Example sentences of "is [adv] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , when it comes to services , consumers are quite unanimous that quality is mostly down to the staff and how they behave with customers . |
| 2 | This approach is most obviously to the fore in Buddhism which emphasizes the necessity for getting beyond concepts by the use of words like anatta , anicca , and nirvana . |
| 3 | Salmonella is one of the most widely talked of hazards , and one which is most certainly on the increase : between 1983 and 1988 , the number of reports by British laboratories of salmonella infection more than doubled . |
| 4 | It is set in Germany during the middle ages , and although not abandoning a ‘ fantasy ’ setting , its stance is rather more along the ‘ if what they believed about magic and legends were actually true ’ . |
| 5 | The emphasis here is rather less upon the calculation of personal advantage , and rather more on the kin group as a co-operative unit , taking collective decisions which are to the advantage of all . |
| 6 | He 's taking us from the airport to what is locally down as the Darth Vader Hotel . |
| 7 | Democratic theory as an ideal construct may recognise the existence of elites in real polities which are to be explained ; a democratic theory which accepts the existence of elites , describes democracy as a set of institutions and builds them into its descriptions as a central restraining factor , is arguably not in the democratic school and might not even be properly called theory . |
| 8 | My favourite eating establishment in Formentera is right there on the beach in Es Pujols . |
| 9 | It is all right for the hero and heroine to go to bed together , although if they actually make love before they are married , a wedding should follow immediately . |
| 10 | It is all over for the present . ’ |
| 11 | There he works on the Slime Line , which is basically rather like the Northern Line , but slightly more regular . |
| 12 | In February 1980 the Afghan Foreign Minister argued that ‘ the presence of foreign troops in a country , especially when it is requested by that country , is basically not against the principles of non-alignment ’ . |
| 13 | It is always difficult for members of any industry to look far into the future and it is especially so for the farming industry . |
| 14 | This is especially so as the local plan makes no reference whatever to the proposal to effectively change from a washed-over to an inset status , while the greenbelt local plan refers to that change only by the one word , quote proposed unquote , in parentheses on page twenty five of the deposit copy . |
| 15 | This is especially so in the remote sheep-farming areas of Wales , which seem to be particularly favoured as fox-dumping grounds . |
| 16 | Housing is an important component of welfare : it is difficult to imagine anything more damaging to an individual 's welfare than the lack of somewhere to live , and this is especially so in the case of families with young children and elderly people . |
| 17 | This is especially so in the case of a subject which , like RE , arouses strong emotions . |
| 18 | As noted above a plan is essential to the proper description of a property , and this is especially so in the case of leases the title to which is to be registered ( Chapter 12 ) , and indeed of leases of flats in general . |
| 19 | This is especially so in the case of visiting competitors . |
| 20 | The guitar itself , as you 're probably well aware , is a basic Les Paul shape in natural mahogany with no binding whatsoever , and the pickup selector is down just above the volume and tone pots . |
| 21 | As Ive said , this is down more to the way West Ham played ( or did nt ) than them . |
| 22 | I watch it from my seat in the New York as well , which is down below to the right ; I can see the top of its maroon awning . |
| 23 | The bridal bouquet is somewhat out of the ordinary , too ! |
| 24 | Fishbane 's bedroom is somewhat out of the way and near the lift , so that the ladies can be discreetly smuggled up there by Ramsbum . |
| 25 | Take away the self-interest , and the residual appeal is enough only for the wholly unselfish . |
| 26 | With money being transferred from the Universities Funding Council to the research councils , Knill felt that ‘ there is enough now in the research council system to fully support research grants ’ . |
| 27 | In Seager v Copydex Ltd [ 1967 ] 1 WLR 923 it was adopted by Lord Denning MR who added the following point concerning the difficulties which arise where part of the information disclosed to the defendant is only partly within the public domain : When the information is mixed , being partly public and partly private , then the recipient must take special care to use only the material which is in the public domain . |
| 28 | Also in the constellation is M16 , the Eagle Nebula , which consists of a galactic cluster together with an emission nebula ; the guide star is Gamma Scuti ( 4.7 ) , and the Eagle Nebula is only just over the Scutum boundary into Serpens . |
| 29 | Moreover , the strength of the kink is so low that it will often fail when the glider is only just off the ground . |
| 30 | Duty on cigarettes is up ten percent — that 's thirteen pence on a packet of twenty , but on pipe tobacco duty is only up by the rate of inflation . |