Example sentences of "[be] [verb] is [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , most people reckon that the cost of credit they have been using is more or less as they had planned . |
| 2 | What Tumbleweed are doing is more or less just putting the two approaches together . |
| 3 | In more mundane language , what we are saying is simply that a movement to a point along x could be executed in two steps , one along x and then another along y . |
| 4 | And I says well it is two different meanings the one I 'm using is just if you can spare it , if you can it . |
| 5 | The truth is that there are disagreeable aspects to nearly all work ; that what is regarded as disagreeable in work will vary from person to person and , within one person , from mood to mood ; and that , in the end , the distinction to be made is simply but none the less crucially that the disagreeable features are more readily tolerated when the worker is working for himself than when he is working for someone else . |
| 6 | At first sight what he seems to be saying is simply that no one is going to take any notice of the conclusions which a rational woman reaches after deliberation . |
| 7 | A member of any council is entitled to a subsistence allowance only if the place where the duty is performed is more than three miles from his usual place of residence . |
| 8 | What is meant is really that it is not possible to learn to sign like a deaf person , i.e. without an ‘ accent ’ . |
| 9 | Er I had or trying to provoke us , and erm what our lads have been informed is rather than take a situation on like that , it 's better just to turn around and walk away . |