Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pron] is [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " At Advanced level in History , the ability to write serviceable English is a prerequisite but it is even less frequently attained . |
| 2 | Debt is common among the poor and unemployed but it is certainly not confined to them . |
| 3 | The colour range is amazing and there is generally enough for the hems and sewing on the buttons of one garment on each reel . |
| 4 | Problems of taste can also arise on the selection of music backgrounds for scenes of domestic life because the mood to be reinforced is more personal and it is all too easy to lapse into embarrassing banality . |
| 5 | It is in the north that Richard 's power was greatest and he is now usually regarded as a northern figure . |
| 6 | It is in the north that Richard 's power was greatest and he is now usually regarded as a northern figure . |
| 7 | However misinterpretation is always possible and it is also very possible that Bill is picking up other signals about John which John is not aware he 's sending . |
| 8 | It is obviously better if trees can be out of the ground for as short a time as possible and it is much less expensive to buy bare root transplants . |
| 9 | It is dry and it is almost aggressively refreshing — great starbursts of lime juice and orange peel and just a little grapeyness , creating a most unusual citrus cocktail for a warm , spring day . |
| 10 | 13 1775 & that Body is vastly improv 'd the longer it is kept & the little remains of fat shine a little more thro' & it is now very much the colour of Indian Copper , i.e. it is very near the colour of finished work 'd mahogany & is really a beautiful mass , the Legs are now perfectly dry and from the Beginning to the end there is nothing of putrefaction . |
| 11 | Old prejudices die hard and it is only very recently that chapels have been noticed at all in guide books or architectural histories . |
| 12 | The great Ewan MacColl wrote the hill walker 's anthem , The Manchester Rambler , as a tribute to those who took part in the Great Trespass on Kinder Scout in 1932 and it is therefore particularly fitting that Fay Godwin should have chosen another of his poems to end her book Our Forbidden Land . |
| 13 | The great Ewan MacColl wrote the hill walker 's anthem , The Manchester Rambler , as a tribute to those who took part in the Great Trespass on Kinder Scout in 1932 and it is therefore particularly fitting that Fay Godwin should have chosen another of his poems to end her book Our Forbidden Land . |
| 14 | Many now feel that local government is vulnerable to extremism by both right and left and it is perhaps no longer the right vehicle to deliver major public services . |
| 15 | This might seem naive but it is all too possible . |
| 16 | Easter Island , where the traverse starts , is entirely volcanic but it is really only an insignificant scrap of land in the vast Pacific . |
| 17 | It is faster than the fax , it is usually cheaper and it is certainly more convenient . |
| 18 | Cobalt blue is a pure blue , lacking the greenish undertone of previous artists ' blues like azurite , Prussian blue and indigo and it is far less expensive than the natural ultramarine , extracted from lapis lazuli , used by artists in earlier centuries . |
| 19 | The Soviet leader is far from succeeding but he is still very much there , while the East German old guard is looking ever more like yesterday 's men . |
| 20 | There is , of course , the Bill of Rights 1689 but it is just as much subject to repeal , and has in fact been impliedly repealed more than once , as any other Act of Parliament , and in any case has the effect rather of strengthening the hand of Parliament , than of protecting the ordinary citizen against its excesses . |
| 21 | It may be complex but it is certainly not chaotic . |
| 22 | At this stage it operates largely in the unconscious but it is soon partly modified by exposure to reality , that part becoming the ego . |
| 23 | Many of us probably purchased a camera in the seventies or eighties and it is probably now sitting in a cupboard unused , following the invasion of the small fully-automatic camera . |
| 24 | For a long time it has been known that heavy drinking during pregnancy can badly affect a baby 's development so that when it is born , its face and head are deformed and it is mentally backward . |
| 25 | The old adage that you only get out what you put in becomes very meaningful and it is only too easy to miss an employee out of a list because a code has been entered incorrectly or because information is inconsistent . |
| 26 | The essential ingredients of gaining control of your time are knowing what is important and what is less so , ruthlessly putting your precious time and energy where it will produce the highest return and refusing to be swamped with other people 's inefficiency . |
| 27 | Status remains important but it is no longer the central feature of British society that it was in preceding centuries . |
| 28 | There will be more but there is always less . |
| 29 | One of the major drawbacks is that no good bowel contrast agent is commercially available and it is therefore frequently difficult to distinguish tumour from loops of bowel . |
| 30 | Many of its countries are relatively small and it is geographically more diverse than any other continent . |