Example sentences of "is [adj] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might reply that the simplicity of cave communities is idiosyncratic rather than typical : we might ask what general ecological insights we are going to obtain from communities that lack photosynthetic plants and herbivores , and are maintained by detritus flushed down from above : but Dr Culver gives us no answer . |
| 2 | And yet , as may be seen from the cardinal importance he attaches to a Herodotean term like the peri - plus , Pound can be invoked by poets for whom the natural subjectmatter is topographical rather than historical , or at any rate historical only so far as history is checked against , and embodied in , and qualified by , topography . |
| 3 | We 're now beginning to look forward to the return home , which is little more than 5 weeks distant . |
| 4 | In particular , the relationship between the Panel and the court is historic rather than contemporaneous ( per Lord Donaldson in Datafin at 840 ) . |
| 5 | It would appear that the objection to local income tax is political rather than practical . |
| 6 | Despite the entry for a time of media conglomerates such as the Mirror Group and Thomsons into the West African press , I think it is still fair to say that the primary motivation for producing a newspaper in Nigeria is political rather than commercial . |
| 7 | It does allow that some religious beliefs could be defended by more rational arguments and by experience , as some people have tried to do , yet the appeal of religions for most people is emotional rather than rational and intellectual . |
| 8 | Can , can I make a suggestion to you on this point and that is that rather than worrying about the date of the document itself which makes sense just to put January or something like that , what you actually keep a careful record of and this can be with the issue and such like , is the date from which that procedure is required to be worked to , which would be the issue date as opposed to any date that it was typed or agreed or anything like that . |
| 9 | Internally , Sant' Eufemia is pleasant rather than exciting , although the large altar piece , by Marco d'Oggiono , a follower of Leonardo and one of the supporters of his monument in the Piazza della Scala , is excellent . |
| 10 | The difficulty , of course , lies in imagining how such a complex behavioural syndrome , which is stable only when complete , could arise in the first place . |
| 11 | For the Government 's Assisted Place Scheme the Gross Income of the family is used i.e. before any superannuation contributions and including any investment income . |
| 12 | In truth the change to the game is subtle rather than sensational and too much fuss has been made when , in fact , some folk are using the new laws as an excuse to disguise their weaknesses . |
| 13 | Such a reference is possible only if that member state claims ( within three weeks of receiving a copy of the notification ) that the merger may create or strengthen a dominant position in a distinct market within its territory . |
| 14 | It will be clear that — according to the theory I am expounding — the meaning of the more basic sort of ethical statement is valuational rather than cognitive . |
| 15 | An even more important distinction is the fact that the remedial work is expressive rather than productive . |
| 16 | It is doubtful however if this is how you will really make things happen which is what management is really about . |
| 17 | That is , adjudication is deliberative rather than deductive ; it is concerned with the meaning of lex in a contingent situation and ‘ meanings are never deduced or found but are always attributed or given ’ . |
| 18 | It is this rather than defective education that disadvantages them . |
| 19 | The Microlog is electronic rather than mechanical and has nine functions which , in addition to speed and distance , includes trim speed , highest speed , average speed , time and distance to destination and a 24-hour clock . |
| 20 | The latter phenomena have been extensively analysed in the limit B 0 , in which the Ikeda mapping becomes one-dimensional and can be realised in a so-called hybrid system in which the feedback is electronic rather than optical . |
| 21 | The more frequent presence of social problems among female GP referrals is interesting here because these might be expected to raise the possibility of alternative referral ( for example , to a social worker ) and management . |
| 22 | Only confusable with Little Owl , but is brown rather than grey-brown , with more fully feathered feet , adopts more upright stance , and has quite distinct facial expression . |
| 23 | It 's , you know , it 's like what 's his Captain Oates was it , going out into the tent in the Antarctic or something , you know it 's sort of I may be gone for a while , you know , in the in the , into the wilderness and never to return so that in , in the British structure er politicians are , their loyalty is central rather than local because their political futures are determined centrally rather than locally . |
| 24 | Only by realising that a painting is much more than one facet of a face , that it is a distillation of a multitude of images of a person , have recent audiences come to see its worth once more . |
| 25 | It aims to elaborate and refine rather than overturn ; it is evolutionary rather than revolutionary . |
| 26 | Politics , for us , is evolutionary rather than axiomatic ; we recognize , in working toward a perfectly just state , that we already belong to a different one . |
| 27 | The conclusions we reach in this chapter , therefore , are that : MOST SEDIMENTATION IN THE CONTINENTAL AREAS IS LATERAL RATHER THAN VERTICAL AND IS NOT NECESSARILY DIRECTLY CONNECTED WITH SUBSIDENCE . |
| 28 | To understand why all this is sad rather than funny , it is necessary to look at what conductive education claims to be and some of the wider issues that it raises . |
| 29 | The other main kind of socially deictic information that is often encoded is absolute rather than relational . |
| 30 | If an injury is serious i.e. where marked residual aspects claimed and/or lengthy absence from work involved , it is not advisable to wait for the third party solicitors to produce a Medical Report . |