Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crimes of violence , for example , are by and large one poor person hitting another poor person — and in almost half these instances it is a man hitting his wife or lover … the more vulnerable a person is economically and socially the more likely it is that both working class and white-collar crime will occur against them ( Matthews and Young , 1986 , p. 23 ) . |
| 2 | A ‘ good ’ book is basically and essentially a good story . |
| 3 | However , it is obviously as much a waste of funds to give money to privatisation of the coal industry as it was to give money for the poll tax . |
| 4 | This is obviously because here the sun always shines . |
| 5 | This is designer socialism : the belief that buying tassled loafers rather than winklepickers , is somehow as much a PR of the struggle as being on the picket line at Wapping . |
| 6 | For Gramsci , law reflects economic relations , and it is eternally and generally a weapon of class domination , a classical Marxist position . |
| 7 | The status of general courses is thus as much a matter of context and clientele as content , and seems likely to change only if the latter change . |
| 8 | Which would be slightly down on er the number that we got in last year , erm , the next factor , erm , is not as yet a fact but is almost a certainty , that , er , all , we will not succeed on the present basis in persuading D O E that we should have any increase in t to reflect er er an increase in work , and next year we 're anticipating getting in effect a stand still budget . |
| 9 | Looking out of the car window , we notice that the storm is over and already the streets are dry again . |
| 10 | The main owner of such schools is usually and indirectly the Church of Ireland , and current expenditure and salaries are provided by the state , with the board of governors presided over by the local minister . |
| 11 | To argue that this is always and necessarily a result of ‘ conditioning ’ sounds like a feminist version of ‘ I do n't know what you housewives do all day ’ . |
| 12 | Almost everything we do in our daily lives whether it be driving a car , making tea , or solving complex professional problems on the ward , is directly or indirectly the result of learning . |
| 13 | It is relatively brief , as can be seen by comparing it with a more recent competitor for the same market , H. W. Janson 's A History of Art , which is more than twice the length and has more illustrations ( 928 in 1962 ) . |
| 14 | The French can supply perfect walnuts , but charge dear ; at £5000 a tonne the price is more than twice the price of California bits , and the reason is that the process is totally unmechanised . |
| 15 | But Birtwistle 's work is more than twice the length of Mason 's , and he more than justifies his larger span . |
| 16 | Of the seats where Labour is second , there are 31 where it is behind by 5 per cent or less and a further 11 where the Liberal Democrat vote is more than twice the Tory majority and a differential split in Labour 's favour would produce a Labour gain . |
| 17 | This is more than twice the size of Trevor Pinnock 's English Concert ( Archiv ) , for example , and substantially larger than Sigiswald Kuijken 's Petite Bande ( Deutsche Harmonia Mundi ) . |
| 18 | Their rate of natural increase is more than twice the national average , and their numbers increased by 214 per cent between 1971 and 1981 . |
| 19 | The total cost is more than twice the amount we spend on wine . |
| 20 | Yet the London we inherited from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is more or less a success . |
| 21 | That means it was for use in climates and countries so benign that the natives require no shelter at all , and where a tent is more or less a decorative affectation . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , as we have already said , casein is more or less a mixture of cheese and lime and under prolonged moist conditions casein behaves very like cheese . |
| 23 | All the models of passive rifting discussed so far assume that rifting is more or less a symmetric process ; that is , we would expect the opposing passive margins formed through continental break-up to have a similar structure and morphology because they have experienced a similar tectonic history . |
| 24 | The move is more or less an insurance policy that Apple will at least have a place as a client in the enterprise . |
| 25 | The move is more or less an insurance policy that Apple will at least have a place as a client in the enterprise . |
| 26 | I watch intently for a half-hour , seeing how often the chub move out of the darkness and into the light , and that the time spent there is more or less the same on each occasion . |
| 27 | Giving in , or submissive behaviour , is more or less the opposite side of the coin to aggressive behaviour . |
| 28 | ‘ Hippy ’ on the flip is more or less the same song with the addition of a fuzzbox . |
| 29 | In Paul Corrigan 's study Doing Nothing he suggests that ‘ trouble in school ’ is more or less the same elsewhere . |
| 30 | Although the spelling may be very different in the different words , the sound is more or less the same . |