Example sentences of "is [adv] [adv] [verb] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a word which is mostly only used when we discuss Hitler 's treatment of the Jews or when we consider Cambodia . |
| 2 | Like all ideas , it is most easily controlled if it is first given a name . |
| 3 | Grief is most powerfully eased when it can be shared . |
| 4 | It is most often used when there is an internal conflict of feeling . |
| 5 | Later we shall come to look at the practical areas where conflict is most often experienced and what can be done about it . |
| 6 | It is right now to insist that nothing in the Anglo-French study shows AZT to be ineffective in the late treatment of AIDS ; it is to be hoped that point will be tested by a new controlled study . |
| 7 | Part of the task of the modern tobacco promoter is to make the smoking habit appear clean and healthy , and to imply that it is all right to smoke if we take plenty of exercise . |
| 8 | Her disabilities are not particularly apparent — her speech is only slightly stilted and her walk remarkably confident . |
| 9 | Experience shows , however , that this approach is only effectively implemented where there are tough constraints on urban edge and greenfield sites . |
| 10 | The power of the Imperial illusion is only properly appreciated when we watch the last phase in the career of a politician 's politician of the first rank , Joseph Chamberlain . |
| 11 | Sex is only really fulfilling when it 's part of the total commitment of marriage . |
| 12 | He concludes with this paragraph : If religion throughout the ages , and certainly in many parts of the world today , has been used as a weapon for destructive purposes , are we not called to demonstrate that as people of faith we can both live in passionate commitment to our respective tradition and at the same time in compassionate respect for each other and to affirm that the faith commitment of each one is only truly realized when we live in that mutual respect accordingly ? |
| 13 | Sadly I have not read this but I am such a fan of the author and he is so well connected that he gets reviews everywhere , and I just wanted to slip it in . |
| 14 | Another proof of her social status among the hawkers is her working spot : it is so well located that she if she decides to move she could ‘ sell ’ the right to use it to another vendor . |
| 15 | Tabasco is so well known that it is to pepper sauces what Hoover is to vacuum cleaners . |
| 16 | Hick played what in others is a plain forward-defensive shot but for him is so sweetly timed that it brings four through mid-off . |
| 17 | He stood and watched for a while but everything connected with seamanship is so majestically slow that he began to feel guilty of time wasting while the little vessel was still being manoeuvred through the gap . |
| 18 | A delicate building , it is so intricately decorated that it is difficult to tell which parts are original and which later modifications . |
| 19 | Dr Estelle Ramey , professor emeritus of physiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine , USA , explains that ‘ your system is so delicately balanced that it 's very difficult for your body to make two types of hormones at once . |
| 20 | Since this subject is so important , it is a pity the book is so badly constructed that it lacks authority . |
| 21 | A shop manager who was beaten up and threatened with having his ears cut off is so badly traumatised that he 's still been unable to describe his ordeal to police . |
| 22 | No student should be penalised for misspellings unless a word is so badly spelt that it can not be understood . |
| 23 | It 's tempting to think that Windows is so carefully organized that you do n't have to understand much about these processes at all . |
| 24 | And here was the bonus : the positive charge of the proton is so effectively shielded that it will now be able to encroach much closer to the nucleus of a neighbouring atom without being repelled ; the chance of bumping into it and undergoing nuclear fusion , ‘ cold fusion ’ , thereby became a real possibility . |
| 25 | Chris is so emotionally paralysed that he has spent two years wooing Ann , who has been working in New York , through the post . |
| 26 | If one were to peruse the extensive range of surveys of the applications of the rational expectations hypothesis to macroeconomics , one would come across a different framework of analysis , one which is so widely accepted that it is rarely explained in any detail , still less is its theoretical basis probed critically or its conclusions called into question . |
| 27 | This is not one of the five Sisters , but is so closely related that its inclusion makes sense . |
| 28 | Genette 's discussion of Proust is so far reaching that his book can be regarded as much as a reading of A la recherche as a contribution to narrative theory , and to this extent it represents a challenge to the generic distinctions normally made in structuralist thinking between poetics and criticism . |
| 29 | On the one hand , it may well be felt that an old person 's wish to stay with a carer should be respected unless their mental state is so gravely impaired that they literally do not know what they are doing . |
| 30 | If your holiday plan is so tightly organised that it allows for no days off , and no travel delays , it 's time to think again . |