Example sentences of "is [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1980 ) and onset is during the second half of the first year of life . |
| 2 | It is during the latter part of this century , however , that historic barns and other traditional rural buildings have faced their greatest threat . |
| 3 | The most basic level of interpreting archaeological remains is during the post-excavation work , when the contexts are analysed and , where possible , dated and fitted together . |
| 4 | The first is during the initial design phase , and the second is during design change . |
| 5 | And you actually find the lump sum is times the annual pension . |
| 6 | The back page has a strip called Haggis , which is about a black highland terrier and his adventures . |
| 7 | It is about a mutual seeking in which one person ( the director ) , mature and skilled in his/her ministry , is alongside another ( the directee ) in his/her pilgrimage towards Christian maturity and that integration in which the inner and outer person become united . |
| 8 | This is about a young boy who is trying to avoid going to the dentists so he comes up with a series of excuses to give his mother . |
| 9 | By placing paragraphs on the links , one can say that a paragraph is about a certain relation between two nodes — not just about a node . |
| 10 | It has a Vietnamese cast and is about a timid servant girl who influences the lives of a large household . |
| 11 | The film is about a murdered rock musician who returns from the dead and , quoting lines from Edgar Allan Poe , seeks revenge . |
| 12 | The article , called ‘ Giacometti 's moral heroism ’ , is about a retrospective show of the sculptor 's work ten years after his death ; it does not include the name of any single work . |
| 13 | The unsatisfactory conclusion that the conditional is about so much , or rather the unsatisfactory conclusion that the conditional is about a further statement about so much , follows from the metalinguistic view . |
| 14 | The centre of Sorrento is about a 15 minute walk away but buses and a light railway run regularly to and from the town . |
| 15 | This parable is about a Jewish wedding . |
| 16 | One could say that it is a more specific interpretation of the original proposition since it is about a particular kind of running . |
| 17 | It has old roots and is about a supra-rational world ; but it was also sung for immediate pleasure without claims to any specially transmitted truth . |
| 18 | That 's like full of about dozen or so papers each one I think , if it 's the book I 'm thinking of , is about a different community or a different language er so you might find some information about Samoa where there 's a different societal hierarchical structure . |
| 19 | This paper is about a feminist philosopher , Luce Irigaray , whose work raises particular difficulties for the Anglo-Saxon reader unfamiliar with the Continental tradition of philosophy . |
| 20 | If the disagreement is about a trivial matter it will be forgotten . |
| 21 | Conrad 's novel is about a fire-prone seaside South American republic , with foreign investors and their concessions : its silver has its lightly rendered counterpart in Naipaul 's bauxite . |
| 22 | PR , she said , is about the entire communication of your business internally to employees and externally to customers . |
| 23 | The views are still tremendous in the Lakes , but sitting down to be surrounded by two or three belligerent sheep whose main occupation in life is to steal my cheese and pickle sandwich is about the best way of spoiling a good day out . |
| 24 | This is about the fifth meal you 've made ! |
| 25 | I would n't use RAMdrive on a machine with less than 8MB of RAM , though , since 4MB is about the absolute minimum you need to run Windows successfully , and the smartdrv and RAMdrive allocations have to be taken away from the overall amount . |
| 26 | The bill is about the future government and democracy of Europe and the United Kingdom . |
| 27 | Er it is about the future provision of section eleven which appears in the main report , you will no doubt appear as part of the budget debate . |
| 28 | It can also be taken seriously as part of an education which is about the real world . |
| 29 | Blithely oblivious to the fact that France is about the only member country with any money that is not running an enormous budget deficit , the European Commission yesterday outlined a grandiose plan to spend $15,000m on a network to link bureaucracies in the 12 European Community countries to help their authorities to exchange information in areas from social security to natural disasters in the single market . |
| 30 | ‘ I like the cobbling , that and driving the van is about the only work I 'm fit for , having very little brains for the counting and stock taking . ’ |