Example sentences of "[verb] is [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exactly as I appear is exactly as I am , he had said that day in Carlingford . |
| 2 | When this has been entered ( unless a date has been given for the assessment ) the plaintiff should , when ready to prove his figures , apply for an appointment before the district judge , or , if the sum claimed is more than £1,000 , before the circuit judge ( unless the defendant admits liability ) . |
| 3 | Thus its Fourier transform is just and F(t) is represented by . |
| 4 | As for the author 's intentions , what counts is only whether or not he has succeeded in writing poetry , and that too can be discerned by reference to the text alone . |
| 5 | And they , it was a bit frightening because we were in a group of seventeen and see what I mean when , I mean how it starts is like if were starting with me , I have to say I 'm Tony , right , and then you would say I 'm Jackie and this is Tony and then Christine would say I 'm Christine this is Jackie , this is Tony , I was at the end of a group of seventeen and I had heard it sort of , you hear it , it builds up round the room |
| 6 | Under the Act it is possible for the purchaser to seek a court order against the vendors and the amount recoverable from any person shall be such as the court holds is just and equitable . |
| 7 | Another version puts things differently , arguing that men 's way of speaking is not intrinsically more credible/authoritative , what happens is simply that men can use their socially dominant position to claim linguistic privileges . |
| 8 | And you 'll remember that that the definition of gating is simply that channels switch between open and closed states , they gate open or closed . |
| 9 | The problem he says is only that Mr Tijani turned out to be so ill , otherwise he came as a legitimate private patient . |
| 10 | And there would be a funeral when the boat came and I mean when the boat came is just when the boat came . |
| 11 | The reason the process of telling the truth seems less complicated than I 've said is simply that we are n't conscious of most of the mental processes I 've been describing . |
| 12 | The truth is that there are disagreeable aspects to nearly all work ; that what is regarded as disagreeable in work will vary from person to person and , within one person , from mood to mood ; and that , in the end , the distinction to be made is simply but none the less crucially that the disagreeable features are more readily tolerated when the worker is working for himself than when he is working for someone else . |
| 13 | A member of any council is entitled to a subsistence allowance only if the place where the duty is performed is more than three miles from his usual place of residence . |
| 14 | All of this should be easily understood when it is realised that the effect of the contract being avoided or frustrated is generally that the parties are no longer required to carry out the contract ; they are excused . |
| 15 | For example , you know currently , you know our shift pattern with the projectionists for example , you know is generally when they 're not on holiday that they 're in at er ten o'clock and they work through till eleven . |
| 16 | If the value we get is more than 19 , we will subtract 20 repetitively until it is brought into the range 0 to 19 . |
| 17 | Pentagon figures for Panamanians killed during the invasion and the fighting that followed is less than 300 . |
| 18 | The critical composition at which phase separation is first detected is then and which indicates that at infinitely large chain length . |
| 19 | So what you need to do is rather than have a big block of writing okay which is going to look not really in the format of this kind of newspaper is it ? what you tend to get in the tabloids is loads of these little ones . |
| 20 | and if er , what they 're trying to do is so that you work say twenty three hours the class contact , you , you ca n't be averaged for more than two hours a week , so you need twenty three hours for the first two terms |
| 21 | At first sight what he seems to be saying is simply that no one is going to take any notice of the conclusions which a rational woman reaches after deliberation . |
| 22 | In more mundane language , what we are saying is simply that a movement to a point along x could be executed in two steps , one along x and then another along y . |
| 23 | If the sum insured is less than 60% of the value of property at risk , due consideration should be given to avoiding the policy ( refer Section 6.2 ) . |
| 24 | What Tumbleweed are doing is more or less just putting the two approaches together . |
| 25 | At 666p , Rothmans is trading below asset value , which some believe is more than 750p a share . |
| 26 | Neither state is more or less truthful than the other . |
| 27 | There 's much that makes sense ; there 's much that is thought-provoking , even if the thought it provokes is often that the authors are off their trolley ( 'be alert to the strange fact that the end of each century divisible by five has witnessed a major transition in Western civilisation ’ ) . |
| 28 | However the tendency to crystallize is there and given time some glasses will in fact crystallize . |
| 29 | Despite many a scratched hand , the official ruling is that any pedigree cat found to have had its claws removed is automatically and unconditionally disqualified from competing . |
| 30 | What is meant is really that it is not possible to learn to sign like a deaf person , i.e. without an ‘ accent ’ . |