.3 is not to be spurned by the tenant , but if the tenant calls for details of the insurance on a regular basis , as it should do , it is perhaps not vital but nevertheless worth including . |
| 16 | The changes currently taking place in the system are thus multiple and complex , but they point away from the existing binary pattern towards one that is perhaps more unitary and certainly more differentiated . |
| 17 | As we shall see later in this chapter , the case for the status quo is perhaps too general and too romantic in its assessment of the value of the existing structures . |
| 18 | The fourth ( fig. 22 ) is perhaps less successful but even bolder . |
| 19 | It therefore comes up against the problem that the inevitability of Mosca 's specific type of elite is less immediately plausible and more easily disproved This vulnerability was readily seized on by critics of elite theory . |
| 20 | The North Sea is obviously so shaped that very strong northerly winds can cause a piling up of water in the southern part of the sea , either because the escape route through the Straits of Dover is narrow , or because it is quite possible for the winds in the North Sea to be predominantly northerly while the winds in the English Channel are predominantly westerly . |
| 21 | George Fawcett may be in his seventies but the will is obviously as strong as ever . |
| 22 | Sharing work , yet retaining a clear sense of role , is obviously more difficult but potentially rewarding and in Maidstone seems to be working well . |
| 23 | But an adverse ruling from a private body is much less daunting and much less publicised than a heavy award of damages by judge or jury . |
| 24 | By comparison , badger aroma is much less pungent and less acrid , though it can be quite strong in the vicinity of the sett , where the occupants have repeatedly marked both the ground and each other . |
| 25 | Nowadays it is much less common and only 25% of new cases are found in children , ie the onset of the disease has been greatly delayed . |
| 26 | Considerable strides have been made , especially in priority areas such as education , and its debt position is much less severe than either Zambia 's or Costa Rica 's . |
| 27 | I think this is because the pop-up is much more noticeable and less selective . |
| 28 | This category is much more controversial and inherently implausible , as it contains the alleged abductions of humans on board a UFO . |
| 29 | A tubular form is much more effective and eventually worms with such a shape appeared . |
| 30 | There has been a tendency more recently , however , for deaf people to be wary of consecutive interpreting where they may feel information is added to , or subtracted from , the message ( Allsop and Kyle , 1982 ) , even though for spoken languages it has usually been felt that consecutive interpreting is much more effective and much easier to check for the validity of the interpretation ( Herbert , 1978 ) . |