Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Apart from the voltage of the battery , the re-charge time is an important feature of the cordless tool and this is down to the chargers . |
| 32 | But a lot of the improvement is down to the cameras . |
| 33 | " The market is down in the dumps . |
| 34 | In Holland that is enough for the containers to be legally disposed of as domestic waste . ’ |
| 35 | In particular , it is enough for the police to maintain that ‘ detention without charge is necessary … to obtain evidence by questioning ’ . |
| 36 | However , as stated previously , it is only for the purposes of discussion that any AL can be considered on its own ; in reality , the various activities are closely related and do not have distinct boundaries . |
| 37 | As explained earlier when describing the model of living and the model for nursing , the 12 ALs are interrelated ; so too the body systems as categorised by the human biologists are interrelated and it is only for the purposes of description and discussion that they are dealt with separately . |
| 38 | For instance , I Was A Teenage Six Pistol by Glen Matlock ( Omnibus , £12.95 ) is only on the shelves because someone calculated that if one out of every few hundred punk rockers is daft enough to shell out nearly £13 for Matlock 's eye-witness account of the writing of ‘ Pretty Vacant ’ , then they 'll make a small fortune . |
| 39 | Despite the many points of contact between the study of film or media and the study of literature , despite the fact that there exist theorists such as Barthes who have made important contributions to the study of film and the study of literature , it is only on the communications courses that such theorists are studied . |
| 40 | Indeed , Parry has recently argued that it is only under the conditions of a relatively free market that there is evidence for the entirely disinterested gift , in which calculation should be entirely absent , this being a product of the same emergent duality ( Parry 1986 ) . |
| 41 | It is only in the states of Western Europe , in the countries of the British Commonwealth , in the United States of America , and in a few Latin-American states that government is carried on with due regard to the limitations imposed by a Constitution ; it is only in these states that truly ‘ constitutional government ’ can be said to exist … |
| 42 | Further , it is only in the Fellowships that they will get sufficient identification with other sufferers to be able to see that there is hope for recovery when they do finally admit defeat . |
| 43 | It is only in the laws of Wihtraed c . |
| 44 | In the Magistrates ' Court the decision as to verdict and sentence is entirely for the Justices acting on the advice of their Clerk , and of course it is erm true to say that generally speaking Justices will follow the advice of their Clerk , but they do n't have to . |
| 45 | In both instances , the focus of attention is entirely upon the actions of the defendant . |
| 46 | The education of very small children is entirely in the hands of the mother and nurse . |
| 47 | House Music Competitions The Senior House Music Competition in the Second Term is entirely in the hands of the pupils . |
| 48 | First , make sure that a barrier — or any other rose for that matter — is entirely within the confines of your own boundary . |
| 49 | But it is perhaps in the attempts of Francis Bacon in the seventeenth century that the origins of a concern with social features of knowledge as introducing distortions are to be found . |
| 50 | The judge is not reported as making any speculation as to the source of this knowledge , which is obviously from the newspapers themselves . |
| 51 | Well it 's already in the minutes . |
| 52 | In these conditions a bottom-end fixing can be an advantage as the sunken line is away from the winds effects allowing the float to make progress , often slightly across the wind . |
| 53 | FORMER Northern Ireland champion Michael Duffy is through to the quarter-finals of the European Snooker Championship in Helsinki , Finland . |
| 54 | THEN IT 'S OVER TO THE PERFORMER(S) , AND it is here ( at least in the Western Classical music tradition ) , that the point of contract for the great majority of music lovers occurs : not with the original text ( as with paintings , architecture , novels , poetry , often even drama ) , but with the interpreter . |
| 55 | If you 're looking for a tour around Borneo and Indonesia , that 's away from the crowds so we can say it 's an alocentric wanderlust . |
| 56 | He 's through to the semi-finals of the nude mud-wrestling , and he 's in training . |
| 57 | And he ought to know : he 's through to the finals . |
| 58 | At the level of rhetoric much concern has been expressed about female underachievement even if the reference is generally to the experiences of white girls . |
| 59 | So this debate is not about saving foxes , it will achieve nothing for animal welfare it is not about the merits or otherwise of fox hunting , from which it diverts attention , it is about the county council seeking to make hollow gestures against their tenants ' rights . |
| 60 | Comedy is not about the jokes you tell , not just about how funny you even tell them , but simply about whether you 're funny or not . |