Example sentences of "is [prep] [noun] [adv] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , on small-scale maps it is of course quite pointless to be too precise . |
| 2 | This is of course directly contrary to the past experience of most British ‘ curriculum managers ’ , certainly at secondary level . |
| 3 | The offence is in outline very similar to the pre-existing offence under the Public Order Act 1936 , section 5A , although it adds ‘ behaviour ’ to the list of proscribed activities for the first time . |
| 4 | Section 13 of the Act , which permits the senior police officer to seek to have processions banned , is in essence very similar to section 3(3) of the Public Order Act 1936 . |
| 5 | We have no access to ‘ things in themselves ’ apart from our experience of them ; a ‘ thing in itself ( Ding an sich ) is in fact utterly inconceivable to us , for any possible conception that we can form of anything at all will necessarily draw upon some real or imagined experience of it . |
| 6 | He argues that Freud 's later work is in fact directly applicable to ‘ urban ’ social theory . |
| 7 | The type of digestion is in fact very similar to that described for category 3 ( Fig. 3.19 ) : on microtines the salient angles are completely denuded of enamel ( Fig. 3.19 A , B ) , and corners of the occlusal and root angles are rounded ( Fig. 3.19 C-E ) , and the dentine has early stages of digestion , all similar in nature but more extreme than category 3 digestion ( compare Fig. 3.18 and 3.19 ) . |