Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But maybe it is rather a response to the real threat which we single expatriate women , with all our means and mobility , present to family structures here . |
| 2 | The ‘ hystery of the eye ’ is presumably a reference to Bataille 's story ‘ L'Histoire de l'oeil ’ , a story of enucleation , which is , of course in Freudian terms equivalent to castration . |
| 3 | Capital investment is rarely a solution to complex problems , and the recurrent cost implications may be detrimental to health ministries that are already over-committed . |
| 4 | This is illustrated in developed countries by the increase in unemployment which is fundamentally a failure to properly utilise the total Human Resource . |
| 5 | Erm , I I think it 's less a problem to be thought that men hate women so much it is alright to be rude about women . |
| 6 | However , I am discovering that the church probably not the community but more a communion and that 's perhaps an answer to what Nanette ? |
| 7 | It 's obviously an addition to the main structure . |
| 8 | This is basically an attempt to group or to classify customers according to similar needs or purchasing characteristics . |
| 9 | ‘ It is merely a password to freedom ! ’ |
| 10 | Thus the existence of an alleged defence to a criminal prosecution is merely a matter to be taken into account in the exercise of the court 's discretion when considering whether it is just and convenient that interlocutory relief should be granted ( post , pp. 173D–F , 178H , 179A , 190D–E ) . |
| 11 | The time signature is merely a guide to the number of minims , crotchets and quavers there are in a bar . |
| 12 | By that age , 51% have been promoted out of clerical work and for them it is merely a stepping-stone to a higher status non-manual job . |
| 13 | It happens all the time — the question is merely an opener to fulfilling a wish to own something new , and merely seeks to confirm that the purchase is a worthy one . |
| 14 | The sequence of events in the creation of a bank bill is in Figure 9.4 , and is only a modification to that for commercial bills . |
| 15 | This is only a bar to registration if the first mark is registered in respect of " the same goods or description of goods " . |
| 16 | THE parents of missing Nicola Payne begged yesterday for news about their daughter — even if it is only a clue to where her body is buried . |
| 17 | A summer breeding visitor to most of eastern Europe , it is only a vagrant to Britain . |
| 18 | Lovely as the peak experience is , it is only the path to the transcendent . |
| 19 | A child , after all , knows most of the game … it is only an attitude to it that he lacks . |
| 20 | We are not convinced that the attraction of out-of-town shopping is entirely a response to consumer demand . |
| 21 | Watford manager Steve Perryman fears a Leeds backlash , but said : ‘ This year we 've taken on Blackburn , Ipswich and Middlesbrough — and beaten them all , which is perhaps a clue to our chances . |
| 22 | It is perhaps a tribute to Klemperer 's stature that all the recordings featured here continue to stimulate well after the CDs are returned to their place on my shelves . |
| 23 | it is perhaps a tribute to the resilience of both that they can come together at all : for the result , we may have to wait a few more cricket seasons . |
| 24 | It is perhaps a reminder to the parties ' advisers to encourage the parties to have one final read through the engrossments before execution . |
| 25 | Although , along the lines suggested by Lyons or Ochs , we may be able to reduce the vagueness by providing lists of relevant contextual features , we do not seem to have available any theory that will predict the relevance of all such features , and this is perhaps an embarrassment to a definition that seems to rely on the notion of context . |
| 26 | Hungary is less the exception to this rule than is often made out . |
| 27 | This matt-finishing idea is apparently a reaction to the regular gloss tops being prone to reflect studio and stage lights , posing problems for video or TV . |
| 28 | There is literally no limit to the abuses which might creep in if such a practice were allowed to go on without restriction . |
| 29 | When it is only a month or two old , the long dangling object in front of its face is obviously a puzzle to it . |
| 30 | Leader of Tory-run Suffolk County Council , Chris Penn , said : ‘ It is obviously a disappointment to us that he will not be able to stand in May because of his private circumstances . ’ |