Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course it 's possible to go too far the other way , a natural but perilous reaction to grey anorak anxiety , in fact a sort of anoraksia nervosa . |
| 2 | It is unnecessary to go too far back in history to discover the origins of some of the voluntary schemes for the provision of legal advice which now exist . |
| 3 | MacGregor has a new interest in coal as he is due to take over shortly as chairman of the National Coal Board . |
| 4 | the fringe meeting Question Time which is due to start in about five minutes time , will last till seven o'clock . |
| 5 | auditor is due to come in actually very soon . |
| 6 | In the next six years the workforce is due to rise only slowly , by 600,000 overall . |
| 7 | Okay and then you can move it round to line it , is that lined up okay ? |
| 8 | It 's due to go ahead tomorrow night . |
| 9 | Yeah , I said it 's due to go off now , I said , half past three and we waited and waited and he said well it 's ten to four by me he said and I have n't heard one . |
| 10 | It 's odd to see how much smaller the trees clinging to the cliff face which are exposed to the salty winds off the sea are compared to those growing in the more sheltered woodland later in the walk . |
| 11 | Thus , by comparing the percentage of cognate words in two related spoken languages it is possible to estimate fairly accurately the date at which they separated . |
| 12 | But by distinguishing clearly between them in this methodological fashion it is possible to explore how far local state action tends to fall into one type rather than another when action on any one policy is considered . |
| 13 | For new instruments , both electronic and pipe , it is possible to give here only very rough figures , relating to the situation in the latter half of 1991 . |
| 14 | Co-ordinating wall coverings are available in little triangles , dots and miniature abstract prints , but because the focus of the collection is on the borders , it is possible to put up just a new border and save on decorating the whole room . |
| 15 | Furthermore , by tidying up some of the conceptual issues , it is possible to pose more clearly some of the fundamental questions , which are raised by the theory of social representations . |
| 16 | In 16 , however ( and perhaps in 15 , too ) , it is possible to argue not only that the two sentences can be used to make identical statements , but more specifically that horse and mare make effectively the same semantic contribution to their respective sentences . |
| 17 | It is possible to lift out here on the left above the bridge . |
| 18 | Then , if it seems necessary , it is possible to go either backwards or forwards in time during that same lifetime to complete the picture . |
| 19 | The sunken city on its north shore makes it one of the few places in the world where it is possible to go hard aground on a Byzantine mosaic . |
| 20 | With interlocking bricks it is possible to go further away from the plumb than with smooth blocks ( wood , cork , etc. ) , but there is a limit to how far such non-alignment can go . |
| 21 | The degree to which this is possible depends very much on how the brain has evolved . |
| 22 | But it is possible to draw so tight a circle around an enlightened few that the picture becomes distorted in the opposite direction . |
| 23 | At one location it is possible to inspect not only the file of the company known to the searcher but also those of any related companies that this inspection reveals . |
| 24 | It is possible to define quite accurately the fraction of the time that the motion is turbulent . |
| 25 | Fortunately it is possible to check how far — in terms of occupational background , type of housing and main income , and general health — these grandparents match the general population of their age . |
| 26 | Using sensitive earthquake-detecting instruments ( seismographs or seismometers ) , it is possible to pin down quite precisely the sites where the shock waves originate in this region , and it can easily be shown that these sites are confined to a narrow belt which dips steeply down under the continental margin at about 60 degrees , and which hits the surface just where the ocean is deepest , in the Chile-Peru Trench . |
| 27 | By accepting such a limitation in application domain it is possible to achieve much more detailed analysis of the text . |
| 28 | Applying these five criteria to the documents it is possible to distinguish reasonably enough between three types of significance which can best be considered separately . |
| 29 | But some of the best fiction is narcissistic , and it is possible to stay up late reading about this self-analytic , neurotic , emotion-junkie . |
| 30 | Thus it is possible to start quite modestly and gradually build a really powerful system , while staff and overheads remain low ( possibly not expanding at all ) and knowledge and information multiply . |