Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [noun sg] is [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However experience is on the side of the Algerians . |
| 2 | Christmas time , when party-giving is on the whole overdone , may make the social aridity of the rest of the year seem almost attractive , but this exhausting seasonal overswill also points up the ordinary isolation that obtains for most of us nowadays . |
| 3 | Grant applications have to be made to the EC , the Rural Development Commission and the Department of the Environment , with approvals taking months at a time when speed is of the essence . |
| 4 | This is a year when fate is in the ascendancy and you will have to bend with every light breeze or every hurricane . |
| 5 | 'Cos I think another thing , where a lot of pressure comes on scientists , is where , it says a lot of cases , where profit is in the offing , this is a thing , |
| 6 | In some cases 100 per cent would be levied , but in others a lower rate would be more appropriate in order to encourage development ‘ on account of economic conditions in the country generally , or in particular areas where unemployment is above the average ’ , or where it was important to secure ‘ a particular piece of development now , instead of in , say , twenty years ’ . |