Example sentences of "is [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather a graphic representation of the various elements , dimensions , and perspectives which need to be incorporated into the framework and the process of data collection . |
| 2 | Thus from equation ( 9.33 ) the delay per cascaded section is correspondingly shorter and the longest delay that can be achieved by means of a low-pass , L-C , ladder filter is rather a small fraction of the fundamental period or pulse duration of the signal being handled . |
| 3 | At first sight it is rather a confused juxtaposition of two themes ; literary decline and political crisis . |
| 4 | That is rather a ponderous way of saying that no one in his right mind doubts the truth of my assertion about the states in which Bill will be found , because there are two of them and he must be in one or the other . |
| 5 | 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 … " |
| 6 | It is rather the visible sign of underlying defensiveness and uncertainty . |
| 7 | It is rather an inherent feature of the division of labour . |
| 8 | ‘ ( Laughs ) ’ is presumably a rare example of Mrs Padmore 's editorializing . |
| 9 | The resurrection , for people who believe it to have taken place , is presumably an objective fact of history ; one which they can not circumvent even if they would . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Anyone finding him quietly stays with him until there is eventually a big group of people together . |
| 14 | Even in psychoanalysis , where different forms of sexuality are a major interest , lesbianism is rarely a central subject of study . |
| 15 | Fungus is rarely a primary invader of the fish , only occurring in the later stages of disease when fish are heavily infected by protozoa , flukes and bacteria . |
| 16 | Wilfully disregarding safety rules is rarely a primary cause of incidents . |
| 17 | It is rarely a main source of income ( for 4 per cent of lone parents in 1987 ) , the amounts awarded are generally low , they are mostly for children rather than spouses and payments are frequently unreliable . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Last Wednesday saw the formation of what is effectively a Japanese version of the now defunct ACE Advanced Computing Environment consortium . |
| 21 | This is a good way of doing things in that it enables what is effectively a limitless number of different codes to be used , with as little or as much data as desired being attached to each code . |
| 22 | The fundamental problem confronting process measurement is that there is energy transfer taking place at what is effectively an infinite number of points in space and in time . |
| 23 | In comparison to this , ‘ The Disappearance ’ which is set in the 1970's is altogether a different type of community . |
| 24 | GRAMM-Rudman-Hollings , the US deficit reduction law , is arguably the worst piece of legislation passed by Congress in the past decade . |
| 25 | 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 … |
| 26 | Any account , whether by a journalist , sociologist or anyone else , is necessarily a selective reconstruction of , or abstraction from , real events . |
| 27 | The SEA is basically a limited set of changes to the Treaty of Rome which allows for majority voting in the Council of Ministers in areas connected to establishing the Internal Market , and also has some rather vague references to EMU , Political Union and other policy areas such as the environment . |
| 28 | The second new router , the Model 7250 , is designed as a low-cost high-performance feeder node for the other RX 7000 models , and is basically a three-port version of the Model 7500 : it holds one forwarding processor and up to three interface cards which — as with the rest of the family — can be any mix of Ethernet , Token Ring or wide area interfaces . |
| 29 | As Wilson ( 1981 ) , Reiner ( 1985 ) , and others have clearly identified , policing is basically a socio-political tool of the state and government . |
| 30 | The play is basically a psychological study of a marital break up , yeah , of a couple and the other couple are very largely just an audience to George and Martha 's marriage yeah , that is the main line . |