Example sentences of "[adv] [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another reason I like Dorset so much is for the windsurfing . |
| 2 | I have apologies from Vicki Whadcoat , who apparently is in Paris licking stamps for a week . |
| 3 | All four books reveal a steady concern with imitation and interpretation , and to read them together is to be clearer about what it is that the writer intends us to think that he thinks about things . |
| 4 | One way in which gender , ethnicity and class have been seen to fit together is as a consequence of capitalist social relations : women are exploited in the workplace because of the benefit that employers derive from this , and in the home because employers need to have a new generation of workers produced as cheaply as possible . |
| 5 | WATCHING the four Highwaymen step up to their microphones together is like watching one of those westerns in which the grizzled heroes finally stand shoulder to shoulder . |
| 6 | True , without error , certain and most true ; that which is above is as that which is below , and that which is below is as that which is above , for performing the miracles of the One Thing ; and as all things were from One , by the mediation of One , so all things arose from this One Thing by adaptation ; the father of it is the Sun , the mother of it is the Moon ; the wind carries it in its belly ; the nurse thereof is the Earth . |
| 7 | The price quoted below is for the review machine , a 16Mb 486 with a 200Mb hard disk . |
| 8 | The outline presented below is in note form with issues which could be used in training . |
| 9 | The example below is from Tamil , where [ z ] is a frequently used sound , but unfamiliar to English speakers . |
| 10 | TOILETRIES maker Creighton 's Naturally is at last shaking off its dependence on two major customers , Body Shop and Crabtree & Evelyn . |
| 11 | Yeah and I say the obviously is in nigh on in the |
| 12 | Their £140-a-day living allowance alone is about what pensioners get for their keep a month . |
| 13 | He has a pleasing , busy batting style but his fielding alone is worth the admission money . |
| 14 | The latter item alone is worth all that effort ! |
| 15 | The casket alone is worth 250 GCs . |
| 16 | If you 're using an earlier version of DOS , EDIT alone is worth the cost of updating to version 5 . |
| 17 | The 7 million tonnes of straw could , by proper conversion into animal feed , product 600,000 tonnes of beef , which alone is worth £1,000 million at wholesale prices , not to mention additional processed meat and pet-food . |
| 18 | The photography alone is worth a couple of hours viewing . |
| 19 | The British market alone is worth £750 million a year . |
| 20 | The research company Mintel estimates that the business-to-business incentives and promotions market alone is worth a staggering £1.32 billion , while the Institute of Sales Promotion values overall expenditure at over £7 billion . |
| 21 | The fact that the power of was not confined to the Mufti alone is of some importance in assessing the nature of the Muftilik in general and will therefore be dealt with in greater detail further on ; suffice it to say for the moment that Mustakimzade 's argument is disappointing in its lack of development and of positive evidence in support of it and that , in the terms in which it is stated and in view of the material he seems to have used in compiling his book , his argument might equally well apply to Molla Fenari . |
| 22 | He purchased of me — the copies left on my hands — and he alone is to be applied to on the point you wish answered . ’ |
| 23 | Dollar expenditure on tobacco alone is at present ten times that on timber . |
| 24 | And perhaps their foolishness will make everyone understand that however much fun Home Alone is for children at the cinema it is fiction and can not be made real by acting it out . |
| 25 | Changes over time also indicate that living alone is on the increase as a feature of old age : the General Household Survey ( OPCS , 1985 ) shows that in 1973 , 40 per cent of those aged 75 and over lived alone ; ten years later the figure was 47 per cent . |
| 26 | The man who brought us hits Like Ferry Cross the Mersey and You 'll Never Walk Alone is on a nationwide tour , but stopped off just long enough to talk to Mike Rowbottom . |
| 27 | As in Miss Austen 's day it was universally accepted that a young unmarried man with a house and fortune was in need of a wife , so Mrs Girdlestone might have been beguiled into accepting a somewhat similar assumption that one elderly lady living alone is in need of an even more elderly lady to live with her ( prudently stipulating , however , the three months only , in case she should wish to draw back ) . |
| 28 | I am going to do so and so , or I am going to the pictures or I , I 'm going to so and so 's for tea . |
| 29 | Obviously their chance at the draw bag is now four to one instead of one hundred to one , and even allowing for the fact that they will undoubtedly be called lucky so and so 's for drawing well all the time , with odds of four to one it is not so surprising . |
| 30 | So is at least providing the opportunity for that ? |