Example sentences of "is [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Embarrassment is under no obligation to be comic , though it is most naturally that , and as a fictional theme it is of inexhaustible power and seemingly unending appeal . |
| 2 | In the fiction edited by Currer Bell , there is rather too much of this . |
| 3 | If the whole notion of Designers ' Saturday is altogether too much for you , or if your designer credentials are simply too thin to merit attendance , do not despair . |
| 4 | It is the technique employed in Genesis 22 , and it creates enormous tension and suspense in the narrative , even though the ending is mercifully not that of high tragedy . |
| 5 | It is only when that independence has been eroded that its true value is appreciated . ’ |
| 6 | It is only when all the options have been considered , all the ideas have been exchanged and the husband still considers his plan to be more appropriate that both he and his partner understand he has the responsibility to follow that plan prayerfully . |
| 7 | It is only when this distinction has been made in terms that comply with the workings of narrative that the linguistic analogy is introduced : the functions , Barthes suggests , are based on metonymic relations , the indices on metaphoric relations . |
| 8 | It is only when these things can not be done ( for economic , energy or other environmental reasons ) , that recycling comes into its own . |
| 9 | Gilkes is content enough with the Sparc market that his firm has to itself at the present , though he admits that the company is looking at other , unspecified RISC architectures , and it really is only just little more than co-incidence that Tadpole 's US office is just down the street from where IBM/Motorola Inc 's PowerPC RISC efforts are concentrated . |
| 10 | It has meant in some schemes there is only just enough money to pay current penioners , with nothing left for people approaching retirement age . |
| 11 | The reader will probably reply that the question is quite otiose because it is obvious that , as Freud himself pointed out , the oral region is of first significance in a new-born baby 's life , the anal zone is significant later , especially with the coming of toilet-training , and the phallic period is last merely because it is only later that increasing awareness of the genitals and the ability to manipulate them and perceive the persons of the parents causes Oedipal phenomena ( which are synonymous with the phallic period ) to come to the fore . |
| 12 | the clearance when the door is open to the the piece of wall there is only that much . |
| 13 | It is only subsequently that ‘ inter-mental ’ processes are understood to the point where the child can dispense with the adult and manipulate symbols ‘ intra-mentally ’ . |
| 14 | Claiming there is only so much hedonism you can take , Koch started Oxbow Industries to make a second fortune on his own account . |
| 15 | The truth is there is only so much preparation you can do . |
| 16 | However , there is only so much you can do to protect yourself against the whims of the Almighty . |
| 17 | We are hopeful that there will be no surcharges levied whatsoever on the cost of your holiday — but obviously fuel costs , currency movements and governmental action are outside our control , and there is only so much that we are able to absorb . |
| 18 | This practice dictates that there is only so much money available and so meeting needs , and therefore needs themselves , must fit within financial constraints . |
| 19 | But there is only so much you can ask of another person . |
| 20 | ‘ There is only so much you can do in Dublin . |
| 21 | Carbon dioxide generation for the Tertiary coals follows the same trend as that for the Palaeozoic coals , though the yield is only about half . |
| 22 | The farm is only about half a mile from his home in Stroud . |
| 23 | Although Dragon is only about half the size of Drayton Asia , its superior investment performance has got the bid off to a good start . |
| 24 | It is only recently that Champagne has been able to boast as many as seventeen grands crus . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , early ethno-methodological writing was almost wilfully obscure and very difficult to obtain , and it is only recently that more accessible texts have become available . |
| 26 | Common-sense observers have long noted this ‘ mellowing ’ , yet it is only recently that empirical data have demonstrated that concern for relationships does on average increase , that concern for stability and structure also increases , and that enthusiasm for the radical or the different is replaced by conservative views of the world . |
| 27 | For centuries the practice of philosophy has been overwhelmingly the prerogative of men but it is only recently that feminist analysis has made it possible to see the distorting effect of this historical fact . |
| 28 | it is only recently that advancing years have diminished Lamb 's natural prowess in the outfield . |
| 29 | Despite the importance of these assumptions in econometric models for cross-section data , it is only recently that simple tests for their reliability have been developed . |
| 30 | Though people have been bungee jumping in Britain for 12 years , most notably from the Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol , it is only recently that commercial operators have begun to spring up . |