Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The table setting-china , glass , cutlery , linen-is as much a part of dining room decoration as the furniture and framework . |
| 2 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all you had to send a librarian to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now it 's presumably just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 3 | Strongylosis is most frequently a problem in young horses reared on permanent horse pastures , although cases of severe disease may occur in adult animals kept in suburban paddocks and subjected to overcrowding and poor management . |
| 4 | so tail autotomy is a costly process ; for the lizard it is most probably a defence of the very last resort . |
| 5 | This is most often a primary disorder in children but in adults is more commonly secondary to diseases such as diabetes mellitus or scleroderma . |
| 6 | An ankle tendon injury , suffered at practice on the very day he completed his century at Durham , side-lined Smith for a fortnight but he is most certainly a name to watch this summer . |
| 7 | Written business contracts can be searched for minute loopholes in the small print , for the Arab is most certainly a past master at the game of delay . |
| 8 | The consciousness we experience is most usually a structure derived from complex processing of information from the senses and elaborately categorized to make a consistent ‘ picture ’ against which fresh information can be sorted and ‘ understood ’ . |
| 9 | Overall , this breed is most definitely a royal dog with impeccable manners . |
| 10 | Such anthropomorphism would appear to be unjustified , but it is certainly true that association is most definitely a mental process , whether we are dealing with insects , crocodiles , birds , beasts or humans . |
| 11 | However , to all intents and purposes , the organisation is most definitely a charity . |
| 12 | This typically appears as a gradual pattern : therefore , from a sociolinguistic point of view , sound-change is most definitely a gradual process . |
| 13 | It is most definitely a thriller , but with strong romantic undertones ; I would like to recommend it to both sexes as a jolly exciting read . |
| 14 | And a letter of 30 August 1934 is particularly interesting , since it is rather plainly a reply to protests from Binyon about Pound 's contemptuous treatment of Rubens . |
| 15 | To move from ‘ art ’ to ‘ craft ’ is rather plainly a further contraction , or diminution : and it will be radically misunderstood unless we remember that for Pound the level of craftsmanship ( not just in letters , but in supposedly humbler trades also ) is a register , a thermometer-reading , of the good or ill health of a period or of a society . |
| 16 | I think again the sort of picture that you get from books is rather like a stage set , with everything new from the year nineteen fifty-eight or whatever , all bundled into a room together , this is what it looked like . |
| 17 | Violence in society , I think , is rather like a fire . |
| 18 | A very old friend of the family wrote to me when each of my parents died , and from her I had learnt that Sarah had decided to have no more children after Emma , and that Emma had gone to medical school so she is presumably now a doctor somewhere . |
| 19 | The problem with these abandoned buildings is rarely simply a matter of finance . |
| 20 | So it 's rather like a sandwich . |
| 21 | So it 's okay in a modern Labour Party for the trades unions to have what is effectively still a block vote ? |
| 22 | This account of how aircraft accident investigations are conducted , or should be conducted , in the field is necessarily only a brief outline of what can take place and does not include much of the work that goes on when the wreckage is examined in detail in a hangar , or in the case of AIB at their substantial facility at Farnborough . |
| 23 | Considering Truna 's only just a teenager . |
| 24 | Had a slight operation and er I did n't know about it until today so erm er Paul 's going to offer him our good wishes and we 're going to be , I 'm told he 's home again and it 's , it 's only quite a minor operation and he 's quite well and that er hopefully will be back again next week . |
| 25 | It 's only really a four and a half hour roundabout is n't it ? |
| 26 | It 's only about a quarter of an acre , but it 's quite idyllic , and within reasonable reach of home . |
| 27 | your maximum 's only about a hundred and ten to a hundred and twenty a week . |
| 28 | I know there 's only about a week between them is n't there ? |
| 29 | It 's great doing a picture of Mozart 's Requiem at St Paul 's , but that 's only once a year and it 's simply recording something . |
| 30 | It 's great doing a picture of Mozart 's Requiem at St Paul 's , but that 's only once a year and it 's simply recording something . |