Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ im dreaming of a white christmas ’ — also shouts like ‘ souness for sunderland ’ ‘ andy cole — he gets the ball — he scores a goal — andy , andy cole ’ ( or something like it ) ‘ there s only one terry butcher ’ ( well not any more — he left sunderland last week ) |
| 2 | Okay well I think oral communication is mostly two way , that 's one distinction we can make . |
| 3 | Certainly it 's the case that there 's a a down side if you like with providing the new roads through what is mostly open countryside . |
| 4 | I think bathing is jolly good f-fun . |
| 5 | One of the most popular routes in Pembroke — when the army , with their massively increased use of the Ranges allow access to it — is Jolly Sensible Arête . |
| 6 | Where the surveyor is properly forward planning , there will be adequate notice of delay and the client can be notified accordingly . |
| 7 | She 's presumably British Army of the right I do n't know |
| 8 | difficult to persuade another to take advice , and it is the more difficult which is most pleasant doing … ' |
| 9 | A spokeswoman for the Lord 's Taverners charity , of which Leslie , 59 , is president , said : ‘ It is most encouraging news . |
| 10 | According to his account to the House of Commons , Baldwin replied : ‘ Sir , that is most grievous news , and it is impossible for me to make any comment on it today . ’ |
| 11 | This is most obvious east of Ermine Street , though there are traces to the west . |
| 12 | Master Benjamin , Her Grace is most welcome back . |
| 13 | Not only is most pre-modern literature now culturally remote , but England is no longer the centre of contemporary literary creation in the English language . |
| 14 | They say there is most interesting society , with lots of concerts and plays and cultural pursuits . |
| 15 | Whereabouts is most electric power generated to feed the grid for industry in this region ? |
| 16 | In addition to the non-literary sources cited above , there is rather strong evidence in Shakespeare and Marlowe — especially in puns of the type air , heir , hair — that [ h ] -dropping was salient in the speech community : clearly , the puns could not have worked if the ‘ groundlings ’ had not recognized them ( see , for example , Comedy of Errors , III.ii.122–3 ; Dido and Aeneas , I.i.10 ) . |
| 17 | But as she was writing a personal biography , she inevitably concentrated on Mary at a very personal level , so that her book is rather familiar ground well trod by its author than a foray into new territory . |
| 18 | The first is that there is rather little reason to associate the coercive pressure of a dominant or majority current of opinion or belief with democracy . |
| 19 | It is not that in desperate circumstances we discover ourselves to be natural egoists and throw off moral restraints , it is rather that morality no longer applies . |
| 20 | Er but the most characteristic kind of war er our i is rather limited war a and violence need not necessarily be expressed in the form of erm a formal attack , it can be used of course to threaten or to deter . |
| 21 | Erm the next session is rather hard work for you cos it 's very much sort of listening and absorbing a hell of a lot of facts , but I trust you will bear with me . |
| 22 | That is rather more responsibility than I am prepared to take . ’ |
| 23 | Again there is low flow , although there is rather more water . |
| 24 | Guido paused for an instant , then added , smiling , ‘ I expect that 's why your personal monetary situation is rather more loss than profit at the moment — because you invest so much of your time in romance ? ’ |
| 25 | In the past , it has sometimes been unduly prettified by directors , but today there is rather more danger of excessive uglification , of overdoing the grimness . |
| 26 | However , there is rather less chance that girls will be detained or go on the run from the security forces , a factor which has increased male drop-out levels . |
| 27 | While there is some inconsistency within and between classrooms where subject labels and subject relationships are concerned , there is rather less inconsistency in this ‘ alternative curriculum ’ , and for children it has a much more profound impact than the labels teachers use . |
| 28 | There is rather less footroom because of the wider transmission tunnel , with nowhere to rest the left foot , and one is faced by a very full instrument panel . ’ |
| 29 | Interestingly , for women workers , there is rather less difference between the white population and ethnic minorities , the latter being relatively over-represented in semi-skilled occupations and under-represented in non-manual jobs as a whole . |
| 30 | ‘ You see , it is rather bad luck for you that you happened to come here on one of our meatless days . ’ |