Example sentences of "is [prep] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book , written by Blessed , who is an actor or , as he puts it , ‘ sexy and a star ’ , is about how the actor ( but not the yak ) reached 25,400ft on the North Ridge of Everest while making the film entitled Galahad of Everest . |
| 2 | The first is about how the discipline is presented to students , both explicitly and implicitly . |
| 3 | Since any argument that is not purely academic is about how the future is to happen then there is much room for subjectivity , both about how we think the future will happen and about how we should like it to happen . |
| 4 | The Prime Minister decided to unveil Manchester 's ‘ unique ’ £1.5 billion blue-print for the Games at his Downing Street home to emphasise how important he believes the bid is for both the city and the nation . |
| 5 | The effect of this , quite naturally , is for even the most conscientious of organisations not to bring out modifications or amendments and to keep their fingers crossed in the hope that their suspicions of a failure or shortcoming will prove to be unsubstantiated . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sure you know , Inspector , how impossible it is for even the most committed clergy to avoid incurring — not to put too fine a point on it — hatred . |
| 7 | The Earth is just the right distance from a star , the Sun , which is of just the right kind of size . |
| 8 | This last issue is of just the sort that , in a ‘ real ’ analysis , should be asked in the first phase of the study . |
| 9 | Where the property of A is mixed with that of B which is of substantially the same nature and quality and they can not practicably be separated ( grain in a bin , oil in a tank ) the mixture is owned in common in proportion to the quantity contributed by each and the law is the same whether the mixing is wrongful or by consent . |
| 10 | The old woman reflects " " " Now , is like when the fire flew away and ate up all the trees ' " " ( p. 93 ) . |
| 11 | the problem is with how the is conducted who gets the first bite ? |
| 12 | First , Athens is surrounded by a barrier of mountains , her first line of defence : working clockwise from Eleusis in the west , Mts Aigaleos , Parnes , Pentelikon and Hymettos run round the city , imagined at the centre of the dial ( the best place to get an impression of this is from near the Philopappos Monument on the Hill of the Muses ) . |
| 13 | Degenerate trees can be avoided simply by ‘ disordering ’ the list and ensuring that the first item is from approximately the mid-point of the lexicon . |
| 14 | It is from here the arête shows its teeth , though not immediately . |
| 15 | It is in both the firm 's and the consumer s interests that this is for some extended period : in the case of the latter because search costs ( presumably ) are finite and so will not be worth incurring if there is only some probability of finding low prices , unless the benefits are substantial . |
| 16 | As and when the information is supplied , it is in both the vendor 's and purchaser 's interests to ensure that the documents and complete copies are carefully indexed . |
| 17 | Clearly , it is no use breaking the phosphate bond unless the ATP molecule is in just the right place ; otherwise the result would only be to heat things up . |
| 18 | It 's been so cold that the freeze-thaw needed for the Appendix to form fully has n't taken place and the ice is in just the same condition as the previous week . |
| 19 | ‘ The sun is in just the right place , and it will make a good picture . ’ |
| 20 | No , that is in just the |
| 21 | ‘ As far as I 'm concerned the collection is in exactly the right building . |
| 22 | As for desidero , it is hard to see any difficulty , for it means quite simply ‘ I desire ’ , and is in exactly the same mould as traditional expressions such as volo , ‘ I wish ’ . |
| 23 | He is in exactly the right job : streets ahead of most others in the UK in his number-crunching agility — ‘ in the country 's top 5 per cent , at least ’ , Bloch says — and ‘ unbelievably good ’ at critical reasoning , with a score of 90 . |
| 24 | ‘ He is in exactly the right frame of mind to do the business . |
| 25 | They take for granted that the service of process requires the involvement of State officials , the usual civil law approach ; that international co-operation between officials of different states in matters of civil procedure is initiated by letters rogatory transmitted by the diplomatic channel ; and that in these respects the service of documents is in exactly the same category as the taking of evidence abroad . |
| 26 | Such identification of the elements of Q with those of Q is in exactly the same spirit as the identification of the elements of Z with certain elements of Q ( see Fig. 1.2 ) , an identification to which you 've probably never previously given much thought . |
| 27 | A great deal of this is down to the fact that the sweet spot is in exactly the same position throughout the set . |
| 28 | When this dialogue is opened again , the same folder or file selection is presented and the scroll bar is in exactly the same position . |
| 29 | In making such judgments one is in much the same position as a journalist describing a battle after it had taken place from the bar of a hotel , for the pressures in the 'sixties were very great and very immediate and those of us in the Ministries of Education responded to them as best we knew how . |
| 30 | The spleen-venting and copious invective contained herein , is in much the same vein as that which brought Public Enemy notoriety as self-styled rap terrorists . |