Example sentences of "is [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other place I 've been to is Thailand , where prostitution is blatantly up-front and hard to avoid . |
| 2 | And here we find that the term is widely rather than narrowly defined to include an offence which carries a sentence of three years or more on first conviction ; or involves the use of violence ; or results in substantial financial gain ; or involves conduct by a large number of people in pursuit of a common purpose . |
| 3 | It is most probably that the inhabitants had heard of this religion which had spread over Europe and had been known as early as the late Roman period in Britain . |
| 4 | This is most probably because she is unsure of lasting love in a marriage . |
| 5 | The Committee considers that " true education " is most readily and completely available through the works of English literature , while also emphasizing its difference from mere " book learning " : " Books are not things in themselves , they are merely the instruments through which we hear the voices of those who have known life better than ourselves " . |
| 6 | It is rather faster than a Commodore 64 , and has similar graphics and sound , which makes the hardware good value . |
| 7 | The country 's population is over 140 million ; the total population of the East European Six is rather more than 110 million . |
| 8 | This type of marking is seen in the contrast of form between the French adjectives in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) , qualifying a masculine singular noun , and a feminine plural noun , respectively : ( 2 ) j'ai besoin d'un drapeau blanc ( 3 ) ils passèrent deux nuits blanches In English , however , the syntactic realization of this pattern is in a sense the simplest possible : the adjective realizing the P has to be juxtaposed to the noun which is the exponent of E. Ordinary attribution requires this juxtaposition to have the adjective preceding rather than following the noun ( as we shall see in Chapter 3 , there is rather more than one might suspect to be said about postnominal attributive adjectives ) . |
| 9 | In the lungs , the result of all this branching is that the surface area inside each lung is rather more than 70 square yards . |
| 10 | It gives me great pleasure to announce that that would mean Cherwell District Council would have to disappear as well , and that would be another blip off the horizon erm but that what would happen you would therefore have a smaller authority , who would then become the Education Authority , and that would be would have to be , I think , somewhere in between the current District Council size in Cherwell or the Vale , of what about a hundred thousand , and the present county , which is rather more than half a million . |
| 11 | we go on hoping and fighting and imagining , despite whatever goes wrong with anybody but the Tory Party is diverting itself with internal feuds and in focusing attention on whether Mr Major will remain Prime Minister or not and this is presumably so that they may ignore the real issues of how to the get the country onto some shared basis of consensus , trust and pragmatic politics which would give our society a chance of facing up to questions of economics , politics , pollution and living together in community in the sort of world we 've actually got . |
| 12 | This suggests that this short-term store is auditorily rather than visually based even when the task is visual-motor . |
| 13 | But because it is beside rather than in the Pyrenees , the Basque Coast has a gentler climate than you might expect , with an average temperature over the whole year of nearly 14° Centigrade — almost as good as you will find in Portugal . |
| 14 | By contrast , some patients seem to have a frequency that is rarely less than 10 in 24 hours and need to take antidiarrhoeal agents and modify their diet . |
| 15 | The deep channel is rarely more than 10 ft wide in a 90 ft flow ; this , combined with the speed of the flow and the length , make all racks grade I/II . |
| 16 | Because the phase windings are situated on separate stator teeth in the single-stack motor , the mutual inductance is small and the error introduced in neglecting its torque contribution when several phases are excited is rarely more than 10% . |
| 17 | Luminescence is rarely more than 1% efficient and thus of comparatively low intensity . |
| 18 | As though the real Jonathon is somewhere else and has left a copy of himself behind so that no one notices he 's gone . |
| 19 | Note also the increased size of the calibrated range relative to the uncalibrated one where the slope of the curve is effectively less than 45 degrees , and the decreased size where the slope is steep . |
| 20 | Stalinism is dead politically but it still dominates the security and state apparatus . |
| 21 | Moreover , if it is right here that the tax was repaid as a matter of extra-statutory discretion , and interest from the date of Nolan J. 's order was paid on the same basis , it is not clear to me how a review of the discretionary refusal to pay interest which was not due in law can properly be examined by way of judicial review . |
| 22 | May we not fall into the temptation of thinking something is right just because we can get away with it . |
| 23 | With all that said of course the transition period is going to be very dangerous for the kind of reasons we 've been talking about already and I think is right too when he says that er , the so called nationalist in the non Russian Republics , if you 're a Democrat in a empire , then you are inevitably a nationalist as well because you want your nation to have its natural human rights . |
| 24 | I believe that the money should be spent now on the services used now , and we must ensure that the planning is right so that the terminus is built in the right place . |
| 25 | They say using old material is all right but it must not burn . |
| 26 | Matthew , the eldest , is quite a bright chap and Emma , the next one age-wise , is all right but learning the recorder . |
| 27 | ‘ My daughter goes back to school this week after the half-term break and she really wants to know Penny is all right before she goes . |
| 28 | It is all right if you do not harm the fawns . |
| 29 | As Rubinfeld ( 1987 ) notes , this is all right if everyone in the community is identical , but it causes an obvious problem if there is heterogeneity . |
| 30 | The moment the game ends I 'll know whether everything is all right or otherwise . ’ |