Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One such contributor was one-time NME illustrator Ian Wright , whose multi-eyeballed ‘ cannibal ’ portrait of Jimi is strikingly different alternative view to the more softly focused cartoon imagery of Rick Griffin , Victor Moscoso and Moebius . |
| 2 | He gave Tipperary 's vastly experienced full back Noel Sheehy a real roasting en-route to scoring two smashing goals and three points . |
| 3 | Vicars ' Close is most complete mediaeval street in Europe , and the beautiful , moated Bishop 's Place is still the residence of the Bishop of Bath and Wells . |
| 4 | In computer selling , for example , successful selling requires an appreciation of which system is most appropriate given customer needs and resources . |
| 5 | Planet Mars is most unhelpful this week , but do try to allow partners more freedom . |
| 6 | Definately cool to wear Leeds stuff down here in West London ( Chelsea is most local big side ) . |
| 7 | The Special Procedure has in fact now become the standard procedure ; it is most unusual these days to have a full hearing on the decree . |
| 8 | A few years later , in Lewin 's Birds of New South Wales ( 1813 ) , we find a pair displayed , giving us more information , by one who had seen them wild ; but the background is rather vague local colour . |
| 9 | This is rather unlike horizontal competition . |
| 10 | It is rather that little rationality is evident in the decision whether to accord any procedural protection at all and as to how much protection should be given . |
| 11 | Ray was at that time a member of the Morris Side and would be very glad to hear from any of his contemporaries , although his style of dancing is rather different these days . |
| 12 | In 1677 Sir William Petty , an English scientist-scholar of distinction , declared that " of man itself there seems to be several species to say nothing of Gyants and Pigmyes or of that sort of small men who have little speech and feed chiefly on fish " , which is all of a piece with Sir John Mandeville 's wholly fictional fourteenth-century quest for " diversities of folkys and diverse shap of man and beistis " . |
| 13 | Lee claimed that his intention was merely to discourage religious interference in politics in Singapore 's delicately balanced multicultural society . |
| 14 | But it is presumably these later criticisms , made long after his emancipation from Wagner , that inspired Elisabeth to explain away the Wagnerian connection as merely secondary ; while her claims about her brother 's real intention to produce a " large " book about Greece ( and nothing but Greece ) would seem to be prompted by a desire to enhance his scholarly image ; for no other kind of book ( she decided ) would have satisfied his " scholar 's conscience . " |
| 15 | Within the Comintern schema ( outlined at the 1928 Congress ) Latin America 's fundamentally agrarian economic structure required that it attain the capitalist stage of development before a transition to socialism was possible . |
| 16 | There is rarely any other kind . |
| 17 | This , by the way , is something of a misnomer , since although adjectives like ‘ fiery ’ are often applied to volcanic phenomena ( count the number of times in this book ! ) it 's not strictly correct , since there is rarely any actual fire , in the sense of combustible material burning to produce flames and smoke . |
| 18 | 2.35 In claims for the death of an infant child there is rarely any actual dependency but there might be prospective loss and it is well established that prospective loss is sufficient to found a claim by the parents . |
| 19 | There is rarely any real contact between areas and reference departments in the matter of book provision . |
| 20 | There is rarely any real interest in fashion now , but it is heartening when some individuality of style and presence remains , and the frumpish ‘ old lady ’ image is avoided . |
| 21 | A detective told the court the loyalist — 21 years old in 1972 and with his roots in Belfast 's staunchly loyalist Sandy Row area — left the paramilitary organisation after the murder and had shown ‘ genuine remorse ’ . |
| 22 | IN A country where government has not always been a friend , it is little wonder that society has sometimes turned to the authorities of the underworld . |
| 23 | It 's most that any prisoner |
| 24 | Lee has always had one of rockabilly 's most consistent upright sounds . |
| 25 | Henry I 's most lavish monastic foundation , at Reading , where he was buried and where Henry II , in 1156 , buried his first-born son William , was dedicated to St James . |
| 26 | SEPARATED BY just a few miles in distance and a few hours in time , the West 's most powerful central banker and the Soviet prime minister were yesterday at one : immediate and full scale price reform would only confront the Soviet Union with runaway inflation . |
| 27 | I think just to conclude the the engine of growth argument , erm , has obviously been raised in relation to other new settlements , notably Cambridge and and this has been referred to already , erm the situation in Cambridge is different to York in in that the level of growth that 's that 's anticipated for that city is is is significantly higher , and the new settlement erm proposals there have been considered in in that regard and and just for the record C P R E have supported the the new settlement in that particular location , but it does seem to me that the returning to your basic point , that that erm if one applies those circumstances in Nor North Yorkshire it does fly in the face of of established policy in the structure plan , and the overriding er policy is is one of restraint in what is is considered to be one of the country 's most sensitive environmental areas , thank you . |
| 28 | YOU ARE NOW JUST 1 WEEK AWAY FROM NEXT WEEK 'S RATHER NORMAL NON-BIRTHDAY ISSUE |
| 29 | ONCE YOU 'VE got over the severe attack of ‘ Ooer ’ s which this band 's rather indecent euphemistic name inevitably provokes , Joni 's Butterfly reveal themselves ( sorry ) as perfectly innocent pop fun for all the family , with a lyrical undercurrent of sex , drugs , avarice and Satanic goat-molesting . |
| 30 | Labour 's rather narrow parliamentary majority in 1964 was chiefly an effect of a slump in Tory support and continuing electoral revival of the Liberals ( who received over 10 per cent of the vote for the first time since the war ) . |