Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Spinal Tap ’ may have been the ultimate send up of the genre but ‘ Spinal Tap ’ is most metal fans ' favourite film . |
| 2 | Well our pits there 's a lot of water but it 's , it 's mostly body sweat and s I do get some water off a , a machine that I drive . |
| 3 | Erm but I would say it 's mostly maintenance trades . |
| 4 | It is also the case that the president 's unfalteringly outsider style of leadership tended to make worse an already difficult predicament . |
| 5 | The business is effectively recession proof , if anything it probably does better when times are hard . |
| 6 | Onyeanusi 's study involved an assessment of the impact of vehicle tyres on off-road tracks in a specific area of what is predominantly grassland savanna . |
| 7 | A WHIFF of competition sent shares in United States chip maker Intel tumbling at the end of March , wiping more than a fifth off the value of what is arguably Silicon Valley 's most important firm . |
| 8 | He 's awa' jist noo , but he 's always hame fir Christmas . |
| 9 | I 'm afraid I think it 's only junk mail , but it 's addressed to you . ’ |
| 10 | Yes , it 's only half term . |
| 11 | Creamy crab cocktail was fine , but the smoked fish pie it 's only meat pies we 've given up for Lent was n't so much smoked as immolated . |
| 12 | Peeling potatoes , she 's only peeling potatoes , dinner potatoes , then wash up after dinner . |
| 13 | It 's only surface calm . |
| 14 | In fact , Dublin joins Mark Hughes and full-back Denis Irwin as United 's only goal scorers to date . |
| 15 | What are they now ? it 's only paper money , what 's it matter ? |
| 16 | it 's only frame collapse . |
| 17 | Rachaela said , ‘ There 's only carton milk . ’ |
| 18 | but there again it 's only hand feed , you 've , you got to have a , a machine that can feed on to take this tubing |
| 19 | that 's only side B in n it ? |
| 20 | Well th if it 's only , if it 's only term assurance there 's no units involved anyway . |
| 21 | It 's only breast milk it 's like that , if they have bottles , bottled milk it 's more solid from the beginning , but it 's not nice , this is n't bad , messy , but it 's not smelly . |
| 22 | It 's only Lucozade dear . |
| 23 | Feminists working on social representations recognize , in addition , that human experience is highly symbol dependent , that the issue of language can usefully link psychology with other work in the social sciences and humanities , and that a greater focus on this area might be useful for psychological investigations of many gender issues ( e.g. Wetherell et al . |
| 24 | It is now made of a black Nubuk leather trimmed with purple and yellow , and is highly water repellent and quick drying . |
| 25 | Clearly , there are some collocations that are independent of distance , but there are others whose behaviour is highly distance dependent [ Jones & sinclair , 1974 ] . |
| 26 | Community relations in Easton thus amounts to a programme of youth work , but juvenile liaison is altogether different , for it is basically probation work . |
| 27 | That 's just an extension from that , although it is basically neighbourhood watch |
| 28 | Publicity itself is basically news material about the organization which is published in one or more of the media . |
| 29 | Some say this is merely cartoon aggression but some susceptible kiddies could believe that it 's okay to copy such actions because they have no serious effect when Macaulay does them . |
| 30 | Make sure that the story you have for them is interesting and if it is merely constituency information , explain that you are providing it for background briefing and that you are not expecting them to publish it . |