Example sentences of "is [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its atmosphere takes up the outermost 600 miles of its 38,000 mile radius , and is mostly hydrogen , with some methane ( CH 2 ) , ethene ( C 2 H 2 ) and ammonia ( NH 3 ) , plus water vapour ( H 2 O ) and phosphine ( Ph 3 ) . |
| 2 | Of course , this is mostly exaggeration , just as it is to suggest that most French club members are merely posers or that the Italians are concerned at keeping talented youngsters off the course unless they have royal blood , or at least one Ferrari . |
| 3 | This , however , is mostly supposition and there is little evidence to support these arguments or to indicate the resource implications of this even if they are valid . |
| 4 | Pain like many things is mostly self inflicted . |
| 5 | I keep getting this feeling it 's already there , like in quantum physics , where matter is mostly space , and space , even the vacuum , seethes with creation and annihilation all the time , and nothing is absolute , and two particles at opposite ends of the universe react together as soon as one 's interfered with ; all that stuff . |
| 6 | Ararat is mostly fact ; Swallow , where Victor interviews the President , is mostly fiction . |
| 7 | Ararat is mostly fact ; Swallow , where Victor interviews the President , is mostly fiction . |
| 8 | The kit of the modern prospector includes no mules or checked shirts , no cast iron pots and pans , and there is no need to chew tobacco and spit ; the equipment is mostly plastic and beards are entirely optional ! |
| 9 | But the new land is mostly forest , which they have to help clear themselves . |
| 10 | Shop waste is mostly paper ( with some plastic ) and the possibility arises of collecting this waste and converting it to fuel pellets which have a calorific value of about two thirds that of coal . |
| 11 | These apatite crystals are embedded in an organic matrix which is mostly collagen . |
| 12 | ‘ The 43 per cent sugar is mostly lactose — from the milk . |
| 13 | Once the puppy is properly toilet trained it may be more convenient to move the bed out of the kitchen into another room in the house . |
| 14 | And yet we often find that examinations take place at the very time of year when there is most likelihood of a heatwave . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps … yes , it is most kind of you . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Spinal Tap ’ may have been the ultimate send up of the genre but ‘ Spinal Tap ’ is most metal fans ' favourite film . |
| 17 | it is in those sectors of the housing market where government has taken most control and which provide cheap accommodation , that there is most restriction on entry for migrants . |
| 18 | And it is with the statistical evaluation of leys that there is most controversy and where much work still needs doing . |
| 19 | It holds regular ministerial meetings to co-ordinate different aspects of policy amongst the Gulf States , including in the defence and security fields where there is most controversy . |
| 20 | Indeed nearly half our number are employed in the profession that is most flexiblc for married women , whether at school or university level . |
| 21 | The entity-relationship approach to data analysis is interview-driven , that is most information is obtained through interviewing members of staff . |
| 22 | Name , type is presumably extension is it ? |
| 23 | In the centres , the general public as well as students are made to feel welcome , and the atmosphere is overwhelmingly adult . |
| 24 | But the wheels of bureaucracy take time to run , and British winter weather is rarely kind to fliers , while seaplanes have the additional disadvantage of needing several ground-crew and suitable tides as well as suffering all the constraints of more conventional land aircraft . |
| 25 | Such is the efficacy of propaganda for the global capitalist system that it is rarely capitalism itself that is targetted in such cases , but the symbols of American or European national power . |
| 26 | Blown 16v engine is terrifically torquey |
| 27 | The business is effectively recession proof , if anything it probably does better when times are hard . |
| 28 | The belief that pathology in schistosomiasis is wholly egg-centred requires reassessment in light of the report of ‘ capillarization ’ of hepatic sinusoids in infected mice before the onset of egg production ( J.-A . |
| 29 | In the context of immediate decisions such as doctors may be called upon to make , the concept of doing what the judge called ‘ preserving the prospect of an informed decision ’ is wholly inapposite . |
| 30 | Similarly being-for-others is wholly body ; there are no ‘ psychic phenomena ’ there to be united with the body . |