Example sentences of "[is] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 IS-DEPENDENT-ON usually the operating system and computer type
2 The writer said , in effect , " Here is my Horace " , and the reader responded , in effect , " This is/is not the Horace that I know " , appraising the performance from the heart as well as the mind , much as a listener might appraise the rendering of a familiar musical work .
3 In modern times we have come to associate the very word ‘ ecology ’ with a concern for the environment — yet ‘ ecology ’ is properly the name of the science that deals with the ways in which living things interact with one another and with their environment .
4 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 .
5 As the Duke of Montrose commented , ‘ such a list is properly the business of the representative of the shire , who certainly will look to his own interest in that matter ’ .
6 The editor of the work notes that " the grand caliph " is certainly not the Abbasid caliph but is rather the Seyhulislam Fahreddin Acemi .
7 Although the passion-merchant , the soul man , is in pursuit of some sort of authenticity , a confirmation of his depth of feeling , his is not his own voice , is rather the convention , a tear-jerk reaction .
8 It is rather the kind of causal concomitant of the blow that has wholly to do with internal processes of tissue regeneration .
9 It is rather the development of a portfolio of projects at Bristol which merit investment on sound practical grounds .
10 It is rather the creation of new public spheres in which citizens , including media workers , can play a full role in their community , and in the community of communities . ’
11 The study of History at Advanced level is not merely the collection of facts about the past , but is rather the explanation and interpretation of the relationships between those facts .
12 It is rather the reverse ; it means an increased recognition of the importance of seeing oneself as part of the new Europe which is emerging .
13 Here , the items of contention in the theories of the state appear as features which can be used to characterize each particular state ; for we need to consider in every instance the extent to which the state is independent of other social spheres , or on the contrary is subordinate to ‘ constellations of interest ’ which themselves have to be specified , and further , the degree to which the state is a repressive agency which dominates society ( and what the sources of that domination are ) , or is rather the executive body of society as a whole .
14 Yet at other points the problem is rather the hijacking of the original message , as in the phenomenal lines : ‘ If the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today/ He 'd be gunned down cold by the CIA/ Oh the lights that now burn brightest behind stained glass/ Will cast the darkest shadows upon the human heart/ But God did n't build himself that throne/ God does n't live in Israel or Rome/ God does n't belong to the ‘ yankee dollar ’ / God does n't plant the bombs for Hezbollah ’ .
15 The emphasis is rather the effect of the war on an American community ; the final scene , in which survivors sit round a table singing ‘ God Bless America ’ , is crucial , and symbolises the regenerative powers of an America that had survived both Vietnam and Watergate .
16 Their common concern is rather the effect of technological innovation on our thought processes and our ability to communicate .
17 Men have the operation too , but it 's mostly the women .
18 it 's mostly the telly and the microwave .
19 The service provides a fully-configured , ready to use replacement or substitute system for the Wang RISC Series , or an equivalent Unix system — Wang sells the RS/6000 , so an equivalent system is presumably the IBM version .
20 That is presumably the product of what we now know about the Brixton prison escape .
21 The scheme of the 1954 Act is that if the lease is more than six months ( which is presumably the situation in your case ) and the premises are occupied for the purposes of your business , then the lease does not automatically come to an end .
22 Similarly the companion should have no tax liability as it is presumably the disposal of an interest in his/her main residence that gives rise to the receipt of £34,000 .
23 The problem with the International Data Corp figures is that they try to treat Unix workstations as a separate market rather than bundling Unix workstations and Unix servers together , which is presumably the reason for the implied figure for IBM Corp sales of only $558m , where IBM has implied total 1992 RS/6000 business of $2,000m .
24 If children have specific questions to answer , then their reading is given a clear purpose , and purposeful reading is presumably the aim of all teaching of reading .
25 Another aspect of this extravagance is the large amount of unanalysable recorded data ; this is presumably the point Labov is making when he remarks that the ( technical ) quality of participant-observation data is often poor ( 1981 : 4 ) .
26 Here the ‘ glory ’ is presumably the stage between long gone youth and death as the poet is at this point on his ‘ deathbed ’ .
27 The eminence referred to is not a striking local geographical feature , and the ‘ small Rivulet ’ is presumably the Fleet River , which was so often flash-flooded as to give the area towards Battle Bridge ( Kings Cross ) the name of ‘ Pancras Wash ’ .
28 But this is rarely the case .
29 In one sense , new book selection is a way of filling in or updating between stock revisions , but this assumes that the whole of a stock is updated , subject by subject , over a limited timespan , and because stock revision is a highly staff-intensive process that is rarely the case .
30 It assumes that an easy consensus can be achieved about the nature of the problem and its resolution , when this is rarely the case .
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