Example sentences of "is [adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're dead right , closing down a service of this kind is controversial and very difficult and has to be handled very sensitively . |
| 2 | It is for this reason that so many studies of disability and rehabilitation use " return to work " as the end point since it is definite and usually unequivocal . |
| 3 | ‘ Art is not a slave to fashion , but is eternal and always contemporary . |
| 4 | I think , for instance , that it is vain and quite pointless to try to enumerate all the elements that come together in our preference for this or that artist or poet . |
| 5 | However , local residents of Barton and Sandhills say the scheme is unnecessary and too costly . |
| 6 | He also notes that the fact that transcendental meditation changes one 's brain waves does not imply that it is in any way helpful ; he might have added that the brain waves during meditation show a remarkable resemblance to those of someone who is drowsy or even asleep . |
| 7 | In such poems as ‘ Break of Day in the Trenches ’ , ‘ Returning We Hear the Larks ’ , and his masterpiece , ‘ Dead Man 's Dump ’ , Rosenberg succeeded in his intention of writing ‘ Simple poetry — that is where an interesting complexity of thought is kept in tone and right value to the dominating idea so that it is understandable and still ungraspable . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The rest , I must say , is confusing but very interesting for me . |
| 9 | You have to suffer the officials ' hostility and their slow , interrogative assessment of your visa 's validity , but the contrast between old and new is acute and strikingly pertinent to the state of Romania today . |
| 10 | In the first place , though the sense of want is acute and even painful , yet the mere wanting is felt to be somehow a delight . |
| 11 | Over 48h of culture , development is normal although slightly retarded . |
| 12 | The advantage of this is that processing is simpler and more rapid . |
| 13 | Minton 's view of landscape is simpler and more harmonious . |
| 14 | The result is absorbing and highly readable . |
| 15 | In other words , a child with an MLU which falls below the bottom of this range is relatively unusual in so far as her MLU is lower than about 85 per cent of ordinary children . |
| 16 | Ferguson-type front-wheel drive system seems agricultural by today 's standards but is durable and still effective |
| 17 | It is strange but perhaps explicable mixture of a compelling desire to rescue the British economy with a Fabian paternalism which saw a ‘ natural ’ path to colonial development in the expansion of traditional ( dollar-earning ) commodity production . |
| 18 | Patients do not need to home monitor every day when their diabetes is stable but rather two or three days a week testing three or four times during the day . |
| 19 | In view of the fact that the methods of obtaining suitable labour may be time-consuming , it is preferable and more efficient to maintain a detailed register of labour-only sub-contractors . |
| 20 | Despite the serious limitations to a general theory equating anomaly and mystical danger , there is respectable if sometimes ambiguous psychological evidence that what is perceived to be unclassifiable ( and this is perhaps the crucial thing ) is cognitively and emotionally disturbing . |
| 21 | Fresh passion fruit is heretical but wonderfully aromatic . |
| 22 | On Sunday the British Waterways carpark at SE425264 is unused and easily accessible from the A656 , with toilets adjacent . |
| 23 | In A Grammar of Metaphor she is at pains to show that in English poetry the relation of the verb metaphor to its proper term is weak and less important than its relation to its subject and objects : ‘ when a verb is metaphoric , its adaptability to the noun is so great that its relationship to it is direct , and much stronger than its relationship to the action it is ‘ replacing ’ ' ( 1958a:209 ) . |
| 24 | For motors with large step angles ( e.g. 15 degrees , 24 steps per revolution ) the number of slots is low and therefore incremental encoders are an attractive form of position detection . |
| 25 | The spreading awareness of values within Scottish schools is subtle and deliberately slow , according to the curriculum council . |
| 26 | He is polite and very careful about what he says so as not to offend anyone . |
| 27 | A programme that is innovative and both proactive and reactive ; |
| 28 | Unlike 99 per cent of all known pop persons , Martin is friendly and absolutely genuine . |
| 29 | It is possible that nearly all of the outgassed volatiles have always been the result of recycling . |
| 30 | It is possible that yet another unique quality of man is a capacity for genuine , disinterested , true altruism . |