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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Concurrent is also restricting its sales focus to seven vertical markets to maintain its profits . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In Islam the mystical is especially pronounced in the brotherhood of the Sufis . |
| 14 | ‘ All right , your claim that I was superfluous is probably valid , so why was n't I made redundant in the usual way ? |
| 15 | The saline is eventually filtered and then heated in shallow pans to complete the evaporation process before the salt is left to crystallise . |
| 16 | Self-catering is also available . |
| 17 | ‘ How is it that their entertaining is so — er — reliable then ? ’ |
| 18 | What seems barbarous is admirably suited to the rain-forest environment , for the scattering of the groups , their rigorous population control and their constant movement mean that the forest is nowhere completely depleted and recovers through cycles of regeneration before being farmed once more . |
| 19 | The scope for adult educators to develop liberal AE for the unemployed is thus severely limited in the 1980s — and is , of course , further curtailed by the continuing UGC cuts . |
| 20 | The net effect of the application of the liberal model for developing work with the unemployed is thus somewhat muted and minimal . |
| 21 | The review 's suggestion that drug addicts , ‘ dossers ’ and some people with mental health problems should not be counted as unemployed is partly based on the department 's evidence that a ‘ significant and relatively high proportion ’ of mental patients have been returned to society as part of the Government 's ‘ care in the community ’ policy . |
| 22 | But the connection between Lloyd 's and the unemployed is much closer than most realise . |
| 23 | where non-syllabic is also acceptable ‘ history ’ or ( not usually ) ‘ wanderer ’ or ( not usually ) |
| 24 | I think what they have done reads beautifully as English is very profound theologically and it uses language that is not gender specific . |
| 25 | The reciprocal is also true ; interaction in one sphere of activity often leads to shared activity in unrelated spheres . |
| 26 | This is an important topic ; it often happens that an approximate reciprocal of a matrix A is known : perhaps from a rough calculation , or one in which an error has been made , or even that belonging to a neighbour matrix of A. Refinement of this approximate reciprocal is then required . |
| 27 | Corrosion is severest closer to the outer leaf where damp is more severe and where the rust expands , forcing open the mortar joints , and in extreme cases causing bulging and cracking of the wall which is visible externally . |
| 28 | It is true that his programme is original , though whether it is funny is quite another matter . |
| 29 | This type of long-netting is inevitably carried out in broad daylight , and the rabbits will be much more aware of the net than they are during darkness . |
| 30 | Arthur was saying some of the second hand stuff at Bromley High is quite good . |