Example sentences of "is [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proliferation of fundic argyrophil endocrine cells , mainly enterochromaffin like ( ECL ) cells , is mostly under the control of gastrin in animals and in man . |
| 2 | Its wings were folded when the building collapsed and so the damage is mostly to the wing tips . |
| 3 | The score is mostly in the handwriting of one or more copyists , who seem to have put it together as Purcell completed the various numbers , leaving blanks for what was not ready . |
| 4 | The construction is mostly in the interior , and I do n't think you would like that , malaria and Indians . |
| 5 | Borrowing looks an odd route to a ‘ balanced ’ budget , but it is mostly within the letter of the law . |
| 6 | The mtDNA from C.reinhardtii is strikingly unlike the plant or any other known mitochondrial genome from eukaryotes and there is little indication that C.reinhardtii and plants share a common mitochondrial ancestor ( 23 , 24 ) . |
| 7 | There is clearly an element of circularity in the argument in that it presumes that the subject-matter is properly before the tribunal , a presumption which can only be made if subject-matter is defined purely in terms of furnished tenancy itself . |
| 8 | This exercise is valuable not only to enable the draftsman to produce a set of conditions which is most to the advantage of his client ( whether his client be buyer or seller ) , but also to enable him to understand the motivation of the other side when he is in negotiation with their advisers . |
| 9 | Gone is most of the flag-waving and hysteria connected with ‘ committed art ’ . |
| 10 | Well , so it is most of the time . |
| 11 | This explains why cases do not come to court when the conditions of my comically weak description of the explicit extension of our legal conventions are met , which is most of the time . |
| 12 | Lives in a room over the garage at Tyler 's 'ard. 'as the place to 'imself when Mr Dysart 's not there , o' course , which is most o' the time . ’ |
| 13 | 639 to ‘ this day ’ , that is , Adomnán 's time of writing , c . 700 , which is some time after the power of the northern Angles beyond the Forth had been shattered at Nechtanesmere in 685 , and the reference is rather to the failure of the kings of Scottish Dál Riata to regain control of Irish Dál Riata in Antrim . |
| 14 | It is rather like the problem of litter louts , one dropped piece of paper is harmless in itself , but the problem involves the total volume of litter ! |
| 15 | It is rather like the driver who is deep in thought about a domestic crisis ; his attention is highly concentrated on personal matters , yet another part of his consciousness manages to navigate the car safely through the traffic . |
| 16 | I think the BBC has a system of promotion which is rather like the way in which people are made prefects at school . |
| 17 | The effect is rather like the behavior of a roulette ball on a roulette wheel . |
| 18 | This is rather like the moment in Lewis 's life when he described philosophy as a subject and Barfield replied that to Plato , philosophy was not a subject but a way . |
| 19 | A Christies spokesmen said yesterday : ‘ The art world is rather like the property market . |
| 20 | Lunch is no problem , as we can eat at the ‘ hamburger stall ’ next door to the department , or we can get an amazingly cheap and sustaining meal for 12 cruzeiros ( c. 15p ) in a canteen on the campus , which is rather like the prison canteen in ‘ Porridge ’ . |
| 21 | The display is rather like the File Manager , in that you see the names of the files at the left hand side of the screen , and the chosen details at the right hand side of the screen . |
| 22 | ‘ We 're laying down here … — that our marriage is rather like the summer , day after day the same , very still , very peaceful . |
| 23 | In public the Bush administration is wholeheartedly on the side of the mujaheddin , as was President Reagan . |
| 24 | The decision on prejudice is presumably at the discretion of police and tax officers ; if widely exercised it could set at naught some of the principal objects of the Act . |
| 25 | The most troubling of these measures is the first , which is presumably for the benefit of the security services . |
| 26 | But another reason is presumably in the past , because the military was terribly powerful , much more powerful before the coup than now and Gorbachev was frightened to start dismantling it too . |
| 27 | If , as Lord Bruce of Donington points out ( letter , April 2 ) , the new Parliament will be presented with a Bill before most members have themselves been able to read the text of the treaty , this is presumably in the hope that they will railroad it through before the British presidency commences in June . |
| 28 | The reason for this is that Germany 's huge trade surplus is overwhelmingly with the Community ( approx. 70% of it was with the EC , although in late 1991 , there has been a significant drop , albeit temporarily , in Germany 's surplus ) . |
| 29 | Even here , as we have shown earlier , the evidence is overwhelmingly against the usefulness of testing , whether carried out on a national or local basis . |
| 30 | This is rarely under the control of the producer country , even less the actual direct producer , the farmer , but is increasingly coming under the control of the TNC conglomerates that manage the global food system . |