Example sentences of "is [adv] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One might say that the ‘ candid camera ’ technique used for some television programmes , where people have tricks played on them for the benefit of the viewers , is rather in this mode of observation , though it is to be hoped that social researchers would not encourage people to make fools of themselves in the way television producers do . |
| 2 | The judge ruled that the documents were admissible , and this appeal is basically against that ruling . |
| 3 | In theory at least , the diameters range from 5 to 15mm ( 0.2 to 0.6in ) and lengths are around 2 metres ( 78 in ) which is enough for any kite spar . |
| 4 | It is only during this century that statutory services have been developed and they came in a very piecemeal fashion . |
| 5 | The growth in academic social gerontology has , however , been a much more recent phenomenon and it is only with this development that several important historical issues relating to old age in the present century have established themselves on the agenda for research . |
| 6 | The appropriate tax rates are then applied to calculate the total income tax due and it is only at this stage that the MIRAS system is introduced into the assessment . |
| 7 | It is only at this point that we come to the central theme , the reason why all those who wish to understand the problem of drugs in sport should read this book . |
| 8 | It is only at this point that the style gets locked in . |
| 9 | It is only at this point that the newspaper reader learns that the rapist and the victim had been next door neighbours at the time of the original offence . |
| 10 | It is only on this body of knowledge that you are able to build your further development . |
| 11 | It is only within this complexity that ‘ transition to adulthood ’ can be understood . |
| 12 | It is only in that context that this appeal may afford guidance to the doctors and hospitals . |
| 13 | Each source of energy or technology has its own economic , social and ecological niche , and it is only in that niche that it can prosper . |
| 14 | It is only in the last thirty-five years that animals had been allowed to have ‘ mental ’ processes other than learning and so it is only in that time that psychologists have developed the behavioural tests to investigate them . |
| 15 | On the other hand , a pro-rights clergyman suggested that it is our traditional despotic treatment of the non-human creation which has been truly infantile , and that it is only in this century that we have begun to grow up a little . |
| 16 | Newson and Newson ( 1.3 ) suggest that it is only in this century that questions about how to bring up children have been widely discussed ; hitherto the niceties of different child-rearing philosophies were set aside in the face of a more fundamental dilemma , whether children would survive at all beyond the first few years . |
| 17 | ‘ You are an apprentice historian and therefore should know that it is only in this century that this attempt to sanitise death has stricken our race . |
| 18 | It is only in this way that it is possible to explain the fact that Chingis Khan was able to organize the nomads of Central Asia , an extraordinarily disparate collection of groupings whether considered ‘ racially ’ or ‘ linguistically ’ , into a unified and effective war machine . |
| 19 | It is only in this way that ideology can be distinguished from science . |
| 20 | So he has followed a dual approach , honouring the supply to the supermarkets while continuing to supply and expand the local market ; it is only in this way that the operation has been able to survive and continue to provide a quality product while supporting a number of local employees and their families . |
| 21 | Thus , it is only in this case that the known laws would determine how the universe should behave . |
| 22 | It is only from some insistence , within some other social and cultural order , that signals should always be singular in dimension — indicating ‘ pure art ’ and the ‘ purely aesthetic ’ in manifestly specializing , and then both emphasizing and excluding , ways — that these historical and sociological complexities are resisted . |
| 23 | It is only against this background that one can begin now to understand the behaviour of Hollywood and Broadway , of the star names who confessed so eagerly and abjectly to their previous sins and were meat and drink to the H.U.A.C. Like reformed alcoholics , they could not wait to let the world know how misguided they had been and who had led them astray . |
| 24 | Before turning to a detailed discussion of the lives of the Muftis , it will be useful to examine in some detail the development of the learned hierarchy in the Ottoman state , since it is only against this background that the development of the institution of the Muftilik can be properly appreciated . |
| 25 | 110lb ft of torque at 4400rpm may not sound like much , but in reality the G40 is so near this peak figure from idle to red line that the overall effect is much more impressive than a car that makes you wait until the revcounter is half-way round its scale before it gets going . |
| 26 | In a business sense , however , he is entirely of this age . |
| 27 | Harry Moyle 's very detailed examination of Hampden , aided by his own personal experience in the aircraft , is perhaps of more interest to the aircraft than the lifeboat enthusiast but is included here for two very good reasons . |
| 28 | Beccaria 's appearance of humanity is perhaps to some extent due to the fact that , unlike Bentham , he often glossed over the darker implications of his arguments . |
| 29 | It is perhaps for that reason that the pensions industry had been able to get away with such arrangements for so long . |
| 30 | Indeed , the author of Le débat des hérauts d'armes could state that the French nobility did not regard fighting at sea as being a noble activity : it is perhaps for this reason that naval warfare did not feature in the chronicles in the way that war on land did . |