Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carmichael states that ‘ the plant is secretly secured in the bodices of the women and in the vests of the men , under the left armpit ’ , while Martin Martin gives an account of a man in Berneray , Harris , who wore it in the neck of his coat to prevent him from seeing visions , and ‘ he never saw any since he first carried that plant about with him ’ . |
| 2 | Indeed the major criticism is properly addressed to the advocates of nationalisation , who had given far too little attention to the general question of pricing and investment rules by which the public sector should operate . |
| 3 | Several share KPMG 's view that ‘ the responsibility paragraphs more logically belong outside the report ’ and that ‘ if an uncertainty is properly disclosed in the accounts , such accounts can present a true and fair view without the auditors having to refer to it … a set of accounts should be complete in itself , without having to read the audit opinion ’ . |
| 4 | She added : ‘ It is essential this money is properly spent on the arts , sports and charities . ’ |
| 5 | Material characteristic of medieval Latin writing that is widely exploited in the fabliaux in ways that are often both entertaining and probing is the dogma of antifeminist traditions : traditions which present woman , the daughters of Eve , as generally morally reprehensible and dangerous to man ; insatiable and extravagant sexual sirens with their bodies , and perjurers , temptresses or endless naggers with their tongues . |
| 6 | ‘ Wisden ’ is widely hailed as the cricketers ' bible , but it has barely progressed beyond Chronicles ( the match reports ) and the Book of Numbers ( the records section ) . |
| 7 | What is common to these and related responses is that if we take the starting of the wipers to be an effect we believe at least that there is some type of circumstance which is uniformly connected with the wipers ' starting . |
| 8 | Forgetfulness proves deadly because it strikes deep into the delicate area where conscience registers sin and where each person is most attuned to the nuances of relationship . |
| 9 | Members and supporters of the main penal reform groups are to be found in both Houses , but their presence is most felt in the Lords where some of their officers invariably sit . |
| 10 | This is because the experiment is most suited to the assumptions that natural scientists have traditionally made about what they are studying . |
| 11 | This age-based inequality in our society is most marked in the years of youth and early adulthood : thus , in British law , 16 is the age of consent , 18 is the age at which one can vote and drink in a pub , and so on . |
| 12 | When , in One Hundred Years of Solitude , the last Aureliano Buendía tries to persuade others of the truth of his version of certain events , he runs up against the scepticism of the local priest who , ironically , is conspicuously lacking in the certainties which he is supposed to embody : |
| 13 | But much , in any case , must be allowed to a man who is single-handedly fighting against the times . |
| 14 | She is eventually drawn into the stories she tells , and she is obliged to redraw the tree with herself in it . |
| 15 | A system of indirect control and accountability is thereby established over the directors as those responsible for the management of the company . |
| 16 | The attention we pay today to every minute detail of a vintage guitar is rarely matched by the records kept at the time ; as with many other guitars , the origins of the Les Paul Custom are still a subject for debate . |
| 17 | Budgetary information is rarely included in the accounts of a profit-oriented or Type A non-profit organization . |
| 18 | Yet the memoirs of these survivors , their dirge , is rarely inscribed in the chroniclers ' sentimental journeys . |
| 19 | This is avidly collected by the locals as it is delicious boiled and pickled . |
| 20 | If nothing is expressly said about the rights of one class in respect of either ( a ) dividends , ( b ) return of capital , or ( c ) attendance at meetings or voting , then , prima facie , that class has the same rights in that respect as the residuary ordinary shares . |
| 21 | The problem is not susceptible of so simple a solution , however , since Mehmed Sah 's death is duly recorded under the events of the year 839 in the two early texts of Nesri ( 838 in the Ankara edition , p. 618 ) , at only some fifteen lines ' remove from the troublesome entry for 838 . |
| 22 | The problem may be particularly acute where power is effectively vested in the hands of a dominant chief executive . |
| 23 | Less than a year from launch , the Bugatti 110 is slowly emerging from the shadows . |
| 24 | That is indeed part of their strategy but the fact of the matter is that the county council is wholly implicated in the efforts that have been made in this erm county over the last couple of years to get large scale inward investment . |
| 25 | Furthermore , it is tremendously varied in the languages of the world . |
| 26 | Planning a course is not an abstract exercise , but one which is intimately affected by the participants , content and setting . |
| 27 | Therefore the possibility of there being a natural monopoly is intimately related to the assumptions regarding potential entrant behaviour . |
| 28 | Theory appraisal is intimately linked with the circumstances under which a theory first makes its appearance . |
| 29 | I am sure you will press the FC to ensure environmental monitoring is vastly improved under the auspices of the Forestry Authority . |
| 30 | At girls ' puberty rituals the novice , folded in a blanket , is gently placed at the roots of a slender mudyi sapling . |