Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of intrinsic importance , the factor that has been most extensively studied is animacy . |
| 2 | One of the chief reasons why these issues have been so hotly contested is that they have enormous bearing both on the significance of the religious changes introduced under Charles I and on the possible causes of the English civil war . |
| 3 | One reason why chalcedony has been so highly esteemed is that it lends itself to a variety of decorative treatments . |
| 4 | Er the er of course it is more or less Welsh district than they 're they 're very well attended is the Welsh churches . |
| 5 | But one region of the spectrum that has been comparatively little explored is the infrared , or ‘ heat radiation ’ . |
| 6 | Skynner says the question he is most frequently asked is whether therapy has not dampened Cleese 's power of comic invention : is a happier Cleese not a duller one ? |
| 7 | The last travel journal ends with Gide back in Cuverville dreaming again of a loss of self — ‘ to be rid of oneself , so that one blue breath , in which I am dissolved , might journey on … ! — a dissolution which would redeem loss , but only by disavowing the recognition that what is most intensely desired is lost to the past . |
| 8 | To this end , we must inculcate in our students not only enabling skills such as fluency in English , particularly written English , IT competence , and the ability to communicate but also creative , problem-solving skills — the phrase that is most often used is ‘ transferable skills ’ — which include a willingness to engage with new concepts and techniques . |
| 9 | The ultimate sanction and one which is most commonly applied is for the mortgagee to sell . |
| 10 | The substance that 's most frequently measured is actual the chl is actually the chlorine content and the salinity is one point eight zero six five five times the chlorine concentration . |
| 11 | What is less widely recognized is that , whatever their claims to empirical evidence in support , these arguments reflect a particular intellectual tradition , that of liberal political philosophy . |
| 12 | ( What is less widely known is that Draize testing need involve only minimal discomfort ; the animals are under local anaesthetics and are humanely killed upon completion . ) |
| 13 | What is less widely known is that at this moment two P-38 Lightnings , ( distinctive , long-range US fighters ) appeared , their star insignia clearly visible , and although it may have been coincidence even to the sophisticated in a crowd of some hundreds of thousands it must indeed have appeared that the mandate of heaven had assumed its newest form . |
| 14 | What is less widely known is the level of commitment required from every one else who accepts the chairmanship of a major committee of the Council . |
| 15 | Everyone knows that that book is a critique of ‘ logocentrism ’ ; what is less often recalled is that the terms of the critique with which it opens announce the design of focusing attention on logocentrism 's ethnocentrism ’ which , Derrida suggests , is ‘ nothing but the most original and powerful ethnocentrism , in the process of imposing itself upon the world ’ . |
| 16 | What is less often recognized is that it was distinctly innovatory , marking important breaks with earlier theories of female sexuality and helping to generate an intellectual climate favourable to regulationism . |
| 17 | What is less often recognized is the emergence of a new type of moral discourse . |
| 18 | Because it 's so easy done is n't it ? |
| 19 | The technical question of how far the biological continuity between man and other animals is already fully understood is complex . |
| 20 | If Montrose chiastic formulation ( historicity of texts/textuality of history ) suggests an expected critical process which is not balanced but open to intrusions , constant qualification and , in effect , cultural deconstruction , what is more frequently produced is a critical narrative which creates an impression of cultural chiasmus , a balance in which the reciprocal concerns between original cultural embedment and subsequent textual mediations are equally suspended . |
| 21 | The final type of general exclusion clause which is also frequently included is one which restricts or excludes liability for various kinds of economic loss . |
| 22 | What is also easily overlooked is the appeal to their class solidarity . |
| 23 | The fact that this approach to cultural differences is now largely discounted is a powerful aid to the acceptance of deaf people . |
| 24 | What is equally well known is that the orderly reduction in capacity will be proportionate to existing market shares . |
| 25 | He 's quite well done is n't he ? |
| 26 | One that is quite frequently found is the fall-rise tone , where the pitch descends and then rises again ; another complex tone , much less frequently used , is the rise-fall in which the pitch follows the opposite movement . |
| 27 | What is then vividly revealed is that British industry 's inability to match the pace of competition in foreign markets forced it to rely proportionately more on the home market but , in turn , it failed to hold its position . |
| 28 | Section 1(5) prohibits an individual who has contemplated or who is contemplating making a take-over offer for a company in one capacity from dealing in the shares of the offeree in another capacity if he knows that the information relating to the fact that the offer is contemplated or is no longer contemplated is unpublished price sensitive information . |
| 29 | It 's very well made is n't it ? |
| 30 | I agree with you but it 's it 's very easily done is n't it ? |