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

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1 The Report acknowledged the problems involved in determining the levels of difficulty and complexity in the work that has to be carried out in the social services and the barriers that exist to sharing this work among different kinds of personnel but concluded that ‘ nevertheless , some distinction in work levels is possible and necessary in our view , and this is most practicable where there is close teamwork and an emphasis on ‘ team responsibility' ’ for cases , ( pp. 137–8 ) .
2 In a dinner queue yes , someone collapsing and dying in the dinner queue is rather absurd and it 's also very
3 Rather tall and she 's very
4 Some of the case histories seem scientifically a little scanty but there is sufficient evidence of its effectiveness in the treatment of arthritis for sufferers to give it a try .
5 I 'm going to school dead brainy and everyone 's going
6 They say the human brain is at its most receptive when it is young .
7 family that we know and th , they 're , one of their sons is fo erm in London I suppose erm adapt here and he 's rather upset because she is now coming over to Britain to work for Telecom !
8 This may sound ominous and rather exaggerated but there is no doubt that a major alteration in your personal life as well as your career is imminent and unavoidable .
9 James Woods will only say : ‘ She 's a little offbeat but she 's a wonderful actress and a beautiful girl .
10 The principles on which these three kinds of bodies are built are so fundamentally different that it is difficult to believe that they can be related to one another except right at the very roots of the evolutionary tree .
11 This action centred-account can be extended to allow for conflict between local interests and system forces expressed through the state system and becomes analytically interesting when there is a radical working-class political domination of local government .
12 De-differentiation is also present in the postmodernist refusal to separate the author from his or her oeuvre or the audience from the performance ; in the post-modernist transgression of the boundary ( with no doubt greater or lesser success ) between literature and theory , between high and popular culture , between what is properly cultural and what is properly social .
13 Mrs Letts is terrifically brave but it 's an awful tragedy .
14 The curve is , however , something altogether different since it is the effective , as opposed to the notional , demand for labour function : its position is determined by the effective demand for goods which will , in turn , depend upon the magnitude of .
15 Some of the direction is rather nifty and it 's also go the benefit of being very well shot , but then there 's a such a hell of a lot of the other type of shooting going on here it 's pretty difficult to notice .
16 Some of the direction is rather nifty and it 's also go the benefit of being very well shot , but then there 's a such a hell of a lot of the other type of shooting going on here it 's pretty difficult to notice .
17 It is not wholly clear whether it is permissible for the tribunal of fact to take into account the surrounding circumstances and the conduct of any person defending himself in assessing the level of violence being used , and the frightening quality of the incident .
18 The original 260,000 employees have since been whittled down to 50,000 and Sir Monty is a little resentful that he is probably most remembered for setting that radical rundown in motion .
19 This view appears disarmingly general but widely acceptable when it is stated as the idea that any economy has to be seen as only one part of a structured world system .
20 Children were to be subsumed within the dwelling to this notion of order : " Teach your children that a house is only habitable when it is full of light and air , and when the floors and walls are clear .
21 Now imagine we lift a marble above the table ( Fig. 1b ) we can call the raised-up position state A and table level , state B. Here , the object is only stable when it is on the table .
22 They are interrupting my fixed gaze into the third ring of the electric fire , or my autistic pacing around the living room , as I try to determine whether the print that I thought was beautiful is in fact so vulgar that it is lying in wait to expose me to ridicule .
23 This was only a small-scale study but the results are so striking that it is worth speculating on some of the possible causes of gender bias in the classroom .
24 In other words , a successful multimedia system must offer an interface with its user , so friendly that it is effectively transparent .
25 I trust I have provided enough reasons to show that the use of the phrase ‘ pain in animals ’ is so indefinable that it is meaningless to animals and to those who have the well-being of animals at heart .
26 Unemployment may still be rising quite sharply ; underlying inflation will not be much lower than it is now ; sterling may need to be supported by a rise in interest rates .
27 The impact of such SPLs from a unit as small as the DSP is pretty impressive , but it 's difficult to determine what 's merely loud and what 's subbing its way into your psyche …
28 Easter Island , where the traverse starts , is entirely volcanic but it is really only an insignificant scrap of land in the vast Pacific .
29 He is entirely right because there is no proven link between leukaemia clusters and nuclear installations .
30 Now I do n't stand here in any sense of defending these salaries , in fact I think our policy is entirely right and it is not inflationary .
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