Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [conj] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Mahmoud al-Sharief , Jordan 's Information Minister , said the best antidote to radical Islam was to give fundamentalists some power rather than jail sentences , to make them ‘ deal with the world as it is rather than as they imagine it to be ’ . |
| 2 | It is rather that until it is recognized as a convergence , and as a problem of convergence , the usual reaction , even when sympathetic ( and this , among an older and established generation , is comparatively rare ) is to see it as little more than a loose grouping of specialist studies either of communications , in their modern specialized form as ‘ the media ’ , or of the rather differently specialized field of ‘ the arts ’ . |
| 3 | It is rather as though there is a central axis , around which the gemstone of beauty is formed . |
| 4 | So you would n't know when it 's on or when it 's off . |
| 5 | It is right that when one pays for a pint of beer , one should get a pint of beer . |
| 6 | I mean it 's same with Marks and Sparks , you buy owt at Marks and Sparks it 's only because when they have them packed , they 've got to put their name on it . |
| 7 | It 's merely that if there 's more than 50 of them feeling it simultaneously on the same summit then I 'd rather be somewhere else . |
| 8 | And it 's going back to the point that Mr Curtis I think misunderstood me , that 's basically that if you concentrate new growth in one location you have the ability to plan to serve that development by public transport , whereas if you spread it out to all the points of the compass , you know , two hundred houses in one direction of York , two hundred in the opposite direction would become very mor more difficult to serve than would a concentrated er chunk of development , and that 's as simple as that . |
| 9 | But it will probably be around the time of the Full Moon on the 14th that you decide enough is enough and when you realise that success , solace or excitement can only be found in a different setting . |
| 10 | The point of doing all this pre-planning is so that when you come to align columns across the page or to set text next to pictures everything snaps together neatly . |
| 11 | I think the problem is perhaps that when we love that we no , we never love the same degree , the two people do n't li , love exactly the same way that in every relationship there is one who loves and one who is loved , one who kisses and one who is kissed and I think perhaps this balance if the relationship is weak , this kind of works it out that , that then they eventually split up , that one goes the other way and the ca n't stay together . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's so that if somebody drops a bloody great boulder on yer nut it 'll bounce off |
| 13 | They say that 's so that if there 's an accident |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , but the telephone is downstairs and if she 's in bed she would have to get out to answer it . |
| 15 | I think we have to be a little bit careful about this because , of course , erm the feeling is not that once they 've been in the job for a little while that they are still amateurs , it 's merely that we do n't require them to know a great deal about what they 're going to do before they start . |
| 16 | It is not that once we know something we commit ourselves to it but that knowing something is itself a commitment . |
| 17 | And it is not , she thought , sliding the mottled skin deftly off her fish , it is not as though we are starving . |
| 18 | ‘ It is not as though we are bad shopkeepers or have been foolish with our money . |
| 19 | It is not as though we do n't want to love these innocent victims or that they do not want to be loved , but guilt and bitterness prevent it — the guilt of all parties . |
| 20 | It is not as though they are paid a bonus for this production-line fishing . |
| 21 | It is not as though they were being asked to do an aerobatic display , Mildred . |
| 22 | It is not as though there always was a clear conception of what such a science would be like , and as though all that was lacking was success in producing it . |
| 23 | I know you did n't want to marry me , but ‘ t is not as though I 'm forcing myself on you ! ’ |
| 24 | It is not as though his position is remotely like that of modern emotivists who have compared ethical statements with imperatives ( and Hare 's ethics differs most from Kant 's where it comes nearest to emotivism ) . |
| 25 | So it is not as though it 's a young player who 's going out of the game and you 're telling them I 'm sorry your not going to make it with Warwickshire . |
| 26 | We ask for three O eight to be referred or opposed if it is not and that you support motion three O nine as it 's in line with current policy . |
| 27 | It is not , indeed , ruled out by the logic of the naturalistic fallacy that degree of goodness and degree of pleasurableness might coincide , it is just that once one is free of the fallacy one will no longer see any reason to hold this . |
| 28 | This relationship is evidently not to be confused with a sexual relationship ; it is just that once you have entered into an artistic liaison of this intensity , the sexual shenanigans are likely to follow . |
| 29 | It is just that if you try to use the laws of physics , in a naive way , to understand the behaviour of a whole living body , you will find that you do n't get very far . |
| 30 | Undertaking an obligation to obey the law is an appropriate means of expressing identification with society , because it is a form of supporting social institutions , because it conveys a willingness to share in the common ways established in that society as expressed by its institutions , and because it expresses confidence in the reasonableness and good judgment of the government through one 's willingness to take it on trust , as it were , that the law is just and that it should be complied with . |