Example sentences of "[conj] is [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It needs to be emphasised that in marking intonation , only stressed syllables are marked ; this implies that intonation is carried entirely by the stressed syllables of a tone-unit and that the pitch of unstressed syllables is either predictable from that of stressed syllables or is of so little importance that it is not worth marking . |
| 2 | ROMANCE has died , or is at least sickening , in Galashiels . |
| 3 | For the do-it-yourself bar user it is best to settle for a narrow bar that is at least one millimetre thick . |
| 4 | We do want a meal that is at least edible . ’ |
| 5 | TWO-TIMING men with neatly trimmed pencil moustaches who like to drink as hard as they work are unwittingly modelling themselves upon a style that is at least 4,500 years old , archaeologists have discovered . |
| 6 | In order to deduce title to unregistered land , you need to locate a good root of title that is at least 15 years old . |
| 7 | Noting a coincidence between the ‘ open structure ’ of adolescence , in which the subject , ‘ in the aftermath of the oedipal stabilisation of subjective identity , … again questions his identifications , along with his capacities for speech and symbolisation ’ ( p. 9 ) , and the ‘ open structure ’ of the novel which explores a similar fluidity , negotiating the ‘ frontiers between differences of sex or identity , reality and fantasy , act and discourse ’ , Kristeva suggests that some form of literary history , that of novelistic discourse , might contribute to the fundamental project of psychoanalysis , that is , ‘ how to understand perversion in a way that is at once faithful and noncomplacent ’ ( p. 22 ) . |
| 8 | For the conditions described in this book it is the selection of the remedy that is of far greater importance than the specific potency used . |
| 9 | The task is further complicated by the fact that the collection of regional data for the EC is not only a vast undertaking but often produces output that is of more doubtful reliability than the national counterpart . |
| 10 | The Moscato di Pantelleria from Marco de Bartoli has a glistening mahogany colour and is at once aromatic , grapy and intensely rich . |
| 11 | The examination of the evidence from villas was not as thorough as one would have liked , as in most cases it comes from old accounts and is of extremely poor quality , with very little attempt , if any , at a stratigraphical analysis . |
| 12 | Never mind the action , which sometimes resembles a low-tech early-Eighties video game and is about as interesting to watch . |
| 13 | Looks like John the Baptist without his beard and is about as uncompromising . |
| 14 | He 's been shot twice in the chest and is in pretty bad shape . |
| 15 | The ‘ houseplace ’ is entered directly from the court , and is in almost total darkness , ‘ except one bright spot = = a red-hot fire ’ . |
| 16 | Relations between a still predominantly oral culture and this important and growing sector ‘ within' it are then especially complex , and the point is soon reached when there is a qualitative difference between the oral area , which all share but to which most are confined , and the literate area , which is of increasing cultural importance but is at once minor and dominant . |
| 17 | The former is a private facility but is at least nearer to the area of greatest potential demand than the latter . |
| 18 | The former is a private facility but is at least nearer to the area of greatest potential demand than the latter . |
| 19 | Hot bands , on the other hand , are formally allowed , because is for only one mode , and zero for all others . |