Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has signed a deal worth £500,000 with Sony and is secretly recording a new album at the studios owned by Ray Davies of The Kinks in Muswell Hill . |
| 2 | In some music this strained atmosphere may be just what we want , but for the moment our objective is rather to achieve a smooth , natural-sounding discourse . |
| 3 | Now there are two ways that the new composite sentence token will be of a type that is eventually to acquire a constant significance . |
| 4 | He 's since written a 4-volume history of wartime intelligence and has little doubt about Bletchley 's significance . |
| 5 | She 's since made a complete recovery and Mona 's consultant says she ows everything to Janet . |
| 6 | He 's since made a full recovery and now has a realistic chance of becoming Lotus 's first world champion since Mario Andretti . |
| 7 | However , feeding weekly mashes with different ingredients from the daily feeding routine is effectively producing a sudden change in diet , something we are continually told not to do because of the potentially harmful results . |
| 8 | ‘ They think only about saving the guy 's life , so they chop the leg off by guillotine , even if he 's only lost a few toes . ’ |
| 9 | He 's on yes , he 's only getting a little present cos I 'm still paying for his camcorder till next month . |
| 10 | Mine had the same amount , while Thessy 's only contained a hundred , though the proctologist had also given him the ‘ Go Dawgs ’ hat . |
| 11 | So that girl 's only paying a hundred pound a month mortgage on it 's only a terraced house but |
| 12 | Commercial sponsorship is constantly gaining a higher profile in marketing policies . |
| 13 | Pamela , the maid , is constantly beating a breathless retreat up and down back stairs , or pressing her back to walls to let the gentry pass ; her ascendancy to wife is dramatized by her spacious and easy progress from room to room . |
| 14 | She 's obviously having a wonderful time . |
| 15 | Dennis is personally providing a free pack with a poster , stickers , sponsor forms , and lots of fun ideas on how to take part . |
| 16 | Most of the , what has happened I think , over the last two and half years , that I 'm aware of , erm , is basically happening a long time before that , I , I ca n't say yes or no . |
| 17 | Amstrad has eschewed the popular PenPoint operating system on the grounds that it is overly complex for the PDA 's requirements — which is basically to emulate a paper-based organiser , and that it requires too much processor horse-power . |
| 18 | He is merely makin' a formal proposal of marriage and is simply askin' you as the girl 's father to think about it . |
| 19 | One of the most important aspects of bereavement help is perhaps enabling a grieving person to talk about their negative thoughts as well as their sad thoughts ( which are the ones it is presumed we want to hear ) . |
| 20 | Interestingly , the draped xoanon representing the deity on the Agia Triadha sarcophagus is apparently wearing a full-length sheepskin robe ; this may be to emphasize his antiquity or his rustic origins ( Figure 47 ) . |
| 21 | This is obviously having a detrimental effect on textile exports from the region . |
| 22 | Christie 's meanwhile set a new auction price record for a stamp in its New York dispersal of the Weill Brothers ' stock . |
| 23 | No easy task , but it 's already proving a great success , as Richard Barnett reports : |
| 24 | you know maybe I am the sort of person they 're looking for who 's already done a little bit of surveying erm to join as a dogsbody and then over the two years or four years however long it does take erm you know slowly presumably you just get given more responsibilities . |
| 25 | He is merrily accumulating a large bag of smaller fish when Fred Smith comes along with inadequate tackle , throws a lump of luncheon meat in the margins and lands the largest fish in the lake . |
| 26 | Music is generally accorded a low priority and is underfunded , and standards of performance are unsatisfactory in many places . |
| 27 | The extent and variety of these activities are astonishing , but while almost everyone is aware of them , and although the majority of us fiddle in one way or another , fiddling is generally considered a trivial activity without serious implications . |
| 28 | Traditionally , the people 's singing has been delegated to a choir which is generally paid a nominal fee . |
| 29 | The first rule for a reader of articles is thus to find a sympathetic publication . |
| 30 | The Church in Wales is soon to appoint a full-time priest to help in the area . |