Example sentences of "is [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nearest he gets to his usual form is during a discussion about the Mondays ' donation to the Hard Rock Café , coming to the grinning conclusion he should send ‘ a bong made from a Boddingtons beer tin , a packet of Rizla , some tinfoil , an empty skag packet and the sheet me and Bez slept on when we shared a flat together . |
| 2 | Plants will normally come to bloom earlier in a greenhouse than outside , but in either case the most propitious time for the operation is during a spell , and after a couple of days , of bright sunny weather . |
| 3 | All this , of course , is during a time of exaggerated relief following the Pleistocene glaciation . |
| 4 | The physical act of training breaks down part of the muscle exercised , and it is during the next 24–72 hours that the muscles recover and begin to grow . |
| 5 | It is during the latter part of this century , however , that historic barns and other traditional rural buildings have faced their greatest threat . |
| 6 | People often say that a certain noise gets louder at night , even though its measured level does not alter ; this is because , at night , the level of the background noise is generally lower than it is during the day , During the recession , people near once noisy factories started to appreciate the quiet . |
| 7 | This is not intended to be nomination in the traditional sense and once the subcontractor has been named ( subject to reasonable objection by the contractor if the naming is during the course of the contract ) , that subcontractor becomes almost entirely the responsibility of the contractor . |
| 8 | Shaping like this can also be done on a plain ‘ V ’ neck cardigan by working the cable next to the front edge on the straight and leaving the pattern as it is during the shaping , working the decreases on the inner edge of the cable pattern where it will not show . |
| 9 | The critical time for an adverse effect on language development is during the first three years of life ( Sak and Ruben 1981 ; Zinkus et al . |
| 10 | 1980 ) and onset is during the second half of the first year of life . |
| 11 | This is during the rut . |
| 12 | It is during the night that they find most of their food which is dew smothered vegetation . |
| 13 | It is during the summer , and before the September denouement , that the voices of the women compositors for the first time become audible to the historian . |
| 14 | The most basic level of interpreting archaeological remains is during the post-excavation work , when the contexts are analysed and , where possible , dated and fitted together . |
| 15 | The time is during the later 1970s ( so it is reasonable to expect that they will speak modern English , with Scottish accents ) . |
| 16 | The first is during the initial design phase , and the second is during design change . |
| 17 | It is during the first few months in particular that these sorts of activities can affect the developing foetus , producing babies that may be premature , and with a low birth weight . |
| 18 | Long coach travel is during the cool early morning |
| 19 | In his opening speech , Ralph Ellis thanked all those who had contributed to the success of the company , emphasising ‘ that it is during the tough times when such experience counts . ’ |
| 20 | The survival curve for the study shows that the highest mortality is during the first four years after diagnosis . |
| 21 | This , by the way , erm , it it is applied with this study , and that is during the thirties , particularly on the , well it it actually carried on into the forties , but but the , there was a almost a character in many plays , where one one character was , in effect , the family black sheep . |
| 22 | The trouble is during the week , a lot of little shops only have what 's been left over from the weekend and their vegetables , cos that 's what happens at ours |
| 23 | It is therefore not surprising that incidents and accidents happen when this kind of situation occurs , especially if it is during an early off-field landing when the pilot is under pressure . |
| 24 | And you actually find the lump sum is times the annual pension . |
| 25 | Our carpenter is aboard the Angelina , building a cradle for the bomb according to the specifications the Pentagon gave us . |
| 26 | The article , called ‘ Giacometti 's moral heroism ’ , is about a retrospective show of the sculptor 's work ten years after his death ; it does not include the name of any single work . |
| 27 | Conrad 's novel is about a fire-prone seaside South American republic , with foreign investors and their concessions : its silver has its lightly rendered counterpart in Naipaul 's bauxite . |
| 28 | Another joke is about a student marching down the Avenue of Eternal Peace with a banner saying ‘ Li Peng is a pig ’ . |
| 29 | Tennyson 's poem , though , is about a woman who lures a man to his doom , a man apparently of another race , so that this allusion in turn provides a further interpretation of the fates of Antony and Burbank . |
| 30 | ‘ Earth Girls , ’ says Temple , ‘ is about a culture in which the make-over is a tribal ritual , one which boasts tanning booths you can dance in . ’ |