Example sentences of "is [adv] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The ruwang , who is with the men outside the house , chants with the ruwahu , who is inside it with the women .
2 The diagnostic test needed is obviously something like the following : Given a situation where a phrase composed of adjective A and noun N can correctly apply to something perceived by the speaker , is it possible in principle to say the following truthfully : " This N is A " ?
3 It is thus something like the universal yellow which pervades a yellow object without requiring any particular arrangement of individual parts .
4 Yeah , yeah except that that is just nothing in the end .
5 You 're then taken down into the operating theatre and the first injection you are given is usually something on the lines of erm er special K , ketomine or the most common one is
6 She also sees that there is always something in the drinks cupboard to welcome visitors . ’
7 Recording a verdict of suicide , coroner David Morris said : ‘ It is easy enough to criticise the bank as a body — there is always someone at the sharp end .
8 Arrange things so that there is always someone in the building who is on call for machine problems .
9 The choice is always yours at the Whitbread Hop Farm .
10 There is still something of the well fed confidence of the years before World War I about it , and not a little of the self-deluding establishment complacence of the years before World War II .
11 But granted the credit for historical reliability which accrues to the evangelists through their reserve about the Spirit , that still does not help us with the problem of why there is practically nothing in the Gospels about men and women being filled with the Holy Spirit now that he was clearly in business again .
12 Vermeer sprang to mind as there is also something about the intense luminosity of the effect of the light-boxes that reminded me of that unique concentration of light in paintings executed with the aid of camera obscuras ( ancestor of the camera ) .
13 I have argued that correctionalism is no more inherently flawed than any other starting assumption ( including ‘ appreciation ’ ) that the alleged functions of crime are a myth , and that socialist anti-correctionalism is really nothing of the sort , but an argument about the nature of officially defined crime ( though it rightly draws attention to the fact that correctionalism can not justifiably avoid such an argument ) .
14 In the end he presents it as a solution to the problem which he had been set but it is really nothing of the sort .
15 In that case he might offer his decision as a surprising interpretation " of the statute or precedent when it is really nothing of the kind .
16 There is now nothing of the kind .
17 There is almost nothing about the artist 's contemporaries .
18 There is again something about the tone of this minute that strikes me .
19 Visibility is absolutely nil within the darkness , and the air has a dreadful chill .
20 The White House denounced the charge as ‘ completely scurrilous and irresponsible ’ , adding : ‘ There is absolutely nothing to the allegations . ’
21 Comrade Preobrazhensky preaches abstraction from politics but in point of fact , apart from politics , there is absolutely nothing in the work .
22 There is therefore nothing in the Order which renders the lease unlawful and invalid .
23 Anxious , inexperienced mothers can be the source of their child 's mysterious health problems , of course , but there is increasing evidence that it is commonly something in the diet or the environment .
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