Example sentences of "is [adv] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cause of the creep is most probably simply that , in the amorphous part of the cellulose , the rather badly stuck hydroxyls take advantage of changes in moisture and temperature to shuffle away from their responsibilities . |
| 2 | For centuries , bars of magnetite were used by sailors to guide them across the unvarying expanse of the oceans , and it is only fairly recently that manufactured substances have replaced this naturally occurring ore in compasses . |
| 3 | Deforestation , whether to clear the ground for pasture or to produce timber and fuel , was a worry in these parts of the Pyrenees as long ago as the seventeenth century , when the prescient minister Colbert sent an eminent forester from Paris to report on the local resources in wood ; but it is only quite recently that felling and replanting have been properly controlled . |
| 4 | The theoretical debate has concentrated on organization and form but it is only more recently that film historians have actually raised the question of audiences . |
| 5 | Our description of nature is so far only half complete . |
| 6 | Few know of the hard and unremitting labour of editing he has always been prepared to do , and for which there is so often so little proper recognition . |
| 7 | Base units generally stand 900 mm ( 36 in ) from the floor if you count the worktop as well and widths match the wall hung cabinets , though the depth is generally twice as much . |
| 8 | This will take R/2 on average , followed by half the index — which is usually slightly over half a track in extent — before the required entry is located . |
| 9 | The second , and much deeper , problem is that there is still far too little agreement about the themes and content in the curriculum of top juniors so that different primary schools which will ‘ feed ’ a secondary school are working on a degree of common curricular ground . |
| 10 | The result has been that sterling has become very expensive to borrow , but there is still far too much of it , and the supply is still increasing too fast . |
| 11 | Although this is still far too many it represents a substantial improvement . |
| 12 | Unemployment is still only just half of what it was seven years ago . |
| 13 | An emergency stop from 50 km/h ( 30 mph ) takes 33 metres , which , in a situation where a driver may be confronted at any moment by a dashing child , is clearly far too much . |
| 14 | When the motives are wrong the venue is nearly always far less than the best . |
| 15 | DTI 's Open Systems Technology Transfer Programme , with the aim of promoting widespread awareness amongst UK enterprises of the need for , and benefits of , Open Systems , is now just over half way through its three-year life . |
| 16 | Since the prime function of many layers of middle management has been to transmit information which can be far more efficiently transmitted by modern technology , there is now no longer any need for their employment . |
| 17 | It is now almost twice that . |
| 18 | There is now twice as much double stranded sample DNA present in the tube as there was to start with . |
| 19 | The capital value of a flat-rate pension for a woman , paid from the age of 60 , is about twice as much as that of the same pension for a man paid from age 65 . |
| 20 | A very early one is by Donald Munro , Dean of the Isles , who travelled through them and in 1594 published a " Description of the Western Isles " which is almost literally just that , with a full list of the small islands round the coast , but an edition by R. W. Munro in 1961 after a further manuscript had been found gives a description of Finlaggan , a photograph not previously published and a list of those who constituted the council of the Lords of the Isles . |
| 21 | A very early one is by Donald Munro , Dean of the Isles , who travelled through them and in 1594 published a " Description of the Western Isles " which is almost literally just that , with a full list of the small islands round the coast , but an edition by R. W. Munro in 1961 after a further manuscript had been found gives a description of Finlaggan , a photograph not previously published and a list of those who constituted the council of the Lords of the Isles . |
| 22 | Further investigation suggests that while that may be part of the story it is almost certainly not all of it . |
| 23 | The answer is almost certainly very little . |
| 24 | Three to one my friend in the courtyard is there just as much to stop me leaving as to stop others coming in . |
| 25 | Perhaps part of the problem is that far too much has been expected of positivist criminology or , alternatively , positivist criminologists have been responsible for fostering too grandiose expectations . |