Example sentences of "is [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | It is about the possibility of learning . |
| 9 | So the report is about the possibility of a grand enterprise . |
| 10 | In his novel Fathers and Children which ( as the title suggests ) is about the generation gap , Turgenev pinned ‘ nihilist ’ to the son Bazarov . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | It is about the enjoyment of language through speaking and joking and ‘ creative ’ writing : poetry , stories , diary-keeping , letter-writing . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is about the interaction of energy and matter , cause and effect , understanding phenomena . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the translation , each assertion is about the space which the original task searches . |
| 17 | The implant is about the size of a saucer , 3.5 inches ( 9cm ) across and an inch deep . |
| 18 | Selling space in a hypermarket is about the size of a … |
| 19 | The human heart is about the size of a fist and is a muscle filled with blood . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The marking device is in the form of a microchip , enclosed within a tiny container which is about the size of a rice grain . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | One is about the size of or the half size of a football . |
| 25 | Can you identify this hammered silver coin , which is about the size of a 10p piece ( 29mm ) ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It seems to me that however attractive this addendum is , it 's taking us away from the real issue which is about the baptism one which the bishop er also kind of brought up er and which we 've been exercising ourselves over . |
| 29 | He is about the inn all day , speaks broken English , and in acknowledgment of any kindness will show the suppleness of his old bones by standing on his head for a little time . |
| 30 | ‘ The Food of the Gods ’ by H.G. Wells is about the invention of a food which causes living things to grow to six or seven times their ordinary size . |