Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 Experience of earlier privatisations is that the form of sale is rarely settled until quite a late stage in the exercise .
2 As a result of our involvement , however , it would appear that the NCT is little known at either a national or local level .
3 It is apparently done in quite a crude fashion , using a look-up table .
4 One of the event organisers , George Sproule , said : ‘ The idea behind the fun day is to show that being part of the church is not limited to once a week on Sunday . ’
5 But the situation of working people in political systems where unionization is underdeveloped and is not coupled with even a social democratic form of political mobilization is anomalous for most Marxists .
6 This is best controlled with either a tablet and either a stylus or a puck but , given a steady hand , it works pretty well with a mouse .
7 So , hot water is best provided by either a gas or electric instantaneous water heater .
8 Although there are numerous interpretations of the basic herati form , it is usually employed in either an allover or medallion-and-corner format .
9 This is in contrast to most potential anti-viral agents , whose action is usually restricted to only a few of the many different types of viral agents that cause disease .
10 ‘ She 's always behaved like a-like a pig to me .
11 Takes its name from the Persian word for crab , but is probably based on either a floral or animal form .
12 According to Earth Report ( 1988 ) , some 100 million t of nutrient-rich silt were deposited annually in the pre-Aswan period but is now reduced to just a few tomes per year , necessitating extensive fertiliser use at considerable cost and , presumably , inviting long-term eutrophication problems that characterise many developing countries ( section 6.3.1 ) .
13 It is true that the text departs from the normal format of Scaevola 's digesta , in which his favourite expression secundum ea quae proponerentur is regularly followed by only a couple of words .
14 The Hereford Animal Sanctuary is currently looking after around a hundred and fifty animals .
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