Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Embarrassment is under no obligation to be comic , though it is most naturally that , and as a fictional theme it is of inexhaustible power and seemingly unending appeal . |
| 2 | In the fiction edited by Currer Bell , there is rather too much of this . |
| 3 | Don said , ‘ If he 's right then that 's the best . |
| 4 | First of all there 's personal interest , secondly there 's class interest thirdly there 's rather amusingly some mean feeling in his own mind , so he has the idea that people might just be rather grumpy or something when they 're going to cast their , their vote and go to some rather destructive policy . |
| 5 | Erm , the body 's rather like that I suppose . |
| 6 | If the whole notion of Designers ' Saturday is altogether too much for you , or if your designer credentials are simply too thin to merit attendance , do not despair . |
| 7 | It is the technique employed in Genesis 22 , and it creates enormous tension and suspense in the narrative , even though the ending is mercifully not that of high tragedy . |
| 8 | It 's only when all the minerals have been ‘ mopped up ’ by the soap that it can form a lather . |
| 9 | And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs |
| 10 | So we 'll cut it all down so there 's only about half of it that you need to learn okay and I 'll print you a table out on the computer like that and then you can ask your mum to ask you them . |
| 11 | It 's , and , and if you actually look on the actual area we 're talking about , there 's only one , two , three , four , there 's only about half a dozen tables . |
| 12 | It 's only once all these preparations have been done that the family concentrate on decorating their own home . |
| 13 | Well yes there 's only only this time of the year that they 're about so I think they must only grow them there that make the best marmalade . |
| 14 | because the bolts actually go up between the plate and the glass and there 's only that much space so |
| 15 | It 's only recently that lightweight microfibres , specialists nylons like Pertex and lightweight poly/cottons have come into their own and dramatically increased the versatility and insulation of fleece . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's only recently that Dad has taken to having holidays . |
| 17 | There 's only so much you can cling to — your credibility , your belief in small cottage industries — whatever . |
| 18 | If you study a lot of subjects , they come to an end , there 's only so much you can learn about them . |
| 19 | There 's only so much you can do with a Super B , ’ he shrugged . |
| 20 | I mean on something like interruptions there 's only so much you can say . |
| 21 | There 's only so much you can do to jazz up articles on the efficacy of heart tapping in achieving full blood drainage . |
| 22 | There 's only so much that anybody 's brain can handle at any one time so let's just do a little experiment because there was a chap called George Miller an American psychologist who worked on this idea of what is the capacity of the brain , how many bits of information can the brain hold on to at any given time . |
| 23 | There 's only so many love songs you can write . |
| 24 | But ’ , ( said completely non-defensively ) ‘ there 's only so many hours in the day and some of them I need to listen to music and to be with my family . |
| 25 | But I had had quite er if you want funding erm there 's only so many people out there , you better make a success of what you 're doing . |
| 26 | Now , that may be very idealistic and it 's obviously not all retired or old people who 've got a lot of wisdom unless you want to tell their stories . |
| 27 | Now the story 's much more that of late onset asthma , |
| 28 | Yeah that 's all right that is . |
| 29 | ‘ I do hope everything 's all right this time . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm sure it 's all right this time , but you should n't carry anything heavier than a handbag — that 's what my old love used to say . |