Example sentences of "is [prep] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is during this fifth stage that we dream . |
| 2 | It is during this subsequent period that many problems arise , such as relationships with parents and living at home . |
| 3 | His play is about that mythical creature , the common man . |
| 4 | One of its five chapters is about those epic times , while others describe Bob Doe 's experiences in the Middle and Far East . |
| 5 | In my mind while you 're talking is about these three children who presumably er this gentleman 's wife was supposed to be looking after on thirty pounds a week . |
| 6 | The latter item alone is worth all that effort ! |
| 7 | ‘ You have not understood why he does it , ' ’ I said , ‘ The bhavana , the mental attitude with which he threw the coin , is worth many such coins , is it not ? |
| 8 | This is a matter that is worth some brief discussion , since it is closely connected with the fuss that has been made about the application of the term ‘ altruism ’ to animal as to human behaviour . |
| 9 | It is for that alleged breach of the orders that he is due to appear before a judge and jury in Middlesbrough on Monday . |
| 10 | It is for that difficult time of year , coming out of winter and into spring , that Charnos provide the ideal answer with their new semi-opaques . |
| 11 | It is for that very reason that I am moving this motion today as it gives us the opportunity to implement the rules of the union and at the same time would enable us to put into position , people who would be able to do all those things that are necessary to achieve what we require , recruitment , organization , paperwork , back-up service to full-time officials . |
| 12 | Fox is for all pregnant women and Mellanby for women over six months pregnant and mothers and babies . |
| 13 | Western security is for all practical purposes , non-existent , at least in the view of Russian diplomats who have served in the West . |
| 14 | We have now a Secretary of State for Scotland who is for all practical purposes a Scottish Prime Minister . |
| 15 | This is because economic loss can be of unforeseen proportions , can far exceed , in many cases the total contract value , and thus be a risk which it is for all practical purposes beyond the financial strength of most businessmen to assume , particularly if they were to accept such risks routinely in all their business dealings . |
| 16 | Fine Print their latest release is for all those knitters with standard gauge machines who bought Ebony and Ivory and liked the patterns . |
| 17 | And the forecast for tonight is for much more snow . ’ |
| 18 | It is for each financial controller to decide what the balance between them will be in his or her own organization . |
| 19 | That is for each incremental increase in loading , some springs will deflect less than others , or are ‘ stiffer ’ . |
| 20 | Within the national funding framework , it is for each local education authority to set its own education budget , and to decide how to allocate it between the various elements of the service , including discretionary awards . |
| 21 | IT USED to be an easy decision , and still is for many racing fans — the first weekend in October is the time to visit Paris . |
| 22 | It is for such lowly celebrations as well as the grander and better resources that THE GREAT WEEK is a heartening support . |
| 23 | Dividing the world up into nation-states , as it is for most practical purposes for most people , is therefore a profoundly ideological strategy . |
| 24 | Under such circumstances , the influence of the father would , of course , be absent and so , therefore , would what is for most white youths the main stimulus behind sporting involvement . |
| 25 | Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter . |
| 26 | It is for this same reason that training programmes in treatment centres are not normally considered for potential counsellor trainees until they have been in recovery for at least two years and preferably longer . |
| 27 | When the background is a single colour , this is a simple matter , as it is for this yellow crab spider crouching in wait for a prey to arrive on the marigold flower . |
| 28 | Most of the other examples cited in Bolinger 's article as adjectives capable only of sense-qualification do not seem to us to be properly so classified either ; if they are felt to be atypical it is for some other reason . |
| 29 | The rule does not require the proper officer to accept a document which is illegible , has not been duly authorised or is for some other reason unsatisfactory ( Ord 50 , r 4A(2) ( a ) ) . |
| 30 | Stripped , tied up and left to freeze It sounds like torture — and it is for some young workers forced to endure outdated initiation rites . |