Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if it has nt , and your figure for the south stand is right , that s still more than 39 thousand . |
| 2 | And here we find that the term is widely rather than narrowly defined to include an offence which carries a sentence of three years or more on first conviction ; or involves the use of violence ; or results in substantial financial gain ; or involves conduct by a large number of people in pursuit of a common purpose . |
| 3 | This is most probably because she is unsure of lasting love in a marriage . |
| 4 | It is rather faster than a Commodore 64 , and has similar graphics and sound , which makes the hardware good value . |
| 5 | The country 's population is over 140 million ; the total population of the East European Six is rather more than 110 million . |
| 6 | This type of marking is seen in the contrast of form between the French adjectives in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) , qualifying a masculine singular noun , and a feminine plural noun , respectively : ( 2 ) j'ai besoin d'un drapeau blanc ( 3 ) ils passèrent deux nuits blanches In English , however , the syntactic realization of this pattern is in a sense the simplest possible : the adjective realizing the P has to be juxtaposed to the noun which is the exponent of E. Ordinary attribution requires this juxtaposition to have the adjective preceding rather than following the noun ( as we shall see in Chapter 3 , there is rather more than one might suspect to be said about postnominal attributive adjectives ) . |
| 7 | In the lungs , the result of all this branching is that the surface area inside each lung is rather more than 70 square yards . |
| 8 | It gives me great pleasure to announce that that would mean Cherwell District Council would have to disappear as well , and that would be another blip off the horizon erm but that what would happen you would therefore have a smaller authority , who would then become the Education Authority , and that would be would have to be , I think , somewhere in between the current District Council size in Cherwell or the Vale , of what about a hundred thousand , and the present county , which is rather more than half a million . |
| 9 | This suggests that this short-term store is auditorily rather than visually based even when the task is visual-motor . |
| 10 | But because it is beside rather than in the Pyrenees , the Basque Coast has a gentler climate than you might expect , with an average temperature over the whole year of nearly 14° Centigrade — almost as good as you will find in Portugal . |
| 11 | By contrast , some patients seem to have a frequency that is rarely less than 10 in 24 hours and need to take antidiarrhoeal agents and modify their diet . |
| 12 | The deep channel is rarely more than 10 ft wide in a 90 ft flow ; this , combined with the speed of the flow and the length , make all racks grade I/II . |
| 13 | Because the phase windings are situated on separate stator teeth in the single-stack motor , the mutual inductance is small and the error introduced in neglecting its torque contribution when several phases are excited is rarely more than 10% . |
| 14 | Luminescence is rarely more than 1% efficient and thus of comparatively low intensity . |
| 15 | Yes , that 's right so if you copy the formula then they erm the G will always stay as a G no matter where you copy it to , but if you copy the formula to another row you copy it from the cell below then the three becomes a four and er this one ? |
| 16 | That 's rather more than a year ago of course . |
| 17 | A quarter of drivers leave their cars unlocked , I think it 's rather more than that in the summer . |
| 18 | Note also the increased size of the calibrated range relative to the uncalibrated one where the slope of the curve is effectively less than 45 degrees , and the decreased size where the slope is steep . |
| 19 | May we not fall into the temptation of thinking something is right just because we can get away with it . |
| 20 | With all that said of course the transition period is going to be very dangerous for the kind of reasons we 've been talking about already and I think is right too when he says that er , the so called nationalist in the non Russian Republics , if you 're a Democrat in a empire , then you are inevitably a nationalist as well because you want your nation to have its natural human rights . |
| 21 | ‘ My daughter goes back to school this week after the half-term break and she really wants to know Penny is all right before she goes . |
| 22 | It is all right if you do not harm the fawns . |
| 23 | As Rubinfeld ( 1987 ) notes , this is all right if everyone in the community is identical , but it causes an obvious problem if there is heterogeneity . |
| 24 | But he is all right when you get to know him . |
| 25 | He may say he is all right when he is not . |
| 26 | Setting prices in relation to costs is all right as long as the latter are under control , but here they clearly are n't : it is obvious that if Marie 's back is turned , food either gets wasted or goes missing . |
| 27 | Skiing is all right as long as you do n't take risks . |
| 28 | In the it 's only just till the rep comes he said , when I saw her last week she said like you know , he had n't been if he |
| 29 | Then she thought : But he 's only here because Bert is just through that wall there . |
| 30 | Although it 's only really because |