Example sentences of "is [adv] [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Making sense of the National Curriculum , at the moment of its introduction , is rather like making sense of a jigsaw with no picture on the box and half of the pieces missing . |
| 2 | Honeydew is rather like junk food ; it is high in sugar , but can be low in amino acids , the building blocks of proteins . |
| 3 | House-buying is rather like drinking wine . |
| 4 | Fixing is on to timber battening , and because of their weight , manufacturers ' instructions should be followed closely . |
| 5 | ‘ The pressure is on to make money and a lot of consultants are suffering , ’ notes Cunningham . |
| 6 | The heat is on for £5.5m star |
| 7 | As the heat is on for community care implementation and tempers among your workmates may be beginning to fray a little at the edges , welcome news has arrived courtesy of Bart 's Conferences . |
| 8 | The choice is upstream to Broomhill Bridge ( 1 mile ) or downstream to Grantown-on-Spey ( 3 miles ) . |
| 9 | The present building dates from about 1000 and is basically in Lombard style . |
| 10 | Eg White is down at Man City , Rocky at leeds ) You may only spend up to 20 Million quid . |
| 11 | Visitors to Canterbury this season will not be surprised , then , to find a pitch which ultimately favours the likes of Hooper , Davis and Patel , when he is down from Manchester Polytechnic . |
| 12 | Hamilton 's theory indicates that since altruism is only of survival value if it enhances fitness , it can evolve only where the recipients are relatives . |
| 13 | The bridge is open most of the day as access is only for farm traffic . |
| 14 | Many of these factors can be deduced or estimated from surviving archaeological evidence , but other factors — such as size of population , whether farming is only at subsistence level or is producing a surplus , and if so , how large a surplus — are much more difficult to assess . |
| 15 | A court order avoids the repayment of the discount on the transfer of a former council house ( see further this chapter ) and it is only by court order ( with the agreement of the parties ) that future claims against the estate of one party to the former marriage can be barred out ( see Chapter 11 ) . |
| 16 | The signature no doubt referred to the statues , but the bases show that painting as well as relief was practised in his workshop ; and the style of the low relief on the other bases ( fig. 94 ) with its red background throwing up the figures of athletes is so like Pioneer red-figure that one could easily imagine it produced by one of those artists . |
| 17 | In general , however , bone breakage is less in owl bone assemblages than in those of other predator species . |
| 18 | The subject is obviously of minority interest . |
| 19 | Bergstrand , who won the British Championship race at Dollar two weeks ago , is obviously in peak condition and he will be trying to help Mandale retain their title in tomorrow 's Crook Cloverleaf Relays . |
| 20 | Regionalism is not about service delivery . |
| 21 | The decision in the Hoffmann-La Roche case is not about law enforcement actions in general . |
| 22 | The argument in the 1990s is not about resource depletion but about changes in climate which will concern life and health as well as , ultimately , wealth . |
| 23 | ‘ And that bastard , ’ he added , nodding towards Luke , ‘ is not worth doin' time for . ’ |
| 24 | The proposal is not for freight traffic to go through King 's Cross . |
| 25 | ‘ Would it surprise you to know , Mr Didier , that the Prince of Wales is not at Osborne House ? ’ said Naseby complacently . |
| 26 | Module is not a package/Module is not of type Package |
| 27 | Leicestershire won by 133 runs IN MAKING a laudable attempt to sustain interest in a foreshortened contest at Fenner 's , Leicestershire learnt something of long-term disadvantage : their spin-bowling is not of county championship quality . |
| 28 | A more measured response is not to abandon welfare but to shift the carrots : make welfare reward work . |
| 29 | But we must not be misled by the atmosphere of religious exaltation : the pagans are , by implication , cattle for the slaughter ; the call is not to missionary work , nor even to humane conquest , if such a thing exists , but to slaughter . |
| 30 | Both preferences reflect the power of domestic producer interests , whose aim is not to spur development abroad but to sell exports and block imports . |