Example sentences of "is [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , when it comes to services , consumers are quite unanimous that quality is mostly down to the staff and how they behave with customers . |
| 2 | ‘ Pickerage , ’ contributed Tom Tedder , ‘ is rather out of commission at the moment . |
| 3 | His face is rather out of focus . |
| 4 | Thus the pressure , both inner and outer , on teachers to have a clear , articulate rationale for what they are doing is high at the same time as the exploration of the values from which such a rationale must derive is conspicuously out of style . |
| 5 | He is rarely out at night and is largely free to organize his activities so that in bad weather , for example , he can catch up on paperwork in the dry and warmth of the office . |
| 6 | Honda has more Japanese managers at its Ohio plant ; Toyota in Georgetown , Kentucky , is somewhere in between . |
| 7 | The CED is somewhere in between these two styles . |
| 8 | In Germany Universal banks are the only institutions allowed to conduct securities business , whereas in France only stock exchange members are able to , and the UK is somewhere in between , with both banks and non-bank institutions able to compete for security business . |
| 9 | Cairo , a curious sentence in that it is wholly out of context . |
| 10 | He 's taking us from the airport to what is locally down as the Darth Vader Hotel . |
| 11 | As I understand it , GPs refer patients to individual consultants , usually to the older , more experienced man who may be slowing down , rather than to the younger , inexperienced newcomer who is right up to date with the latest hi-tech mod. con. , but is afforded scant opportunity to increase his experience . |
| 12 | It 's like with our Neil 's is right up to C. |
| 13 | The huntsman who is right up with hounds , dismounts and removes the brush and sometimes the mask after an exceptionally good run ; he then throws the carcase to the hounds who squabble over it and eat it . |
| 14 | Not only because of the risk and the safety factor er of the gun going off , because of er a movement by that person on the floor , but so there 's no getting around it that , should a firearm be discharged against a solid object in as much as er the barrel is right up against an individual , and the trigger is pulled . |
| 15 | Douglas Adams ' Mostly Harmless ( Pan ) is right back to Hitchhiker standard ; Len Deighton , with City of Gold ( Arrow ) , is back on form too ; Sue Townsend 's The Queen and I ( Mandarin ) is just brilliant ; and the New Virginia Andrews ™ , Secrets of the Morning ( Pocket ) , is the second of the trademarked lot . |
| 16 | ‘ North is right out of John le Carré ’ , he said ; ‘ one of those fascinating mystery people you do n't meet in life or in government . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ This is right out of ‘ Leave it to Beaver ’ , ’ she said . |
| 18 | May I make the further suggestion that when it is all over on 9 April we get the right hon. Gentleman a new job — a walk-on part in a re-run of ’ Crossroads ’ or as a substitute for Ken Barlow . |
| 19 | It is all over for the present . ’ |
| 20 | Mrs Harvey , a churchwarden who runs a firm of outfitters in Ludlow , Shropshire , said : ‘ It is all over for me now . |
| 21 | When in football someone takes aim at the goal we say there is a sudden heightening of tension ; when it is all over after a noble save by the goalie there is an equally sudden slackening of tension . |
| 22 | It is all over in division two . |
| 23 | I 'll make the point again Martin that just as on Saturday when goals were flying in at both ends and eventually it finished three two , I kept saying do n't believe the scoring is all over in this game , that 's my feeling now . |
| 24 | I 've had a lot of problems with that , so I basically say do n't use it , whether you try or not is basically up to you . |
| 25 | The bridal bouquet is somewhat out of the ordinary , too ! |
| 26 | It 's a useful guide , even if the set-up illustrated is somewhat out of date . |
| 27 | Fishbane 's bedroom is somewhat out of the way and near the lift , so that the ladies can be discreetly smuggled up there by Ramsbum . |
| 28 | Duty on cigarettes is up ten percent — that 's thirteen pence on a packet of twenty , but on pipe tobacco duty is only up by the rate of inflation . |
| 29 | If the performance of the 80586 and the MIPS R4000 is only off plus or minus 20% , it 's not enough to make the hassle worth it . |
| 30 | A herd of deer on the African plains may feed undisturbed when a lioness walks among them , if they perceive that she is only out for a stroll . |