Example sentences of "[is] [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The holy grail of limitless energy , ‘ harnessing the power of the Sun on Earth ’ , is metaphorically an irresistible force and today , 40 years after the quest began and with over twenty billion dollars already spent trying to achieve it , the barriers to be overcome seem to be immovable . |
| 2 | I think that smoked salmon in quiches is rather an extravagance . |
| 3 | Vitamin B12 is rather an odd vitamin as it is only obtained from animal sources ( such as meat , milk , and eggs ) and not at all from plant foods . |
| 4 | It is not a comprehensive encyclopaedia of surfactant properties , but is rather an easily read and well set out account of what is commercially available . |
| 5 | In fact , an explanation which went back to a biologically grounded disposition could in this case precisely avoid the invocation of rational collective agency , which is rather an intellectualist embarrassment to the story as Hume ( 1738–40 ) tells it . |
| 6 | It is rather an inherent feature of the division of labour . |
| 7 | It is rather an attempt to move from a clearer understanding of support tasks to the organisation of skill ( and staff ) mixes required to perform support tasks . |
| 8 | This title is rather an exaggeration : the resultant theories are not all that grand , nor are they fully unified , as they do not include gravity . |
| 9 | This is rather an unusual request . |
| 10 | I do realise however that you do n't live in Currie , and that it is rather an early start . |
| 11 | Well , that is rather an exaggerate . |
| 12 | This is rather an |
| 13 | A missing egg is presumably an indication that a predator is around , and the bird deserts the nest . |
| 14 | The resurrection , for people who believe it to have taken place , is presumably an objective fact of history ; one which they can not circumvent even if they would . |
| 15 | However , here we do not resolve A into unc instead , we require that unc shall be a orthogonal matrix : unc Thus unc is our similar transformation of A into B. We then transform B into C : unc and so on , until the transform is eventually an upper triangular matrix having the eigenvalues of A in its diagonal . |
| 16 | It must , therefore , be emphasised that , despite the good intentions of the organisers , ‘ Genova nell'età barocca ’ is overwhelmingly an exhibition about Genoese painting , not the arts in Genoa , still less Genoa in the seventeenth century . |
| 17 | It is rarely an impossibility to find a third person , and in gusty weather this must make sense . |
| 18 | Students with learning difficulties do encounter prejudice , and confronting prejudice is rarely an easy task . |
| 19 | For instance we have argued elsewhere that if accountability is interpreted in a professional sense then the question of intelligibility to lay audiences is rarely an issue because the primary audience is teachers ' professional colleagues . |
| 20 | In this case , the writer 's revisions have turned the meaning of the original into its opposite : the original ( a ) says that stylistics is rarely an exercise in describing what use is made of language ; but the revision ( b ) says that stylistics should be defined as an exercise in describing what use is made of language . |
| 21 | ‘ For the first time in many a year , I 'm able to take my time and I must say , it 's rather an enjoyable experience . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's rather an insolent question . |
| 23 | It 's rather an adventure . ’ |
| 24 | And it , I 'm sure the jury would get the it 's rather an obvious question but why is that ? |
| 25 | I think it 's rather an island in in the middle of the ermerm cultivated land so if you stand on top of the Ridgeway and look down you can see the Harwell site standing out as a a green treed area erm compared with the corn all round it . |
| 26 | This is all the more so because other provisions in the Act , as they have been interpreted in the courts , amount to what is effectively an indirect attack on the ‘ right to silence . |
| 27 | MITR is effectively an open-ended tax relief , the cost of which will be determined by the number of people obtaining mortgages and the rate of interest prevailing . |
| 28 | The fundamental problem confronting process measurement is that there is energy transfer taking place at what is effectively an infinite number of points in space and in time . |
| 29 | The other , on the face of it , gives less cause for revelling , since it takes us back a mere 70 years and is effectively an anniversary of an anniversary . |
| 30 | This generalisation is more applicable to chief executives who must look outside their organisation than to those managers whose job is wholly an internal one . |