Example sentences of "is [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that the level of investment is most of all decided by the real rate of interest ? |
| 2 | In which areas is most of this mixed sheep and cattle rearing ? |
| 3 | The industrial tribunals represent the tribunals whose practice and procedure is most like that of the courts . |
| 4 | The job of a caller is rather like that of a priest who intones , line by line , the words of a prayer and to whom the congregation respond , at each stage , using the appropriate replies . |
| 5 | The relationship is rather like that of pornography to sexual aggression , cathartic or stimulant according to one 's prejudices . |
| 6 | The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like . |
| 7 | Olten is rather like that . |
| 8 | The difference between ROM and RAM is rather like that between a printed book , which can only be read , and a personal notepad written in erasable ink , and which can be used over and over again . |
| 9 | THIS ANTHOLOGY of soccer writing — or , in some cases , writing which incorporates soccer — is rather like those games in which one side is a Rest of the World XI or a Football League XI . |
| 10 | One might say that the ‘ candid camera ’ technique used for some television programmes , where people have tricks played on them for the benefit of the viewers , is rather in this mode of observation , though it is to be hoped that social researchers would not encourage people to make fools of themselves in the way television producers do . |
| 11 | Certainly the Rhaetian I have seen in southern Europe , for example on the south side of the Pyrenees and along the shores of Lake Iseo in northern Italy , is incredibly like that of Britain , even in the way the fossils are preserved . |
| 12 | However , serious investigative journalism often provides a challenge to the official version of reality and the search for a major sex criminal is rarely like that . |
| 13 | Amities. ’ , a joyful enough shout , but it is downhill after that . |
| 14 | Er we discussed er economic development with the Government , erm and whether we like it or not erm there has happened to grow up in er I think it 's in West Hounslow , it is somewhere like that ? , |
| 15 | At p596 Stamp J asked the rhetorical question : … how can a British Income Tax Act impute to a foreign resident " for the purposes of " that Act an income of which the foreigner has divested himself under the foreign law and which in his hands is altogether outside all the provisions of the Income Tax Act ? |
| 16 | The judge ruled that the documents were admissible , and this appeal is basically against that ruling . |
| 17 | It is suggested , therefore , that the three mosaics with concentric , circular borders associated with a regular grid are also reflections of the trend to centralised and more fluid representation It is especially in such " fluid and curving design , often accompanied by accomplished figural work , that the third facet is conspicuous . |
| 18 | The success of these two means of communication is largely due to the nature of De Falla 's score , which is somewhat like that of Stravinsky fur The Firebird and Petrushka . |
| 19 | The criterion of legality is enough for many parents , and understandably so : a criminal conviction is a handicap and a label that may stick for life . |
| 20 | We 'll show him we 're happy , and comfortable , and safe , and we 'll pretend our happiness is enough for all four of us . |
| 21 | Today 's pain is enough for all of us . ’ |
| 22 | One ninety-minute cassette gives you forty-five minutes on each side which is enough for most people . |
| 23 | Half an hour 's detention listening to Ol' Blue Eyes is enough for most of them . |
| 24 | In theory at least , the diameters range from 5 to 15mm ( 0.2 to 0.6in ) and lengths are around 2 metres ( 78 in ) which is enough for any kite spar . |
| 25 | Even so there is enough in these spaces and in the ‘ Eating Room ’ and the Drawing Room , the one with its amazing Chinoiserie woodwork , the other with its airy flight of hoho birds and pheasants , to provide one of the 18th century 's most satisfying interior sequences , one where discipline and imagination are almost perfectly balanced . |
| 26 | It is only during this century that statutory services have been developed and they came in a very piecemeal fashion . |
| 27 | A common front in favour of PR between Labour , Lib Dems and , possibly , others is only of any practical significance if it is accompanied by an electoral pact . |
| 28 | Your will is only for those which you ca n't get rid of because you ca n't get rid of everything . |
| 29 | It is only with such a system that uneconomic jobs or work types can be identified and stopped for either the fee basis to be renegotiated or the amount of work done reassessed . |
| 30 | The growth in academic social gerontology has , however , been a much more recent phenomenon and it is only with this development that several important historical issues relating to old age in the present century have established themselves on the agenda for research . |