Example sentences of "is [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The haul is worth more a hundred thousand pounds and the hunt is on for the owners .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 But a lot of the improvement is down to the cameras .
5 " The market is down in the dumps .
6 FORMER Northern Ireland champion Michael Duffy is through to the quarter-finals of the European Snooker Championship in Helsinki , Finland .
7 I have got to the stage where I totally dislike them , so it is off to the opticians next week .
8 Matt is competing in Germany in the European Cup and is up with the leaders
9 Time is Up for the Chauvinists
10 Of course the Tory party will simply say it is up to the others to attract a winning minority or even a majority .
11 ‘ We believe that ground-sharing is the only remaining viable option but it is up to the members now , ’ said Daley , who added that Butters had not been invited to the meeting .
12 It is up to the Vendors to allocate the risks amongst themselves via a separate Deed of Contribution .
13 It is up to the Vendors to provide full disclosure information .
14 It is up to the authorities to decide . ’
15 It is up to the authorities to decide . ’
16 The choice is up to the adventurers .
17 The proclamation will have summoned the Parliament to meet on a specified day and it is up to the victors to turn up on that day at the time prescribed .
18 How precise an answer must be is up to the teams playing .
19 Erm , it 's a matter of choice a free choice within the present laws of this country er , even more important perhaps than that , that it really is up to the hunts to convince those farmers that the , that the farmers want them .
20 It is up to the players .
21 It is up to the players . ’
22 ‘ It is up to the referees to decide whether or not the tackles are fair or not .
23 The type of material used for this project is up to the whims of the individual , and may run from a soft cedar to the more expensive hardwoods , or a combination of woods , depending on the grain pattern and colour contrasts desired .
24 No other sort of mind is up to the demands of the system , which needs to seem to have judicial impartiality and a rocklike permanance while also being quickly responsive to the latest political fads .
25 Usually it is up to the ratepayers in the area to pay for the clean-up afterwards .
26 ‘ It is very difficult to see that the public can be educated to accept anything less than the fact that if there is a fraud present in an organisation which prevents the financial statements from showing a true and fair view , then it is up to the auditors to find it . ’
27 The rest is up to the children , music included ; as Runswick and music director Terry Edwards discovered on their rounds of the schools at an earlier stage in the project , the teachers had only to supervise , rarely to prompt or invent-solid preparation indeed for the GCSE 's new emphasis on composition .
28 ‘ The house is up in the woods .
29 Next Saturday , the Blues ' custodian is back between the posts again , taking on all comers .
30 Alongside these , the seasonal range of edible flowers is back on the shelves of stores causing great media and customer interest .
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