Example sentences of "is [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In modern times we have come to associate the very word ‘ ecology ’ with a concern for the environment — yet ‘ ecology ’ is properly the name of the science that deals with the ways in which living things interact with one another and with their environment . |
| 2 | However , we were not keen for housing benefit to be used in place of housing support for care , which is properly the provision of income support . |
| 3 | As the Duke of Montrose commented , ‘ such a list is properly the business of the representative of the shire , who certainly will look to his own interest in that matter ’ . |
| 4 | Although the passion-merchant , the soul man , is in pursuit of some sort of authenticity , a confirmation of his depth of feeling , his is not his own voice , is rather the convention , a tear-jerk reaction . |
| 5 | It is rather the kind of causal concomitant of the blow that has wholly to do with internal processes of tissue regeneration . |
| 6 | It is rather the development of a portfolio of projects at Bristol which merit investment on sound practical grounds . |
| 7 | It is rather the creation of new public spheres in which citizens , including media workers , can play a full role in their community , and in the community of communities . ’ |
| 8 | The study of History at Advanced level is not merely the collection of facts about the past , but is rather the explanation and interpretation of the relationships between those facts . |
| 9 | It is rather the reverse ; it means an increased recognition of the importance of seeing oneself as part of the new Europe which is emerging . |
| 10 | Here , the items of contention in the theories of the state appear as features which can be used to characterize each particular state ; for we need to consider in every instance the extent to which the state is independent of other social spheres , or on the contrary is subordinate to ‘ constellations of interest ’ which themselves have to be specified , and further , the degree to which the state is a repressive agency which dominates society ( and what the sources of that domination are ) , or is rather the executive body of society as a whole . |
| 11 | Yet at other points the problem is rather the hijacking of the original message , as in the phenomenal lines : ‘ If the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today/ He 'd be gunned down cold by the CIA/ Oh the lights that now burn brightest behind stained glass/ Will cast the darkest shadows upon the human heart/ But God did n't build himself that throne/ God does n't live in Israel or Rome/ God does n't belong to the ‘ yankee dollar ’ / God does n't plant the bombs for Hezbollah ’ . |
| 12 | The emphasis is rather the effect of the war on an American community ; the final scene , in which survivors sit round a table singing ‘ God Bless America ’ , is crucial , and symbolises the regenerative powers of an America that had survived both Vietnam and Watergate . |
| 13 | Their common concern is rather the effect of technological innovation on our thought processes and our ability to communicate . |
| 14 | That is presumably the product of what we now know about the Brixton prison escape . |
| 15 | The scheme of the 1954 Act is that if the lease is more than six months ( which is presumably the situation in your case ) and the premises are occupied for the purposes of your business , then the lease does not automatically come to an end . |
| 16 | Similarly the companion should have no tax liability as it is presumably the disposal of an interest in his/her main residence that gives rise to the receipt of £34,000 . |
| 17 | The problem with the International Data Corp figures is that they try to treat Unix workstations as a separate market rather than bundling Unix workstations and Unix servers together , which is presumably the reason for the implied figure for IBM Corp sales of only $558m , where IBM has implied total 1992 RS/6000 business of $2,000m . |
| 18 | If children have specific questions to answer , then their reading is given a clear purpose , and purposeful reading is presumably the aim of all teaching of reading . |
| 19 | Another aspect of this extravagance is the large amount of unanalysable recorded data ; this is presumably the point Labov is making when he remarks that the ( technical ) quality of participant-observation data is often poor ( 1981 : 4 ) . |
| 20 | Here the ‘ glory ’ is presumably the stage between long gone youth and death as the poet is at this point on his ‘ deathbed ’ . |
| 21 | But this is rarely the case . |
| 22 | In one sense , new book selection is a way of filling in or updating between stock revisions , but this assumes that the whole of a stock is updated , subject by subject , over a limited timespan , and because stock revision is a highly staff-intensive process that is rarely the case . |
| 23 | It assumes that an easy consensus can be achieved about the nature of the problem and its resolution , when this is rarely the case . |
| 24 | Although this is convenient for busy human owners , it is too much for the cat to eat at once , unless it is starving — which is rarely the case with well-loved family pets . |
| 25 | ‘ Informal carers ’ is the term used in official documents to describe close supporting relatives though it is not a good term ‘ informal ’ implies that the task is done by choice in a rather casual fashion , which is rarely the case , and ‘ carer ’ implies an embracing emotional commitment which may be wholly inaccurate . |
| 26 | It is rarely the case that the correct word is always amongst the alternatives suggested by the lower recognition levels . |
| 27 | The theory is that the seller will be able to evaluate the prices offered in the light of the different contractual terms required , but in practice it is rarely the case that there is no further negotiation . |
| 28 | This is rarely the case with the reviews published in Early music or Gramophone , some of whose reviewers have served as musicological advisers for prominent recording projects both in Europe and in England . |
| 29 | When a sentence is uttered , it is rarely the utterer 's intention that it should be interpreted in two ( or more ) different ways simultaneously . |
| 30 | Sudden death is rarely the fate of a theory ; a slow ageing to redundancy is the more usual end . |