Example sentences of "is [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Xavier Mellery , the painter of the nuns , was described in the catalogue as " creating a light which is the negation of that which envelops our immediate visual experience of things ; it is rather the Interior light of your mind … " |
| 2 | It is rather the visible sign of underlying defensiveness and uncertainty . |
| 3 | It is rather the inner emptiness or ignorance which the spate of words attempts to conceal . |
| 4 | So everything in between has an unfulfilling lack of immediacy , and instead of being drawn more vividly into the drama ( which is presumably the principal justification for recording live ) we experience a remoteness that characterizes none of the studio recordings with which this version has to be compared . |
| 5 | Where the services can not be seen as making an economic contribution , they are clearly improving the quality of life for members of the community , which is presumably the ultimate goal of raising productivity and standards of living anyway . |
| 6 | IT IS presumably the mustachioed face of the author that hovers elusively behind the undulations of the Zollner figure on the front of Nicholas Wade 's book . |
| 7 | This is because the true fracture stress at the crack tip is presumably the theoretical strength of the material and this generally lies between 10 and 20 per cent of the Young 's modulus , E ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 8 | Although this is rarely the sole cause of the iron deficiency , in one study it was found to be a contributing factor in 57% of patients . |
| 9 | ‘ Laverne is rarely the innocent party . ’ |
| 10 | A state of cleanliness is rarely the main objective of a manager in the food industries , as there is no direct profit contribution or production benefit , so the emphasis on management differs from that of mainstream operations . |
| 11 | Though this is by far the best collection of historical stringing information ever assembled ( most of it not available elsewhere ) , authenticity is rarely the important issue . |
| 12 | That is effectively the official Home Office ceiling . |
| 13 | Although the total amount of resources devoted to the needs of the rural population is arguably the prime factor affecting standards of living , statutory planning has played an important role in influencing the distribution of resources and employment within the countryside ; including the availability of shops , houses and services . |
| 14 | This is arguably the fundamental point made by a famous set of attempted proofs of God 's existence associated with the medieval theologian , Aquinas . |
| 15 | To die from a bullet seems to be nothing ; parts of our being remain intact ; but to be dismembered , torn to pieces , reduced to pulp , this is a fear that flesh can not support and which is fundamentally the great suffering of the bombardment … |
| 16 | What I am saying is not that culling is necessarily the right thing , but that these are genuine detailed practicable problems which must not be dismissed , as if they were easy , by solutions of the kind that I have just suggested . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , it is necessarily the central element in any plausible conception of democracy . |
| 18 | Although it would be glib to presume that the removal of a pupil from his or her usual classes is necessarily the wrong strategy , there are obvious contradictions in operating a system based on negative sanctions and the off-loading of responsibility for one group whilst attempting to accept and cater for the diversity of the rest . |
| 19 | Which is n't to say that Mr Hall 's novel idea is necessarily the whole idea . |
| 20 | Year after year , this is constantly the favourite dessert when eating out . |
| 21 | Although the set-up with The Daintees is basically the matey-blokes-next-door scenario , Stephenson deals the unique card of being the star-next-door . |
| 22 | Financial performance that is basically the financial strength or weakness of at the present . |
| 23 | The starting premiss here coincides with what is basically the common sense belief , viz. that things or entities constitute the hard core of reality . |
| 24 | It is still true to say that the law of sale of goods today is basically the common law , i.e. the law as stated over the years by judges in the process of deciding cases before them . |
| 25 | Should the rational expectations hypothesis be grafted on to a ‘ correct ’ model which is basically the Keynesian theory of economic activity ? |
| 26 | But most feminists do not believe that abortion is merely the moral equivalent of a tonsillectomy . |
| 27 | While it is important to know that your sample size is big enough for safe conclusions to be drawn ( that effects are ‘ statistically significant ’ ) , this is secondary in comparison with the issue of whether a relationship can be given a causal interpretation or is merely the spurious result of the operation of third factors ; the relationship between the number of fire engines and the amount of damage caused could be derived from a sample size of ten thousand and still utterly mislead if taken at face value . |
| 28 | Viewed from one angle , a current account deficit is merely the necessary counterpart of a capital account surplus , and it is from this point that Nigel Lawson 's defensive intellectual outworks run . |
| 29 | The point is of some importance since a number of rules of procedure are growing to be applicable to Cabinet Committees and we ought to know where there is a real , useful distinction or whether it is merely the pragmatical difference that some are serviced by the Cabinet Office and some are not . |
| 30 | Child Number One breaks off from an inspection which proves that the ball has not been tampered with but is merely the egg-shape common to three-for-£1 seconds from the local market . |