Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] is [prep] " in BNC.

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1 So everyone is in a bit of a fix .
2 Tolerance and openness have been made excuses for much which is in fact lubricious ( and usually commercial ) exploitation of them .
3 Well you 've got five threes are and twelve threes are , you 've only got two figures left , so which is to which ?
4 So theirs is like the way I think .
5 So she is about the same age as her stepson .
6 Erm so she is in fact unavailable at all times .
7 Whenever we try to stop it , and our lawyers attempt to track down who is behind these publications , they have sold out and disappeared .
8 So who is behind it ? ’
9 ‘ But North Korean officials believe that only one is for peaceful purposes , while the others are for military aims . ’
10 Only one is to be chosen .
11 This genus contains several species parasitic in carnivores and insectivores , but only one is of veterinary interest .
12 We may think we are an uncaring society but in this matter of looking after our own , we are most emphatically not : for every hundred old people only one is in a home and then often after enormous efforts to help them at home have failed .
13 Joseph had mused : ‘ perhaps there is at work here a process , apparent in many situations but imperfectly understood , by which problems reproduced themselves from generation to generation ’ ( Joseph , 1972 ) .
14 four strategic plan making authorities in Lothian would be ineffective , inefficient and more expensive — and there is a danger that they would have different priorities and perspectives ; be parochial ; together , not meet the land needs of a growing region ; spread specialist staff thinly — perhaps there is post 1986 Met District evidence to support this ;
15 This is the stage where ignorance is bliss , when it looks easy and you do n't realize how much there is to it .
16 ‘ I 'd like to know exactly how much there is in the account . ’
17 In English films , it sometimes seems to be all there is to the story . ’
18 This may not be all there is to the concept of pain , but it is certainly part of it .
19 It seems to be a facet of nature that the lower a creature is on the scale of consciousness , the less there is for it to learn , and the more slavishly bound it is to its instincts .
20 The large ships used during the BGS offshore reconnaissance geological mapping programme could not approach close inshore , and so there is around the United Kingdom coast a largely unexplored area stretching in places several kilometres offshore .
21 The more rattling there is in the chest the more it is like Hepar .
22 Naturally he needs a working knowledge of property and company law and the law of procedure ; and the better his knowledge , the better he is at his job .
23 Lastly it is worth noting any usual features like sunken logs , projecting tree roots and big boulders .
24 Basically he is against carrying your holiday over , essentially .
25 Basically it is about success and failure .
26 The dead are impersonal , and so perhaps it is of no especial moment that they should be disturbed — or so I might once have argued on Victor 's behalf .
27 Perhaps it is for that reason that Britain will find greater interest in discussing the problems of the former Soviet Union and in establishing the rouble stabilisation fund — even though it will mean us pledging about $600m to help keep the Reds out of the red .
28 Perhaps it is for this reason that , in Braudel 's work at least , it is much more generously defined to include various stable but non-material factors .
29 He 's Well I think she 's pretty silly to come and sit out there in the rain and disturb the I suppose it it perhaps it is under cover I suppose .
30 Perhaps it is to be applied to some kind of child 's toy — a gunpowder-propelled kite ! ’
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