Example sentences of "[conj] [is] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a convention in Elizabethan drama that slander is always believed , which can be explained perhaps from the necessities of the limited time available , or is perhaps a truth about life ( how many of us instantly disbelieve bad report ? ) . |
| 2 | Other rates may apply where the development is acquired second hand , or is merely a refurbishment of an existing industrial building . |
| 3 | However , the same sources profess to being amazed at his move to a position ‘ that is clearly a demotion ’ and to a company owned by P&G 's rival Unilever , which is equally formulaic . |
| 4 | He , too , is presented with a description of his appearance , dress , behaviour and character that is clearly an exercise similar to the drawing of Alison , and which encourages the comparison of the figures thus drawn . |
| 5 | If in doubt , it might be as well to look at a pattern for fabric or to measure the amount of depth on a hemline that is already a favourite . |
| 6 | But is n't it er true according the reports in the financial times , that the government at this moment is planning to withdraw Britain from the I L O. Precisely because the I L O has censured Britain a censure that is normally a sanction that is normally applied to countries like Haiti and North Korea . |
| 7 | Barring coups , the four Southern Cone presidents will all still be in office in 1994 , and have set themselves a target that is also a spur . |
| 8 | To provide a dramatic contrast that is also a unity , the sun must be truly dominant and its satellites must be a family that shares a common property of shape and size : just like an atom or a solar system . |
| 9 | A holiday brochure that is also a history lesson in itself is a good briefing for a unique range of military tours that takes in some of the world 's legendary battlefields . |
| 10 | Another new feature will be its ability to connect with Unix Network File System servers through a LANtastic server that is also a Unix client . |
| 11 | Does not the transparency , the reproducibility of the grid , contradict the modernist ‘ insistence on the opacity of the pictorial field an insistence that is also a claim for its singularity and uniqueness ? |
| 12 | She is alive and just as attractive as ever , so please do n't lose touch with this thing of beauty that is certainly a joy forever . |
| 13 | It was black , the sort of black that is less a colour than a graveyard of colours , and there was a highly-ornate runic inscription up the blade . |
| 14 | It 's a production that is inescapably an extension of your personality — like dress or décor . |
| 15 | So when they see an apparent egg that is really a stone , the fact of its being a stone ( not that they have found a stone on the beach , say , which happens to look just like an egg ) swamps their judgement ; similarly when they see a white card changing colour — the blueness is salient not the fact that it started white . |
| 16 | It is a backhanded note of dismissal , an explanation that is really an excuse . |
| 17 | The very act of sharing this experience with men and women of every background and colour of skin , heightens that sense of being part of something that is truly a part of history . |
| 18 | It is clear that the worst child mortality is found among children classified as unoccupied , a term that is usually a euphemism for their economically inactive single parents . |
| 19 | Hoare Govett is a leading UK institutional stockbroker that is now a subsidiary of ABN AMRO Bank , the largest bank in Holland . |
| 20 | If the more rural areas show up on the whole slightly better than the more populous places that is perhaps a feature that occurs in other aspects of Scottish life ; and let the indwellers in those backward centres of population not repine . |
| 21 | As a rule , he prefers to shake his finger at men as they move by wrong paths from the cradle to the grave , and to remind himself with a frown that he , too , is human — a frown that is almost a sigh : |
| 22 | He is supporting a scheme that is essentially a monopoly and does not allow for any genuine competitive challenge which , as we have all been informed , is the only real moderating influence on the free market provision . |
| 23 | I 'm growing hair for charity but in many respects that 's probably an excuse . |
| 24 | If you 're looking for the perfect Valentine 's prezzie for your perfect man that 's just a bit different check these out ! |
| 25 | Sorry that 's just a bit of advice |
| 26 | Sa , and I 'd say yeah but that 's not a pun that 's only a pun if you if you write down this is smashing said erm the robber or the smash and grab , in other words the window fell in , that kind of thing , you know . |
| 27 | Tomorrow night on Central we begin a two-part report on a murder that 's still a mystery … ten years after it was committed . |
| 28 | But in principle we agree do we not , to back multi-agency meeting , given what we said in the discussion and we will come back to you with something that 's maybe a bit more specific , and more easy to discuss , may I say . |
| 29 | More Melina Mercouri , hi , knees , glad you could make it , check food , what the hell that 's never a problem . |
| 30 | One of our live tracks , Moving , has got a solo that 's really a speed metal solo , but it actually sounds fine because it works . |