Example sentences of "is [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the centres , the general public as well as students are made to feel welcome , and the atmosphere is overwhelmingly adult . |
| 32 | But the wheels of bureaucracy take time to run , and British winter weather is rarely kind to fliers , while seaplanes have the additional disadvantage of needing several ground-crew and suitable tides as well as suffering all the constraints of more conventional land aircraft . |
| 33 | Such is the efficacy of propaganda for the global capitalist system that it is rarely capitalism itself that is targetted in such cases , but the symbols of American or European national power . |
| 34 | Blown 16v engine is terrifically torquey |
| 35 | The business is effectively recession proof , if anything it probably does better when times are hard . |
| 36 | Work down is effectively 100% . |
| 37 | Windows World , which is effectively Microsoft 's booth there , is spread over two halls and we 're told to expect a cast of thousands of independent software vendors in supporting roles . |
| 38 | The belief that pathology in schistosomiasis is wholly egg-centred requires reassessment in light of the report of ‘ capillarization ’ of hepatic sinusoids in infected mice before the onset of egg production ( J.-A . |
| 39 | In the context of immediate decisions such as doctors may be called upon to make , the concept of doing what the judge called ‘ preserving the prospect of an informed decision ’ is wholly inapposite . |
| 40 | Similarly being-for-others is wholly body ; there are no ‘ psychic phenomena ’ there to be united with the body . |
| 41 | For example , it is often assumed that multiculturalism is methodologically individualist , and reduces racism to an individual pathology of prejudice , whilst antiracism is radically holist and insists on the primacy of structural processes . |
| 42 | From the evidence that is available there seems to be some doubt about whether inspection is methodologically sound ( though this is mainly based on what the inspectors fail to say rather than what they do say ) . |
| 43 | There are tiny algae within corals , for example ( see pp 56–57 ) ; yet life on the coral reef is predominantly animal . |
| 44 | If the environment in which you work is predominantly PCs which are used for word processing then there is little if any problem in using Macintoshs as desktop publishing systems . |
| 45 | Where the manufacturing company is predominantly production orientated and lacks the marketing expertise . |
| 46 | Onyeanusi 's study involved an assessment of the impact of vehicle tyres on off-road tracks in a specific area of what is predominantly grassland savanna . |
| 47 | Electromagnetic radiation from a source small compared with the wavelength is predominantly dipole in character with higher multipoles becoming progressively weaker . |
| 48 | ‘ … and verily every man living is altogether vanity ’ the minister went on . |
| 49 | And she makes me laugh all the time — laughter is tremendously bonding , it 's the greatest thing . |
| 50 | This magnificent constellation is arguably second in splendour only to Orion . |
| 51 | Moodie had succeeded over Ulster 's short circuits at Kirkistown and Bishopscourt but , despite four years of tryi West , he had never been able to crack what is arguably Ulster 's toughest race . |
| 52 | A WHIFF of competition sent shares in United States chip maker Intel tumbling at the end of March , wiping more than a fifth off the value of what is arguably Silicon Valley 's most important firm . |
| 53 | Located at the very heart of San Francisco on Union Square , this elegant and historic hotel is arguably San Francisco 's finest , and offers a wide range of facilities and excellent accommodation to the discerning traveller . |
| 54 | 13 1775 & that Body is vastly improv 'd the longer it is kept & the little remains of fat shine a little more thro' & it is now very much the colour of Indian Copper , i.e. it is very near the colour of finished work 'd mahogany & is really a beautiful mass , the Legs are now perfectly dry and from the Beginning to the end there is nothing of putrefaction . |
| 55 | ( It is paradoxically liberals who provide me with my argument for this when they argue that violent people can be ‘ understood ’ since they know no other language with which to express their inarticulate aggro . |
| 56 | He does , however , acknowledge that though " Conservative rhetoric is fundamentally consumerist rather than democratic , it has served to put the issue of school-parent relations near the centre of educational debate and has led to legislation which increases parental involvement " ( Jones 1989:120 ) . |
| 57 | ‘ To avoid the strath — they must know it is all ours. , ‘ Then who is the big-wig ? |
| 58 | This is necessarily part of the unwritten effect involved in any clinical trial . |
| 59 | The Manager using the system is constantly face to face with data and this increases his knowledge of the company and its personnel . |
| 60 | Isomerisation of the 1,3-rings to their 1,2-isomers is a photochemically symmetry allowed process which is thermally symmetry forbidden . |