Example sentences of "[adv] is [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not sure how far , without these visible or audible marks of strangeness , ‘ they ’ would be recognised by cultural differences , though in racist reactions much is made of such things : how good Frenchmen are insulted by the smells of North African cooking , or good Brits by that of curry emanating from their neighbours . |
| 2 | But the illusion is soon shattered … the moored sailing vessel alongside is heaving with 65 members of a film crew . |
| 3 | The technique outlined below is known as progressive muscular relaxation and is one of the easiest to master . |
| 4 | The character of free-standing sculpture , so noticeable in the figures of the east , is abandoned in the chariot-teams , where the near horse alone is carved in full , heads and necks of the others being attached to it in a kind of receding relief ; but this was a special problem which required a special solution . |
| 5 | that 's about five per cent on the current six million pound allocation , which alone is based on free school meals , should make a future upon the special needs audit . |
| 6 | According to the Marxist view , a class is a group of persons with a common relationship to the means of production and so is defined in all societies in economic terms . |
| 7 | Normally , Parliament will be dissolved by the monarch as and when advice to do so is conveyed to that effect by the Prime Minister ; and invariably , the issuing by the monarch of a proclamation dissolving Parliament is accompanied by the issuing of another proclamation summoning the next one . |
| 8 | It is usually a shelf species but has been recorded from a depth of 1200 m so is included in this study . |
| 9 | Moreover it is less than clear from the Bill what advantages are supposed to accrue to a school if it separates itself from a Local Authority , unless doing so is thought in general to be advantageous ( where , for instance , a Local Authority is unduly ‘ political ’ ) . |
| 10 | What I like best is to talk to fellow artists . |
| 11 | The EPS calculated above is based on half-year figures as the net dividend figure is only an interim rather than a full annual payment . |
| 12 | The ‘ individual ’ in the extract above is confronted by social controls . |
| 13 | A clearer proof that cells change when exposed to new influences from outside is afforded by embryonic induction , first described by Spemann in 1924 . |
| 14 | The table Andy is perched over is stacked with several hundred champagne glasses , forming a glittering pyramid rising a couple of metres from the table 's surface . |
| 15 | IBM meanwhile is looking for other vendor customers and is working with the Open Software Foundation to see how CICS fits in with DCE . |
| 16 | It has been and still is argued by many market practitioners that dividends do have an effect on market prices because of their information content . |
| 17 | More flexibility still is provided by separate processor registers in the PSW to indicate processor mode ( with respect to privileged instructions ) , whether address mapping is required , how the store protection system is to operate ( if this is separate from the address mapping ) , which accumulator array is to be used , and the state of the interrupt system . |
| 18 | The Department of World Mission and Unity of the Church of Scotland continued its presentation of files relating to colonial , continental , Jewish and foreign missions , 1939–85 ( availability as always is restricted for those records less than 25 years old ) . |
| 19 | This technique of working with the sound turned off is known as silent viewing see Video Plan 3 in this chapter . |
| 20 | The old , wild Africa in which rhinos like Samia could wander freely for ever is gone for good ; but at least she is alive and safe , seemingly unconcerned by the fact that her world has shrunk to 10,000 acres of thornbush inside an electric fence . |
| 21 | Germany has a target of a 30 per cent reduction by 2005 , France recommends cuts of up to 50 per cent by 2030 , Italy has made a parliamentary resolution for 20 per cent cuts by 2005 and Australia also is aiming for 20 per cent cuts by 2005 . |
| 22 | Take laughing : I have only to titter and , in seconds , the Monster also is rocking with pretend laughter . |
| 23 | The second part of the mid-turn switch itself also is overlapped by another speaker 's " ye:h " e was NI:CE man " . |
| 24 | But the intimate local picture this builds up is amplified by detailed accounts of subjects like fashion and jewellery , jet 's role in literature , and its links with Royalty . |
| 25 | I mean maybe there 's an issue about how to cope with war , but that probably is related to fundamental aspects of what a person 's all about in their psychological make up . |
| 26 | But if the reaching out is achieved by huge price cuts , then booksellers have every right to complain . ’ |
| 27 | Metaphor in Out is used in two distinct ways : on the one hand , the medical theory ‘ diagnosis prognosticates aetiology ’ is extended coercively to other domains of thought ; on the other hand , the mind 's capacity for variation and mutation leads the main character to produce creative metaphors which distort , subvert , and ‘ mobilize ’ the language of authority . |
| 28 | The most important task now is to promote to potential employers the benefit of employing members of this Institute . |
| 29 | The share of the next 2–5 per cent increased from 18 to 33 per cent in 1960 , but now is recorded as 20 per cent . |
| 30 | Erm , what we 're gon na do now is look at some number crunching and what I 'll do is give you Pearson 's erm formula for calculating the correlation coefficient . |