Example sentences of "[adj] be [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've got some beiges as well that a few are quite sort of close to white . |
| 2 | If , as Hugh Kenner believes , Pound never ceased to love Dorothy even while he loved Olga , this is surely part of what he loved in her , an aspect of what she meant to him ; and so Pound 's feelings for and about England were , right to the end , not much less tormented than any English reader 's can be . |
| 3 | This is surely arrogance on a pretty preposterous scale . |
| 4 | So when we look at the grimacing gestures of a chimpanzee and wonder at the almost ludicrous parallels with our own behaviour this is just part of a whole host of behavioural and anatomical similarities that show without doubt that we ought to be classified with the apes ( we are all of us primates ) , and that we share a distant ancestor with our diminutive caricatures . |
| 5 | And all this is just part of a programme that seeks to help women help themselves . |
| 6 | This is clearly part of the story , but there is another , perhaps more subtle , way of understanding such mobility . |
| 7 | in some areas there is a specialist home nursing service for the terminally ill and this is sometimes part of the services of a hospice ( these are usually called Continuing Care or MacMillan nurses ) . |
| 8 | This is necessarily part of the unwritten effect involved in any clinical trial . |
| 9 | This is still minute in relation to the number of health technologies used in the NHS , however . |
| 10 | This is now part of the Italian Embassy and was designed by Orsi some time after 1678 . |
| 11 | This is now part of the Roman Catholic rite , which has never had problems of rampant tuberculosis because of the cup . |
| 12 | Yet this is only part of his argument . |
| 13 | Fluka is known world-wide as a supplier of high quality chemicals and bio-chemicals for research and development and intermediates for industrial manufacture , but this is only part of the picture . |
| 14 | But this is only part of the story and can be very misleading . |
| 15 | Asthma , multiple sclerosis , osteoarthritis or Parkinson 's disease , for example , each carry their own set of implications for disabled living , and yet , of course , this is only part of the picture . |
| 16 | It must be clear that improved liaison between these parties will help , but this is only part of the requirement . |
| 17 | We will be dealing here mostly with the simple techniques of putting notes together in certain special ways , but in reality this is only part of the story . |
| 18 | Our concern is primarily with the government 's fiscal activities , and as emphasized in Lecture 1 — this is only part of its impact on the economic system . |
| 19 | But this is only part of the disagreement . |
| 20 | This is only part of Samson Agonistes ’ contextualisation . |
| 21 | Consequently , while it is true to say that the sentence with the to infinitive evokes a realized event , this is only part of the story : it also evokes the dispositions of the support previous to the realization of the happening denoted by the infinitive . |
| 22 | The British legal system is already in a bit of a sorry state but this is only part of the story because we are faced with a creaking Government bureaucracy that has often been shown by the Higher Courts to be acting in an illegal and unfair manner . |
| 23 | The coven will also employ magic , but this is only secondary to its beliefs and worship . |
| 24 | Some may argue that this is merely abdication of responsibility ! — I prefer to consider that LM system is more sophisticated in removing any need for the practitioner to make such a judgement . |
| 25 | This is indeed socialism in the full sense of the word … |
| 26 | Theoretical research which fashions concepts and perspectives — this is usually part of an academic discipline or sub-discipline . |
| 27 | Full skirts — goodness knows how many petticoats made walking very hard , so all this almost enforced leisure upon them , and this was again part of the duty of the woman to show that she did n't need to work , she did n't in fact even have to lift a finger because the man or her servants would do all this for her . |
| 28 | This was only part of her character . |
| 29 | This was only part of a general sort of pattern as it were , where people were beginning to impinge on their lives , there was another well-known local alcoholic there who was knocking on doors trying to get money off people , and there 's several elderly people who gave this woman money , because they were frightened that if they did n't something would happen to them . |
| 30 | This was obviously anathema to Ricardou , in particular , and a fairly acrimonious exchange erupted during the conference sessions surrounding this question of referentiality . |