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

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1 In the countries in which I have worked where tight regulations prescribe the teachers ' day , the opportunity for intelligent freedom of action is all too often curtailed and responses to the problems which children present are all too often determined by the paragraph and footnote of a rule book .
2 My Lords , I er apologise first of all that I was not able to hear some of the earlier speeches in this Debate erm but it does seem to me a most interesting Debate and I have to confess that I always become slightly uneasy er when the great and the good , and I suppose we should collectively cast ourselves in that role of being the great and good of the establishment are all of one view and I wonder whether it is necessarily right and so I begin to question er whether your Lordships enthusiasm for many of these amendments and their attack upon the Government 's proposals is necessarily as soundly based as we might think if we just listen to casually to it all .
3 It should be noted that the term ‘ persons sufficiently expert to understand the risks involved ’ is somewhat more narrowly defined than might initially be assumed .
4 It is perhaps less well known that a number of them became ‘ lost ’ as building stone was re-used and land ploughed over .
5 Maslow 's model is obviously not empirically based but , even as the basis of a conceptual framework for managing staff , it has severe limitations :
6 Chairman Andrew Wassell , who has been asked by the Takeover Panel to clarify his comments to the Guardian on Wednesday about the level of acceptances , said : ‘ It is much too soon to know but I am encouraged by the efforts we are making in winning support for our bid . ’ .
7 Chairman Andrew Wassell , who has been asked by the Takeover Panel to clarify his comments to the Guardian on Wednesday about the level of acceptances , said : ‘ It is much too soon to know but I am encouraged by the efforts we are making in winning support for our bid . ’ .
8 Unfortunately personality testing is much less well developed than intelligence testing .
9 This is much less well known than the standard image of Poland as a nation constantly overrun by hostile forces .
10 We should , however , never forget the positive side , which is much less well appreciated and seldom appears in the materia medica , but which is the potential for that personality type .
11 The role of families and of informal neighbourhood care is much more widely acknowledged and various projects to support the carers and stimulate neighbourhood networks are under way .
12 In the case of the cash withdrawal the case is much more clear cut as this is a personal transaction rather than a business transaction .
13 However , the use of the Tables in DC is much more closely monitored than it is in UDC .
14 Ironically , just because death was such a central concern in the past , the history of death is much more fully studied than the history of living old people .
15 A bird whose loud rasping song , recalling a grated comb , ‘ crex , crex ’ is much more often heard than its slim brown form is seen .
16 More fundamentally , the Lucas point can be seen as suggesting that the constant structure of the economy , which it is a major aim of the macroeconomist to reveal , is much more deeply hidden than econometric model builders might previously have thought .
17 It is rather like feeling that the dark companion of Sirius is somehow less certainly known because we infer its presence from its gravitational effect upon the Dog Star than it would be if we could actually see it — as if gravity were somehow less real than light .
18 As we have seen , the response in England has been substantial ; in Wales , on the other hand , there has been very little reaction to the reports and teacher training for further education in the Principality is generally less well developed than in England .
19 a finger of fudge is just enough so go and vote for labour !
20 The effluent is already so highly diluted as not to be dangerous , and the resulting near-pure water will be used in ICI cooling towers .
21 He is usually very badly served although the principles of manual design are well known .
22 The chemistry behind the formation of zeolites is still not clearly understood as Barrer shows , but he goes on to elucidate the physical processes of nucleation and crystal growth .
23 State governments are responsible for the radio broadcasting services of the area under their jurisdiction , whereas television is still mostly federally controlled and financed .
24 The pyramid is still remarkably well preserved and parts of its complex have been painstakingly restored by the French architect Jean-Philippe Lauer .
25 Following the miners ' strike in 1984 , industrial action has sunk again , to what seems its lowest point in the period under consideration , though it is still too soon to tell if this will be sustained .
26 The time is still too uncomfortably close when women had to fight to have jobs at all and were even then expected to abandon them once they married and had children .
27 But the company is probably right also to say that several drugs in combination are likely to be involved in more effective drug therapy .
28 But the problem can take different forms , one of which is now receiving political attention , while the other — the demographic shift — is probably neither fully recognised nor understood by small and medium enterprises .
29 The method is probably too little used because communication has an aura of truth about it and our cultural habit is to seek out truth rather than design workable falsehoods .
30 Indeed , aside from power steering , the basic Wrangler is probably less well equipped than the wartime Jeeps which at least boasted folding shovels to help the drivers dig them out of trouble .
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