Example sentences of "[is] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his opening speech , Ralph Ellis thanked all those who had contributed to the success of the company , emphasising ‘ that it is during the tough times when such experience counts . ’ |
| 2 | The most basic level of interpreting archaeological remains is during the post-excavation work , when the contexts are analysed and , where possible , dated and fitted together . |
| 3 | The first is during the initial design phase , and the second is during design change . |
| 4 | And you actually find the lump sum is times the annual pension . |
| 5 | Yes , you are saying it 's worth the strong view . |
| 6 | PR , she said , is about the entire communication of your business internally to employees and externally to customers . |
| 7 | I would n't use RAMdrive on a machine with less than 8MB of RAM , though , since 4MB is about the absolute minimum you need to run Windows successfully , and the smartdrv and RAMdrive allocations have to be taken away from the overall amount . |
| 8 | The bill is about the future government and democracy of Europe and the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | Er it is about the future provision of section eleven which appears in the main report , you will no doubt appear as part of the budget debate . |
| 10 | It can also be taken seriously as part of an education which is about the real world . |
| 11 | Blithely oblivious to the fact that France is about the only member country with any money that is not running an enormous budget deficit , the European Commission yesterday outlined a grandiose plan to spend $15,000m on a network to link bureaucracies in the 12 European Community countries to help their authorities to exchange information in areas from social security to natural disasters in the single market . |
| 12 | ‘ I like the cobbling , that and driving the van is about the only work I 'm fit for , having very little brains for the counting and stock taking . ’ |
| 13 | And Jet is about the only machine in the world capable of really tackling these problems . |
| 14 | For , when the days of competition are over , teaching is about the only option open to the really committed dancer , complete retirement from the lists being an impossibility at that stage . |
| 15 | ‘ No , ’ she said , ‘ your self-respect is about the only thing that nobody can take away . |
| 16 | A sudden dedication to a foreign influence like Hegel or Derrida , brief but intense , is about the only thing there is that can cause the British to lose a sense of humour or a sense of proportion , and during the first London production of Waiting for Godot in 1955 I was reproached by strangers seated around me for laughing , though I still think it a funny play . |
| 17 | It also tends to attract a lot of magic since this is about the only thing your opponent can rely on to slow it down . |
| 18 | Crystals is about the only thing that would use it . |
| 19 | Well in War and Peace it 's a story of the er I mean there are many themes go on but the broad sweep of history is about the Napoleonic invasion of Russia and the way the Russians defended themselves against the French armies . |
| 20 | The Descent of Darwin is about the present controversies , real , exaggerated , or downright lunatic fringe , it matters not what , over neo-Darwinism . |
| 21 | If your complaint is about the actual treatment you have received from a doctor or dentist — a clinical complaint — the officer may refer it to the Regional Medical Officer for you . |
| 22 | Whatever disagreement there is about the internal divisions of the texts in the manuscripts , the whole treatise has a shape . |
| 23 | Her latest film Romuald et Juliette is about the extraordinary goings-on in a yoghurt manufacturing company which brings together the white boss and the Black night-cleaner who saves his bacon . |
| 24 | In this sense the literature discussed next is about the political process and macroeconomics rather than macroeconomics per se . |
| 25 | ‘ But the bypass is about the environmental impact of traffic travelling through Guisborough . |
| 26 | ‘ It is about the curious affair of the other day , sir , ’ Thiercelin explained . |
| 27 | It is , however , because religion is about the archaic heritage of humanity , and involves relations with parent figures , particularly the father , that one would expect emotional reactions to the subject ; either religion is the most important part of life , and immune to scientific investigation for that reason , or it is too trivial to be worth a working scientist 's time . |
| 28 | Ludmila Andrews ' Mad , Bad Mortal Beings is about the emotional turmoil of a black woman recovering from a relationship , and Sonali Fernando 's Shakti is a brief fable about a trash-collecting Asian woman who sees off a white yob with sort-of magic powers and struts around in funky transformed shoes . |
| 29 | There is nothing authoritative about Greek , but there is about the New Testament which was written in Greek . |
| 30 | In real life it is really not very likely that six people ( and six is about the right number , pushing upwards to eight and down to a minimum of three , though you have to be skilled to have that few ) will each have good reason for committing the same murder . |