Example sentences of "is [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proliferation of fundic argyrophil endocrine cells , mainly enterochromaffin like ( ECL ) cells , is mostly under the control of gastrin in animals and in man . |
| 2 | The information in the series of guides by J. Watson Lyall which begin in 1873 is mostly about the shootings and fishings . |
| 3 | The information in the series of guides by J. Watson Lyall which begin in 1873 is mostly about the shootings and fishings . |
| 4 | Its wings were folded when the building collapsed and so the damage is mostly to the wing tips . |
| 5 | This information is mostly for the GM , but some of it can easily be fed to the PCs before an adventure . |
| 6 | The swing is mostly from the arms , with the body kept steady to maintain balance . |
| 7 | The score is mostly in the handwriting of one or more copyists , who seem to have put it together as Purcell completed the various numbers , leaving blanks for what was not ready . |
| 8 | The construction is mostly in the interior , and I do n't think you would like that , malaria and Indians . |
| 9 | Borrowing looks an odd route to a ‘ balanced ’ budget , but it is mostly within the letter of the law . |
| 10 | The mtDNA from C.reinhardtii is strikingly unlike the plant or any other known mitochondrial genome from eukaryotes and there is little indication that C.reinhardtii and plants share a common mitochondrial ancestor ( 23 , 24 ) . |
| 11 | There is clearly an element of circularity in the argument in that it presumes that the subject-matter is properly before the tribunal , a presumption which can only be made if subject-matter is defined purely in terms of furnished tenancy itself . |
| 12 | This exercise is valuable not only to enable the draftsman to produce a set of conditions which is most to the advantage of his client ( whether his client be buyer or seller ) , but also to enable him to understand the motivation of the other side when he is in negotiation with their advisers . |
| 13 | He says what you can see is most of the cities not only in Holland , but the whole world and of course in England have to deal with the growing of cars and it 's not only that the car is a good thing — the car has very bad things for the city as a whole . |
| 14 | Gone is most of the flag-waving and hysteria connected with ‘ committed art ’ . |
| 15 | Well , so it is most of the time . |
| 16 | This explains why cases do not come to court when the conditions of my comically weak description of the explicit extension of our legal conventions are met , which is most of the time . |
| 17 | In J v C [ 1970 ] AC 668 Lord Macdermott described it as : … a process whereby , when all the relevant facts , relationships , claims and wishes of parents , risks , choices and other circumstances are taken into account and weighed , the course to be followed will be that which is most in the interests of the child 's welfare as that term has now to be understood . |
| 18 | 639 to ‘ this day ’ , that is , Adomnán 's time of writing , c . 700 , which is some time after the power of the northern Angles beyond the Forth had been shattered at Nechtanesmere in 685 , and the reference is rather to the failure of the kings of Scottish Dál Riata to regain control of Irish Dál Riata in Antrim . |
| 19 | It is rather like the problem of litter louts , one dropped piece of paper is harmless in itself , but the problem involves the total volume of litter ! |
| 20 | It is rather like the driver who is deep in thought about a domestic crisis ; his attention is highly concentrated on personal matters , yet another part of his consciousness manages to navigate the car safely through the traffic . |
| 21 | I think the BBC has a system of promotion which is rather like the way in which people are made prefects at school . |
| 22 | The effect is rather like the behavior of a roulette ball on a roulette wheel . |
| 23 | This is rather like the moment in Lewis 's life when he described philosophy as a subject and Barfield replied that to Plato , philosophy was not a subject but a way . |
| 24 | A Christies spokesmen said yesterday : ‘ The art world is rather like the property market . |
| 25 | The narrow nationalism expressed by people who want to cling to total sovereignty for the United Kingdom is rather like the arguments we hear from Scottish and Welsh nationalists — unrealistic and out of date . |
| 26 | Lunch is no problem , as we can eat at the ‘ hamburger stall ’ next door to the department , or we can get an amazingly cheap and sustaining meal for 12 cruzeiros ( c. 15p ) in a canteen on the campus , which is rather like the prison canteen in ‘ Porridge ’ . |
| 27 | The display is rather like the File Manager , in that you see the names of the files at the left hand side of the screen , and the chosen details at the right hand side of the screen . |
| 28 | ‘ We 're laying down here … — that our marriage is rather like the summer , day after day the same , very still , very peaceful . |
| 29 | In public the Bush administration is wholeheartedly on the side of the mujaheddin , as was President Reagan . |
| 30 | The decision on prejudice is presumably at the discretion of police and tax officers ; if widely exercised it could set at naught some of the principal objects of the Act . |