Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adv] [vb base] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood and watched for a while but everything connected with seamanship is so majestically slow that he began to feel guilty of time wasting while the little vessel was still being manoeuvred through the gap . |
| 2 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |
| 3 | Power is so seductively close that it is easy to forget that in British politics the winner takes all , or to believe that this time it all will come right and they can themselves grasp power without conceding any . |
| 4 | An ideology of peace is thus both cause and effect of the Buid 's situation in a larger regional system ( Gibson , in press ) . |
| 5 | It is thus amply clear that , while surgeons like Taplin and physicians like Prosser turned to the financially rewarding field of veterinary medicine , there was widespread dissatisfaction with the state of veterinary science in the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | But it is not wholly clear that the problem has disappeared . |
| 7 | It is not wholly clear that the Act has the effect intended for it . |
| 8 | Energy has many forms — heat , electrical energy , mechanical energy , strain energy and so on — but it is not immediately clear that the surface of a solid has energy , merely by virtue of its existence as a surface . |
| 9 | While this distinction is obviously important to Poulantzas , it is not immediately clear that it helps him to unite structures and class practices as he intends . |
| 10 | In summary , it is not yet clear that a modification of the daily rhythms is a necessary requirement of treatment or that an abnormality of the body clock is the cause of the disorder . |
| 11 | We wish to preface our discussion of syndromes involving abnormal language development with the disclaimer that , while these categories may delineate separate psychiatric categories , it is not yet clear that each of these categories represents a unique type of linguistic disorder . |
| 12 | However , it is not yet clear that the use of a fixation stimulus does not introduce as many difficulties as it seeks to eliminate . |
| 13 | A person is not partially exempt if his or her ‘ exempt input tax ’ ( the sum of the residue apportioned and that directly attributed to exempt supplies ) is no more than the de minimis limit of £600 a month on average ( Reg 33A ( 1 ) ) , ie £7,200 a year . |
| 14 | The latest threat to children recently is not just wait till your dad gets home , but , my daughter told her four week old baby , if you 're not good I 'll put you on the fax and send you through to daddy . |
| 15 | It is not just cost that has made the DIY holiday so popular , although traditionally they have been the break for those on a tight budget . |
| 16 | You inform by making sure that the programme is not just froth and bubble , that it has genuine body . |
| 17 | One weakness of Rationality and Relativism is that it is not always clear that the various authors interpret relativism in the same way . |
| 18 | This is not merely prejudice since it is the case that women 's position in the family is rarely irrelevant to their position in the public world . |
| 19 | It is not only labour that the economic power of Bangkok is sucking out of the north-east . |
| 20 | First , there is the lunch-break story ( though it is not entirely clear that this relates to the very last meeting : it might relate to 5 November ) . |
| 21 | In fact , there are grounds for suspecting that the conflict between static inefficiency and dynamic progressiveness is often more apparent than real , and , as we have seen , it is not entirely clear that cooperative R&D ventures significantly weaken those conflicts which do exist . |
| 22 | West — and in fact it is not unequivocally clear that this is so — that would not be a good reason for proclaiming the demise of regionalism as an issue . |
| 23 | Although it is direct , there is not enough feel or weight to give a proper impression of how much grip is left . |
| 24 | The great endeavour which Peter Scott and a small group of inspired people began in 1961 may be said to have only just started to have the worldwide impact which will help mankind to learn once again to develop in full harmony with the natural world , but it is already indelibly clear that Peter 's influence and determination has been crucial in creating a force that will not be denied its place of importance on a planet which , in the foreseeable future , may be required to support a human population of double its present size . |
| 25 | ‘ It is already now clear that the 1980s will stand out as a decade of impressive improvement in economic performance , reversing a long-term trend of decline relative to other member countries . ’ |
| 26 | No , it 's just literally sponge and buttercream . |
| 27 | She could certainly be tidier around the apartment , which is usually so spick and span when she arrives . |
| 28 | Putting out poison for an animal to take is probably not trespass since the interference is not direct , a requirement of all true forms of trespass . |
| 29 | Not all dialogue is as linguistically elaborate as this example . |
| 30 | And it is now equally clear that Mrs Thatcher 's response to this ultimatum was similarly direct . |