Example sentences of "of [verb] [adj] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His drawings again register the pleasure in the ingredients and activity of cooking that is also conveyed by the prose . |
| 2 | Well , as you know , it is almost impossible to have a piece of knitting that is exactly the same measurement across 40 stitches and 40 rows. , Only rarely does this happen with certain yarn types and stitch patterns . |
| 3 | But in a piece of electioneering that is almost extraterrestrial in its proportions , the current Tory Cabinet is trying to become the Student 's Friend . |
| 4 | A sense of humour is important , too — and being able to laugh instead of getting uptight is much easier for older women . |
| 5 | For example , in some tasks , the more direct way of speaking that is more common to boys will be advantageous ; in others , the more tentative approach more frequently found in girls will be more appropriate . |
| 6 | And a very good way of doing that is obviously to find suitable outlets , and I would suggest that suitable outlets very often consist of local radio , which there is a thirst , on the whole , for good , appropriate items . |
| 7 | The object of doing this is both to disguise your foot movement and to make the opponent shift his weight back slightly . |
| 8 | The best way of doing this is perhaps to follow the advice of Ruth Rendell ( Read her books ) who once said , " I try not to make errors in my descriptions of police work : I accomplish that largely by leaving it out . " |
| 9 | We can see from Labour 's amendment J that Councillor , as I said earlier , intends to go down the same old socialist way of providing the very type of housing that is currently failing tenants . |
| 10 | The words we use , though they have a central core of meaning that is relatively fixed , have a fringe of uncertainty when applied to the infinitely variable facts of experience . |
| 11 | If there is a doubt as to its meaning , the question will usually have at least a central kernel of meaning that is relatively clear . |