Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There s now hope that after three years in jail , Poole and Mills will once again get a chance to defend themselves , in court . |
| 2 | I was just dithering , trying to see what the new keys were , when I thought ‘ shit , unless I can send it , there s no point me carrying on ’ . |
| 3 | Somalia is mostly desert , and three-quarters of its 6m people are nomads , living from a mixture of camels ' milk and fierce raids on other clans . |
| 4 | Notice as you walk up this path the difference between the plantation on the left , which has a mixture of broadleaf and coniferous trees , and that on the right which is mostly pine . |
| 5 | This is mostly conjecture ; and our opinion that the instrumental bass line of the duet was polished before publication can be dismissed as subjective . |
| 6 | The canoeing is mostly grade I racks with a few tight grade I+/II shoots ; there is one grade II at Bogroy footbridge , a twisting descent over 3 rock ledges , and the photographically spectacular grade III in the centre of Carrbridge itself . |
| 7 | Clearly that goes through many doors throughout the er the constituency , and it is widely read , people look forward to it . |
| 8 | When Charles Kingsley writes in his description of the sewer of ‘ the slow sullen rows of oily ripple … sending up … hot breaths of miasma ’ , he is being quite specific ; but in Dickens 's Little Dorrit the word is virtually symbolic of confusion , as the pervasive fog is in Bleak House . |
| 9 | It 's little wonder that the naturally shy Morrissey often seeks to retreat . |
| 10 | Gerald has been known to coin such memorable one-liners as the following : ‘ If the joy of the Lord is our strength , it 's little wonder that the church in Britain has been so weak and ineffective ’ ; ‘ There 's no virtue in being ten or twenty years behind the times ’ ; ‘ Most Christians are nicer than God himself ’ ; ‘ It is the unshared areas of our lives where Jesus is not Lord ’ ; ‘ One of the reasons the church in Britain has failed to grow is quite simply because it is full of people who are extremely rude ’ ; ‘ Putting the life of God into institutional Christianity is rather like putting the life of a human being into a kangaroo … . ’ 'You are only a leader if someone 's following you' ( Gerald Quotes ) . |
| 11 | It 's little wonder that this month Patrick Eggle guitars occupy two of the top ten slots in the British guitar sales league . |
| 12 | Add to that the dreadfully long hours that doctors and nurses have to work — sometimes 16-18 hour shifts — and it 's little wonder that mistakes are made . |
| 13 | It 's little wonder that the fax machine is so popular and that dial-up E-mail is such a rare species . |
| 14 | The fact of her being your grandfather 's little by-blow ! ’ |
| 15 | This policy is most politick , for many leave the island daily in their rough-hewn barques for other parts and thus confirm our powers here : the world is open to them , they can wander abroad at liberty until they discover those skills of civility to settle a land and make it their own . |
| 16 | I suppose that 's sort of weather , what , this is most intrigue you know , what made you take them ? |
| 17 | But it is rather charm less I think , and there is at least one far more enticing place nearby if you plan to stop in this valley . |
| 18 | At Stade Roland Garros , the Centre Court temperature is rarely like to be less than 100 degrees F. The sunbaked concrete and clay cauldron is no place for the weak kneed or willed . |
| 19 | In 1992 , the wooden huts those codebreakers worked in , on the edge of what 's since become Milton Keynes , are threatened with being demolished . |
| 20 | Anyway , ’ she went on , softening slightly , ‘ that story 's only fiction even if the James character is remarkably like you . |
| 21 | Erm be far side it 's right keep going out and out . |
| 22 | It is little surprise that legend and lore should have built up around it . |
| 23 | Even in Oxford , one of the region 's most cycle friendly cities , cyclists are getting more and more frustrated with the dangers posed by traffic and pollution . |
| 24 | Nick , being a boy , he 's rather slapdash . |
| 25 | What we envisage is somewhere open and staffed 24 hours a day , seven days a week , where anybody can come for help and advice . |
| 26 | Twelve kilometres to the north-east of it is somewhere better : Sauveterre-de-Béarn , an interesting old place sat up above the Gave d'Oloron . |
| 27 | By the late seventies some British academics were displaying a wary but sympathetic interest in early or classical structuralism , particularly as it was expounded in Culler 's widely read Structuralist Poetics , a lucid , urbane work which suggested that structuralism might , without too much difficulty , be adopted to existing academic practice . |
| 28 | all it will do is slowly soften and go in , I can assure you , you do n't need to inject it |
| 29 | We now need to consider margins where the movement is predominantly transform and plates meet along transform faults rather than at subduction zones or along collision boundaries . |
| 30 | Cos that 's one reason a lot of Harlow people do n't know what 's on do n't erm you know they they do n't really have contact with erm they do n't always use Harvey . |