Example sentences of "[is] [adv] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curiosity satisfied , it is rather a relief to emerge from darkness to daylight . |
| 2 | It is rather a place to make a man forget that there is any necessity for treason ! ’ |
| 3 | In the case of words which combine a fairly definite descriptive meaning with a valuational meaning it is rather a puzzle to say what correct linguistic usage bids one do , if one recognizes that something answers to the descriptive meaning , but does not have the attitude towards it which the word expresses in virtue of its ‘ value charge ’ , as one might put it . |
| 4 | There is rarely a need to employ this method to establish the diagnosis in immunocompetent patients with chronic hepatitis who are seropositive for antibody to hepatitis C virus . |
| 5 | For instance , sometimes the Profitboss will disagree with a decision made by his boss ; but that 's rarely a reason to resign . |
| 6 | Cos otherwise it 's rather a lot to eat for one person . |
| 7 | They have to keep a logbook but that 's only a check to make sure that nobody 's leaving a mess in the common areas and we only have it because we 've found that some residents can have problems because they 've become deskilled in certain things . |
| 8 | Well I do it probably was actually but it was the switch that had gone , maybe lightning had hopped across the switch , yeah , but erm , that 's all it was it was the switch , but er , I mean the thing is it went wrong and they had to pay for it , okay it 's only a tenner to have it done , but it , if a C D player , I mean if the carriage goes , you know , sixty , seventy quid , you know I 'm buying these electrical things , it 's , because it 's a burg lock , I can buy them , get them a warranty with it an'all , then it 's took the burden off them . |
| 9 | But they say it 's not very difficult if you know how , as it 's only a fun do , not affiliated or something , when you 'd get struck off or something terrible . ’ |
| 10 | Perhaps it 's only a film set with extras . |
| 11 | Erm , it 's only a trapper taking a short cut . |
| 12 | but I mean you send the package out and you get a phone call er it 's Mr Davies , and then you get card out and then you send him the questionnaire it 's merely a record duplicated on the form but |
| 13 | The package is basically a DOS based drawing tool with which you can draw rooms , and then place objects within them and move them around until they are in the desired location . |
| 14 | It is basically a way to associate tuples of real numbers |
| 15 | Whatever category your interviewer falls into you should remind yourself even at this late stage that an interview is basically a conversation to find out how well two sides of a potential deal might suit one another . |
| 16 | ‘ It is an eight-page booklet and is basically a plan to improve the canal and river corridors . ’ |
| 17 | The step-printer is basically a camera combined with one or more projectors . |
| 18 | A computer memory is basically a device containing elements that can exist in either of two states . |
| 19 | I believe that the publication of these results will cause people to focus on the reasons for the low standards in some places , except for hon. Members representing Bradford and Newham — the two lowest scoring local authorities — whose reaction is that one should not have such testing and that it is merely a problem forced on the local authority . |
| 20 | German federalism is merely a cloak thrown over the relatively strong regionalism Which persists in Germany , and it was a system adopted by Germany , with the Allies ' approval , after the war as a way of preventing a return of totalitarianism , which is why the Germans associate federalism with the opposite of centralised power . |
| 21 | Work to them is merely a way to earn a living . |
| 22 | Well , I give a vote that erm , because certainly not everybody 's aware that er , this er Service director is merely a way to get round to payments that different people have opt out of the social chapter . |
| 23 | Here the tall and lanky Simon Lay , kitted out in high heels and hip hugging skirt , as Chrissie , the shy lass out for her first contest , evokes some sympathy but the character is merely a vehicle to introduce a stream of smutty dialogue into the proceedings . |
| 24 | The new issue market is not a distinct and separate organization within the Stock Exchange , rather it is merely a tag given to the collection of processes by which companies acquire both a listing on the exchange and new equity capital . |
| 25 | Governments are sometimes suspicious of this argument because they are more accustomed to thinking as accountants about financial payments than as economists about production and distribution of goods and services that the price system is merely a mechanism to facilitate . |
| 26 | Moreover , the covenant to perform on the part of the original lessee is merely a covenant to perform in so far as another party , similarly liable , has not performed or otherwise discharged the obligation . |
| 27 | A telex is only a message sent electronically along a communications cable and translated into type on a piece of paper at the receiving end . |
| 28 | Well the handbrake is only a parking brake the handbrake only o operates on two wheels in any case |
| 29 | Now , a complete PC network , fully configured and tested , is only a telephone call away . |
| 30 | Bridge-building is empty because it never happens , God-killing and god-making suicide is baffled because there is only a corpse to point at , there is nobody to attach a fulfilled ‘ free intention ’ to . |