Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that he is blatantly innocent makes what the police do to him one hundred times worse . |
| 2 | Okay well I think oral communication is mostly two way , that 's one distinction we can make . |
| 3 | Only 13 to 35 degrees south of the equator , it is mostly arid hills covered with scrub and rises to 10,000 feet ( 3,040m ) in the mountainous central regions . |
| 4 | Certainly it 's the case that there 's a a down side if you like with providing the new roads through what is mostly open countryside . |
| 5 | If you want Californian walnuts , you take what you get , so-called combination , which includes some halves but is mostly smaller pieces . |
| 6 | I think bathing is jolly good f-fun . |
| 7 | One of the most popular routes in Pembroke — when the army , with their massively increased use of the Ranges allow access to it — is Jolly Sensible Arête . |
| 8 | Where the surveyor is properly forward planning , there will be adequate notice of delay and the client can be notified accordingly . |
| 9 | difficult to persuade another to take advice , and it is the more difficult which is most pleasant doing … ' |
| 10 | A spokeswoman for the Lord 's Taverners charity , of which Leslie , 59 , is president , said : ‘ It is most encouraging news . |
| 11 | The car is most young people 's house . ’ |
| 12 | According to his account to the House of Commons , Baldwin replied : ‘ Sir , that is most grievous news , and it is impossible for me to make any comment on it today . ’ |
| 13 | This is most obvious east of Ermine Street , though there are traces to the west . |
| 14 | Master Benjamin , Her Grace is most welcome back . |
| 15 | Not only is most pre-modern literature now culturally remote , but England is no longer the centre of contemporary literary creation in the English language . |
| 16 | They say there is most interesting society , with lots of concerts and plays and cultural pursuits . |
| 17 | Whereabouts is most electric power generated to feed the grid for industry in this region ? |
| 18 | The real ‘ perfect pop ’ of 1987 is most likely Mel and Kim , Jam and Lewis productions like Janet Jackson , Stock Aitken Waterman , etc . |
| 19 | Lachlan , I 'm thinking you were in the right of it ; there 's no proof , but from the description , this Iain Og is most likely John Campbell of Cawdor , Argyll 's lad . ’ |
| 20 | In addition to the non-literary sources cited above , there is rather strong evidence in Shakespeare and Marlowe — especially in puns of the type air , heir , hair — that [ h ] -dropping was salient in the speech community : clearly , the puns could not have worked if the ‘ groundlings ’ had not recognized them ( see , for example , Comedy of Errors , III.ii.122–3 ; Dido and Aeneas , I.i.10 ) . |
| 21 | But as she was writing a personal biography , she inevitably concentrated on Mary at a very personal level , so that her book is rather familiar ground well trod by its author than a foray into new territory . |
| 22 | The first is that there is rather little reason to associate the coercive pressure of a dominant or majority current of opinion or belief with democracy . |
| 23 | It is not that in desperate circumstances we discover ourselves to be natural egoists and throw off moral restraints , it is rather that morality no longer applies . |
| 24 | Er but the most characteristic kind of war er our i is rather limited war a and violence need not necessarily be expressed in the form of erm a formal attack , it can be used of course to threaten or to deter . |
| 25 | Erm the next session is rather hard work for you cos it 's very much sort of listening and absorbing a hell of a lot of facts , but I trust you will bear with me . |
| 26 | That is rather more responsibility than I am prepared to take . ’ |
| 27 | Again there is low flow , although there is rather more water . |
| 28 | Guido paused for an instant , then added , smiling , ‘ I expect that 's why your personal monetary situation is rather more loss than profit at the moment — because you invest so much of your time in romance ? ’ |
| 29 | In the past , it has sometimes been unduly prettified by directors , but today there is rather more danger of excessive uglification , of overdoing the grimness . |
| 30 | However , there is rather less chance that girls will be detained or go on the run from the security forces , a factor which has increased male drop-out levels . |