Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Numerous figures can be cited to support the view that specific types and ages of households tend to be thus affected , but perhaps the most telling is that 90 per cent of single-person households over the age of 60 years do not have a car ( table 6.1 ) . |
| 2 | But what is most striking is that by adopting the voice of the Psalm , Herbert is also adopting the voice of a king ( and a shepherd ) as the Psalm was presented as being authored by a divinely inspired King David . |
| 3 | Now the basis for the pathogenesis is not well enough established for us to expect you to understand the details of how it achieves these processes , but one thing which is remarkably clear is that the organism is a capsule producing organism and that once it gets into the er cerebral spinal fluid that predominately is an acute inflammatory . |
| 4 | What is most interesting is that the application of a single chemical triggers a whole series of developmental events , from the manifestation of coiling growth to the formation of haustoria . |
| 5 | However , what is most interesting is that a deliberate attempt was made to sell it as a concept rather than as what might have hitherto been seen as a package of infrastructural measures . |
| 6 | ‘ What is most interesting is that an analysis of the first 3,500 enquiries showed that 60% were from industrial and commercial companies . |
| 7 | Perhaps the most interesting is that their time must run in the opposite direction to our own : their ‘ future ’ is the birth of the Universe and their ‘ past ’ is its end . |
| 8 | But what 's so striking is that this great diversity of belief is accompanied by strong convictions of rationality and rectitude . |
| 9 | What makes this year so outstanding is that your ruling planet , Pluto , makes a 90-degree angle to Saturn — something that has n't happened for 20 years . |
| 10 | What makes the sex distribution of these cats so odd is that normally only a female kitten can display black patches inherited from one parent and red tabby patches inherited from the other . |
| 11 | Well , no , there would n't but what 's so odd is that the other horse chestnut trees in the area seem alright . |
| 12 | What made the issue especially controversial is that the American Constitution requires that Church and State be completely separate , and most Americans , churches included , accept that this means no religion must be taught in schools . |
| 13 | One of the reasons why play is so absorbing is that it is self-initiated , in a way that is not available to us in the process of combatting , enduring or avoiding the slings and arrows of day-to-day living . |
| 14 | What is not so clear is whether the Principles have anticipated ail types of problem which the technology may throw up . |
| 15 | The pattern for these accusations had been set by the young Liberal Charles Masterman in The Heart of the Empire ( 1902 ) where he had thundered out his warning of inevitable decline as the result of the ‘ perpetual lowering in the vitality of the Imperial Race in the great cities of the Kingdom through over-crowding in room and in area ’ : What was never entirely clear was whether it was merely a physical deterioration that was eating away at the ‘ Imperial Race ’ , or if a moral decay was not also in evidence . |
| 16 | What was never entirely clear was whether Hooliganism represented the end-point of the evolutionary deterioration of the ‘ Imperial Race ’ , or just the kind of rough boys needed as a warrior class to defend the Empire . |
| 17 | One of the reasons he has become so popular is that he has no ego and refuses to take himself seriously . |
| 18 | What this approach makes especially clear is that while we might want to say that the meaning of ( 17 ) remains constant across different occasions of utterance , the proposition that it expresses if Joe Bloggs utters it is different from the one it picks out if Sue Bloggs utters it . |
| 19 | What is much less clear is that it is the answer to all problems , or that it has even solved the problems its proponents themselves recognized . |
| 20 | What is less clear is whether they were cut in Kent or imported ready cut . |
| 21 | What is less clear is whether these are national cultural differences , differences in the use of language and/or corporate culture influences . |
| 22 | But what is then especially interesting is that the cultural process of including and incorporating areas of the oral culture into printed forms is very complex indeed , and in some important respects contradictory . |
| 23 | What makes the Eckard connection especially interesting is that his Op.1 , containing the piece on p.100 , was not published until 1763 , four years after the date on this manuscript . |
| 24 | What is , however , abundantly clear is that , unlike the 1930s , Hitler was prepared , indeed anxious , to be publicly associated during the war with the most radical steps in the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , even though , of course , his horrific statements remained couched in vile generalities , avoiding any specific reference to the details of the ‘ Final Solution ’ , which were intended to remain entirely secret . |
| 25 | What seems abundantly clear is that even if there were not the three months ' residence requirement in the case of Northern Ireland , it would still be necessary , in order to qualify to vote , for a person to have there a ‘ residence ’ in which he spent a substantial part of the year . |
| 26 | What is so interesting is that despite that disastrous performance , Labour 's policies have hardly altered — and they would have the same effect again . |
| 27 | but what I find so interesting is because people talk nowadays as if it 's only recently women have had jobs erm |
| 28 | What makes their excessive holidays so wrong is that millions are being forced to take a permanent break from work since they are unemployed . |
| 29 | He added : ‘ What is so appalling is that millions of pounds which should have been invested in children 's education has been squandered in pursuit of electoral advantage . ’ |
| 30 | What makes it so simple is that , once installed , the front-end of Menuworks will take control on booting , and access to your software is then only a cursor key away . |