Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the focus is placed not so much upon the continued presence of irrationality , for irrationality after all is simply reason 's own excluded but necessary negative other , but rather on the possibility of other logics being imbricated within reason which might serve to undo its own tendency to domination . |
| 2 | If he is being moved onto a chair with fixed arms , the chair is placed at an angle of about 45° to the bed , and the patient 's foot which is nearer the chair is placed slightly forwards relative to the other . |
| 3 | Just above , the feature inlay as Mercier paints it is worthy of comment , chiefly because the panel with the semicircular ends is placed very much farther to the left than we would expect to see it . |
| 4 | Northampton-based portable computer peripherals supplier Ranger Computers Ltd has introduced a new version of its RangerDisk3 personal computer compatible floppy disk drive for use with Psion Plc Series 3 handheld computers : it is intended as more convenient means of backing up or transferring Series 3 files than Psion 's Comms Link ; RangerDisk3 has its own version of MS-DOS and connects to the Series 3 via a Psion serial adaptor ; it can be used with the 128Kb and 256Kb models ; the operating software is built in so avoiding the need for program installation on the Series 3 ; file transfer is by the XModem protocol ; it is £200 from Ranger . |
| 5 | And now Benn can claim he has the senior crown as the WBC title is regarded as more prestigious than the WBO version held by Eubank . |
| 6 | Most of them have chosen not to follow the unit structure common to TEC courses but have preferred a ‘ grouped ’ one as it is regarded as more appropriate in the art and design field . |
| 7 | But it is the family 's version which the texts privileges and recounts in full detail , for this view of events is entirely consistent with the cultural assumptions of an isolated rural people and , indeed , is regarded as more credible than wonders of modern technology , such as the cinema . |
| 8 | A consensus between powerful corporate interests is regarded as more important than the sovereignty of elected representatives . |
| 9 | The form of a class ( its morphology ) is regarded as less significant . |
| 10 | This possibility is available because the fetus is regarded as less important than the mother . |
| 11 | Pitching : the inner is erected in about four minutes and goes up first . |
| 12 | Thus a paediatrician is paid almost twice as much as a general practitioner for each patient that he sees , but less than a general physician , who is given twice as much as a dermato-venereologist . |
| 13 | Much footway damage is natural deterioration of course , but it has been estimated that overriding by vehicles is implicated in over half of the cases where planned maintenance work is carried out . |
| 14 | She 's arranged so much this time . ’ |
| 15 | A woman with many daughters and no sons is considered not only unfortunate but a carrier of misfortune . |
| 16 | In today 's ‘ Get Ahead ’ publishing world , it is considered vastly more glamorous to be a marketing man than an author . |
| 17 | To take an example , suppose it is considered generally socially desirable ( on the basis , say , of needs ; Weitzman , 1977 ) that everyone has the chance of access to a reasonable water supply . |
| 18 | To use genetic engineering techniques to produce paclitaxel , the genes for each of these enzymes would be needed and this is considered much too complex . |
| 19 | Lateness is strictly monitored over rolling 20-day periods , while unauthorised absence is carried forward over three months . |
| 20 | First of all the reaction is carried out as normal to find the corrected temperature rise T1 due to the energy 41 evolved in the reaction . |
| 21 | Thus one might treat it as an argument that is designed not so much to challenge the meaningfulness of applying identity to objects qua ontological existents " out there " as to expose the difficulties of drawing a clear distinction between the numerical and the qualitative ( or species ) identity in relation to such objects . |
| 22 | ‘ He gets stuck in — and that 's probably why he 's picked up so many knocks down the years . |
| 23 | Of all the obedience programmes designed to test dogs , I feel that the Schutzhund test is the most suited to the Rottweiler , although a close second must be the trials arena , which is built along very similar lines . |
| 24 | The issue is made yet more obscure by the results reported by Matzel , Schachtman , and Miller ( 1988 , experiment 1A ) . |
| 25 | Moreover , the link between economic and social position and political power is made even less direct by virtue of the proposition that strong political resources can coexist with weak political influence through the deployment of inappropriate strategies of influence . |
| 26 | Some clients do not attend counselling because they feel it interferes with their personal privacy — that ‘ do-gooders ’ will tell them what to do , which is made even more insulting by the fact they often have children themselves . |
| 27 | That comparison is made even more potent given that the large company tends to collapse the distinction between private and public power . |
| 28 | The cold air is made even more apparent by the swift footwork when the entire cast jump lightly upwards away from the ground . |
| 29 | This is made even more possible because the noisy environment impairs communication between people . |
| 30 | Unlike most photographic exhibitions , however , the impact of the images is made even more powerful by scenery and artefacts from Peru . |