Example sentences of "is [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The information in the series of guides by J. Watson Lyall which begin in 1873 is mostly about the shootings and fishings . |
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 swing is mostly from the arms , with the body kept steady to maintain balance . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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for the United Kingdom is rather like the arguments we hear from Scottish and Welsh nationalists — unrealistic and out of date . |
7 | Holding and transferring bibliographic information is presumably in the interests of the data subject ( the author ) and is vital for the efficient running of the book industry . ’ |
8 | It is somewhere on the borders between social research and journalism . |
9 | Judicial independence means that judges are not dependent on governments in ways which might influence them in coming to decisions in individual cases , though their promotion , like their appointment , is effectively in the hands of the Lord Chancellor with , nowadays , a measure of Prime Ministerial intervention . |
10 | The most remarkable fact about the appointment of judges is that it is wholly in the hands of politicians . |
11 | Ciprofloxacin is largely excreted as an unchanged substance and elimination is predominantly via the kidneys . |
12 | As we have seen , the residential care of elderly people is predominantly in the hands of private companies . |
13 | The haul is worth more a hundred thousand pounds and the hunt is on for the owners . |
14 | I realise that it is constantly in the interests of the Opposition to belittle the Government 's successes , but that is certainly one . |
15 | Their song is of regret and exile , its core the oxymoron of ‘ this far land ’ — ‘ this ’ land is the real land , Middle-earth , ‘ far land ’ ought to be the one Elbereth is in beyond the Seas . |
16 | Apart from the voltage of the battery , the re-charge time is an important feature of the cordless tool and this is down to the chargers . |
17 | But a lot of the improvement is down to the cameras . |
18 | " The market is down in the dumps . |
19 | In Holland that is enough for the containers to be legally disposed of as domestic waste . ’ |
20 | In particular , it is enough for the police to maintain that ‘ detention without charge is necessary … to obtain evidence by questioning ’ . |
21 | However , as stated previously , it is only for the purposes of discussion that any AL can be considered on its own ; in reality , the various activities are closely related and do not have distinct boundaries . |
22 | As explained earlier when describing the model of living and the model for nursing , the 12 ALs are interrelated ; so too the body systems as categorised by the human biologists are interrelated and it is only for the purposes of description and discussion that they are dealt with separately . |
23 | For instance , I Was A Teenage Six Pistol by Glen Matlock ( Omnibus , £12.95 ) is only on the shelves because someone calculated that if one out of every few hundred punk rockers is daft enough to shell out nearly £13 for Matlock 's eye-witness account of the writing of ‘ Pretty Vacant ’ , then they 'll make a small fortune . |
24 | Despite the many points of contact between the study of film or media and the study of literature , despite the fact that there exist theorists such as Barthes who have made important contributions to the study of film and the study of literature , it is only on the communications courses that such theorists are studied . |
25 | Indeed , Parry has recently argued that it is only under the conditions of a relatively free market that there is evidence for the entirely disinterested gift , in which calculation should be entirely absent , this being a product of the same emergent duality ( Parry 1986 ) . |
26 | It is only in the states of Western Europe , in the countries of the British Commonwealth , in the United States of America , and in a few Latin-American states that government is carried on with due regard to the limitations imposed by a Constitution ; it is only in these states that truly ‘ constitutional government ’ can be said to exist … |
27 | Further , it is only in the Fellowships that they will get sufficient identification with other sufferers to be able to see that there is hope for recovery when they do finally admit defeat . |
28 | It is only in the laws of Wihtraed c . |
29 | In the Magistrates ' Court the decision as to verdict and sentence is entirely for the Justices acting on the advice of their Clerk , and of course it is erm true to say that generally speaking Justices will follow the advice of their Clerk , but they do n't have to . |
30 | In both instances , the focus of attention is entirely upon the actions of the defendant . |