Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LIFFE 's membership is widely representative of the financial services industry . |
| 2 | It is rather disingenuous of the Minister to extrapolate the logic that , because someone has described a situation , that means that he necessarily agrees with it . |
| 3 | A horse which needs stretching down will benefit from a Chambon whereas a horse which is rather ignorant of the bit will only have himself to argue with in side-reins . |
| 4 | Management at Hunslet is acutely aware of the risks of operating in a sector acutely vulnerable to too much or too little government interference . |
| 5 | Management at Hunslet is acutely aware of the risks of operating in a sector acutely vulnerable to too much or too little government interference . |
| 6 | Noorda says that Novell is acutely aware of the ‘ history ’ of Unix and its penetration into government and industry over the past 20 years . |
| 7 | The value of Hayek 's work as a representative theory of liberalism lies for us in its rigour and its comprehensiveness and in the fact that it is acutely aware of the importance of law . |
| 8 | The present generation of young people is acutely aware of the need for a second language . |
| 9 | Mandela himself , on the day of his release , described de Klerk as " a man of integrity who is acutely aware of the dangers of a public figure not honouring his undertakings " , and who had " gone further than any other Nationalist president in taking real steps to normalise the situation " . |
| 10 | This is conspicuously true of the arms races between predators and their prey , and , perhaps even more , of arms races between parasites and hosts . |
| 11 | The role of the press is rarely condemnatory of the police and usually supportive of the official efforts to solve crime . |
| 12 | It is when there are two diners present , even when one of them is one 's own employer , that one finds it most difficult to achieve that balance between attentiveness and the illusion of absence that is essential to good waiting ; it is in this situation that one is rarely free of the suspicion that one 's presence is inhibiting the conversation . |
| 13 | But while this may be true for matters concerning individual patients , as family relationships often develop severe tensions and problems , it is rarely true of the relatives of groups of patients who , when involved in planning and running services , show collective good sense and experience in addressing practical problems . |
| 14 | The broad sense in which I shall be using homophobia is loosely descriptive of a manifest phenomenon : the hatred , fear , and persecution of , the raging at , homosexuality and homosexuals . |
| 15 | That any of our pubs can , at a stroke , be shut down or altered by uncaring owners , without any proper consultation with users or the community , is little short of a continuing national disgrace . |
| 16 | The way Westminster now treats MEPs is little short of a disgrace . |
| 17 | In all , it is little short of a miracle that the subsequent report bears any relation to the actual occurrence at all — and sometimes it does not . |
| 18 | It is little short of a national disgrace that allocations are still being made using such a crude approach . |
| 19 | He is keenly aware of the paradoxical gulf between British standards in distance events , and the much-lauded strength of our sprinters . |
| 20 | This point was articulated vociferously by Geraldine McCarthy of the festival committee , who is keenly aware of the dangers of the Irish gay culture and experience being subsumed within the larger ( and wealthier ! ) international gay film-making arena . |
| 21 | The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal is wholly independent of The Law Society and its members are appointed by the Master of the Rolls . |
| 22 | If the Government are confident that quality will not be affected by the financial pressures that they are imposing on higher education to cut the inward resource year after year , the answer is to ensure that the inspectorate for higher education is wholly independent of the funding system and solely concerned with the issue of quality . |
| 23 | She walks from her flat at the wrong end of Ladbroke Grove , along the Harrow Road , under various stretches of motorway , past the Metropole Hotel where she calls in to buy herself a drink in the Cosmo-Cocktail Bar ( she is perversely fond of the Metropole Hotel ) , and then through various increasingly handsome although gloomy back streets , until she arrives at the arranged corner . |
| 24 | Yes , gentleman , the problem is the shorter the period , the less chance you have of getting a measurement which is necessarily representative of a general trend . |
| 25 | Preferences bring us to Regan who is rightfully critical of the counter-intuitive implications of Frey 's blanket denials of beliefs , desires , perceptions , emotions , and so on to animals and is at great pains to stress their similarities of behaviour to that of human beings . |
| 26 | The entire journey in God is a journey in symbols , in which one is constantly aware of the higher reality within things . |
| 27 | This Labour is highly reminiscent of the Babylonian myth of the Garden of Eden brought back by the Hebrews from captivity and incorporated with modifica-tions into Genesis , as the apples of the Tree of Death , with Satan in the guise of the snake ( see p. 158 below ) . |
| 28 | Often the creation of the open plan interior requires the removal of walls , chimney breasts , stairs and other internal features of interest , which is highly destructive of the building 's historic character . |
| 29 | It is , incidentally , interesting to note that such a hybrid form ( two separate topics in one " essay " ) is highly typical of the school essay and , at the same time , highly untypical of anything found in " real-world " writing . |
| 30 | Ms Campos is highly critical of the Sao Paulo state government 's high-profile child care policies , which claim to have saved at least 100,000 children . |