Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keepers can have the one off season … to be fair this season AFAIK he s only made the one ‘ howler ’ . |
| 2 | He s always encouraging the team . |
| 3 | He has signed a deal worth £500,000 with Sony and is secretly recording a new album at the studios owned by Ray Davies of The Kinks in Muswell Hill . |
| 4 | This block is widely considered the most important item in US philately ; a second block of four from the same sheet made $528,000 ( £338,462 ) , in line with estimate . |
| 5 | When Charles Kingsley writes in his description of the sewer of ‘ the slow sullen rows of oily ripple … sending up … hot breaths of miasma ’ , he is being quite specific ; but in Dickens 's Little Dorrit the word is virtually symbolic of confusion , as the pervasive fog is in Bleak House . |
| 6 | Steven and his numerous family are still on the canal 's somewhere having a hol . |
| 7 | Its purpose , he argued , is not to supply immediate or direct knowledge of God ; it is rather to enable the overcoming , with God 's help , of the contradictions which run through human existence . |
| 8 | The point is rather to stress the limits of state action . |
| 9 | This is another sign that , so far at least , the Opposition is rather getting the better of the ratings ' war . |
| 10 | The problem in considering the future of fertilizers is rather to consider the changes which will occur in world agriculture , and it is already apparent that they will be many . |
| 11 | In some music this strained atmosphere may be just what we want , but for the moment our objective is rather to achieve a smooth , natural-sounding discourse . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , unless the device is skilfully earthed the shielding often has little effect . |
| 13 | The purpose of the speed limit acts is presumably to minimise the danger to those travelling on or using the roads . |
| 14 | Debbie suddenly ca n't resist cheese — one reason she 's slowly regaining the three stones she lost recently . |
| 15 | Evan points to a hoist that 's slowly lowering the band 's gear down to ground level : ‘ When we played here last year , we were riding up and down in that thing . |
| 16 | Now there are two ways that the new composite sentence token will be of a type that is eventually to acquire a constant significance . |
| 17 | The were-wolf pornographer is thereby given the coup-de-grace , and with great subtlety at that in times of regurgitated Nazism and anti-Semitism . |
| 18 | Z is thereby given the option . |
| 19 | Men 's unfaithfulness is rarely made the focus of a condemnatory press report during the trial , while women 's infidelity as the cause of trouble often becomes a major theme . |
| 20 | Pop culture thus works through an amalgam of attitude , inspiration , intuition and detail ( for nobody is as obsessive as the true pop fan , whose obsession is rarely given the respect it deserves ) ; crucially , it works best not in public , where the terms of discourse are set by the dominant culture , but in private space . |
| 21 | The efficient solution is rarely to have a zero quantity of the externality . |
| 22 | The degree of reciprocity in the relationship is rarely thought an important issue to research . |
| 23 | He 's since written a 4-volume history of wartime intelligence and has little doubt about Bletchley 's significance . |
| 24 | Hillier , who 's since served a jail sentence himself in connection with the fiddle , reported him to the police . |
| 25 | She 's since made a complete recovery and Mona 's consultant says she ows everything to Janet . |
| 26 | He 's since made a full recovery and now has a realistic chance of becoming Lotus 's first world champion since Mario Andretti . |
| 27 | He was paying thirty pounds a month ground rent into a management fund , but he 's since discovered the money was n't getting through to his former landlord , Titcombe Developments in Marlborough . |
| 28 | And this after Blackburn had taken the lead in the first half with a goal from Mike who 's since reduced the arrears to three two with a second goal from the penalty spot . |
| 29 | Well it 's blatantly taking the piss , let's be honest , I mean , I ca n't muck around , I mean it 's blatantly taking the piss is n't it ? |
| 30 | Well it 's blatantly taking the piss , let's be honest , I mean , I ca n't muck around , I mean it 's blatantly taking the piss is n't it ? |