Example sentences of "[coord] is [adv] a " in BNC.
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1 | 13 1775 & that Body is vastly improv 'd the longer it is kept & the little remains of fat shine a little more thro' & it is now very much the colour of Indian Copper , i.e. it is very near the colour of finished work 'd mahogany & is really a beautiful mass , the Legs are now perfectly dry and from the Beginning to the end there is nothing of putrefaction . |
2 | It is a measure of success , not in the commercial sense of the word but an exploration into just why The Smiths connect with so many and whether that connection invokes a solid and lasting influence or is simply a mere fad . |
3 | Its job is to decide whether some change in activity in a cell reflects the presence of such an event or is simply a spontaneous change unrelated to function . |
4 | In the WFS surveys questions about marriage of the women interviewed referred to " marital unions , " i.e. , " More or less stable cohabitation with a man whether based on a marriage which is sanctified by religion , law , or custom , or is simply a " marriage " of convenience . " |
5 | Whether this statement rests on a factual basis or is simply a reasonable hypothesis it is once again impossible to tell . |
6 | Frequently , however , the imposition of standards reflects a judgement that important externalities exist or is simply a pure value judgement based on distributional considerations . |
7 | Inside , the triforium is often omitted or is just a decorative band , while the nave arcade is of great importance . |
8 | Is that the same as the Addams Family or is just a take off . |
9 | Or is just a |
10 | With respect to BACKUP , the safest way to handle the use of pseudo-devices , especially if you may be mixing saves and restores on physical devices and pseudo-devices , is to always place yourself in the [ 000000 ] directory ( whether it physically exists , or is only a notional location , as is the case with a pseudo-device ) and use the syntax [ * … ] |
11 | It is a convention in Elizabethan drama that slander is always believed , which can be explained perhaps from the necessities of the limited time available , or is perhaps a truth about life ( how many of us instantly disbelieve bad report ? ) . |
12 | The place of coal in the NEP appears to be to generate electricity instead of oil , although whether it has a long-term future in this rôle or is merely a useful stopgap is unclear . |
13 | Other rates may apply where the development is acquired second hand , or is merely a refurbishment of an existing industrial building . |
14 | This architectural monstrosity was built of red brick in 1882 , and is over a hundred feet high . |
15 | The tunnel was extended in the nineteenth century , and is over a thousand yards long . |
16 | It occupies a long trench caused by a geological fault and is over a thousand feet deep , a much greater depth than the sea into which it debouches . |
17 | The latter denotes the arrival of new sources of employment and is clearly a better term for wide areas of the South East . |
18 | The Spanish low alcohol beer sector is currently growing at 5 per cent per annum and is clearly a key market for Guinness Brewing Worldwide . |
19 | He has come under the microscope of German giants Bayern Munich and is clearly a man the Crues will have to watch carefully as well . |
20 | The percentage frequency is the number of 10-minute samples in which a species was recorded , expressed as a percentage of the total number of samples , and is thus a measure of distribution . |
21 | In A Song to David , which must have been written in the asylum , as it was publicised soon after his release , David , who represents the poet and is thus a symbol for Smart himself , leads the hymn of Adoration in which all Creation joins , every creature making his individual and characteristic contribution . |
22 | So I collect my own granite gravel here in Devon , from an area where it contains a rather nice orange feldspar , and is thus a warm colour rather than the usual light grey of garden centre granite . |
23 | An ability is made up of a repertoire of skills and is thus a higher level skill . |
24 | By contrast , capital consists of units of money and is thus a malleable entity , easily restructured into larger aggregations . |
25 | One such argument runs as follows : kind — in 24 has normal recurrent contrasts ( e.g. with cool — ) , and is thus a semantic constituent ; so also is kindness — it contrasts , for instance , with hat ; since kind — is not synonymous with kindness , — ness must signal the semantic difference between them . |
26 | For example : Interestingly , this creates only four synonyms , and is thus a very effective algorithm . |
27 | This statement of the legal base has always been important to the European Court , because it helps situate a measure in its legislative context and is thus a valuable aid to the schematic method of interpretation . |
28 | He 's obviously neglected his job and let the club go to pot and is generally a frightful old bugger and an excrescence . |
29 | When it came to make-believe , he preferred opera , for in opera a knave in disguise is quickly discovered , and is unambiguously a knave , nor is the matter of a song a lie from start to finish . |
30 | Some suffering is , however , permanently painful , unendurable even , and is neither a transitional stage nor is remediable . |