Example sentences of "[adv] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She believes the mistake psychoanalysis has made hitherto is aiming to shore up a kind of finished and defined ego . |
| 2 | The little girl opposite is copying her numbers carefully from the blackboard onto her slate . |
| 3 | Slightly better is to use the test followed by study of the words spelled incorrectly ; but this causes only a marginal improvement . |
| 4 | Handy argues that an efficient organisational design for the future is the " shamrock " organisation : one leaf of the shamrock contains the " core " professional staff , those with the crucial knowledge on which the organisation depends , from whom much is expected and to whom much is given . |
| 5 | I am not sure how far , without these visible or audible marks of strangeness , ‘ they ’ would be recognised by cultural differences , though in racist reactions much is made of such things : how good Frenchmen are insulted by the smells of North African cooking , or good Brits by that of curry emanating from their neighbours . |
| 6 | While agents may be fined up to £5,000 for misleading descriptions , in setting out only the basic details of a property much is lost . |
| 7 | These days much is known about the socio-economic composition of the population thanks largely to the national census . |
| 8 | Handy argues that an efficient organisational design for the future is the " shamrock " organisation : one leaf of the shamrock contains the " core " professional staff , those with the crucial knowledge on which the organisation depends , from whom much is expected and to whom much is given . |
| 9 | A hint that the fishery may have been active as early as 4200B.C. is offered by the serpent-like ornament of mother-of-pearl recovered from level V C at the site of Yahya in south Iran . |
| 10 | They are already down in Cardiff but ASLEF apparently is objecting to the very small cabs which have been created for the driver at one end . |
| 11 | The trick apparently is to make it look ordinary without it actually being so . |
| 12 | erm He apparently is adopting the position of a scientific naturalist , and yet all the ways in which he talks about nature are ways which personify it . |
| 13 | The first thing the production company and the agency have to do together is to plan the production and produce an estimate of the production costs . |
| 14 | Working out just how to bring us all together is proving to be the sticking point . |
| 15 | What is special is that these molecules are put together in much more complicated patterns than the molecules of nonliving things , and this putting together is done by following programs , sets of instructions for how to develop , which the organisms carry around inside themselves . |
| 16 | I wish to inject an addendum in deliverance fourteen after the words each other , helping each other to continue to mature add the words christian worship together is seen as a priority . |
| 17 | When the truth of the relationship together is faced , the prospect of living alone suddenly ceases to be unbearable . |
| 18 | He says having two children close together is bound to be hard work . |
| 19 | ‘ Whatever business we had together is concluded , ’ she said quickly . |
| 20 | ‘ Piecing the bodies together is going to be a full-time job for some poor bastard . |
| 21 | The characteristics are approximated by the sinusoidal functions : The effect of exciting a pair of phases together is shown in Fig. 3.6(b) where the peak static torque is improved by a factor of 1–4 over one-phase-on excitation — For phases A and B excited by positive current the total torque is : and similarly for other phase combinations . |
| 22 | Under the Control of Pollution Act 1974 the noise from stereos in the street between 9pm and 8am is forbidden . |
| 23 | I said All you can do basically is go to a solicitor , get a court order , unless I can persuade the lady herself to let you have the furniture . |
| 24 | We also run a summer school called Women into Physics , which is a rather strange title , but the idea basically is to persuade , if not encourage , young girls who have just taken their O levels that physics is a subject which could be for them — it 's not unladylike about being a scientist and , in particular , being a physicist . |
| 25 | Well that 's what they 're saying , they 're not , that the committee they say , is basically is voting ourselves back in . |
| 26 | But as the organisation has seen to be when it meets generally speaking , the council and the executive are one and the same dealing with exactly the same business , I 've considered it a meeting of the organisation , and the organisation now basically is going to be the seven sub-committee plus an Annual General Meeting of it 's full council . |
| 27 | All of chemistry now basically is becoming explicable in terms of quantum theory … we are getting , have been getting in the past 20 years , into the age where a sizeable amount of basic chemistry can now be properly understood from basic quantum theory . |
| 28 | The effect of disciplining and training myself morally is to refine my ch'i to a perfect transparency ; then the li show through . |
| 29 | The environs of the waterfall are pleasant enough and there is no suspicion of the Peril 's dark secret unless a small opening under the overhang of the cliff alongside is noticed : this insignificant hole admits to the largest cave system in the valley , underground passages extending for more than half a mile below and far beyond the road in a succession of tight crawls and large caverns . |
| 30 | But the illusion is soon shattered … the moored sailing vessel alongside is heaving with 65 members of a film crew . |