Example sentences of "is [adv] the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Xavier Mellery , the painter of the nuns , was described in the catalogue as " creating a light which is the negation of that which envelops our immediate visual experience of things ; it is rather the Interior light of your mind … " |
| 2 | It is rather the visible sign of underlying defensiveness and uncertainty . |
| 3 | Where the services can not be seen as making an economic contribution , they are clearly improving the quality of life for members of the community , which is presumably the ultimate goal of raising productivity and standards of living anyway . |
| 4 | IT IS presumably the mustachioed face of the author that hovers elusively behind the undulations of the Zollner figure on the front of Nicholas Wade 's book . |
| 5 | This is because the true fracture stress at the crack tip is presumably the theoretical strength of the material and this generally lies between 10 and 20 per cent of the Young 's modulus , E ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 6 | Although this is rarely the sole cause of the iron deficiency , in one study it was found to be a contributing factor in 57% of patients . |
| 7 | A state of cleanliness is rarely the main objective of a manager in the food industries , as there is no direct profit contribution or production benefit , so the emphasis on management differs from that of mainstream operations . |
| 8 | GRAMM-Rudman-Hollings , the US deficit reduction law , is arguably the worst piece of legislation passed by Congress in the past decade . |
| 9 | To die from a bullet seems to be nothing ; parts of our being remain intact ; but to be dismembered , torn to pieces , reduced to pulp , this is a fear that flesh can not support and which is fundamentally the great suffering of the bombardment … |
| 10 | Should the rational expectations hypothesis be grafted on to a ‘ correct ’ model which is basically the Keynesian theory of economic activity ? |
| 11 | Unarmed combat is basically the quickest way of attacking somebody and grinding them into little pieces before moving on to your next victim . ) |
| 12 | This is basically the same sort of thing as the filled legs on a horse that has stood in . |
| 13 | But most feminists do not believe that abortion is merely the moral equivalent of a tonsillectomy . |
| 14 | While it is important to know that your sample size is big enough for safe conclusions to be drawn ( that effects are ‘ statistically significant ’ ) , this is secondary in comparison with the issue of whether a relationship can be given a causal interpretation or is merely the spurious result of the operation of third factors ; the relationship between the number of fire engines and the amount of damage caused could be derived from a sample size of ten thousand and still utterly mislead if taken at face value . |
| 15 | Viewed from one angle , a current account deficit is merely the necessary counterpart of a capital account surplus , and it is from this point that Nigel Lawson 's defensive intellectual outworks run . |
| 16 | For them it is merely the obverse side of natural sexuality from the heterosexual one . |
| 17 | ‘ This decision is merely the formal recognition of an existing relationship that we hope to extend and strengthen further in the years ahead , ’ said IAMCR 's President , Cees J Hamelink . |
| 18 | This is merely the latest example of the home office overturning policies earlier pursued with such vigour . |
| 19 | Miller has always been expert at bringing out the best in players — he turned Frank McAvennie from a midfield player into a striker in his St Mirren days — and the evolution of Pat McGinlay as a goalscoring midfield player is merely the latest example of his handiwork . |
| 20 | There is sadness when such thoughts are contemplated in the material world but when the mind is turned to the transcendent there is only the emotional joy of the poignancy . |
| 21 | Overall , getting computer records submitted as evidence in court is only the first aspect of the evidential requirements companies need to address when implementing an electronic documentation system ; getting the court to accept the contents as adequate proof , or a good record , is an even more important consideration . |
| 22 | This is a weak test because an invitation to interview is only the first stage of selection . |
| 23 | But this is only the first stage of WEN 's campaign , and one element of the findings in The Sanitary Protection Scandal . |
| 24 | Knowledge-without-experience is only the reverse side of the coin of experience-without-knowledge . |
| 25 | This is only the logical concomitant of the view reported earlier , that there was a certain inevitability about the relative deterioration of the world 's first industrial power . |
| 26 | For him , wrote Harsnet , there is only the endless metamorphosis of narrative , no end except for the non-end of his death . |
| 27 | There is only the lower half of the hero on the sherd but he is identified by the club , an unusually thin example , and with a cross hilt one expects on a sword , on his right hangs the lower part of the lion skin , behind him on the left are two long-necked birds , identifying this Labour , although there is no evidence of the bow ( fig. 14.35 ) . |
| 28 | In contrast to this emphasis of the New Testament writers , much of the stress on the Spirit today dishonours Jesus , tends to squeeze him out of the picture , and infers that allegiance to Jesus is only the lower reaches of the Christian life , the heights of which belong to the Holy Spirit . |
| 29 | What we hear as squeaking is only the lower end of a sonic signal mostly beyond the range of our human ears . |
| 30 | There is only the occasional indication of the dangerous realities of life outside : behind the wooden revolving door from the peers ' car-park ( the best free car-park in London ) is a rolled-up stretcher and a notice warning of bomb alerts . |