Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Luke is most anxious to make this clear and he uses the Greek word parthenos twice in the opening sentence . |
| 2 | Everyone is most welcome to join this happy company . |
| 3 | A programme of lectures , seminars and visits over a period of time is most likely to meet that need . |
| 4 | If a writer has produced a song he or she thinks is a must for Cliff Richard , a major publisher is most likely to get that song where it needs to be in order to interest Cliff . |
| 5 | In my view it is rather pointless to spend much money on any refracting telescope with an aperture of less than 3 inches ( 76 mm ) or a reflector with a main mirror less than 6 inches ( 152 mm ) in diameter . |
| 6 | This is rather ironic given that Documenter was created by taking the XPS701 system and extracting a single workstation as a stand-alone product … |
| 7 | Against rigorism , is the sense that it is rather absurd to lump all who are not utilitarian saints with actual wrongdoers . |
| 8 | It is rather difficult to reconcile this with the ability of major brands in heavily advertised markets to establish and maintain their reputations over many years . |
| 9 | It is rather difficult to explain that . |
| 10 | It is rarely possible to explain this as a matter of mere incompetent glossing . |
| 11 | It 's rarely possible to do this without damaging the glass , so have a new piece ready . |
| 12 | but um I 'm a great believer that it 's rather nice to have that going on while the event is going on you know you sit and munch a corned beef butty as you dribble your coffee down the front of your shirt |
| 13 | erm And the reason I 've given you that one is that that was drawn in 1675 by David Loggen , and it 's a very , very accurate one , and it 's rather easier to see some of the places I shall be talking about , so I think it 's a nice one for you to have close up . |
| 14 | The old boy soldiered on , perplexed , till almost teatime on the first one-dayer , before throwing in the towel with blanket irony — ‘ Well , if I do n't know their names , at least it 's jolly nice to see all the familiar faces again . ’ |
| 15 | She 's only supposed to take that for a week at a time Tom . |
| 16 | First , he argued that it is highly artificial to construe all consumption as a response to needs ; while this approach may seem illuminating when it is applied to the consumption of individuals , it can not plausibly be extended to productive consumption , which has to be treated as ‘ the consumption which satisfies the needs of production ’ , if the theory is to be sustained . |
| 17 | The Atlantic coast of Belle-Ile is known as the Cote Sauvage , and in most places is sufficiently savage to deter any invader . |
| 18 | Under section 6(1) of the Act a court will not be able to pass a community sentence unless it is of the opinion that the offence ( or the combination of any two of the offences concerned ) is sufficiently serious to justify such a sentence ( it is a question of argument whether this is a reference to any kind of community sentence , or to the particular kind of community sentence which the court has in mind ) . |
| 19 | It is sufficiently comprehensive to embrace all types of non-meanings regardless of their internal constitution or ontological status . |
| 20 | The structure that I have suggested is sufficiently robust to halt that slide and ensure that acute care remains free throughout . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the activity of the promoter in the absence of a SV40 enhancer is sufficiently high to observe that activity is only increased two to three fold when the promoter is deleted from -300 to -190bp . |
| 22 | It is best to mount the camera on a tripod so that the lens is some two inches above the spawning stone and the camera is placed such that the field of view is sufficiently large to capture both fish during spawning . |
| 23 | It is especially difficult given that several of the most important Idealists were also actively contributing to the reinterpretation of Liberal principles . |
| 24 | A deferential biographer is especially likely to take this line . |
| 25 | This is especially significant given that , according to Lacan , ‘ Every emission of speech is always , up to a certain point , under an inner necessity to err ’ ( Seminar , ii . |
| 26 | It is especially important to remember this in relation to international law , which is based on what states have formally agreed to , or accepted as binding practice . |
| 27 | With hindsight it is easy to see in an author 's uneven early work the later masterpieces struggling to get out , and it is especially tempting to do this with an author such as Christine Brooke-Rose whose fiction underwent such a dramatic change between 1961 and 1964 . |
| 28 | They 're very poor people , they may work in industries with hundreds and hundreds of small outlets , whether they 're workshops in people 's homes or hairdressing shops , and it 's much harder to organise that kind of person than it is to organise a factory worker in a big factory . |
| 29 | Do n't you think for a rock'n'roll band it is somewhat stupid to promote this government idea , especially here in Belgium ? ’ |
| 30 | His retention of this argument is somewhat surprising given that Harloe ( 1984 ) took him to task for it in very exact terms in a rejoinder to an article on housing tenure , in which many of its central propositions were advanced . |