Example sentences of "[adv] [is] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What began as a means of seeing how things might be done better is now a philosophy of ensuring that things go on being done better towards a goal which will be forever just over the horizon . |
| 2 | And I were to guess that learning together is also a model of rich and diverse possibilities . |
| 3 | Going it alone is often a matter of pride and does no one a service . |
| 4 | But it is governed in some detail by statutory requirements , and so is undeniably a system of statutory regulation . |
| 5 | At the present time it is well served by British Rail , so is mainly a dormitory village for commuters to Hull , Beverley and Driffield . |
| 6 | They may realise also that to do so is perhaps a reflection of their own inability to create the excellent plot structure , characterisation and atmosphere of this successful series . |
| 7 | The dullest game attended/seen on TV Wimbledon away is always a surety , Coventry mentioned in despatches . |
| 8 | If the ‘ closed ’ style of management described above is already a problem in many schools , then there are a great many more where such a style might permeate the existing decision-making process once delegated budgets are in place . |
| 9 | The list given above is just a selection ; an operational cartographic database would hold many more features . |
| 10 | But getting out too quickly is also a danger . |
| 11 | But a young man who will not risk his life even once is both a fool and a coward . ’ |
| 12 | The frantic search for trainers past is simply a reaction against the shit trainers syndrome ! |
| 13 | Investing a fortune and then upping sticks a couple of years later is generally a recipe for being out of pocket . |
| 14 | The only other dissenter is Mary Midgley who , with good sense , questions the pride of place given to an unambiguous vegetarianism ( 1983 : 25–7 ) : ‘ What the animals need most urgently is probably a campaign for treating them better before they are eaten ’ , and she augments this by advocating a gradual move towards the consumption of less meat ( 27 ) . |
| 15 | We do not live exactly as our parents lived but whatever we do now is only a modification of what was done before . |
| 16 | The er , other recommendation really is just a member 's note the outcome of discussion so far , it has been to the erm , we did take the paper to the Hare Street , Little Parndon er , committee er , in this cycle and there were no comments that came er , from that committee . |
| 17 | Okay , so the , the reflective pronouns require a C commanding antecedent , antecedent really is just a noun phrase from which it can get its reference like herself back to Florence . |
| 18 | erm If you take a novel like Dorothy Sayers ' Gaudy Night , which is offered as an example of a classic detective story which really is also a novel about academic life , it 's a love story , I think as a love story and as a novel of academic life it 's in many ways very good indeed , but I think as a detective story it 's completely uninteresting you know because one part has to fade in order that the , the other should come into focus . |
| 19 | At Kilellan the area examined so far is only a part of a much more extensive settlement and there is certainly a lot still to be discovered . |
| 20 | The idea of the golden age in which family responsibilities were stronger than they are today is clearly a myth , without foundation in historical evidence . |
| 21 | Inheritance tax , income tax as well is often a return that you needs making . |
| 22 | I 'm not showing off or anything , but here 's just a sample of the questions he can complete , totally unprompted . |
| 23 | Here 's just a selection of some of the attractions on offer . |
| 24 | The fella in here 's usually a bit starchy , I mean the young 'un , not the old one , not the manager like . ’ |
| 25 | The stone referred to here is clearly a symbol of God rather than an embodiment of God , but at the same time it has an element of sacredness , which is what Gandhi may be implying when he maintains that God resides in the stone in a special way . |
| 26 | Someone here is also a traitor , guilty of the blackest treason . |
| 27 | If not , then what we have here is simply a bunch of chamber songs performed with string quartet and with a patina of pretension . |
| 28 | However , any generalist discourse deemed to be insufficiently " discriminating " , such as sociology , is banished from the field of English studies : " Literary history here is strictly a branch of sociology . |
| 29 | Rap is as old as the human voice and just as versatile , so what follows here is just a progress report : four different artists with four different attitudes to the word |
| 30 | No , your being here is just a friendship thing , OK ? |