Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Add to this the pessimism and fear of becoming old , and the result is too often that many older people can become non-participating social individuals , who feel increasingly isolated and cut off from all that is happening around them . |
| 2 | Jumping up off a seat is easy enough because almost any action will make things better . |
| 3 | Fifteenth at the moment six days but spring is really just when new things begin to grow and they 're definitely beginning to grow now . |
| 4 | When sailing in offshore winds , however , this rule is more often than not proved right , particularly in coastal bays . |
| 5 | Constitutional rule is more ostensibly and controversially exercised as Head of the Commonwealth . |
| 6 | It will also handle both little and big endian byte ordering so as to be able to run personal computer operating systems such as Windows NT as well as Unix , although the company denied that it had any plans to support NT on it — the capability is simply there if anyone wants it in the future , the company said . |
| 7 | This type of fence is very quickly and easily erected in the second and subsequent years if the materials are carefully put away ; it is the initial preparation and setting up that takes the time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ The fear is always there that you wo n't get back in . ’ |
| 10 | If the appreciation is high enough and the price is possible then a purchase results . |
| 11 | In at least two countries , Kenya and Botswana , such a review is already underway and CPE papers in Kenya already begin to show considerable improvement over those analysed by Somerset in 1974 . |
| 12 | ‘ You sit there and tell me that you can see men or ghosts or apparitions that no one else can see ; you deny all evidence that the man or ghost or apparition is actually elsewhere and therefore can not be here ; and I am prejudiced ? |
| 13 | Information flow in TRACE is very elegantly and easily controlled , but the system is , in some ways , far less ambitious than the three previous systems . |
| 14 | Jobs ' holding is now less than 50% , at 46.1% . |
| 15 | In so far as any one institution is responsible for this basic stage of child socialization — literally , making social — then that institution is more often than not in our society the nuclear family . |
| 16 | An identification is then implicitly or explicitly made with parallel forms of political struggle in our own day . |
| 17 | This crucial element in Morgan 's evidence is an illusion and there is not the slightest shred of evidence that those societies where large numbers of people can be referred to by the terms for parent are societies where marriage is either more or less individualistic . |
| 18 | In some ways ending a marriage is now easier than it has ever been . |
| 19 | It 's midday , the sun is directly overhead and extremely hot . |
| 20 | The sinker is normally less than 2.70m and resembles a surfboard . |
| 21 | The programme of work is now all but completed and the future of this initiative is under review . |
| 22 | Whitley ( 1990 : 65 ) has suggested that this is in part because of the way skill formation is more intra-organizationally than individually achieved , and thus located in the context of the overall skilling of work groups rather than just the human capital of a competitive individual . |
| 23 | It is a remarkable fact , Mr Hopkins , that the argument used by the serpent to seduce Eve from her allegiance to her Creator is almost precisely that used by the Editor of The Times : " Ye shall be as GODS , knowing good and evil " … that is , as wise as God Himself ! " |
| 24 | The Committee 's reason for retaining buggery as a separate offence to deal with non-consensual anal intercourse is once again because of the distinctive nature of the conduct and because it considered that it was ‘ an especially humiliating and distressing experience . ’ |
| 25 | This sanguine trust in the unity and coherence of the universe is as far as possible from ‘ the American Puritan temperament ’ , as Eliot suffered it and articulated it . |
| 26 | It is therefore an important indicator of the linguistic concerns of educationalists who are convinced of the importance of language in education but whose own frame of reference is pedagogically rather than linguistically oriented . |
| 27 | If you 're an hour late for an important meeting … a small amount of compensation is neither here nor their |
| 28 | In fact the entire circuit is either directly or indirectly biased from this potential divider . |
| 29 | The amount of time , officer time taken to process an application for a modification to an existing permission is still substantial and in some cases can be even more than that per a new proposal , but in those circumstances , and this is just by way of illustration because the the actual fee regime is , is very variable , by way of illustration the fee chargeable for a a , a modification is much less than for the application as a whole er f for , for the er er working as a whole . |
| 30 | That stimulus is now past and , with European demand still torpid from recession , a period of rationalisation should surprise no-one . |