Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miniature roses , sometimes not more than 6 inches ( 15cm ) high when full grown , are often denigrated and derided as toys — which is most unfair because a great many people with the most limited facilities who would otherwise miss out are thus enabled to experience the satisfaction of rose growing . |
| 2 | Indeed , as the majority of consumer " buyers " are women , a woman 's point of view is most valuable and a woman 's capacity for detail , at least in my opinion and that of many employers , is an eminently valuable asset in work where detail and exactness are essential . |
| 3 | It is most unlikely that a mother or father looking at a new-born child will be saying : — ‘ We have here a potential villain , who could , in a few years time be getting a living by robbery , violence or some other criminal activity . |
| 4 | Where the defendant has innocently made a substantial investment on the basis of information innocently acquired it is most unlikely that an injunction would be granted to restrain him from making use of that information ( although the fact that an injunction might drive the defendant into liquidation is not relevant if the tests in American Cyanamid Co v Ethicon [ 1975 ] AC 396 have been satisfied ; per May LJ in Bullivant ( Roger ) Ltd v Ellis [ 1987 ] ICR 464 ) . |
| 5 | There was a pause then Mair said quietly : ‘ Alzheimer 's is rather more than an inconvenience . |
| 6 | In the countries of advanced capitalism , on the other hand , sub-central government is rather more than an administrative device . |
| 7 | The software , called Multimedia Interactive Control ( MIC ) , is rather more than an authoring tool . |
| 8 | Certainly not from the club scene , where an average gate is rarely more than a few hundred and even a big club like Hawick has had to launch a special initiative to arrest their declining membership . |
| 9 | The gestation period from first inquiry to first completed shipment is rarely less than a couple of years . |
| 10 | It is true that water levels on the Alaskan coast , caused by tsunami , earthquake-related tidal waves , have risen over three hundred feet but this only happens when the sea-bed shallows close inshore : in the deep sea , although the tsunami can travel tremendously fast , two , perhaps three , hundred miles an hour , it 's rarely more than a ripple on the surface of the water . |
| 11 | It has 11mm specification but is little heavier than a 9mm . |
| 12 | At times the road is little better than a forestry track . |
| 13 | Although having a B classification , it is little better than a country lane , yet , despite some sudden halts and reversings and generally slow progress , is a delight to follow . |
| 14 | In terms of use , the status of e-mail messages ( excluding mailed WP documents ) , in most companies , is somewhere higher than a telephone call or a hand-written note but lower than a formal memo or report . |
| 15 | It is wholly inappropriate and a slur on parents ' intelligence to imply , as your correspondent does , that coercion and possibly intimidation have played a part in achieving the present levels of support for change . |
| 16 | On one level , it is vastly entertaining and a rattling good read . |
| 17 | It 's only one and a half . |
| 18 | It 's only two and a half thousand population and one bus a day in each direction . |
| 19 | I play Elmo and he 's only two and a half so it means I can play like that . |
| 20 | She ca n't half talk , she 's only two and a half but aye and when she sets off that 's it . |
| 21 | Now sailing encompasses windsurfing , dinghy sailing and ocean cruising and if you 've got millions of pounds to spend you can enter the Fastnet or the Admiral 's Cup but whatever level or whatever part of sailing you want to take up , the basic techniques are best learnt in a dinghy or sail boat because it 's less expensive and a lot more simple to operate and that 's the purpose of this video to learn the most basic techniques as quickly as possible and to be at one with the wind . |
| 22 | It 's less common than a beef tapeworm , but more dangerous , because its larvae will settle into almost any part of the body , including eyes . |
| 23 | Experience in the use of computer modelling is highly desirable and a high degree of numeracy is essential . |
| 24 | This potential to transform practical into verbal consciousness is highly significant if an elder is to be assessed affirmatively , and is easily ignored in functional assessments . |
| 25 | In very serious cases , where it is highly likely that a series of medical reports will be necessary , the first report can be obtained from the treating surgeon . |
| 26 | The problem is that it is highly improbable that a group of patients with brain injury constitute a natural kind , even when they display similar symptoms on some test or other . |
| 27 | And , it would not work because the arrangement 2x + y does not provide a means of bringing accountability to bear on the performance of management : for it is highly improbable that a group of people which is primarily a derivative from two opposed and irreconcilable interests can effectively be called to account by either ; and the addition of a third group accountable to no one further confounds the confusion . |
| 28 | Of course , you may reasonably point out , it is highly unlikely that a child would eat delphinium seeds . |
| 29 | Besides , it is highly unlikely that a murderer would attend his victim 's funeral . |
| 30 | As a result it is highly unlikely that a party with a serious commitment to any substantial change in the institutional form of the market would ever get elected as it would be portrayed and perceived as being ‘ too extreme ’ . |