Example sentences of "is [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People often say that a certain noise gets louder at night , even though its measured level does not alter ; this is because , at night , the level of the background noise is generally lower than it is during the day , During the recession , people near once noisy factories started to appreciate the quiet . |
| 2 | This is not intended to be nomination in the traditional sense and once the subcontractor has been named ( subject to reasonable objection by the contractor if the naming is during the course of the contract ) , that subcontractor becomes almost entirely the responsibility of the contractor . |
| 3 | It is during the night that they find most of their food which is dew smothered vegetation . |
| 4 | Shaping like this can also be done on a plain ‘ V ’ neck cardigan by working the cable next to the front edge on the straight and leaving the pattern as it is during the shaping , working the decreases on the inner edge of the cable pattern where it will not show . |
| 5 | The trouble is during the week , a lot of little shops only have what 's been left over from the weekend and their vegetables , cos that 's what happens at ours |
| 6 | It is during the summer , and before the September denouement , that the voices of the women compositors for the first time become audible to the historian . |
| 7 | This is during the rut . |
| 8 | Our carpenter is aboard the Angelina , building a cradle for the bomb according to the specifications the Pentagon gave us . |
| 9 | The comedy drama , called Henri , is about the adventures of a brilliant young accordion player from a small rural town who wins a place at a Belfast music school . |
| 10 | It is about the possibility of learning . |
| 11 | So the report is about the possibility of a grand enterprise . |
| 12 | In his novel Fathers and Children which ( as the title suggests ) is about the generation gap , Turgenev pinned ‘ nihilist ’ to the son Bazarov . |
| 13 | Now the view er was that they were dignified and above taking action and also in the sense that the public was credited I think with more sense than to believe everything and that the public memory is relatively short and therefore if you start a court action and you then have coverage in the court action , you are merely making the thing worse erm sometimes the things that some people may have thought were highly actionable one day , become almost a joke and something of affection later on and you can , one of the classics maybe is about the Prince of Wales talking to his plants , now that a national joke and he will make jokes about it in speeches |
| 14 | It is about the enjoyment of language through speaking and joking and ‘ creative ’ writing : poetry , stories , diary-keeping , letter-writing . |
| 15 | Another common complaint from editors is about the release which gives the impression , perhaps without actually saying so , that the product or service is a new one . |
| 16 | And I 'll tell you what the problem is about the Trusts , and I 'll explain why they are opting out of the National Health Service . |
| 17 | It is about the interaction of energy and matter , cause and effect , understanding phenomena . |
| 18 | Let us suppose that following incorporation the partners award themselves salaries of £43,500 which is about the level required to ensure that tax on the salary does not exceed the basic 25% rate . |
| 19 | In the translation , each assertion is about the space which the original task searches . |
| 20 | The implant is about the size of a saucer , 3.5 inches ( 9cm ) across and an inch deep . |
| 21 | Selling space in a hypermarket is about the size of a … |
| 22 | The human heart is about the size of a fist and is a muscle filled with blood . |
| 23 | Each spring is about the size of a swimming pool and produces enough helium for use , after liquefaction , at the Cyclotron ( small nuclear accelerator ) in Calcutta . |
| 24 | The marking device is in the form of a microchip , enclosed within a tiny container which is about the size of a rice grain . |
| 25 | So I was able to make excursions throughout the state , which is about the size of Hampshire , admiring its astonishing number of traditional country houses , and enjoying the company of many of their owners . |
| 26 | You take the biggest of the logs , which is about the size of a man 's arm , and walk softly across the room to the bedroom door . |
| 27 | One is about the size of or the half size of a football . |
| 28 | Can you identify this hammered silver coin , which is about the size of a 10p piece ( 29mm ) ? |
| 29 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 30 | NCR has just introduced a model that is about the size of an A4 pad making it possible to walk around and make notes as you go . |