Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Trust says the estate is botanically some of the richest land the National Trust owns with a variety of trees , natural grasses , orchids , marsh flowers , insects and bird life . |
| 2 | Somewhere there 's somewhere that is n't Wimbledon . |
| 3 | The first is that there is rather little reason to associate the coercive pressure of a dominant or majority current of opinion or belief with democracy . |
| 4 | The suggestion to be explored is rather that to think difference culturally rather than sexually might be both more illuminating and more liberating . |
| 5 | But none of this is the essence of Mrs Thatcher 's problem which is rather that , on the essential questions of economic management , the government gives the impression either of having lost its momentum or of having decided that it must settle for something well short of what Mrs Thatcher seemed to promise in the way of reducing the size of the public sector and also the burden of taxation . |
| 6 | The point is rather that , even though knowingly taking risks with other people 's lives is usually unjustifiable , taking a slight risk is less serious than intentionally causing death . |
| 7 | The scene is rather that portrayed in such modern masterworks as Yes , Minister , a key text of late-twentieth-century English political thought , and novels like Michael Dobb 's House of Cards — Mr Dobbs being appropriately enough , Deputy Chairman of Saatchi and Saatchi , the advertising agency , and a friend and colleague of Christopher Patten . |
| 8 | It is not that in desperate circumstances we discover ourselves to be natural egoists and throw off moral restraints , it is rather that morality no longer applies . |
| 9 | This has nothing to do with turning diachrony into synchrony ; the point is rather that |
| 10 | What I am arguing is rather that , in spite of its evident prominence , nationalism is historically less important . |
| 11 | It is rather that little rationality is evident in the decision whether to accord any procedural protection at all and as to how much protection should be given . |
| 12 | It is rather that " social anthropologists have learnt from experience that the totality of the local community is usually treated by its members as an expanded domestic household ; though equally well one might say that a domestic household is treated as a fined down version of the total community . |
| 13 | In the past , it has sometimes been unduly prettified by directors , but today there is rather more danger of excessive uglification , of overdoing the grimness . |
| 14 | To have produced one important poem is rather more than the vast majority of poets could claim in any age . |
| 15 | Of three books on the nervous system G. M. Shepherd 's Neurobiology is called an introduction but since it is a systematic study of 600 pages it is rather more than that for most of us . |
| 16 | There was a pause then Mair said quietly : ‘ Alzheimer 's is rather more than an inconvenience . |
| 17 | How many of the 200 knights should be counted as members of Lisiard of Amboise 's household can not be determined ; the number is rather more what one might expect of the household of a great prince . |
| 18 | Remember that the insurance valuation is not the amount paid for the rug , but the amount that would probably be required to replace it and , in practice , is rather more than the price originally paid . |
| 19 | Again there is low flow , although there is rather more water . |
| 20 | This is rather more than the summary that appears in the prelims . |
| 21 | In the countries of advanced capitalism , on the other hand , sub-central government is rather more than an administrative device . |
| 22 | That is rather more responsibility than I am prepared to take . ’ |
| 23 | The software , called Multimedia Interactive Control ( MIC ) , is rather more than an authoring tool . |
| 24 | Guido paused for an instant , then added , smiling , ‘ I expect that 's why your personal monetary situation is rather more loss than profit at the moment — because you invest so much of your time in romance ? ’ |
| 25 | Bob and I had all sorts of schemes for us all to meet , including asking you to come to Edinburgh as a halfway house , but we realised that actually that is rather more than halfway for you , and would n't be at all easy . |
| 26 | There is rather less footroom because of the wider transmission tunnel , with nowhere to rest the left foot , and one is faced by a very full instrument panel . ’ |
| 27 | However , there is rather less chance that girls will be detained or go on the run from the security forces , a factor which has increased male drop-out levels . |
| 28 | Competition between male mountain goats is rather less than in some other species and as an evolutionary result the sexes are very similar in size and appearance . |
| 29 | Interestingly , for women workers , there is rather less difference between the white population and ethnic minorities , the latter being relatively over-represented in semi-skilled occupations and under-represented in non-manual jobs as a whole . |
| 30 | Sadly , the sort of quality that can be achieved from such bit mapped graphics is rather less than the advertisements might lead you to believe , especially when it comes to enlarging or reducing them and printing them out at high resolution . |