Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's hard work building a nest , but there s still time to stop and share a tit bit . |
| 2 | So that s now reference and there is a project review meeting as there is a quantitative work . |
| 3 | Its atmosphere takes up the outermost 600 miles of its 38,000 mile radius , and is mostly hydrogen , with some methane ( CH 2 ) , ethene ( C 2 H 2 ) and ammonia ( NH 3 ) , plus water vapour ( H 2 O ) and phosphine ( Ph 3 ) . |
| 4 | Of course , this is mostly exaggeration , just as it is to suggest that most French club members are merely posers or that the Italians are concerned at keeping talented youngsters off the course unless they have royal blood , or at least one Ferrari . |
| 5 | This , however , is mostly supposition and there is little evidence to support these arguments or to indicate the resource implications of this even if they are valid . |
| 6 | Pain like many things is mostly self inflicted . |
| 7 | I keep getting this feeling it 's already there , like in quantum physics , where matter is mostly space , and space , even the vacuum , seethes with creation and annihilation all the time , and nothing is absolute , and two particles at opposite ends of the universe react together as soon as one 's interfered with ; all that stuff . |
| 8 | Ararat is mostly fact ; Swallow , where Victor interviews the President , is mostly fiction . |
| 9 | Ararat is mostly fact ; Swallow , where Victor interviews the President , is mostly fiction . |
| 10 | The kit of the modern prospector includes no mules or checked shirts , no cast iron pots and pans , and there is no need to chew tobacco and spit ; the equipment is mostly plastic and beards are entirely optional ! |
| 11 | But the new land is mostly forest , which they have to help clear themselves . |
| 12 | Shop waste is mostly paper ( with some plastic ) and the possibility arises of collecting this waste and converting it to fuel pellets which have a calorific value of about two thirds that of coal . |
| 13 | These apatite crystals are embedded in an organic matrix which is mostly collagen . |
| 14 | ‘ The 43 per cent sugar is mostly lactose — from the milk . |
| 15 | Once the puppy is properly toilet trained it may be more convenient to move the bed out of the kitchen into another room in the house . |
| 16 | And yet we often find that examinations take place at the very time of year when there is most likelihood of a heatwave . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps … yes , it is most kind of you . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Spinal Tap ’ may have been the ultimate send up of the genre but ‘ Spinal Tap ’ is most metal fans ' favourite film . |
| 19 | it is in those sectors of the housing market where government has taken most control and which provide cheap accommodation , that there is most restriction on entry for migrants . |
| 20 | And it is with the statistical evaluation of leys that there is most controversy and where much work still needs doing . |
| 21 | It holds regular ministerial meetings to co-ordinate different aspects of policy amongst the Gulf States , including in the defence and security fields where there is most controversy . |
| 22 | Indeed nearly half our number are employed in the profession that is most flexiblc for married women , whether at school or university level . |
| 23 | The entity-relationship approach to data analysis is interview-driven , that is most information is obtained through interviewing members of staff . |
| 24 | Otherwise it 's mostly sex — I hope you 're not easily shocked . ’ |
| 25 | It 's mostly chipboard based , but I did buy an old 60s wardrobe quite cheaply which I cut up to make a computer work station . |
| 26 | ‘ Made of birchwood they were — this wood 's mostly oak and birch giving way to conifers as we come out , with a view of the foothills . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ That 's mostly TB , ’ John said gently . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's good to taste the real thing for once ; that vodka 's mostly water by now . ’ |
| 29 | Well our pits there 's a lot of water but it 's , it 's mostly body sweat and s I do get some water off a , a machine that I drive . |
| 30 | It it 's mostly sort of things about energy . |