Example sentences of "[is] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seemed like a Falangist revival , for it was the first session that had been held since 1945 and Franco asserted that it was " necessary that the National Council should recover the role which corresponds to it in the political tasks , because it is hierarchically the highest body in the Movement , whose duty it is to ensure the purity of the organization and the continuity of the doctrine " .18 But many of those present , including the Vice-Secretary of FET , Diego Salas Pombo , detected behind the smokescreen of verbiage a lack of genuine commitment to Arrese 's plan for a Falange-dominated future . |
| 2 | Xavier Mellery , the painter of the nuns , was described in the catalogue as " creating a light which is the negation of that which envelops our immediate visual experience of things ; it is rather the Interior light of your mind … " |
| 3 | It is rather the visible sign of underlying defensiveness and uncertainty . |
| 4 | It is rather the inner emptiness or ignorance which the spate of words attempts to conceal . |
| 5 | What renders science distinctive , then , is not so much the instruments that are played , for crude variants of these can be found wherever we look ; nor even the particular tune , for everyone plays brief snatches of this from time to time ; it is rather the sustained and collaborative elaboration of this particular melody in preference to all the others one might play . |
| 6 | In fact I think in in those days er it 's mostly the local men that |
| 7 | So everything in between has an unfulfilling lack of immediacy , and instead of being drawn more vividly into the drama ( which is presumably the principal justification for recording live ) we experience a remoteness that characterizes none of the studio recordings with which this version has to be compared . |
| 8 | Where the services can not be seen as making an economic contribution , they are clearly improving the quality of life for members of the community , which is presumably the ultimate goal of raising productivity and standards of living anyway . |
| 9 | IT IS presumably the mustachioed face of the author that hovers elusively behind the undulations of the Zollner figure on the front of Nicholas Wade 's book . |
| 10 | This is presumably the first in a series of large format paperbacks , with a fairly substantial text giving a concise summary of campaign history backed up by numerous black and white photographs from government sources ; and pages of coloured artwork mostly devoted to uniformed figures , with a few showing aircraft , armour and artillery . |
| 11 | In the absence of our little lepidopterous friends in the Butterflies on a Burning Night it is presumably the two standing figures who are themselves the ( social ) butterflies . |
| 12 | This is because the true fracture stress at the crack tip is presumably the theoretical strength of the material and this generally lies between 10 and 20 per cent of the Young 's modulus , E ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 13 | In any case , the reasons for regarding the idea of numerical identity and that of numerical diversity as significant are not such as might enable us to decide unequivocally whether something observed on one occasion is numerically the same as something else observed on a different occasion , or how many ontological objects are involved in a given case . |
| 14 | As always , the United States is numerically the strongest country , as they have two leagues of their own from which to produce finalists . |
| 15 | When subjects are asked to judge which of two simultaneously displayed numbers is numerically the larger , irrelevant variations in the physical size of the digits influence response times when the numbers are printed in figures ( e.g. 9 ) but not when they are printed alphabetically ( nine ) . |
| 16 | Although this is rarely the sole cause of the iron deficiency , in one study it was found to be a contributing factor in 57% of patients . |
| 17 | Populism , however , is rarely the worse for sceptical assessment : particularly when it is equated with justice . |
| 18 | ‘ Laverne is rarely the innocent party . ’ |
| 19 | A state of cleanliness is rarely the main objective of a manager in the food industries , as there is no direct profit contribution or production benefit , so the emphasis on management differs from that of mainstream operations . |
| 20 | Though this is by far the best collection of historical stringing information ever assembled ( most of it not available elsewhere ) , authenticity is rarely the important issue . |
| 21 | ( v ) National claims summarize complex economic and social interests and classes , a coalition that is rarely the same in different times and places ; so ‘ nationalism , does not , in and of itself , indicate any self-evident aims . |
| 22 | The rich peasants made up another seven percent I have to check to see I 've got the figure 's right the middle peasants , twenty percent the poor peasants seventy percent . |
| 23 | That is effectively the official Home Office ceiling . |
| 24 | This is not significant for less than three tracks , as it is effectively the same as a sequential search for one or two tracks . |
| 25 | Bannerware , for example , is effectively the same as Freeware . |
| 26 | Valmorel is effectively the fourth of the Three Valleys and is approached from Aigueblanche , just outside Moutiers . |
| 27 | The selection is predominantly the English Classics and very little Scottish literature but it is surprising that there were only two Gaelic works ; John MacCormick 's " Oiteagan O'n Jar " ( Breeze from the West ) and Rev. A. Clark 's " Caraid nan Gaidheal . " |
| 28 | Martina Navratilova is arguably the greatest woman tennis player of all time . |
| 29 | Since The Band Wagon is arguably the greatest — as well as most typical — of all musicals ( if we exclude The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach , 1968 , as non-eligible and demote Singin' in the Rain , 1952 , to second place ) , one can only wish there were more of it . |
| 30 | The knowledge that the barrier between the patient and surgeon has remained intact throughout the procedure is arguably the best reassurance for surgeons and theatre nurses regarding protection . |