Example sentences of "is [adv] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our conclusion , overall , is rather that a large book on Greece was not a serious possibility for long , if at all ; that the actual book written was , in an important sense , Wagnerian from the start ; but that , notwithstanding the extent of Wagner 's influence , there is no good reason to suppose that Nietzsche ever went against his own inclinations for Wagner 's sake , whether by adding material , changing it or suppressing it . |
| 2 | However , if it is right that a change is as good as a rest , you should now feel rested and ready to cope with anything . |
| 3 | It is enough that a project satisfy the purpose of ‘ the advancement of knowledge in biological or behavioural sciences , ( section 5.3(d) ) , although the applicant must then justify the necessity of using animals at all ( 5.5 ) , and in specific terms if the use of larger mammals is proposed ( 5.6 ) . |
| 4 | It is only if a strike remains in the news for a long period that anything of its history or underlying causes will emerge and then only in the ‘ quality ’ press , rarely on television or in the tabloid newspapers where most people obtain their information . |
| 5 | It is only because a text formally under-determines its interpretation in context that a space is created for pragmatics . |
| 6 | There is a great need to study the context of such deserted or shrunken settlements , since it is only when a region is studied in its entirety that we can get some idea of the changes which have taken place in settlements and the settlement pattern in the area . |
| 7 | This is so because a limited accountability in terms only of satisfying employers in local authorities or inspectors of schools has given way to openness and to the multiplication of participators who claim a say in the running of education . |
| 8 | The essential point is not that a feminist reading of the eighteenth century is impossible , but that it must , as Munns suggests , recognize not only sexual difference , but the difference between one century and another |
| 9 | It is not that a major shift is suddenly taking place , although the stock market crash of October 1987 did make people feel as if the ground was unexpectedly moving beneath them . |
| 10 | What is crucial , then , is not that a particular individual should necessarily own property himself , but that ‘ property should be sufficiently dispersed so that the individual is not dependent on particular persons who alone can provide him with what he needs or who alone can employ him ’ . |
| 11 | The question is not whether a reform bill will pass but how strong it will be . |
| 12 | We are told that what matters is not whether a certain even happened , but what it means . |
| 13 | Jacobs and Kinsella makes it clear that the consideration which courts must now take into account is not whether a custodial sentence was necessary to protect the public from offenders generally of the same type , but whether it was necessary to protect the public from a particular offender . |
| 14 | The point at issue is not whether a corporation and its practices are foreign , but to what extent they are transnational . |
| 15 | One should note that within the text it is not until a good three-quarters of the tale has passed that Wilekin is identified as a clerk , in the exchange between Margery and Dame Sirith over the weeping bitch . |
| 16 | Perhaps what the authorities need to consider in the few months available to them is just when a decision needs to be made . |
| 17 | But the reason we , unlike the Americans , have no telephones on planes is largely because a consensus on frequencies was a long time coming . |
| 18 | South Africa has said it expects the UN to reduce its 4,000-strong military presence once the poll is over and a Constituent Assembly has been elected to draft a new constitution . |
| 19 | With Chapter 3 , ‘ From composer to consumer , the waiting is over and a more authoritative voice begins to speak . |
| 20 | In general , therefore , it is best if a questionnaire does not request name unless a future follow-up is anticipated . |
| 21 | The time to consider whether one wishes to opt out and whether one was opposed to a certain system is always when a decision has been made , but I 'd have thought it would have been far in the interests of the people of Banbury and the children and parents of Banbury if they 'd taken full advantage of the discussion on the tertiary college and had made their opinions known , and in the light of the results coming out and say a satisfactory decision had arisen that was frankly the time to get into the business of opting out . |
| 22 | Such however is the mighty Providence that guides us , we were adverted in due time withal and haply able to forestall the deadly peril to our settlement , that is still but a mewling infant scarce able to totter on bandy legs . |
| 23 | Well in Britain we decided we 'd be on the safe side , we 'll reduce that to a thousand we put another factor of ten in and what 's more i if one sheep in , in a whole flock is more than a thousand units , er then we will condemn the whole flock . |
| 24 | After only 40 doublings the number of cells is more than a trillion . |
| 25 | This is more than a million million million times as long as the universe has so far existed . |
| 26 | The Hampshire fourth division side , which is more than a million pounds in debt , have been given notice to quit their own ground . |
| 27 | A woman who learnt to dive just three years ago has found a Viking relic which is more than a thousand years old . |
| 28 | The official unemployment total of two two million six hundred and four thousand one hundred is more than a million short of the real figure because the tories have found thirty ways not to count jobless people . |
| 29 | The twinning budget on Grenoble City Council is more than a million pounds . |
| 30 | But for a handful of obvious reasons , Lewis does not draw a picture of ‘ the whole man ’ in Surprised by Joy It is partly that a natural reticence made him draw a veil over the two greatest facts of his emotional history : his relationships with his father and Mrs Moore . |