Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [adv] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say 'e 's all right ter talk to . |
| 2 | Now , in an amazing snub to Lawrence , the 26-year-old has joined a club which is even further away from the capital and is set to make his debut in the Coca-Cola Cup tomorrow night — against Middlesbrough ! |
| 3 | They wanted it , which is n't unusual , and I said no , which is even less so . |
| 4 | The butler and housekeeper have their own rooms , but these must be open ( by invitation ) to visiting partners of the same rank , ‘ not including , however , any persons of the lower grade , which is thus very clearly marked ’ . |
| 5 | The belief that ‘ god ‘ preceded life and was responsible for it , is deeply rooted in the history of time long past , and will be tenaciously held even in the face of ‘ That kindly light of reason ’ — which orthodox religions teach is a gift from ‘ God the Creator ’ , but the use of which is nevertheless often vigorously denied , especially if such use threatens to throw doubt on the basic creeds already long established . |
| 6 | The advantage of using a switch which is either completely off or completely on over any form of variable resistance as in linear supplies , is that no power is dissipated in this sort of control element , whatever the load requirements are or whatever the voltage developed across the switch happens to be . |
| 7 | The information on a modern laser disc ( often called ‘ compact disc ’ , which is a pity , because the name is uninformative and also usually mispronounced with the stress on the first syllable ) is digital , stored in a series of tiny pits , each of which is either definitely there or definitely not there : there are no half measures . |
| 8 | Another imported luxury item which is also very strongly represented in Kent is amethyst , usually polished pear or droplet shaped beads , pierced down their length . |
| 9 | However , the formality of its public proceedings — merely ratifying decisions taken elsewhere — was in effect analogous to much activity in the British Parliament which is also usually effectively controlled by the executive . |
| 10 | Make sure that , sure they 're good quality photographs , normally black and white , sharp , appropriate and so forth , and make sure that you 've got sufficient details associated with it , often a good way of doing it is by having a , something typed on a slip of paper which is just very slightly stuck to the , to the back so the editor can actually see what the thing is and can take it off if he needs to when the picture is actually being reproduced . |
| 11 | The stainless alloy we use is a ‘ 430 ’ type , which is just about as magnetic a stainless as you can find . |
| 12 | The majority of c.c.d.s have around 500 stages , which is just about enough to give some sort of reverberation effect . |
| 13 | Which is just as well , because long-haired rock is what you will get . |
| 14 | Things that we do n't want to remember may be indelibly engraved on the mind , little eroded even by time , but million of unimportant things are blissfully forgotten — which is just as well for our mental health ! |
| 15 | Which is just as well , for the engine is happiest on full throttle . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't realise that animals were not supposed to have personalities , or to think or to feel emotions or pain , ’ she recalls — which is just as well , since she went ahead and recorded what she observed , instead of what she was supposed to observe . |
| 17 | He also enjoys the training , which is just as well because it is so competitive . |
| 18 | The result is that the books can be just as amusing on second reading , which is just as well given the ambitious content . |
| 19 | This habit of growth means that a wild cocoa tree may be effectively immortal , which is just as well because , as we soon discovered , these trees produce very few pods . |
| 20 | Which is just as well , because there are few assets to sell . |
| 21 | Since I stopped taking the chlorambucil , the lumps are beginning to return , which is just as well . |
| 22 | It has a small fitness room , sauna , wonderful food , a bar and the sort of dining room you can linger in , which is just as well , because in Valcebollère there is nowhere else to go . |
| 23 | Miles and Wilfred are both pretty expert at setting the video timers , which is just as well because I 'm no technical genius . |
| 24 | Which is just as well because some of them have played just a little bit too hard , landing themselves in serious trouble . |
| 25 | The Sun only just manages to keep alight and it tends to be those few protons that are moving faster than average that keep it going — which is just as well or it could have used all its fuel and expired before we arrived . |
| 26 | Which is just as well ; with all these advantages , you 're going to want to hang on to your Eclipse … |
| 27 | His wife 'll be back then which is just as well — she cleans for the factor 's wife over at ‘ Il Calltuccio ’ in the mornings . |
| 28 | He flung himself into athletics and , eventually became a top-flight international sprinter ; which is just as well , for , had he not realized his early promise , he would have been stuck in a sports shop with no qualifications — which would not have reflected what he considered his genuine educational aptitude . |
| 29 | Sartre never broaches the question of the other crimes committed by Stalin ( which is just as well in view of the way the argument is going ) nor does he address the obvious problem that his own identification of Stalin as the practical Marxist of specificities against Trotsky 's abstract universalism runs directly counter to the fact that Stalinism produced the most clear-cut example of a Marxism which internalized an abstract schema within itself . |
| 30 | Nor do they think women are interested in sensitivity ( which is just as well , since these men do n't consider themselves sensitive ) . |