Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [verb] [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 | That her novels are not better known is due largely to her extreme modesty about her literary abilities ; but there is no doubt that her concise , deceptively light prose style , reliance on dialogue to carry the plot , and delight in satirical exaggeration influenced both Firbank and Evelyn Waugh [ q.v. ] , and that she has thus left her mark on the development of the twentieth-century novel . |
| 5 | Placing sticks on one another in such a way that they engage and are not readily dislodged is a skill that is easy to underestimate . |
| 6 | Er the er of course it is more or less Welsh district than they 're they 're very well attended is the Welsh churches . |
| 7 | But one region of the spectrum that has been comparatively little explored is the infrared , or ‘ heat radiation ’ . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The ultimate sanction and one which is most commonly applied is for the mortgagee to sell . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ( 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 . ) |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | What is less often recognized is the emergence of a new type of moral discourse . |
| 20 | Because it 's so easy done is n't it ? |
| 21 | What is not generally recognised is how vast this extension of agricultural land was . |
| 22 | Of course , these pathological tendencies are still with us today and are widely recognized in individual mental illness ; but what is not generally appreciated is their extent in cultural forms , not all of which are limited to ancient societies . |
| 23 | N. That is so lame , that is not just done is it ? |
| 24 | Once the code is mastered it is relatively easy to transfer the skill to another language ; but to learn to read in a language where the spoken word is not well understood is to invite pseudoliteracy of the kind so painfully apparent in many countries . |
| 25 | Another point which is not always recognised is that covert research can itself impose severe restrictions on the kinds of questions that one may legitimately ask and the sorts of people to whom one may have access . |
| 26 | What is not often recognized is the extent to which this theological sense of perversion as the negative agency at the heart of privation , hence an inverted positivity , survives into the ‘ modern ’ sense of perversion/homosexuality as a profoundly inimical , vitiating lack ( of normality , of truth ) . |
| 27 | But what is not often appreciated is that unemployment , and its attendant social problems , helped to reshape the political balance of power of the age and was an important factor in the creation of a new two-party system in which the Labour Party replaced the Liberal Party as the progressive force of British politics in opposition to the almost omnipotent Conservative Party . |
| 28 | The word ‘ hatred ’ which is not further defined is a word of some strength . |
| 29 | The idea points to a kind of dynamic joy of understanding between creator and creation ; that it is not constantly felt is due to sin . |
| 30 | The technical question of how far the biological continuity between man and other animals is already fully understood is complex . |