Example sentences of "[is] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But most of the score-for 40 wind and percussion players without strings-is about immensity rather than detail , above all in the last movement . |
| 2 | well erm you ca n't no doubt do that at this moment , but I , I think it 's as Mr undoubtedly said , quite apart from anything Mr said er , if there are a several addition er which strangest with the relation to the er important part from our point of view , or an important part mainly these residence on going charges , that sounds reasonable |
| 3 | This is about maths so we 'll have a look in that for punctuation . |
| 4 | Essential to the label 's enduring appeal is that CD menswear is about style rather than fashion . |
| 5 | Q P twenty is about suppliers more generally . |
| 6 | Drama is about similarities not differences , but of course by looking at similarities , differences might well be highlighted . |
| 7 | Although this book is about ideas rather than techniques , it is important to remember that progress in biology is often made possible by technical advances . |
| 8 | They have more sense than money and realise that clothing is about individuality not uniforms . |
| 9 | the speed limit 's for boys not real men |
| 10 | A question like ‘ What 's for lunch today , dear ? ’ may be a real enquiry . |
| 11 | What 's for lunch anyway ? |
| 12 | Er , I mean it 's ancient , it 's for things where you ca n't give a path as an argument . |
| 13 | Yeah , well it 's for casserole so |
| 14 | ‘ I organised this little surprise for Luke — it 's for friends only , so I suggest you do as I say and turn around now . ’ |
| 15 | cos the publicity is not just for visually impaired people or even for sponsors , it 's for theatres too when they 're seeing this and saying ooh , I noticed they 're doing that , this , this and this |
| 16 | I bought these Levi 501 's for £25 back home they would have cost me double that . ’ |
| 17 | So you can out it 's for access only . |
| 18 | Th the notes that 're attached are actually for er he 's been looking into the matter and basically it 's for information only really |
| 19 | It 's for show rather than use , is n't it ? |
| 20 | Well er mm I was gon na say it would n't , maybe that would n't happen if you had a hand one , you know one of these hand ones , but er it 's an expensive but erm it 's for safety even if you , there was a you , you thought you heard intruders or |
| 21 | What 's for dinner tonight ? |
| 22 | I used to get home absolutely exhausted from work and he was sitting there and he 'd say , " What 's for dinner then ? " |
| 23 | Give that to Robert , that 's for Donna so give them both to Robert but the adventure game 's for Donna . |
| 24 | This is because , to quote HM Treasury ( 1984 , p. 14 ) , ‘ jam today is worth jam tomorrow ’ because , just as in the private sector , ‘ more weight is given to earlier than to later costs and benefits ’ . |
| 25 | Informix was expecting a $22m cheque last week for its share of the 60,000-user US Army RCAS contract which is worth $1.6bn overall : it received an initial $5m payment back in January . |
| 26 | Finally , it is worth dwelling briefly on the role that users play in the innovation process , and on the factors which seem to be associated with successful innovation , since these are considerations which help to determine whether joint R&D activities need to be coupled with joint marketing to be successful . |
| 27 | It might be argued that it is. but it is worth dwelling briefly on the insights which structuralist Marxist accounts contain . |
| 28 | The high bourgeois architecture of the apartment blocks on the town side of the Boulevard tea Pyrénées is worth turning about to see . |
| 29 | Doctor Volkov is off duty today , but I 'll see if I can check through the files in case . ’ |
| 30 | On sixty one minutes , Steve Jenkins ran through on to Gary Murphy 's through ball only to be died by the cross bar . |