Example sentences of "is [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The physical act of training breaks down part of the muscle exercised , and it is during the next 24–72 hours that the muscles recover and begin to grow . |
2 | It is during the latter part of this century , however , that historic barns and other traditional rural buildings have faced their greatest threat . |
3 | People often say that a certain noise gets louder at night , even though its measured level does not alter ; this is because , at night , the level of the background noise is generally lower than it is during the day , During the recession , people near once noisy factories started to appreciate the quiet . |
4 | This is not intended to be nomination in the traditional sense and once the subcontractor has been named ( subject to reasonable objection by the contractor if the naming is during the course of the contract ) , that subcontractor becomes almost entirely the responsibility of the contractor . |
5 | Shaping like this can also be done on a plain ‘ V ’ neck cardigan by working the cable next to the front edge on the straight and leaving the pattern as it is during the shaping , working the decreases on the inner edge of the cable pattern where it will not show . |
6 | The critical time for an adverse effect on language development is during the first three years of life ( Sak and Ruben 1981 ; Zinkus et al . |
7 | 1980 ) and onset is during the second half of the first year of life . |
8 | This is during the rut . |
9 | It is during the night that they find most of their food which is dew smothered vegetation . |
10 | It is during the summer , and before the September denouement , that the voices of the women compositors for the first time become audible to the historian . |
11 | The most basic level of interpreting archaeological remains is during the post-excavation work , when the contexts are analysed and , where possible , dated and fitted together . |
12 | The time is during the later 1970s ( so it is reasonable to expect that they will speak modern English , with Scottish accents ) . |
13 | The first is during the initial design phase , and the second is during design change . |
14 | It is during the first few months in particular that these sorts of activities can affect the developing foetus , producing babies that may be premature , and with a low birth weight . |
15 | Long coach travel is during the cool early morning |
16 | In his opening speech , Ralph Ellis thanked all those who had contributed to the success of the company , emphasising ‘ that it is during the tough times when such experience counts . ’ |
17 | The survival curve for the study shows that the highest mortality is during the first four years after diagnosis . |
18 | This , by the way , erm , it it is applied with this study , and that is during the thirties , particularly on the , well it it actually carried on into the forties , but but the , there was a almost a character in many plays , where one one character was , in effect , the family black sheep . |
19 | The trouble is during the week , a lot of little shops only have what 's been left over from the weekend and their vegetables , cos that 's what happens at ours |
20 | And you actually find the lump sum is times the annual pension . |
21 | Our carpenter is aboard the Angelina , building a cradle for the bomb according to the specifications the Pentagon gave us . |
22 | One of the articles is about the abstract artist Sol LeWitt , who was in Krauss 's opinion misinterpreted by three critics as serving ‘ as triumphant illustration of the powers of human reason . |
23 | And yet the glass itself is about the emptiness of time , he wrote . |
24 | It is about the possibility of learning . |
25 | In his novel Fathers and Children which ( as the title suggests ) is about the generation gap , Turgenev pinned ‘ nihilist ’ to the son Bazarov . |
26 | Smothering Dreams , like most of his work , is about the Vietnam War — the myths , the realities . |
27 | The mileage accumulated in a shift cam therefore be surprisingly high : a vehicle in which the field-worker was present covered 84.7 miles in one shift , which is about the average . |
28 | This is about the pilots who make up this famous aerobatic team , and it focuses on the three new pilots who join it each year . |
29 | And his article is about the corollary of discovering that the other begins at home , namely disenchantment : ‘ almost twenty years later I am not convinced that sexual love between men exists in places like Saudi Arabia ’ ( p. 45 ) . |
30 | The proportion of voters identifying with the Conservative party is about the same as in 1964 ( although Labour 's fall has been steep ) and the party 's share of the vote in 1983 and 1987 was actually slightly less than in 1979 . |