Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If such shafts found within the pyramids do have any significance it is most probably as a passageway for the spirit of the deceased to mount up to the stars . |
| 2 | No I need to have a look at the picture Anthy , oh look Goofy 's on again in a minute |
| 3 | Pat said quickly , " Well , we can go to 45 But surely it is all right for a few minutes here . " |
| 4 | He 's only here for a year . |
| 5 | Yes , the same thing is like erm , if I do , the rest of the shop for the rest of the d , that day , but I do goods the next night , erm , that shop 's okay for the next day , and it 's , it 's only like on a one day basis . |
| 6 | It 's only there for a certain amount of time . |
| 7 | It says for a quarter , which means you 're paying a quarter 's erm , like charge , which is s seven quid , but it 's only actually for a , a month . |
| 8 | It 's all right for a man ; men are used to smutty books and vulgar jokes — women do n't go for things like that . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It 's all right for a special occasion . |
| 10 | Athenagoras , the Syracusan demagogue , is made by Thucydides ( vi.38 ) to say that Syracuse ‘ is only rarely in a state of internal peace ’ . |
| 11 | Those who are newly bereaved and naturally dread the loneliness of returning to an empty house should be visited frequently in their own homes ; and when you are able to persuade them to get out of their own four walls as much as possible for fresh air and exercise and to meet others and visit relatives , it can be a considerable help if you can bring them home and go in with them for a cup of tea or a chat , even if it is only just for a quarter of an hour . |
| 12 | Yet it is only really for a period in the early 1690s , as will be shown below , that the usefulness of the two-party model can be called into question . |
| 13 | I I I have to say that I I I I 'm not enthusiastic about using this which is so obviously at a report in support of the particular locations , to look objectively at the criteria . |
| 14 | It 's down here as a hundred . |
| 15 | There 's enough here for a trough . |
| 16 | In short , if there can be any meaningful talk of " reduction " here at all , it is perhaps only of a possible reduction of properties to ( non-mental and logically independent ) relations , not vice versa . |
| 17 | It is of the eighth magnitude , but I admit that I have never been able to see it with certainty even with × 20 binoculars , though it is easy enough in a telescope . |
| 18 | It is thus precisely through a clearly registered refusal to withdraw from the day-to-day pleasures of thinking , listening , looking and feeling that the sensual references within these paintings remain anchored within socially experienced and theoretically informed sensibilities . |
| 19 | Although some farmers are adopting more intensive systems of production this is not yet at a fast enough rate to generate the large increases in marketed output necessary to feed the towns , where the population is growing at over 6 per cent per year . |
| 20 | Important though the right hon. Gentleman is , he is not yet in a position to issue invitations to visit Royal Air Force stations . |
| 21 | The package module referenced on the DC is not already on an active DC elsewhere . |
| 22 | So he is not particularly after a physical relationship , but someone who loves and cares for him alone , Miranda , however , thinks his reason is that ‘ his pleasure is keeping me prisoner . |
| 23 | ‘ It is not just for a blow to be struck against Iraq when Saddam 's main victim has been innocent Iraqi people , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Meaning is not simply in an utterance , irrespective of the participants : to understand it we must take into account the inter-subjectivity of the participants , addressing ourselves to such questions as who controls the meaning and the nature of the reference . |
| 25 | If Soviet equipment is not always of an adequate standard , Western equipment is often over-sophisticated for Soviet purposes , demanding much by way of supporting technologies which in the USSR simply do not exist . |
| 26 | That is not much in an outstanding total of $800 billion — three times the size of the junk-bond market — but it was still the third-worst year , by value , since the association started to keep records in the 1950s . |
| 27 | According to the Financial Times , Sir Lawrie is not only on a salary of £220,000 a year , but is to have his pay backdated seven months . |
| 28 | Mr Grey 's business is not only as a bookseller but also as ‘ the newsagent , the supermarket , the hairdresser and the gift shop in the arts centre ’ . |
| 29 | In some cases the disqualification is not only from a particular event within a tournament , but from the whole tournament . |
| 30 | If the data produces an exactly balanced tree , then this optimal point would be at the same level across all branches ( Sussenguth , 1963 ) , but this is not so with a lexicon , so the construction is much more difficult . |