Example sentences of "of course [adj] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course that is just what it used to be for before the invasion of the television and the mobile office . |
| 2 | And of course that is specially true and where one differs frequently from one 's successors . |
| 3 | Sex in Judaism is not only for procreation , although of course that is very important . |
| 4 | The first visible signs of the disease are a slight increase in the red tinges and colour of shoots and young leaves , and of course that is very easily missed because it is the normal colouring of many varieties . |
| 5 | Yes , the reason why we picked a forty year lifespan of work or working life er with four tens was because Professor Good himself told us that er on their research the common employment pattern today is in fact four employers over the working life and of course that is very different from the experience of many pensioners who are drawing today from their pension funds , because many of them were long-term , long-service employees throughout their lives with one employer . |
| 6 | And of course this is rather like the distinction made by William Goulding in Free Fall . |
| 7 | Of course this is so . |
| 8 | It would be tedious to quote more than a few examples of the evidence from parliamentary commissions , the STC , union reports and surveys etc. , but the following quotations are typical : " About the only work which the women can do is to stand or sit at their formes and set up type ; and to distribute the types back again into the cases , but of course this is only a portion of a compositor 's work " ( an employer ) ; " " As far as mere type-lifting is concerned , she may do , but there is other rough work in connection with compositors " work which I do not think a woman is qualified for " ( a union leader ) ; " Women … get the best , i. e. the simplest jobs … they are kept always at pretty much the same kind of work " ( an employer ) . |
| 9 | Of course this is only an analytical convenience , but it will simplify much of the discussion and will help lay bare the inner workings of the market in the complex world of production . |
| 10 | I do not wish to nail my colours to this mast , but one of the characteristics of the last decade has been the shift of interest of innovative aspects of capital as displayed in my locales , from a concern with the restructuring of production ( although of course this is still going on ) to a concern with land and its potential . |