Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Here , for once , is a look at the causes and consequences of a bar-room massacre , where the gun-play is fleeting and ketchup is mostly kept in the pantry . |
| 32 | The food at the hotel is mostly flown in from Vienna , so staying at Fudauri is Georgian extra-extra luxury . |
| 33 | It may thus be possible that binding of pou[c] to this motif is mostly directed by the POU HD and perhaps further stabilized by the POU S . |
| 34 | I 'm afraid a detective 's life is mostly spent chasing up blind alleys and wasting people 's time . ’ |
| 35 | The stock is mostly refurbished InterCity Mk1 vehicles . |
| 36 | ‘ Tho ’ I was young Thomas Chatterton to those I met , I was a very Proteus to those who read my Works ' : Chatterton 's story is mostly told by himself , and with a felicity of cadence and of reference which can be caught in the sentence I have just quoted . |
| 37 | Notice as you walk up this path the difference between the plantation on the left , which has a mixture of broadleaf and coniferous trees , and that on the right which is mostly pine . |
| 38 | This is mostly conjecture ; and our opinion that the instrumental bass line of the duet was polished before publication can be dismissed as subjective . |
| 39 | It is mostly found in the stronger astringents used for greasy skins . |
| 40 | In the absence of gastroduodenal surgery , the last is mostly found in chronic NSAID users , as shown in this study and others . |
| 41 | The cheap care provided by childminders is mostly patronized by poorer mothers , especially African and West Indian mothers . |
| 42 | The great white-fronted , red-roofed castle they built to defend their lands is mostly preserved . |
| 43 | Unfortunately , the majority of energy used in homes is for space heating ( heating the rooms and the people ) and this is mostly needed in the winter when there is not sufficient sunshine in this country for solar energy to be feasible . |
| 44 | The canoeing is mostly grade I racks with a few tight grade I+/II shoots ; there is one grade II at Bogroy footbridge , a twisting descent over 3 rock ledges , and the photographically spectacular grade III in the centre of Carrbridge itself . |
| 45 | The wait until September before she starts another novel is mostly owing to her publicity commitments . |
| 46 | Simply put , during waking consciousness there is a demand by the alert cortex for perceptual information from the senses , and the senses provide an abundance , which is mostly disregarded as only topically relevant information is attended to . |
| 47 | The kindness and generosity of the owners has been especially welcomed by one of the readers who is mostly confined to her home . |
| 48 | The coal used in the district is mostly supplied from North Wales , and to some extent , from North Staffordshire and Lancashire , and is delivered by the Cambrian Company at Montgomery , from whence ( as in the case of lime ) it is carted to its destination . |
| 49 | Cable which has a large reserve of strength is mostly used so that a weak-link device of some kind safeguards the structure on a fast launch in gusty conditions . |
| 50 | At present , admittedly , triticale is mostly used for animal feed . |
| 51 | The ‘ primary rate ’ ISDN provides a block of a minimum of 30 lines , and is mostly used by large firms which connect it to a telephone switchboard . |
| 52 | In France , from where the machines originate , double knitting is mostly used for lace . |
| 53 | It is mostly used when A is a " sparse " matrix , with elements dominated by the diagonal ; B-1 is then a reasonable approximation to R. If this is not the case , the method may not converge , or do so very slowly . |
| 54 | A basic sense of wonder ( a ) to foster their capacity for imagination which can give rise to vision , realizing that reality can be greater and other than it often seems — so that they appreciate that a flat two-dimensional approach to life is not the only option available ; ( b ) to understand that religious faith expresses itself in a variety of forms , many of which are close to the arts , and to realize also that religious language is mostly used in symbolic or metaphorical ways ; ( c ) to appreciate the emotional power of religious commitment and how this can be beneficial or harmful . |
| 55 | With reference to your article on the inconsistencies in the Serpell report ( This Week , 27 January , p 220 ) the town of Keith is mostly surrounded by farmland and is certainly not in the middle of a peat bog ( Scottish or otherwise ) . |
| 56 | Sub-littoral is mostly known as the submerged seas over the Continental Shelf ( see diagram ) . |
| 57 | This condition is mostly dealt with in the community , which often means that it is not dealt with at all . |
| 58 | The change is strikingly illustrated by the number of surviving political bonds . |
| 59 | The phase of confusion is strikingly illustrated in some metopes from a large Doric temple at Selinus in Sicily ( fig. 23 ) . |
| 60 | His Great Tower or ‘ Yellow Tower ’ of Gwent is strikingly positioned outside the castle walls and its strength was almost sufficient to defy Cromwell 's demolition engineers . |