Example sentences of "[is] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing at all about Rocky … except he s in the 17 man squad ( which we already knew ) . |
| 2 | 1980 ) and onset is during the second half of the first year of life . |
| 3 | It is during the latter part of this century , however , that historic barns and other traditional rural buildings have faced their greatest threat . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The first is during the initial design phase , and the second is during design change . |
| 7 | And you actually find the lump sum is times the annual pension . |
| 8 | Yes , you are saying it 's worth the strong view . |
| 9 | Cos that 's during the First World War , you see , and erm , he did and so he said goodbye to us all and he said I 'm going up now to say goodbye to your mother and he ran up the street here to say goodbye to my mother . |
| 10 | SINGER Gemma Wilson from Newcastle has a lovely , easy voice , not unlike Debbie Harry 's during the gentler moments of Parallel Lines . |
| 11 | The year 's biggest Americana sales were held at Christie 's and Sotheby 's during the last week of January , coinciding with the Winter Antiques show in New York . |
| 12 | PR , she said , is about the entire communication of your business internally to employees and externally to customers . |
| 13 | The views are still tremendous in the Lakes , but sitting down to be surrounded by two or three belligerent sheep whose main occupation in life is to steal my cheese and pickle sandwich is about the best way of spoiling a good day out . |
| 14 | This is about the fifth meal you 've made ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The bill is about the future government and democracy of Europe and the United Kingdom . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It can also be taken seriously as part of an education which is about the real world . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | And Jet is about the only machine in the world capable of really tackling these problems . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ No , ’ she said , ‘ your self-respect is about the only thing that nobody can take away . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Crystals is about the only thing that would use it . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The Descent of Darwin is about the present controversies , real , exaggerated , or downright lunatic fringe , it matters not what , over neo-Darwinism . |
| 29 | There is no upper limit to the size of an army , but one thousand points is about the smallest size that will allow you to field a battle-worthy force . |
| 30 | There is no upper limit to the size of an army , but one thousand points is about the smallest size that will allow you to field a battleworthy force . |