Example sentences of "is [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his opening speech , Ralph Ellis thanked all those who had contributed to the success of the company , emphasising ‘ that it is during the tough times when such experience counts . ’ |
| 2 | There is the whole of the Brixen and Sperten valleys to explore , and it is about a ninety minutes walk to Kitzbuhel . |
| 3 | Three days later , a front-page EXCLUSIVE in the Star headlined THE FOX 'S LAIR — A COP 'S HOME He lived with Pc during terror reign is about a named police constable ( with a photograph of his house on the front page of the newspaper ) who ‘ let the evil sex monster lodge at his luxury four bedroom house . |
| 4 | The Descent of Darwin is about the present controversies , real , exaggerated , or downright lunatic fringe , it matters not what , over neo-Darwinism . |
| 5 | Whatever disagreement there is about the internal divisions of the texts in the manuscripts , the whole treatise has a shape . |
| 6 | Her latest film Romuald et Juliette is about the extraordinary goings-on in a yoghurt manufacturing company which brings together the white boss and the Black night-cleaner who saves his bacon . |
| 7 | Is there any hope that he as Secretary of State along with the Home Office minister , might get round a table with South Wales police to sort the problems out because on the ground the seriousness is about the growing problems of crime and law and in fact the lack of in fact , policeman on the beat . |
| 8 | Good RE teaching is about the historical facts and the literature of the main world religions and it allows the young to study the beliefs and attitudes held by the adherents of these religions and also by humanists . |
| 9 | This book is about the transcendent worlds but some of the ideas of the philosophers of old are so noble and inspiring that the emotions they arouse are of the peak experience . |
| 10 | A 1982 paper by Johanson , Maurice Taieb and Yves Coppens in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology , which is about the hominid fossils of the Hadar , includes a description of the geology of the region that matches , virtually word for word , Kalb 's grant application . |
| 11 | The battle of ideas is about the very categories to be used in policy debate . |
| 12 | Millenarian belief arose from combining the idea expressed in Psalm 89 : 4 that ‘ A day with the Lord is as a thousand years ’ with the interpretation of the Sabbath , or seventh day , as a symbol of heavenly rest in accordance with Hebrews 4 : 4–9 . |
| 13 | Swindon say as a player he is worth a million pounds , and they should be compensated accordingly . |
| 14 | If a picture is worth a thousand words , it might take a thousand words to describe a picture . |
| 15 | ‘ A picture is worth a thousand words ’ precisely because it is a part of a complex , usually unconscious , web of references . |
| 16 | The old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words is small consolation to an audience which ca n't hear any of them . |
| 17 | A picture is worth a thousand words and a single graph can often lead to a rule of thumb . |
| 18 | Each one is worth a thousand words , but a pack of six costs only £2.85 . |
| 19 | I 'm sure that a picture is worth a thousand words , and so the screenshots can probably tell you much more than I have space for . |
| 20 | The old saying ’ a picture is worth a thousand words ’ is very true when it comes to mapping a water . |
| 21 | A picture as they say is worth a thousand words and so it was that on the afternoon unemployment broke through the three million barrier I chanced a glimpse of the private feelings of John Major . |
| 22 | Following the adage that ‘ a picture is worth a thousand words ’ one might suppose that graphical methods would provide an exceptionally useful form of output . |
| 23 | A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS |
| 24 | Phillip believes the boat is worth the three years and thirty thousand pounds it has cost to restore it . |
| 25 | And this is for a terraced houses that used pay thirty five to forty pound a year . |
| 26 | One obvious development is for the empirical studies to incorporate behavioural relationships . |
| 27 | The Government believes that it is for the professional bodies and other organizations whose members provide legal services to satisfy the courts and the public that their members are competent to undertake representation . |
| 28 | Is that all that that thirteen thousand five hundred is targeted for , and that is for the four meetings of the County Council each year , when there will be a public er question time . |
| 29 | ‘ what a mortgagee is entitled to is that which is covered by the words ‘ costs charges and expenses properly incurred , ’ and it is for the taxing masters to say what these are … if the parties desire to depart from such a rule , they must express themselves in plain and unequivocal language . |
| 30 | Another plan is for the new partners to be admitted merely on undertaking to contribute their share of the partnership capital , and this may either be raised by borrowing from a bank or insurance company ( with periodic repayments ) or be left to be paid over a period of years by deduction from their share of the profits . |