Example sentences of "[Wh pn] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particularly conspicuous by his absence is that verse-translator of Virgil who is generally held ( in my view , rightly ) to have set a standard that no other can equal , except momentarily ; that is , Dryden . |
| 2 | ‘ As a driver who is generally considered as being more level-headed than most , I want to know whether there is any danger of me being banned for two months if I have an accident here at Phoenix . |
| 3 | Mr Smith , who is generally regarded as the clear favourite for the leadership , suggested that the ‘ misrepresentation ’ of Labour 's tax policy might well have caused some people not to support it . |
| 4 | These village-based health workers are helped to carry out their functions by a mobile team leader ( the second tier of the system ) who is generally a nurse , physician , or social worker . |
| 5 | The system is centred round a board master , who is generally one of the senior guests present . |
| 6 | The French farmer in the uplands is also more concerned with product quality ( e. g. of milk to produce cheeses ) than his Welsh counterpart in particular who is generally much more concerned with quantity than quality , an attitude probably encouraged by the UK 's HLCA system . |
| 7 | A woman who is generally satisfied will organize her days so that she is not overcome by the many demands on her time . |
| 8 | Feelings of excessive pace are symptomatic of the housewife who is generally dissatisfied , and do not proceed directly from qualities of housework as work ( although frequent time limits are intrinsic to housework and affect attitudes to work tasks ) . |
| 9 | It is this sort of person who is always allowed the best seat on coaches , is given cigarettes , whose suggestions concerning strategies in conflict situations are always most heeded , and who is generally held in the highest esteem . |
| 10 | It may be advisable to speak to your local pharmacist who is professionally qualified to offer advice on how to cope with the symptoms of flu . |
| 11 | It may be advisable to speak to your local pharmacist who is professionally qualified to offer advice on how to cope with the symptoms of flu . |
| 12 | In practice , the division may be honoured more in the breach than the observance ; the first Church Commissioner ( who is broadly responsible for its financial as distinct from political or pastoral duties ) is also chairman of the CBF . |
| 13 | Robinson , who is primarily a one-day opener but who scored two fifties when going in first in the final game of last year at Old Trafford , may press Alikhan , as could Paul Atkins and Ally Brown , a gifted striker of the ball who has tightened up his game . |
| 14 | It should be the case that a linguist who is primarily interested in the analysis of discourse is , in some sense , also a sentence-grammarian . |
| 15 | Thus , someone who is primarily in an anorexic phase , using starvation as his or her prime method of control over emotions and relationships , may have episodes of bingeing and then starve again as a method of gaining further , illusory , control and in order to control the physical consequences of the binge . |
| 16 | Similarly , someone who is primarily in a bulimic phase of the disease may binge on lettuce or on other foodstuffs that have particularly low calorie value and weight-producing potential or may even control body weight by dramatically reducing fluid intake . |
| 17 | Any user who is primarily responsible for one or more of the modules listed in the DC . |
| 18 | That is , our problem is not one of vicarious liability , of finding some reason why a shareholder should share some other person 's or group 's primary responsibility ; it is rather that we can find no one else who is primarily responsible and in whose responsibility he might share . |
| 19 | Diana veers between a gentle , sweet , ‘ wonderful ’ creature and a competitive , jealous gold-digger : Prince Charles ricochets from a sensitive , cultured , thinking man to one who is abominably selfish , randy and mean . |
| 20 | Patrick is still having difficulties with girls : the married man keeps going to bed with them , not liking it very much and not liking the distress it brings to a wife whom he does like and who is carefully crafted to be likeable . |
| 21 | ‘ Not much to joke about when you 're Dean of sweet FA , ’ he continues to Bob Busby , who is carefully combing his hair in the mirror . |
| 22 | A designer chose the only flat with a garden and a fashion consultant , Juliet Mann , who is similarly keen on horticulture , chose the only unit with a flat roof so that she could establish a roof-top conservatory above her flat . |
| 23 | Apart from the issues that affect Mr. Thorpe personally , questions are raised by this form of treatment that affect any national health service patient who is similarly afflicted . |
| 24 | was also on television recently when the BBC East Midlands Today team came to the branch to film who is profoundly deaf . |
| 25 | In a Court of Appeal decision , reported in the same volume as the case from which the passage above is taken , Lord Denning thought that there was a breach of the peace ‘ whenever a person who is lawfully carrying out his work is unlawfully and physically prevented by another from doing it ’ . |
| 26 | There is a breach of the peace whenever a person who is lawfully carrying out his work is unlawfully and physically prevented by another from doing it . ’ |
| 27 | Today , the Bishop of Peterborough , who is privately very distressed about the goings on in and around St Mary 's , decided not to make any public statement . |
| 28 | Comfort ( NIV ) is from the Greek word paramuthion , meaning — ‘ comfort ; speaking closely , tenderly to one who is near ; consolation with great tenderness . ’ |
| 29 | It worked at West Ham , where Cottee enjoyed a profitable partnership with Frank McAvennie , who is scarcely from the Mick Harford mould . |
| 30 | Charles du Bos , the literary critic , another figure who is scarcely known to the younger generation even in his own country , was equally devoted to Eliot . |