Example sentences of "is [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This is mostly conjecture ; and our opinion that the instrumental bass line of the duet was polished before publication can be dismissed as subjective . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Clearly that goes through many doors throughout the er the constituency , and it is widely read , people look forward to it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I suppose that 's sort of weather , what , this is most intrigue you know , what made you take them ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Anyway , ’ she went on , softening slightly , ‘ that story 's only fiction even if the James character is remarkably like you . |
| 11 | It is little surprise that legend and lore should have built up around it . |
| 12 | What we envisage is somewhere open and staffed 24 hours a day , seven days a week , where anybody can come for help and advice . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | all it will do is slowly soften and go in , I can assure you , you do n't need to inject it |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is optimistically forecast that women will become freer from household burdens as a result of these technological innovations . |
| 17 | That is right thank you . |
| 18 | However , you may find that all you need to do is gently wipe the strawberries with absorbent kitchen paper . |
| 19 | All you have to do is gently move all your joints , several times , one after the other ; carefully stretch and then tense your muscles ; breathe deeply , but not too deeply , and invigorate your body by massaging it with your hands , someone else 's hands or a rough towel . |
| 20 | This is highly price sensitive information from which a conglomerate could make a profit or avoid a loss , but it would rarely constitute a breach of the the Company Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act 1985 . |
| 21 | Erm that I went through at the beginning you know which is basically write to lots of people |
| 22 | Here , I can only think that he was saying , ‘ well , we do n't know that there 's the full authority of the city council in this view ’ , but erm I 'm not going to put up a defence , I just think that what we do is basically stress from yourself and from the chief officer that we do want this file known . |
| 23 | Senior Midland area and I 've been working on a job in Coventry which is basically work er what I hope to get mainly out of this course is an increased level of personal confidence so I can overcome basic nervousness when speaking . |
| 24 | Cooking is especially suhject to this limitation , although it is in theory one of the most liked activities . |
| 25 | What it does is annually adjust your interest rate taking into account the previous year 's rate changes . |
| 26 | It is somewhat let down by the front of the headstock , which is covered in sanding marks , but in the company it keeps here it 's the exception rather than the rule . |
| 27 | For when it comes it is more violent , more annihilating , more interminable than I can remember it , this feeling in the pit of the stomach , this physical pain and physical desire to retch , to want to get rid of something , of everything , to want to make all that is inside emerge and disappear , drain away , mingle with the rest of the detritus of the world , but it is not only physical , a physical sensation , he wrote , it is physical but it is also something else , not moral , not psychological , not spiritual , but something else , something other than the purely physical . |
| 28 | This is then the complete fall of the family unit as the two sisters grapple over an issue they believe to be , once more , love but it is merely desire for Edmund . |
| 29 | Apart from the objection of principle that this is merely state capitalism I shall consider three further points . |
| 30 | The phonetic information is manually input using a special keyboard having 21 keys . |