Example sentences of "[adj] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only as economic circumstances have eased , for most people at least , that the expressive aspects of relationships have become more prominent , although whether family relationships can ever be regarded as ‘ purely ’ expressive is very questionable ( ibid . |
| 2 | The Ethiopian is more powerful — you can sleep on the Yemeni , but Ethiopian keeps you awake all night ! . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The estimated difference in the present cratering rate shown in Figure 8.2 is largely the result of the different characteristics of each planet . |
| 5 | Yeah but it 's Fre it 's French is n't it ? |
| 6 | And Bretons and Basques tell us that being French is not a unitary condition , but rather a state of dynamic equilibrium between unity and diversity . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But what is not clear is why such an excess of water-living invertebrates — if this is the explanation — does not support a larger population of fish ( and water birds such as Dippers and Grey Wagtails ) in the first place . |
| 9 | What still is n't clear is why the whales have recently started making use of this resource . |
| 10 | I mean it 's quite clear is n't it what we wa we want a party of Labour , we 're organized , we 're organized mass organization that speaks for almost a million people in this union , I do n't but er , almost a million people . |
| 11 | It 's also making clear is n't it , as well ? |
| 12 | So that link there between dreams and fantasies and and being deceived and going mad , I think is quite clear is n't it ? world and between Shakespeare 's world . |
| 13 | My Lord the reason I to make it clear is not er unnecessarily it 's just that to enable a police had tried to not show anything , well we 've got the documents here and we 're very happy to receive them . |
| 14 | Still , if Brahms knew his Rheinberger , what this CD makes clear is how well Rheinberger knew his Brahms , who stands over theses String Quartets , as Beethoven did over the young Brahms himself , only much more obviously : there are echoes of Brahms in the textures , the themes , the passage-work , the construction . |
| 15 | What Smith does n't make clear is how we might get from the present destructive spiral to the moneyless system he advocates . |
| 16 | What the case does not make clear is how ISS made its profit , although it seems that Philips retained some control over the prices charged by ISS ( see point 14 of the judgement ) . |
| 17 | Concurrent is also restricting its sales focus to seven vertical markets to maintain its profits . |
| 18 | Concurrent is currently working on integrating the system with its own real-time and multiprocessing technology , which goes beyond the simple symmetric multiprocessing features offered by the Unix Labs version — Concurrent customers using the machines for applications such as simulation , measurement and control , weather and aerospace and signal intelligence analysis often need more control over how applications use the multiple chips . |
| 19 | Concurrent is currently working on integrating the system with its own real-time and multiprocessing technology , which goes beyond the simple symmetric multiprocessing features offered by the USL version — Concurrent customers using the machines for applications such as simulation , measurement and control , weather and aerospace and signal intelligence analysis often need more control over how applications use the multiple chips . |
| 20 | The curve relating the marginal efficiency of investment ( i ) to the level of investment in Fig. 14.1 is negatively sloped , for two main reasons . |
| 21 | Belief that ultimate reality is timeless is deeply rooted in human thinking , and the origin of rational investigation of the world was the search for the permanent factors that lie behind the ever-changing pattern of events . |
| 22 | It er well it 's easier is n't it , really ? |
| 23 | . Tomorrow it 's easier is n't it ? |
| 24 | That 's gon na make things a lot easier is n't it ? |
| 25 | The Supplement of 1933 is now being superseded by the much more extensive four-volume Supplement , of which three volumes have appeared ( I ( A-G ) : 1972 ; II ( H-N ) : 1976 ; III ( O-Scz ) : 1982 ) , and the last ( Se-Z ) is due in 1985 . |
| 26 | If a horse is sensible it does not mean that it is plain and ordinary — like an old pair of shoes — rather , being sensible is exactly that . |
| 27 | But while Tony Lesser is once again listing the Treasury 's objections to the topics Jane and I have proposed for discussion papers , a picture suddenly comes into my mind , with the most painful vividness , of Summerchild dragging himself across the hard wet ground , on the morning of June 24th 1974 , to the locked gates of that yard behind the Admiralty . |
| 28 | Lesser is always markedly smaller than Great , with less stout bill and yellow legs ( but sub-adult and winter Lessers may still have pink legs ) . |
| 29 | Marxman join the ranks of the likes of Hiphoprisy and Consolidated , bands who are bangingly right-on to the hip-ho beat at a time ( as we are constantly being reminded — YAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN ! ) when to be anything other than either defeatist or mindless is utterly unfashionable . |
| 30 | Ya he 's a bit mystical is n't he ? |