Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we saw above , and Lyons would not disagree , it is mostly in the paralinguistic features that English performs this function . |
| 2 | Current educational thinking is moving away from the whole concept of labelling children by closely defined categories , and the emphasis is rather on the individual needs of children and on the shared aspects of their development and learning . |
| 3 | For other left-of-field theatre events check what 's on at the enterprising Projects Arts Centre , in East Sussex Street . |
| 4 | The race is on for the spare hand-outs |
| 5 | And a battle is on for the divided loyalties of the younger McCloskey brothers , Jonathon and Martin . |
| 6 | It 's only in the local flats , you know flat |
| 7 | It 's all over the front pages of the local paper . ’ |
| 8 | The McBrides Fashions series is down to a two-horse points . |
| 9 | Significantly , my own memory is only of the large wave-forms which made such a maelstrom possible . |
| 10 | Although Bob 's command of Serbo-Croat is non-existent and he is only at the early stages of learning Russian the Causevics ' second language — he has enlisted the help of a friend , native Yugoslav Maria Delahunty , to act as an interpreter . |
| 11 | Indeed , it is only through the dedicated actions of many parents that the meeting took place . |
| 12 | It is only in the specific circumstances defined by the statute ( when it is either impossible or inappropriate to obtain or to rely on breath specimens ) that it is either necessary or permissible to require the driver to provide a specimen of blood or urine . |
| 13 | It is therefore not such property where there is only in the alleged owners a claim to a proprietary interest . |
| 14 | Though he claimed all the peoples of Burma were now united he admitted that this unity ‘ is only in the initial stages … tender and fragile ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Red ’ , in the most basic sense , refers to a quality whose true locus is only in the perceptual fields of beings such as ourselves , but which in our most basic conceptualisations of the world we think of as being present more stably in a real world the character of which can clash with the world as immediately presented . |
| 16 | ‘ I have emotional ties to it exactly as it is regardless of the extra voters . ’ |
| 17 | After all , this girl 's constantly on the front pages . |
| 18 | This insurance does not cover any consequences of war , invasion , act of foreign enemy , hostilities ( whether war be declared or not ) , civil war , rebellion , revolution , insurrection or military or usurped power ( other than under Sections 2 , 3 & 6 ) while the Insured Person is away from the British Isles provided always that the cover so provided is subject to cancellation by the Insurer by giving seven days notice by registered letter to HCI Club Holidays . |
| 19 | A TALENTED teenager is through to the national finals of a top competition for electric pianos . |
| 20 | ‘ It is exactly like the Nazi regimes of the 1930s . ’ |
| 21 | And it is not beyond the mental capabilities of anyone with a reasonably well-formed mind to learn how to play an instrument — even badly . ’ |
| 22 | We may be handling a horse and get a feeling that we are in tune with the horse and that it is accepting and even anticipating whatever we want to do : we are in rapport with the horse , and are communicating with the horse but in a way that is not through the other senses . |
| 23 | ‘ The problem is not with the indigenous travellers as we used to know them , ’ said councillor Valerie MacIver , a member of the Secretary of State 's travellers ' committee . |
| 24 | and correct him/her if he/she is not on the right lines . |
| 25 | One of the girls said ‘ He is not like the other boys , he does n't like playing football , he 's softer . ’ |
| 26 | This involves the hypnotherapist talking you gently and quietly through a basic relaxation exercise which is not unlike the early stages of yoga . |
| 27 | The concept of excluded investment activities serves to remove some of the uncertainty in respect of industrial and commercial companies which may be involved in investment activities but whose mainstream business is not in the financial services sector . |
| 28 | It is not in the long-term interests of the British coal industry not to become efficient and competitive . |
| 29 | Its interest is not in the particular parts of particular kinds of thing , however , but in those parts which all material things have in common . |
| 30 | A SENSE of perspective is not among the distinguishing features of the Old Firm follower . |