Example sentences of "[adv] is [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | To do better is not easy — but it is possible . |
2 | Making things which look just that bit better is so easy , it 's worth a little extra trouble and will surely take you out of the learner stage . |
3 | Therefore a person who kills while driving carelessly is not guilty of this form of manslaughter , but may be guilty of reckless manslaughter . |
4 | You go on through and si sorry seven is a pointer , eight is a Jack Russell which apparently is rather snappy and used for rabbiting , so I 'm told , nine is Dalmatian , number ten 's a labrador , golden coloured , guide dog main use and so on and then oh dear , it 's finished , the programme 's stopped . |
5 | Mothers and babies are suitable cases for treatment because they tend to stay in one place , there are only two subjects at a time , and their behaviour together is relatively stereotyped and uncomplicated . |
6 | Two microscope slides can be placed together with water or oil between them to allow for easy movement across one another , but trying to pull them apart without sliding the surfaces together is very difficult . |
7 | together is really hard ! |
8 | Stopping the foot rolling outwards is virtually impossible . |
9 | The scenery alongside is mostly dull and uninteresting with occasional vistas worth capturing by the camera , the rocky and indented coast contributing greatly . |
10 | But the strategy of working alongside is more likely to bring about significant change in professional thinking and classroom practice , because the partners have no alternative but to confront questions of planning and organization , and hence to explore each other 's ideas . |
11 | That maintenance was continued so long is probably due to the fact that Gordon Thomas , its instigator , had by this time become General Manager of the Grand Junction Company , and it is understandable that he would have been reluctant to preside over the disintegration of the lift , his most original and spectacular achievement . |
12 | How long is both practical and economical for most situations ? |
13 | The devotion to duty which made him a surprisingly successful stalwart at Ibrox for so long is still evident in Miller 's conscientious work with his young players . |
14 | The number of candidate words being discarded as too short or too long is quite small , and in fact the number of correct candidates being incorrectly discarded is slightly discouraging . |
15 | The dose of 25 µg thrice daily is slightly lower than that usually given to patients with the dumping syndrome , or neuroendocrine tumours . |
16 | The average amount of sunshine the vines receive annually is only 1,537 hours ( Bordeaux : 2,07I hours ) spread over 289 days . |
17 | The stream bed below is normally dry as the water percolates through at a lower level . |
18 | For this reason the list below is not complete , and we apologise to those who attended but whose names we failed to record . |
19 | A mix of flats with a function room below is not ideal . |
20 | This spacious house was built at the turn of the century of Aberdeen granite and has a most unusual roof structure which incorporates a domed tower — the tower bedroom below is very popular with guests . |
21 | The form of the melody of the Chopin Nocturne shown below is very common . |
22 | I ca n't imagine anyone reversing the delicate traverse — although I think the groove below is technically harder . |
23 | The information below is as accurate a comparison we can provide at the moment , therefore . |
24 | The selection of elements below is quite revealing . |
25 | Our fee for this type of work would be based on time taken plus outlays and naturally is very dependent upon the number of companies in the sample . |
26 | It 's not good enough is n't that , being sorry . |
27 | TAKING a child skiing can be hazardous or tremendous fun — and deciding when they 're old enough is never easy . |
28 | What perhaps is most impressive in each of the cases we have discussed is this , that the dispossession by a new-comer of a race already in occupation of the soil has marked an upward step in the intellectual progress of mankind . |
29 | What perhaps is most important is its attempt , as its proponents themselves viewed it , to chart a middle course between empiricism and rationalism , and between positivism and idealism . |
30 | F of seven , what 's the next prime number , well it 's not worth trying the evens , nine obviously is n't prime , so eleven is the next one . |