Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the genre scenes , part of the secret lies again in the way natural-sounding dialogue is skilfully caught up into a formal musical structure . |
| 2 | Thus the narrow strict sense of elite , though sometimes used misleadingly as if it had been demonstrated satisfactorily , is rarely applied consistently throughout an argument in modern elite theory . |
| 3 | The idea that women are more conservative than men is manifestly inadequate to account for all the observed facts , at least in the cultures sociolinguists have studied most intensively , and it is rarely advanced nowadays as an explanation of sex differences . |
| 4 | Rather it is necessarily fuzzed out by an amount which is of the size of the wavelength of the light employed . |
| 5 | Ah sure he 's only staying out for a while till he gets married and that . |
| 6 | She says that considering he 's only lived here for a short while , it 's fantastic the way people are celebrating his success . |
| 7 | The opportunity presented by RMI is nicely summed up in a paper by Black , Dearden , Mayhew and Nichol ( 1989 ) in which they say ‘ Resource management enables clinicians and managers to see directly what the cost of various patterns of care are , to consider alternatives and make decisions in a more informed way — at the level of patient , the service or service mix . |
| 8 | He of friends , and I thought well , when we 're going into this , you know , he 's obviously coming in as a colleague , because actually he was a member of the same damn union . |
| 9 | But the bike is only cranked over for an instant before the Australian wrenches it upright and turns on the throttle . |
| 10 | Back foot is the last into the footstraps and is only used there in a strong wind ( Force 4 & plus ) |
| 11 | ‘ She will be delighted , ’ Alida Thorne said , ‘ she 's so looking forward to a visitor . |
| 12 | Especially since Tunney 's already struck out as a private eye . |
| 13 | This is generally taken up in a chorus of masculine approval : Yes , a fly on his shirt ! |
| 14 | Interesting results emerge when we place these ‘ players ’ — who may be individuals or organized groups — on a two-dimensional , nxn square lattice of ‘ patches ’ : each lattice-site is thus occupied either by a C or a D. In each round of our game ( or at each time step , or each generation ) , each patch-owner plays the game with its immediate neighbours . |
| 15 | The " act of identity " is thus construed broadly as a pattern of behaviour over a largish domain , rather than , say , as an instant in the production of talk , where a choice between two phonetic realisations of the same phoneme is required . |
| 16 | Mud , as a solution to the world 's housing problem , is thus caught up in an intricate economic , social and political web . |
| 17 | MATURITY IS : The understanding that if love is not viewed more as a commitment to be entered into than a desire to be fulfilled , neither will happen . |
| 18 | But of course the water is not heaped up into a cube and so it is perhaps more appropriate , though less convenient , to think of this mass of salt water in its actual context — as a veneer-thin skin which lurks in those troughs and valleys which fall below the mean circumference of the earth 's planetary spheroid . |
| 19 | It is essential that the time limit is not seen purely as an opportunity to negotiate renewed permissions with upgraded environmental standards . |
| 20 | Kristeva 's model is not intended either as a concise account of feminism 's recent history nor as an orderly , linear chronology for feminists to follow ( though she does seem to think that each of her stages represents an improvement over the one before ) . |
| 21 | As Simmel and every subsequent commentator on this work has stressed , The Philosophy of Money is not intended primarily as a treatise on money as an economic form , but as an examination of the increasingly abstract nature of human relations , for which money provides a symbol and an instrument . |
| 22 | This has one most significant aspect in that soil conservation is not singled out as a specific and separate problem to be solved by a particular policy — it is conceived of as normal practice and must be incorporated into the business of improving incomes for farmers . |
| 23 | Relatively few rural residents appear to rely solely on public transport , perhaps because it is not regarded nowadays as a worthwhile alternative — Moseley et al . |
| 24 | Violence is not ruled out as a political weapon . |
| 25 | The British constitution is not written down in a single legal document which enjoys a special political status above ordinary law . |
| 26 | This finding that the interpretation of surface anaphors is not determined solely by a representation of the superficial aspects of the preceding text prompts the corresponding question : are deep anaphors interpreted only with reference to a mental model ? |
| 27 | Doubtless that was the trigger , but an operation of 24,000 men is not thrown together in a few days . |
| 28 | That she is not taken seriously as a poet seems to be the greater problem . |
| 29 | There are four possibilities which need to be covered : ( 1 ) that he is held out as a partner and is liable as such ; ( 2 ) that he is held out as a partner but is indemnified against liability as such ; ( 3 ) that steps are taken to ensure that he is not held out as a partner ; and ( 4 ) that , even though the original intention may have been as at ( 3 ) , he is in fact held out as a partner , either by the firm or by himself acting in the course of his work for the firm , in circumstances not initially contemplated by anyone . |
| 30 | This may be contrasted with a moral or rule-based association which is not held together by a common purpose but merely by the authority of common practices . |