Example sentences of "[is] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In I Love Lucy ( currently viewable on Channel 4 on Friday afternoons ) , the heroine 's living room is blatantly a theatrical set . |
| 2 | In the match vs scum on New Years Day , Strachan played on the right and White on the left , and I hoped that meant that I would *never* again see Strach on the left side , which is mostly a sad sight . |
| 3 | Under water it is mostly a sonic world and on the surface it is mostly visual . |
| 4 | ‘ Contrary to what you would think , it is rather a solemn occasion . ’ |
| 5 | For example , to take some position as to whether the renewal of a licence is a ‘ higher ’ interest than an initial application is not to indulge in rigid conceptualism , but is rather a necessary step in reaching any decision at all . |
| 6 | This is rather a subjective approach , and has sometimes led to the situation where the same eruption has been given a different label by different observers . |
| 7 | Dealing with them is rather a sad business . |
| 8 | What we 've got now , I suppose , is rather a curious set — chat in the round . |
| 9 | ‘ Three years , I admit , is rather a long time . |
| 10 | Six years alone is rather a long time . ’ |
| 11 | Gasgcoine is rather a long word to say so I suppose the boys at school call him Gazza . |
| 12 | Contrary to what is often said , there is a law of trespass in Scotland but it is rather a complex and grey area . |
| 13 | This is rather a complex area , so before taking any action you are strongly advised to consult an accountant . |
| 14 | It is rather a graphic representation of the various elements , dimensions , and perspectives which need to be incorporated into the framework and the process of data collection . |
| 15 | The Independent featured a long news article about the Great Bolt Debate , written by Stephen Goodwin , an Indy staff newsman who , I 'm reliably informed , is rather a good climber . |
| 16 | UNLIKE almost everyone else , many economists reckon insider dealing is rather a good thing . |
| 17 | Except to note that now that the right honourable member for Chesterfield is publishing his former speeches as a video , it is rather a cheap operation to come and repeat them in the chamber er rather than putting them out er for public consumption there are places where he could repeat the kind of speeches just given , unfortunately the government is closing most of them down at the moment and putting the cut the inhabitants out in the community er but it had no relevance to the er the subject we 're dealing with today . |
| 18 | Second , that this obligation ‘ to prevent loss ’ is rather a strange one . |
| 19 | The hare and the hatter also decide to put the poor little dormouse into the teapot , which is rather cruel because he did n't do anything to them and it is rather a strange thing for his companions to do . |
| 20 | Empowerment is rather a dirty word and I am suspicious of it . ’ |
| 21 | But I also think that er the Community Charge as it is being brought in is probably being brought in too sharply which means that it is n't actually taking account of some of the marginal cases where people are going to face a very steep increase in Community Charge bill , er and the Community Charge itself is rather a blunt instrument . |
| 22 | The reader is requested to bear in mind that the Handbook is not a grammar , or a book on linguistic science , literature or psychology ( though it contains items on all these subjects ) — it is rather a practical book directed towards the study of teaching English as a Foreign Language . |
| 23 | As I said at the beginning , copyright is rather a dull subject . |
| 24 | And when species differ in colour pattern , for example , it not at all infrequently turns out that it 's just one gene , or perhaps a couple erm I mean trituris marmaratis , which is rather a nice green newt , christatus , which is rather a nice black and yellow spotted newt , you can hybridize them and the difference is due to a single gene as far as the colour is concerned gene . |
| 25 | And when species differ in colour pattern , for example , it not at all infrequently turns out that it 's just one gene , or perhaps a couple erm I mean trituris marmaratis , which is rather a nice green newt , christatus , which is rather a nice black and yellow spotted newt , you can hybridize them and the difference is due to a single gene as far as the colour is concerned gene . |
| 26 | Thus from equation ( 9.33 ) the delay per cascaded section is correspondingly shorter and the longest delay that can be achieved by means of a low-pass , L-C , ladder filter is rather a small fraction of the fundamental period or pulse duration of the signal being handled . |
| 27 | Now this is rather a banal claim I suppose that erm the proper function of government is to manage things well , I mean who would have doubted that , but the other claim that governments , one of the roles of governments is to improve the citizens is more surprising , particularly for a liberal view and there 's a more standard liberal position now would be that the moral well-being citizens is not a proper matter of governmental concern . |
| 28 | And the Western experience of sex , he argues , is not the inhibition of discourse , is not describable as a regime of silence , but is rather a constant , and historically changing , deployment of discourses on sex , and this ever-expanding discursive explosion is part of a complex growth of control over individuals through the apparatus of sexuality . |
| 29 | ‘ He is rather a talkative person , as no doubt you have discovered . ’ |
| 30 | Now in this respect , of course , twenty-five years is rather a short time in the life of a university , and a good deal of this time has been spent in building up a research base , and now , as you mentioned in your erm remarks a few moments ago , Andrew , we have an enviable research record in a very wide range of disciplines . |