Example sentences of "is [adv] [prep] [art] " 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 | The information in the series of guides by J. Watson Lyall which begin in 1873 is mostly about the shootings and fishings . |
3 | The information in the series of guides by J. Watson Lyall which begin in 1873 is mostly about the shootings and fishings . |
4 | Its wings were folded when the building collapsed and so the damage is mostly to the wing tips . |
5 | This information is mostly for the GM , but some of it can easily be fed to the PCs before an adventure . |
6 | The swing is mostly from the arms , with the body kept steady to maintain balance . |
7 | As we saw above , and Lyons would not disagree , it is mostly in the paralinguistic features that English performs this function . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | The construction is mostly in the interior , and I do n't think you would like that , malaria and Indians . |
10 | Borrowing looks an odd route to a ‘ balanced ’ budget , but it is mostly within the letter of the law . |
11 | 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 ) . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Gone is most of the flag-waving and hysteria connected with ‘ committed art ’ . |
15 | Well , so it is most of the time . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | He says what you can see is most of the cities not only in Holland , but the whole world and of course in England have to deal with the growing of cars and it 's not only that the car is a good thing — the car has very bad things for the city as a whole . |
18 | In J v C [ 1970 ] AC 668 Lord Macdermott described it as : … a process whereby , when all the relevant facts , relationships , claims and wishes of parents , risks , choices and other circumstances are taken into account and weighed , the course to be followed will be that which is most in the interests of the child 's welfare as that term has now to be understood . |
19 | It is rather as a precaution against compounding one media mistake with another . |
20 | When he fragments and decomposes the objects in his still lifes and landscapes , it is not in order to strip form bare or to disengage some essential quality , but it is rather as a means of creating a completely new kind of pictorial space . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | ( The facts that Rousseau never used the phrase ‘ noble savage ’ , and that Hobbes has been widely misinterpreted are irrelevant here , since my concern is not with the conceptions that two seminal thinkers actually articulated , but is rather with the stereotyped dichotomous conceptions of human nature and human society that have come to be associated with their names . ) |
23 | Current educational thinking is moving away from the whole concept of labelling children by closely defined categories , and the emphasis is rather on the individual needs of children and on the shared aspects of their development and learning . |
24 | She is rather like a lyric author herself , a bit of a lyre . |
25 | It is rather like a Labour Party conference , without the block vote . |
26 | The effect is rather like a newspaper carrying blank columns where items have been banned . |
27 | ‘ I 've often thought that each person is rather like a different vessel out at sea . |
28 | Her life really was that of one of the anawim , the ‘ little ones ’ of God — and the distaste that many of us feel for her is rather like a similar distaste for Thérèse of Lisieux . |
29 | The BBC is rather like a cross between the Church of England and the Post Office . |
30 | Labour today is rather like a car company whose models have acquired a reputation for unreliability . |