Example sentences of "and is [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This architectural monstrosity was built of red brick in 1882 , and is over a hundred feet high . |
| 2 | The tunnel was extended in the nineteenth century , and is over a thousand yards long . |
| 3 | It occupies a long trench caused by a geological fault and is over a thousand feet deep , a much greater depth than the sea into which it debouches . |
| 4 | The latter denotes the arrival of new sources of employment and is clearly a better term for wide areas of the South East . |
| 5 | The Spanish low alcohol beer sector is currently growing at 5 per cent per annum and is clearly a key market for Guinness Brewing Worldwide . |
| 6 | He has come under the microscope of German giants Bayern Munich and is clearly a man the Crues will have to watch carefully as well . |
| 7 | Micky Stewart has since kept him involved in international get togethers and is clearly an admirer . |
| 8 | It is important for the organ to be properly covered by insurance , but making it available to students costs little and is again an investment for the future . |
| 9 | The percentage frequency is the number of 10-minute samples in which a species was recorded , expressed as a percentage of the total number of samples , and is thus a measure of distribution . |
| 10 | In A Song to David , which must have been written in the asylum , as it was publicised soon after his release , David , who represents the poet and is thus a symbol for Smart himself , leads the hymn of Adoration in which all Creation joins , every creature making his individual and characteristic contribution . |
| 11 | So I collect my own granite gravel here in Devon , from an area where it contains a rather nice orange feldspar , and is thus a warm colour rather than the usual light grey of garden centre granite . |
| 12 | An ability is made up of a repertoire of skills and is thus a higher level skill . |
| 13 | By contrast , capital consists of units of money and is thus a malleable entity , easily restructured into larger aggregations . |
| 14 | One such argument runs as follows : kind — in 24 has normal recurrent contrasts ( e.g. with cool — ) , and is thus a semantic constituent ; so also is kindness — it contrasts , for instance , with hat ; since kind — is not synonymous with kindness , — ness must signal the semantic difference between them . |
| 15 | For example : Interestingly , this creates only four synonyms , and is thus a very effective algorithm . |
| 16 | This statement of the legal base has always been important to the European Court , because it helps situate a measure in its legislative context and is thus a valuable aid to the schematic method of interpretation . |
| 17 | The attribute unc on the other hand , associates the gear-lever to the passenger compartment and is thus an external association , as is unc which is only applied to the assembly ( not to individual parts ) . |
| 18 | The other , on the face of it , gives less cause for revelling , since it takes us back a mere 70 years and is effectively an anniversary of an anniversary . |
| 19 | He 's obviously neglected his job and let the club go to pot and is generally a frightful old bugger and an excrescence . |
| 20 | When it came to make-believe , he preferred opera , for in opera a knave in disguise is quickly discovered , and is unambiguously a knave , nor is the matter of a song a lie from start to finish . |
| 21 | Some suffering is , however , permanently painful , unendurable even , and is neither a transitional stage nor is remediable . |
| 22 | The firm is supposed to be doing a RISC-based Unix mainframe and is already a licensee of HP 's PA chip which it uses in its 3050 line of Unix workstations . |
| 23 | He is a member of the new SCOTVEC Board , and has been appointed Chairman of the new Qualifications and Marketing Committee , and is presently a member of the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum . |
| 24 | Colette joined Bank of Ireland in I.T.D. in 1971 and is presently an officer in M.S.U. , Head Office . |
| 25 | I think we need to say more about this , because while it is related to secularisation and is partly a direct result of laicisation , there is more to it than that . |
| 26 | In Amblyseius , diapause takes the form of a temporary blockage of reproduction and is probably a device for preventing breeding in adverse conditions . |
| 27 | Competition climbing is laughable in this country , and is probably a dead duck anyway . |
| 28 | It was described in a Greek herbal written in the third century B.C. and is probably a native of the eastern Mediterranean area , though it is now so widespread it is difficult to be certain of its origin . |
| 29 | But standard poodle , Oscar , was a gift to the centre as a pup and is probably a one off . |
| 30 | Although Barraclough 's ( 1972 ) suggestion that as many as a fifth of the suicides in a series he studied might have been prevented by the wider use of lithium would be difficult to substantiate and is probably an overestimate , the fact that the lives of as many as 16 per cent of patients with manic-depressive illness may end in suicide ( Pitts and Winokur 1964 ) suggests that lithium is likely to have an important role in the prevention of suicide in some patients . |