Example sentences of "is [adv] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Its atmosphere takes up the outermost 600 miles of its 38,000 mile radius , and is mostly hydrogen , with some methane ( CH 2 ) , ethene ( C 2 H 2 ) and ammonia ( NH 3 ) , plus water vapour ( H 2 O ) and phosphine ( Ph 3 ) .
2 Of course , this is mostly exaggeration , just as it is to suggest that most French club members are merely posers or that the Italians are concerned at keeping talented youngsters off the course unless they have royal blood , or at least one Ferrari .
3 This , however , is mostly supposition and there is little evidence to support these arguments or to indicate the resource implications of this even if they are valid .
4 Pain like many things is mostly self inflicted .
5 I keep getting this feeling it 's already there , like in quantum physics , where matter is mostly space , and space , even the vacuum , seethes with creation and annihilation all the time , and nothing is absolute , and two particles at opposite ends of the universe react together as soon as one 's interfered with ; all that stuff .
6 ‘ Intelligence is mostly assumptions .
7 On the other hand , since it is mostly women who are responsible for running households and caring for dependent members of their families , it is not surprising that they are involved in helping each other in these practical ways , which lend themselves to being organized on a reciprocal basis .
8 Ararat is mostly fact ; Swallow , where Victor interviews the President , is mostly fiction .
9 Ararat is mostly fact ; Swallow , where Victor interviews the President , is mostly fiction .
10 The kit of the modern prospector includes no mules or checked shirts , no cast iron pots and pans , and there is no need to chew tobacco and spit ; the equipment is mostly plastic and beards are entirely optional !
11 The rake is mostly Mk 3A and Mk B ( 1985 Pullman ) coaches .
12 But the new land is mostly forest , which they have to help clear themselves .
13 Shop waste is mostly paper ( with some plastic ) and the possibility arises of collecting this waste and converting it to fuel pellets which have a calorific value of about two thirds that of coal .
14 These apatite crystals are embedded in an organic matrix which is mostly collagen .
15 ‘ The 43 per cent sugar is mostly lactose — from the milk .
16 Once the puppy is properly toilet trained it may be more convenient to move the bed out of the kitchen into another room in the house .
17 And yet we often find that examinations take place at the very time of year when there is most likelihood of a heatwave .
18 ‘ Perhaps … yes , it is most kind of you . ’
19 ‘ Spinal Tap ’ may have been the ultimate send up of the genre but ‘ Spinal Tap ’ is most metal fans ' favourite film .
20 it is in those sectors of the housing market where government has taken most control and which provide cheap accommodation , that there is most restriction on entry for migrants .
21 And it is with the statistical evaluation of leys that there is most controversy and where much work still needs doing .
22 It holds regular ministerial meetings to co-ordinate different aspects of policy amongst the Gulf States , including in the defence and security fields where there is most controversy .
23 Indeed nearly half our number are employed in the profession that is most flexiblc for married women , whether at school or university level .
24 The entity-relationship approach to data analysis is interview-driven , that is most information is obtained through interviewing members of staff .
25 But it is rather Sartre 's own text that seems to be caught between these two dialectical possibilities of expansion and compression in a double logic .
26 It is rather Britain that has chosen the Italian road and opted for a one-party state that may soon have more difficulty in government than it imagines .
27 First the unit must be washed ( the instructions say only the electrode but the cap is full of what is presumably crystals of the test solution used at the factory ) then calibrated using the buffer tablets supplied .
28 Managing director David Crisp says that he is talking to three potential manufacturers at the moment , one of which is presumably Amstrad .
29 Name , type is presumably extension is it ?
30 IN THE HOME , as in industry , it is overwhelmingly men who are the designers and repairers of machines , while women are the operators , expected to perform neatly and swiftly on typewriters , sewing machines and the rest , but not to understand how they work .
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