Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adj] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's perfectly adequate for most purposes , and is incredibly small and light . |
| 2 | Under this heading one must include a capacity for malevolent violence which , in Duiker 's rather chilling and non-committal words meant that where power was seized , people 's liberation committees were established and ‘ class enemies were punished ’ . |
| 3 | It 's rather precious and juvenile . ’ |
| 4 | The relationship between the two is not necessarily straightforward ; for example , penal rhetoric might be predominantly positivistic at a time when actual penal practice is predominantly classicistic and deterrent . |
| 5 | A spokesman said : ‘ The industry is highly fragmented and business will be growing through acquisitions for some time . |
| 6 | I mean it seems to me in those cases a secret ballot is highly desirable and coercion would be more of a danger than people voting er from the mo wrong moral motivation . |
| 7 | He is highly ambitious and career-centred . |
| 8 | This suggests that there are many language structures that are not exclusively attached to any one domain , and that the only way to provide a collocation dictionary that is sufficiently flexible and comprehensive is to process as large and varied a corpus as possible . |
| 9 | The recent development of a ‘ political economy of culture ’ ( see Schiller [ 1969 ] , Murdock and Golding [ 1974 , Garnham [ 1977 ] ) is especially necessary and welcome , and should be seen as not only distinct from , but complementary to , a cultural sociology . |
| 10 | Now we have video , a complex technology which is so automated and fool-proofed that it enables anyone , whether technically minded or not , to record moving pictures to a standard which can be very high indeed . |
| 11 | It is so small and mobile that it could easily be hidden , and it can carry nuclear or conventional warheads . |
| 12 | The fact that Crosby fought tooth and nail to get the job in an area where the success rate is so limited and expectation so high , speaks volumes for his bottle . |
| 13 | ‘ Then we will take the boy 's speech and writing which is so good and subject it to careful analysis and if we teach the other boys whose writing and speech is not so good how to subject what they say and write to this kind of analysis they will realise how badly they speak and write and will promptly set about trying to improve the way they speak and write … . ’ |
| 14 | But to act too soon on the fiscal deficit , when the economic upturn is so fragile and unemployment already at such unacceptable levels , could risk stopping it in its tracks . |
| 15 | But to act too soon on the fiscal deficit , when the economic upturn is so fragile and unemployment already at such unacceptable levels , could risk stopping it in its tracks . |
| 16 | In true Eko fashion the guitars have bound fingerboards , zero frets and aluminium nuts/string-guides , and although it 's difficult to be sure , the fingerboard material is so dense and dark — almost black — that it could well be that rare and prized commodity , Brazilian , or Rio , rosewood . |
| 17 | The EP observed that ‘ John 's language is so adult and behaviour so violent to other people that the school could not put up with it any longer . ’ |
| 18 | When the trinitarian God of biblical faith and credal affirmation becomes the one sovereign God locked into himself , the eternal love of the three persons of the Trinity which is naturally dynamic and outflowing becomes static and inward looking . |
| 19 | Overall Tithonus is extremely sad and elegiac which is helped by the musical quality of the passage . |
| 20 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that although business sponsorship of the arts is extremely important and welcome , it would be just as beneficial for the arts , particularly local theatres such as the Civic theatre in Chelmsford , if we had a national lottery to which everyone could contribute to help to raise funds for the arts ? |
| 21 | In winter , skin has other problems to contend with — dry cold is extremely dehydrating and skin can become very dry indeed with central heating and lack of humidity . |
| 22 | Slaked lime is less effective and quicklime is altogether too fierce . |
| 23 | Across the Rhine , there is less toing and froing . |
| 24 | These differences are reflected in the pellets , with owl pellets containing more bone which is less broken and raptor pellets less bone which is more broken , but there is an important size element here which complicates the issue . |
| 25 | In Ireland , where the rugby population is , even at the most optimistic estimate , around a mere 20,000 , the base of the pyramid is obviously narrow and talent does n't just grow on trees . |
| 26 | However , their spread is much wider and transport related earnings represent a major contribution to the total . |
| 27 | Scored for flute , viola and harp , it is alternately perky and elegiac in mood , reflecting the happier circumstances of its composition — and Zeisl 's knowledge of the heart condition that was to kill him three years later . |
| 28 | Currently the main source of permanent employment for women in West Belfast ‘ lucky ’ enough to get a job is public sector employment and this is generally part-time and low-paid . |
| 29 | Tea and marijuana are in themselves fairly harmless , yet tea is generally legal and marijuana not . |
| 30 | ‘ The whole superstructure of the society considered is thus implicit and present in a specific way in the relations of production , i.e. in the fixed structure of the distribution of the means of production and economic functions between determinate categories of production agents . ’ |