Example sentences of "[is] [adv] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , we were not keen for housing benefit to be used in place of housing support for care , which is properly the provision of income support . |
| 2 | However , the job itself , as we have already noted , is rarely the cause of disenchantment with agriculture — indeed , in a decade that has seen a renewed interest in the countryside among young people and a growing desire to escape from the urban rat-race , agriculture could have much to offer . |
| 3 | Yes , it 's rather the kind of correspondence one might expect Tod Friendly to go in for : unvarying , humourless and one-way , like junk mail . |
| 4 | Not that it 's impossible — indeed , it 's rather the sort of thing Oliver might do — but I 've somehow stopped believing most of what he says . |
| 5 | Er and I mean er a lot of that 's perhaps the release of stress , so that you know you 've been under pressure for a long time and then you , you take that away , and it may actually be detrimental to but er it does n't , obviously the figures are a little bit odd . |
| 6 | He 's obviously the kind of guy who spends more time snogging at the bar than watching the band . |
| 7 | He 's obviously the kind of guy who spends more time snogging at the bar than watching the band . |
| 8 | Er I I think that with three million people out of work , we have an unemployment problem which creates erm a a disadvantage group particularly in some of the stress urban areas where we have to look at more radical solutions to what is basically the payment of cash for nothing in return . |
| 9 | Familiar with , which is basically the piece of legislation , which is still in force now and still a major problem for us , which is about getting Council Rent 's up to the level of private sector rent 's and forcing Council 's to do that . |
| 10 | Here , a constant and not a chance model of anarchic relations via exchange is obligatory … the law of value is merely the law of equilibrium of an anarchic commodity system … |
| 11 | It is hardly surprising that in the aftermath of the First World War , when there was a rising current of anti-militarism , the Boy Scout Association felt it necessary to issue a disclaimer in 1920 : ‘ Our Scouting has nothing to do with SOLDIERING ; it is merely the practice of backwoodsmanship … |
| 12 | The general view has been that theoria is the engine driving the historical development of science and that praxis is merely the application of theoria . |
| 13 | that 's basically the sort of revelation is n't it ? |
| 14 | ‘ Please note , ’ requested a TM official , ‘ that a mantra is only the equivalent of prayer with a fixed wording . ’ |
| 15 | If to ease pain , the doctor must take measures which may hasten death , this is permissible provided the doctor 's aim is only the relief of pain . |
| 16 | Against this all-pervading force , there is only the principle of life . |
| 17 | If the text represents anything ‘ real ’ at all , it is only the difficulty of representation . |
| 18 | If art history is only the history of art history and a dog chasing its own tail , then this is appropriate . |
| 19 | It is only the amount of relief granted that changes , with higher rate taxpayers now treated identically to everyone else . |
| 20 | But then it is a small step to begin thinking of ( 18 ) as very similar to ( 20 ) , and thus Containing demonstrative or indexical elements : ( 20 ) That man ( ( the speaker indicates the man drinking champagne ) ) is Lord Godolphin And so it begins to look as if definite referring expressions may in general be used either in speaker reference or in semantic ( or attributive ) reference , and it is only the context of use that tells us which way to understand them ( Donnellan , 1978 ; Kaplan , 1978 ) . |
| 21 | The allocation policy is apparently the result of production difficulties . |
| 22 | If committees were to be as business-like in this as in other matters , they would resort to this method rather than to mountebank exhibitions , in which the bold and unscrupulous fare best , and the honest and modest worst and there would be fewer vain regrets and miserable depositions afterwards , than is unhappily the case at present . |
| 23 | Since a living room is literally the room for general living it often has to serve as a study , playroom and dining room as well and still manage to reflect your tastes and be a comfortable extension of your personality — or personalities . |
| 24 | Tim Renton is obviously the kind of person who would turn the volume down on a Johnny Mathis 78 . |
| 25 | but er this is obviously the answer for profit |
| 26 | Their work is obviously the result of struggle , of trying to create something coherent without knowing exactly what that something is , or how to find it . |
| 27 | It is obviously the aesthetics of form which tends to attract the reader 's attention here , rather than the meaning . |
| 28 | But if secular is used in the second sense , as meaning the abandonment of religion , it is obviously the enemy of religion . |
| 29 | Such flexibility of response is obviously the basis of intelligence , but also , as the earlier example of the mating problems of captive chimpanzees shows , the foundation of the instinctual lability which can lead to perversion , inhibition and , in man at least , to neurosis , insanity and civilization . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's exactly the kind of demand I expected . |