Example sentences of "is [adv] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The selection is predominantly the English Classics and very little Scottish literature but it is surprising that there were only two Gaelic works ; John MacCormick 's " Oiteagan O'n Jar " ( Breeze from the West ) and Rev. A. Clark 's " Caraid nan Gaidheal . " |
| 2 | Of course , the resultant of all winds is probably not the most useful resultant , as on most shores it is only the onshore winds which count in constructional action . |
| 3 | It is only the inexperienced dealers , who know nothing about the stock market and who are desperate for money that can be manipulated this way . |
| 4 | Many products contain mechanisms that are interfaced to electronics and with the advances in miniaturization of these products it is only the special-purpose machines which possess the skills to manufacture and assemble them . |
| 5 | To be more specific , the gene R in Figure 5 , which makes recombination possible , may have no effect at all on the survival of an organism in which it finds itself , or on the number of offspring produced ; what R can affect is only the particular kinds of genes with which it will be associated in future generations . |
| 6 | It is only the American buyers who are now attracted by genuine objets d'art , they are the only ones who understand their true worth and what kind of reflection is that upon us ? |
| 7 | Unfortunately it is only the voluntary agencies which are likely to take its message to heart — and not the government aid departments and World Bank ‘ experts ’ who need most to hear it . |
| 8 | But gender roles are not a thing ; gender itself is not a characteristic women and men just ‘ have ’ . |
| 9 | The Forum is not a sanctioned standards body . |
| 10 | The Forum is not a sanctioned standards body . |
| 11 | ‘ Cost , of course , is not the only criteria , ’ commented Don Allen of Mercer Fraser who developed the Chidcare Cheque scheme in conjunction with the National Childminding Association . |
| 12 | The part detail held is not the entire contents of the drawing file , but merely sufficient data to describe the parts ' associativity and spatial positions in the sub-assembly . |
| 13 | And where Freud has been integrated with , with the social sciences , interestingly enough , what 's been integrated is not the black books so much as Freud 's writings on child development and other issues , apart from those in these books . |
| 14 | So what one remembers out of Hardy is not the philosophic vapourings or the spiritual anguish , all impossibly unreal today … ’ |
| 15 | Contrary to persistent rumour , Kylie Minogue 's first film , The Delinquents ( Warner West End , 12 , from Boxing Day ) is not the flaccid cods-up we might have expected . |
| 16 | The natives know that it is not the actual paintings in the caves that activate the Kurunba but the rocks on which they are drawn ; the rocks being imbued with the ‘ spirit ’ of the entities depicted . |
| 17 | The answer to all of this is surely that it is not the legal qualities of limited liability or separate personality in themselves that justify intervention , but the concentration of power in private hands that has come about partly as a result of their existence . |
| 18 | However , it is not the absolute figures that are so striking . |
| 19 | A medical supplies shop in the back streets of Shanghai is not the average travellers idea of an attraction , but for the tack traveller it contains hidden treasures . |
| 20 | Yet it is not the faceless planners , mindless civil servants , wild military men or politicians who are always to blame . |
| 21 | John Stuart Mill remarks in A System of Logic ( Book VI , Chapter 7 ) : ‘ It is not the empirical generalisations that count but the causal laws which explain them . ’ |
| 22 | What 's clear is that the Polo is not the all-new supermini Volkswagen would have you believe . |
| 23 | The chief point at issue is not the competing merits of the models ; more fundamentally the controversial nature of the social class concept needs to be acknowledged and discussed by sociolinguists in order to give researchers some purchase on the important question of how language relates to social structure . |
| 24 | ( This is not the present ladies ' room but is believed to have been on the first floor of the main clubhouse where it was known to be in the 1940 's at least ) . |
| 25 | When asked what frightens me most about London , I say , it is not the pinwheeled eyes of junkies on the street . |
| 26 | Dr Tyrrell says the real danger of infection from a sneeze is invisible : ‘ It is not the big blobs of mucus that are the problem , it is the smaller , invisible droplets which hang around in the air for several minutes after a sneeze . ’ |
| 27 | The more important part of a plan is not the detailed figures but the quality of the thinking from which the ligures are developed . |
| 28 | IT IS NOT the free trips that I am going to miss . |
| 29 | But it is not the objective facts that are abnormal , it is the circumstances in which they are observed . |
| 30 | In the boroughs it is normally the Social Services , or the Environmental Health Department who would handle the arrangements . |