Example sentences of "the [adj] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Despite being recorded in analogue , the sound-quality is still remarkably good . |
| 32 | Remember they can vary tremendously in nutritional quality and the cheapest is usually not the best . |
| 33 | The bistable is often called a ‘ flip-flop ’ because you can ‘ flip ’ it into one state or ‘ flop ’ it into the other . |
| 34 | The high is usually followed by exhaustion . |
| 35 | Unlike Lukács ' insignificant event from which the universal is precariously drawn out through the narrative , Sartre 's singularity works synecdochally in a conventional antinomy with the universal , the relation between the two structured according to the familiar nineteenth-century model of organic growth or process in which each singular event makes up the whole while , as he puts it , ‘ the whole is entirely present in the part as its present meaning and as its destiny ’ . |
| 36 | The Ethiopian is more powerful — you can sleep on the Yemeni , but Ethiopian keeps you awake all night ! . ’ |
| 37 | Frequent long motorway journeys are a feature of the Kings ' life , and while the larger and more powerful 405 is favoured for these trips , the 305 is equally at home on the school run or the motorway . |
| 38 | The 1985 is very charming and beautifully balanced , the 1986 seemingly in a quite different style — chewily tannic and concentrated , but unpredictable . |
| 39 | The saline is eventually filtered and then heated in shallow pans to complete the evaporation process before the salt is left to crystallise . |
| 40 | These solutions contain a subclass in which the approaching waves have smooth wave fronts and the metric is everywhere at least C 2 . |
| 41 | I 'm rather surprised that but there you are this this er this stuff this is coming they were both being one and another er put here and er um um I suppose the idea is that the er two people should be fairly good but I think it 's going somewhere and as I say it 's down again … let's see what else has gone er the the this is just I do n't know how she di ’ how they did this but it must have been fairly hard when they did it and er I think there is n't v-very much there I think . ’ |
| 42 | Among the various available routes from Florence to Siena , the quickest is undoubtedly the motorway link . |
| 43 | Oh , I will agree that the electronic is very versatile , but if one has to justify a punchcard model , then the electronic would need even more justification . |
| 44 | I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it . |
| 45 | When it comes to mysteries about the distribution of creatures of the Oriental Region , the local nature of that of the gharial is possibly the greatest of them all . |
| 46 | If the Peculiar is also strong and consistent then this will increase its importance even occasionally to the point where it will override Mental and General symptoms when evaluating the case . |
| 47 | The Carboniferous is popularly known as the ‘ Age of Amphibians ’ , and it is true that the amphibians reached a dominance in the vertebrate world at this time which they never again equalled . |
| 48 | In Islam the mystical is especially pronounced in the brotherhood of the Sufis . |
| 49 | The view that applied studies should be of equal value and status with the theoretical is far too little understood in this country , almost alone in the world . |
| 50 | This ambivalence towards the old is clearly shown in the traditional seven stages of life . |
| 51 | It the maintenance of law and the management of delinquency are fundamental to any ordered society , responsibility for the old is scarcely less so . |
| 52 | The shock of the old is everywhere , in small things and great . |
| 53 | Some continuity of personnel between the new and the old is often welcomed as the most effective means of preserving the loyalty of the clients and maybe the appointment of the sole practitioner or the senior partner of the acquired business as consultant to the new firm for a limited time will be considered . |
| 54 | There is no such thing , mind you , as private property for nine tenths of the population : its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence for those nine tenths . |
| 55 | Higher ratio power steering gives tighter turns , but the tendency to slight wanderings on the straight is still there . |
| 56 | All four bedrooms have en suite facilities and are furnished individually with great care , the prettiest is perhaps the Waterwitch room , with its low bay window looking over the garden . |
| 57 | Again , we must remember that those sermons which got into print or were noticed and attacked in newspapers were not always typical : the typical is seldom noticed . |
| 58 | The 7350 is now the only image processor sold by the company . |
| 59 | At the quarter-mile post the Limited is only 0.3secs shy of the Integrale 's 14.9secs , but the VW 's better aerodynamics and 20.9mph per 100rpm gearing in fifth allow it to fly to an impressive 139mph top speed and leave the Lancia flailing in its wake . |
| 60 | Typical cold desert soils have three layers ( Figure 3.6A ) , of which the lowest is permanently frozen sand or gravel . |