Example sentences of "[verb] [is] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is enough area there to call for a two-person crew , so launching is rarely a problem . |
| 2 | Regulating doctors ' qualifications , their premises , and the care they provide is clearly a starting point . |
| 3 | What matters is simply a profession of faith in Jesus as a manifestation of God , and such a profession of faith is in itself sufficient to ensure salvation . |
| 4 | Soccer it 's claimed is still a long way off finding a cure for violence . |
| 5 | Like power , money as it stands is neither a good nor a bad commodity . |
| 6 | For reasons of economy the population of individuals approached is usually a small sample of the total relevant population . |
| 7 | After all , while most of us would condemn escapism as a total way of life , our capacity to use our imaginations to construct alternative worlds into which we can temporarily retreat is certainly a central human characteristic and seems , on the whole , a valuable one . |
| 8 | The question mark at the end of line 4 refers back to ‘ with whom ? ’ 'No vicissitude can find' is therefore a statement of fact , implying a pagan , not a Christian attitude . |
| 9 | While research can clarify such issues , how they are resolved is essentially a political and ethical question — in the same way as how child abuse is itself defined is essentially a political and ethical question . |
| 10 | As mentioned earlier , making deeper and deeper beach starts is often a successful way of tackling the water start , provided you have a gently shelving beach . |
| 11 | By contrast , the time limit for actions in private law is at least three years , and for judicial review applications made outside Ord. 53 there is no fixed time limit : delay in applying is just a factor to be taken into account when the court exercises its discretion whether or not to award a declaration or injunction . |
| 12 | Didier Pironi , who was one of the brightest ones , had said , ‘ Driving is more a state of mind than the use of intelligence . |
| 13 | The life span of a human skin cell from the time it is born until the time it is shed is just a few weeks . |
| 14 | ‘ I know what you really want is just a demonstration , ’ Henry said . |
| 15 | There is a very big market for graphical user interfaces but it is very far from being the whole market , and it seems highly likely that what the majority of today 's dogged MS-DOS users want is simply a few further refinements to the operating system they are familiar with . |
| 16 | All it wants is just a slight tap with a hammer . |
| 17 | Now , knowing what the future holds is just a phone call away . |
| 18 | Now , knowing what the future holds is just a phone call away . |
| 19 | Now , knowing what the future holds is just a phone call away . |
| 20 | I do not think this grouping or group let is yet a class either in itself or for itself and it may never become one . |
| 21 | ‘ What is done is only a beginning . |
| 22 | He pulls one of those ‘ I-am-about-to-explode-in-front-of-your-very-eyes ’ faces , which we might as well assume is actually a crazy cover-up for the fact that he really means what he says . |
| 23 | The ability to discriminate is admittedly a basic ingredient of survival . |
| 24 | As with other respiratory and upper gastrointestinal tumours the male predominance seen is probably a result of the heavy smoking and drinking habits of men compared with women . |
| 25 | Even though the London TOM has expanded greatly , the number of different securities on which options are written is still a very small proportion of the total number of securities in existence . |
| 26 | We are learning that the way institutions are organized is increasingly a problem for men as well as women . |
| 27 | The dream which Gunn describes is clearly a moving event for him . |
| 28 | Several studies have shown that the eradication of H pylori is associated with a considerable reduction in the rate of recurrence of duodenal and gastric ulcers , but how and why this occurs is still a matter of debate . |
| 29 | But if what is sought is merely a gross comparison between the damage of corporate and ‘ conventional ’ crimes , then the current level of official information available provides sufficient facts to get the ratio in perspective . |
| 30 | In Bali , where cockfighting is also a controlled ritual , the cocks have two spurs with honed edges , rather than a single spur with a sharpened point , so the battles differ in style and technique , according to the aficionados , rather as swordsmanship differs depending on whether a cutlass or a rapier is used . |