Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In I Love Lucy ( currently viewable on Channel 4 on Friday afternoons ) , the heroine 's living room is blatantly a theatrical set . |
| 2 | In the match vs scum on New Years Day , Strachan played on the right and White on the left , and I hoped that meant that I would *never* again see Strach on the left side , which is mostly a sad sight . |
| 3 | Under water it is mostly a sonic world and on the surface it is mostly visual . |
| 4 | This seemed like a Falangist revival , for it was the first session that had been held since 1945 and Franco asserted that it was " necessary that the National Council should recover the role which corresponds to it in the political tasks , because it is hierarchically the highest body in the Movement , whose duty it is to ensure the purity of the organization and the continuity of the doctrine " .18 But many of those present , including the Vice-Secretary of FET , Diego Salas Pombo , detected behind the smokescreen of verbiage a lack of genuine commitment to Arrese 's plan for a Falange-dominated future . |
| 5 | The holy grail of limitless energy , ‘ harnessing the power of the Sun on Earth ’ , is metaphorically an irresistible force and today , 40 years after the quest began and with over twenty billion dollars already spent trying to achieve it , the barriers to be overcome seem to be immovable . |
| 6 | ‘ Contrary to what you would think , it is rather a solemn occasion . ’ |
| 7 | For example , to take some position as to whether the renewal of a licence is a ‘ higher ’ interest than an initial application is not to indulge in rigid conceptualism , but is rather a necessary step in reaching any decision at all . |
| 8 | This is rather a subjective approach , and has sometimes led to the situation where the same eruption has been given a different label by different observers . |
| 9 | Dealing with them is rather a sad business . |
| 10 | What we 've got now , I suppose , is rather a curious set — chat in the round . |
| 11 | Gasgcoine is rather a long word to say so I suppose the boys at school call him Gazza . |
| 12 | ‘ Three years , I admit , is rather a long time . |
| 13 | Six years alone is rather a long time . ’ |
| 14 | This is rather a complex area , so before taking any action you are strongly advised to consult an accountant . |
| 15 | It is rather a graphic representation of the various elements , dimensions , and perspectives which need to be incorporated into the framework and the process of data collection . |
| 16 | The Independent featured a long news article about the Great Bolt Debate , written by Stephen Goodwin , an Indy staff newsman who , I 'm reliably informed , is rather a good climber . |
| 17 | UNLIKE almost everyone else , many economists reckon insider dealing is rather a good thing . |
| 18 | Except to note that now that the right honourable member for Chesterfield is publishing his former speeches as a video , it is rather a cheap operation to come and repeat them in the chamber er rather than putting them out er for public consumption there are places where he could repeat the kind of speeches just given , unfortunately the government is closing most of them down at the moment and putting the cut the inhabitants out in the community er but it had no relevance to the er the subject we 're dealing with today . |
| 19 | The hare and the hatter also decide to put the poor little dormouse into the teapot , which is rather cruel because he did n't do anything to them and it is rather a strange thing for his companions to do . |
| 20 | Empowerment is rather a dirty word and I am suspicious of it . ’ |
| 21 | But I also think that er the Community Charge as it is being brought in is probably being brought in too sharply which means that it is n't actually taking account of some of the marginal cases where people are going to face a very steep increase in Community Charge bill , er and the Community Charge itself is rather a blunt instrument . |
| 22 | The reader is requested to bear in mind that the Handbook is not a grammar , or a book on linguistic science , literature or psychology ( though it contains items on all these subjects ) — it is rather a practical book directed towards the study of teaching English as a Foreign Language . |
| 23 | As I said at the beginning , copyright is rather a dull subject . |
| 24 | Thus from equation ( 9.33 ) the delay per cascaded section is correspondingly shorter and the longest delay that can be achieved by means of a low-pass , L-C , ladder filter is rather a small fraction of the fundamental period or pulse duration of the signal being handled . |
| 25 | Now this is rather a banal claim I suppose that erm the proper function of government is to manage things well , I mean who would have doubted that , but the other claim that governments , one of the roles of governments is to improve the citizens is more surprising , particularly for a liberal view and there 's a more standard liberal position now would be that the moral well-being citizens is not a proper matter of governmental concern . |
| 26 | ‘ He is rather a talkative person , as no doubt you have discovered . ’ |
| 27 | Now in this respect , of course , twenty-five years is rather a short time in the life of a university , and a good deal of this time has been spent in building up a research base , and now , as you mentioned in your erm remarks a few moments ago , Andrew , we have an enviable research record in a very wide range of disciplines . |
| 28 | At first sight it is rather a confused juxtaposition of two themes ; literary decline and political crisis . |
| 29 | That is rather a ponderous way of saying that no one in his right mind doubts the truth of my assertion about the states in which Bill will be found , because there are two of them and he must be in one or the other . |
| 30 | That is rather a difficult question to answer . |