Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That perhaps is making things worse , but Felipe has been angry with me since my father died . |
| 2 | Just as interesting perhaps is to visualise the landscape that would have been created if enclosure had been delayed until after the introduction of barbed wire in the 1870s . |
| 3 | If we were gon na say , right , this only is gon na apply to mega- projects , tt and therefore it would be appropriate for the project coordinator to be the person to sit down at the start of the job , when he 's agreeing the remit with the client , when he 's developing the erm tt er who 's doing what within the functions . |
| 4 | The Government is now proposing that they shall er er that they shall be erm made from a list of persons compiled in accordance with an Order by the Secretary of State and it appears to be being claimed , at least in the press that this somehow is providing for appointments to be at arms length from the Home Secretary . |
| 5 | This also is done mainly by interview although some use is made of psychometric tests , profiles and rating scales . |
| 6 | Mazarin encouraged Cambert to compose a more ambitious five-act comedie en musique , comme on faisait en Italie , Ariane et Bacchus ( 1659 ) , with a large orchestra ; it was rehearsed but , partly owing to the Cardinal 's death , not performed and the score of this also is lost . |
| 7 | But even on a wet summer afternoon whether you take a front or back seat , this really is called travelling in style . |
| 8 | erm my name is and I work for my objective of this really is to reappraise my presentation skills . |
| 9 | The way to guard against this really is to buy little and often . |
| 10 | This surely is based on observation , experience , and informal experiment , not on intellectual perception of any connection between ideas . |
| 11 | However that may be , the prediction that non-ascriptive adjectives will be ungrammatical here is borne out by the evidence of associatives and others ( this is the more revealing , since it might sometimes be possible to understand the meaning which would be intended by the construction where they could be supposed to occur ) : ( 62 ) Fanshawe reported O'Neill 's collar clerical Jones could not imagine his wife former |
| 12 | This increasingly is becoming Wallingford 's face . |
| 13 | This unfortunately is closed and boarded up , while its trustees , the Avon County Council , puzzle over its future and that of its important collections . |
| 14 | The only way in which to reverse this situation and become slim again is to supply the body with fewer calories than it needs for its daily energy requirements , so that it has to draw on the emergency store of calories in its own fat . |
| 15 | This however is designed to make it clear that offer must not be made to those whose shares are subject to a restriction order under Part XV of the Act ; for the situation to which The Stock Exchange rule is directed , companies have to rely on the ‘ as nearly as practicable ’ in section 89 ( 1 ) , and Mutual Life Insurance of N. Y . |
| 16 | But this again is running against a crucial point in The Lord of the Rings , namely that no one can be trusted , not even ‘ the Keepers of the Three ’ . |
| 17 | This again is designed to avoid ( or at least reduce ) the double taxation of shareholders when the capital gain is distributed to shareholders as dividends . |
| 18 | Errors in searching are possible only if the searcher chooses the wrong subject heading in the published lists ; this too is regarded as an unlikely event . |
| 19 | ( This too is demonstrated by the statistics , for as RICS entrants have declined from 41.2% in 1981 to 26.5% in 1984 , so the graduate intake has increased from 6% to 13.8% over the same period . ) |
| 20 | This too is rejected : ‘ What need is there ? |
| 21 | Third , evidence from molecular biology indicates that the major lineages of Metazoa were distinct at least 700Myr ago ( suggestive of even earlier origins ) , but this too is disputed . |
| 22 | Where alternative arrangements are available , this too is indicated in the individual Club descriptions and the price is shown in the supplement section of the price panels . |
| 23 | We can believe nothing only if this too is made into a belief . |
| 24 | In a way this too is made true by The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings combined ; for the latter predicts that some elves will refuse to leave Middle-earth , however much they may ‘ dwindle ’ , while the former shows that others remain in Valinor , once part of the Earth , though now in some mysterious way sundered from it . |
| 25 | This too is linked with the problem of old age , as many older plants are situated either in built-up areas , or in poor areas geographically where the topography of the site and weather conditions , particularly temperature inversion , hampers the escape of exhaust gases into the atmosphere and in doing so can result in the intensification of an odour for short periods . |
| 26 | Daniel 7:10 had spoken of the stream of fire issuing from the throne of God , and this too is picked up in one of the Qumran hymns which describe the molten river of judgment that will befall the world in the last day ( I QH 3:28ff ) Probably this idea was in John 's mind . |
| 27 | Like other gender differences , this too is becoming more blurred as both sexes become more liberated — that is , more free to express themselves as individuals in ways that are right for them . |
| 28 | This too is ending in failure . |
| 29 | What is possible already is to detect the chromosomal sex of a fetus either by amniocentesis or , at an earlier stage of development , by sampling of chorionic villi ; and if the fetus is of the unwanted sex , it could be aborted . |
| 30 | All the orchestral music from 1784 onwards is conceived in broader strokes , while the solo parts become ever more complex . |