Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stock is mostly refurbished InterCity Mk1 vehicles . |
| 2 | ( Kim , 1981 ) It is exactly unlike any theory which does somehow locate nomic connection in the mental order , whether or not it then relocates it elsewhere , and thus is properly labelled Idealist . |
| 3 | However , this is unusual and the role of the surviving L3 is rather to infect calves at a level which produces patent subclinical infection and ensures contamination of the pasture for the rest of the grazing season . |
| 4 | The aim of the symposium is rather to situate Panofsky in history ; that is to say , we are not asking whether his methods are still applicable and relevant . |
| 5 | Of course , he is rather enjoying flying again . |
| 6 | His method is rather to suggest ambivalences of meaning by subtle deviations from expectation . |
| 7 | As the aim of many of the BES assured tenancy companies is eventually to obtain value by selling or redeveloping the properties when they are vacant , it would be useful for shareholders to know what the market value is with vacant possession , even if the present value with tenants in possession is also shown as a note . |
| 8 | The researches of Frances Yates into the relationship between science and what is loosely called magic at the end of the 16th century are enlightening . |
| 9 | This work has shed much new light not only on chronology , and therefore on the development of Bach 's style , but also on performance practice and what is loosely termed reception history . |
| 10 | However , assistance is at hand in section 7 , to which section 4 is expressly made subject . |
| 11 | In the first the press is expressly refused permission to print the name of the raped woman . |
| 12 | The picture painted is gloomy , but there is a very effective method of agriculture that is slowly gaining credence amongst farmers , government and consumers alike . |
| 13 | As far as Wales are concerned , the feeling afterwards was a sense of relief for being able to throw back at the French everything their opponents threw at them and a mood of confidence that their hard work is slowly paying dividends . |
| 14 | The N2 tank 69523 which has been out of commission for several years now , is slowly making headway towards full restoration , with the lining-up of the axles boxes , re-wheeling . |
| 15 | The impact of a state pension scheme in terms of current income is predominantly to transfer income to lower income people from the better-off working population . |
| 16 | ‘ Seeds hay ’ is produced from leys in which the herbage is predominantly introduced species including rye-grasses , alsike , and red clovers . |
| 17 | Language : Portuguese ( Crioulo is locally spoken form ) . |
| 18 | Much of it is intensively managed grassland carrying a heavy stocking of dairy cattle . |
| 19 | He is instinctively keeping balance like a monkey in flight . |
| 20 | The public may be assured that he has been very frequently engaged in what is gently termed gallantry and intrigue ; but yet these ( give me leave to call them capital crimes ) are not in the least considered in him as deserving of censure . |
| 21 | This is all taken care of on camcorders . |
| 22 | However , in presenting profit as ultimately unpaid labour , Marx suggests that if the total of goods or capital in a social system is unequally divided between people at different levels in the social-industrial hierarchy , exploitation is necessarily taking place . |
| 23 | The reception , in a vast lightwell running north-south , is constantly catching light reflected down on the arcade of shops and a cafe beneath where patients may , in effect , ‘ go out ’ . |
| 24 | The result is often a very useful skeleton history of the region , but one which is constantly undergoing revision and correction as new information is discovered . |
| 25 | Because he is constantly having desires for these partial relationships satisfied , he is less likely to seek out non-distorting , non-partial relationships in the rest of his life . |
| 26 | He is constantly making connections — pulling apparently disconnected experiences together , and synthesising a variety of different views . |
| 27 | The Federation , which represents more than 50,000 members nationwide has emerged as a strong national voice in Parliament and is constantly badgering Government ministers for a better business deal . |
| 28 | Steve White is in to replace Fjortoft who 's playing for Norway , and Sean Taylor is doubtful with hamstring trouble . |
| 29 | In place of the aggressive approach of the early years of Surrealism itself , Barr 's commentary is in moderated phrases pointing to similarities between Surrealism and works firmly within the tradition of Western art : |
| 30 | Funding church schools is foolishly promoting bigotry and intolerance . |