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

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1 However , the general principle of liability for the acts of others to which my hon. and learned Friend referred is not at all out of line with the Theft Act 1968 .
2 But just how genetic , organic and social factors interact is not at all clear .
3 This process is controlled in the plant by substances called ‘ auxins ’ though how it is done is not at all clear .
4 Furthermore , the high instability of marriage which does occur is not in any way unique to them .
5 There is a danger that a freelance programmer will try to hold his client to ransom if he later realizes that the value of the software he has produced is out of all proportion to the payment he received for writing it .
6 Well , this get 's back to that , that typo-lecture , typo-visuel thing , the difference between reading type and illustration type , that if you 're actually designing pages that people are going to read , then you have to start with the text .
7 What results when the option is not exercised is not in any sense preordained , except by the terms of the option contract itself .
8 However , it must be recognised that the level of service provided is substantially above that provided by other local authority mental health services . ’
9 The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like .
10 Erm , so playgroups I feel need , erm , particularly for certain children , they need to find assisted places of some sort , because say it 's one eighty a session , and they need several sessions a week , if they 're to benefit from it , and one eighty or one seventy or whatever the cost is , which I think is round about that figure , erm , is not something that a family normally would have priority , the , the kind of family who has to have erm , needs , special needs anyway themselves .
11 So fitness is important , and how much we do is up to each one of us .
12 Today , the Foreign Secretary could only say that the Prime Minister is still ’ mobilising ’ — though what he is mobilising is not at all clear , because very little appears to be happening .
13 Actually , sneering is n't at all big or clever and most people that do it are as soft as shite , really …
14 Actually , sneering is n't at all big or clever and most people that do it are as soft as shite , really …
15 The price that is paid is once for all ; there is a transfer of ownership ; the new owner has no enduring relationship with the previous owner .
16 Literally , this meant the rule of power of the best , but the meaning it has since acquired is not at all accidental .
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