Example sentences of "[is] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if it is only for one moment that a spasm in your face draws my attention to the intensity of your pain , a glimpse from which I flinch back into insensibility , it is during that moment that a choice between my conflicting pulls to help and to ignore will be made in fullest awareness . |
| 2 | It is during this period that various decrees and opinions of church leaders advise women to abstain from the Eucharist and even to refrain from entering the church altogether when they are menstruating . |
| 3 | It is during this period that any further investigation which is necessary should be carried out , both into new allegations in the Summons/Initial Writ and any further points which are raised by the solicitor following consideration of the insurers ' file . |
| 4 | It is during this time that torture most commonly occurs . |
| 5 | Since rainfall controls plant growth , and plants are the base of the food pyramid , deserts typically have only a short period when food is abundant ; it is during this time that the creatures of the desert must complete their breeding cycle . |
| 6 | I 'm not saying you may not lose a few good people but on balance it 's worth that sacrifice rather than pursue an enforced redundancy policy . |
| 7 | You got a chair that 's worth another couple of hundred there so well , not yet . |
| 8 | Palace 's former England forward struck a glorious goal to serve Graham Taylor notice that he 's worth another try . |
| 9 | That 's worth some thought . |
| 10 | It 's worth some thought . |
| 11 | Well it 's worth some enquiries Rose is n't it ? |
| 12 | The new campus novel is about such people , and by them : not just about dons but by dons . |
| 13 | This book is about such events : a cultural catastrophe which has gathered pace and which , if not addressed by those in power , could do irreparable damage to our nation 's literary heritage . |
| 14 | It is about all manner of motoring matters such as improvements in vehicle safety and construction , raising of driving standards and an attempt to get the authorities to look at the whole business of motoring in a different way for the good of all . |
| 15 | This book is about that experience . |
| 16 | Being a first-class citizen is about that kind of civic engagement . |
| 17 | This book is about that conflict of values , the efforts made in the last few years to come to terms with that conflict , and its implication for one of the major issues of our time — the reshaping of our farm policy , which , with the single aim of increased food production , has transformed the countryside over the last forty years in what is perhaps the greatest agricultural revolution since the settling of England began . |
| 18 | Yeah , she 's about that age , yeah she is about that age |
| 19 | grandson is about that age and very sympathetic she is erm I said er Mary Ann says she does n't know what the point is , you do n't really want to do it he said , she 's right , I do n't he said , in a way I do , in another way I do n't , I said |
| 20 | ‘ I wonder , sometimes , what it is about that woman that haunts both you and me ? ’ |
| 21 | I mean he 's been known to do that because he you know what is going to happen with him commercially in his newspapers and he 's actually very clever and I mean none of us I mean okay and I think Peter might be the but I can get quite upset or intense or distressed or whatever the word is about that sort of stuff , because I am my background is journalism and I 'm quite pure about it , but we 're living in reality times here and the reality times is that he has got certain agendas . |
| 22 | Well , my , my memory right , you go down into , into like a , the ground floor and the top of the , like the bottom of the next floor is about that sort of height , but there is a wall up there sort of thing , which erm , I , I must , which you could probably get on . |
| 23 | Liquid air , liquid nitrogen is , is about that temperature and , and it 's |
| 24 | Does my hon. Friend agree that Labour 's charter for sport is about more interference , more committees , more regional committees and , most of all , more costs ? |
| 25 | ‘ The charter will potentially have a very large impact on small firms because it is about more regulation . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Today 's debate is about those parts of the Gracious Speech related to the inner cities — local services and education . |
| 27 | It is not always clear , though , what it is about some events that leads to severe and prolonged distress . |
| 28 | And you can imagine the conrod in your car is about this size . |
| 29 | ‘ The Mercy Seat is about this person in solitary confinement , becoming more sensitive to inanimate objects , and as he sits thinking about human and Divine Justice , finding himself judging these things as Good or Evil . ’ |
| 30 | Much of ecology is about this process : finding energy ; putting it to use . |