Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather to point up the intense cultural sensitivity to the face as a motif in western representation . |
| 2 | If it is known that a group of books is little used then the borrowing record of items from that group is a nil predictor of future use … unfortunately the satisfying ritual of checking date labels gives the illusion that all is well and seems to be scientifically ennobled . |
| 3 | The resulting pollution is effectively killing off the rivers and poisoning groundwater . |
| 4 | Course , I was looking out the window and I know he took I picked it out and it I looked again , there 's another one in there , course she 's only getting out the bath put them in a bowl like I was ! |
| 5 | She 's only done half the course and already she has been picked out for this job . |
| 6 | Well it 's only coming out a yard is n't it ? |
| 7 | It is Gandhi 's contention , however , that when satyāgraha is wrongly used only the satyāgrahis suffer since no coercion or violence to others is involved . |
| 8 | The experimental method is basically to lay out a long row of test-tubes each containing a solution of RNA-replicase , and also of raw materials , small molecules that can be used for RNA synthesis . |
| 9 | One that seems to work well for many managers is merely to divide up the list into three types of activity : |
| 10 | The child who is cast in role as abbot of the cathedral is not identifying with some fictitious character called ‘ Abbot ’ , he is merely taking on an abbot 's function vis-à-vis the situation of being in charge of other people in the community , just as the football captain in a game is not playing a ‘ character ’ of a football captain , he is functioning in the required role of being in charge of his team . |
| 11 | She added : ‘ Even if we do n't take an altruistic approach its clear failure to act now is merely building up a very expensive problem for the future ’ . |
| 12 | And of course your parents not wanting you to do something is merely putting out a fire with gasoline . |
| 13 | Claiming that it is merely cleaning up a technicality , the government , in clause 50 of the current finance bill , is cheerily trying to rewrite the law , retroactively , five years after the event . |
| 14 | In this connection thought appears to be divided almost on a national basis , English authors having resorted freely to the assumption that the sea is capable of cutting wide platforms in their interpretation of high level terraces , while American and continental authorities have been much more inclined to doubt whether the sea can cut a very wide bench unless there is progressive drowning of the land or unless the sea is merely trimming up a subaerial surface . |
| 15 | Jerrome ( 1982 ) has explored the significance of a confidante for older women in maintaining life satisfaction , even if that person is only seen once a year . |
| 16 | The initial reaction has been that if the Chancellor is only taking out a token sum in higher tax , then the scope for further cuts in interest rates has been severely diminished , and fixed-rate gilt-edged stocks were marked sharply lower . |
| 17 | However , this nutritional " recovery " is only tidying up the physical consequence of the disease . |
| 18 | The one-year course is only to lay down the foundations of good technical training — and it is widely recognised that the course simply pushes the student into the profession with enough practical experience to find his or her feet . |
| 19 | therefore it is quite important to grasp at this stage that moving the lace carriage to transfer stitches is only setting up the pattern of holes that will next be knitted in by the main carriage . |
| 20 | ( John Banton confirmed at lunch that the system is only used once a day and I was in a room where he suspects that the volume control may have been defective , He made a note to look into it . ) |
| 21 | It ca n't be stressed enough that the event is only held here every four years . |
| 22 | The highest possible award , the Stanhope Gold Medal , is only awarded once a year . |
| 23 | The ticket clerk , who is a villainous-looking Copt , is apparently adding up the monetary results of his last night 's murders , and dislikes being interrupted . |
| 24 | But it 's already created quite a bit of controversy . |
| 25 | He 's already picked up a thousand pounds tomorrow he 'll receive a copy of his short story — The Green Moustache , which er got him into the final along with the other eleven winning stories which are being published in an anthology , which is hot off the presses from the publishers Collins . |
| 26 | A team of Bristol University surgeons is soon to carry out the ring trials at Bristol Eye Hospital with volunteer patients . |
| 27 | A team of Bristol University surgeons is soon to carry out the ring trials at Bristol Eye Hospital with volunteer patients . |
| 28 | But constitutional expert Michael Nash , who is soon to bring out a book , A Royal Divorce , about the history of the British monarchy , said last night : ‘ The best thing to happen would be for William to become the next in line to the throne . |
| 29 | The UK , which already allows freedom to provide services into its territory , is not taking up the option to require authorisation . |
| 30 | The main thing is not to point out the ‘ factual error ’ because for the person talking it is n't a mistake . |