Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [is] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the elements it nearly always requires is a new senior team . |
| 2 | The Accounting Standards Board continued to receive criticism from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales on what the institute still feels is a potential conflict between FRED3 on capital instruments , which it says ‘ concentrates on legal form ’ , and FRED4 on off balance sheet finance which ‘ emphasises the substance of transactions ’ . |
| 3 | Labour costs per head are still 50 per cent above Scandinavian levels but are falling steadily and with work for the next two years all Govan now needs is a substantial new order before the middle of 1994 to ensure its future . |
| 4 | The dignified pose struck by Chauntecleer in response to Pertelote 's unsympathetic reaction to his dream , in particular the understandable offence he takes at the embarrassing suggestion that what he really needs is a good laxative , would be comic in a human character ; that the character is a bird provides an opportunity for a greater bathetic and comic deflation when the character ends his monologue by flying down from the perch to peck , chuck and " tread " his favourite hens twenty times before dawn ( 3172 – 8 ) . |
| 5 | Experience has shown that unless careful thought is given to the display then what often appears is an unco-ordinated collection of ‘ cute ’ photographs of children with false red noses on Comic Relief Day , on a school trip to Rhyl , feeding the old folk at a tea party , at school camps etc , but few photographs of children reading , writing or doing maths , science or any of the arts . |
| 6 | What this really means is a fixed exchange rate system without capital controls . |
| 7 | All that now remains is a single tower , a poor monument to a long history of noble residences on the site . |
| 8 | What the doctrine actually achieves is a middle way of a rather different type to that which may have originally been conceived . |