Example sentences of "is [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is during the night that they find most of their food which is dew smothered vegetation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This is during the rut . |
| 11 | Our carpenter is aboard the Angelina , building a cradle for the bomb according to the specifications the Pentagon gave us . |
| 12 | And The Truckers by Terry Pratchett , £7.95 , is about a race of four-inch-high people who live beneath a department store . |
| 13 | Big Pit is about a male out of Blaenafon on the B4248 , and is well signposted . |
| 14 | Rob Goffee 's research suggests that this disillusionment is about a change in the rules : that the rewards of employment ( security , money , etc. ) are no longer reliable ; that careers are no longer predictable . |
| 15 | The best site is about a mile and a half north-west of Coniston village in the upper valley of Church Beck , where there is a Youth Hostel , but many other disused sites are scattered about . |
| 16 | Sigglesthorne has a twin village — Seaton — which is about a mile distant . |
| 17 | This street is about a mile in length and runs from one end of the town to the other ; it is ten yards wide . |
| 18 | Touring Northumberland we visited the site of the battle of Flodden in 1513 , but it is really Branxton Ridge and the monument is near Branxton village Flodden Edge is about a mile away . |
| 19 | For those of you who do n't know where we 're eating , it 's in , it 's in Hall , which is about a mile and a half |
| 20 | Perry once said in NME that ‘ everything I do with Jane 's Addiction is about a rush . |
| 21 | This evolutionary argument asks what it is about a feature that improves the animal 's chances of surviving and reproducing itself . |
| 22 | It is about a relationship that changes the way we look at life ; it is about a friendship that will take us through life , facing the black moments as well as the good ; it is about God ‘ s time breaking into our lives , giving them hope and meaning and joy . |
| 23 | Today 's reading , from The Eighteenth Emergency by Betsy Byars , is about a boy called Mouse Fawley . |
| 24 | Cos this next story that I would to share with you is about a boy who I must have everybody sitting on their bottoms all alone please . |
| 25 | Now this story is about a boy who lived with his mother . |
| 26 | This book is about a boy named Huckleberry Finn . |
| 27 | Derek , of The Avenue , Linthorpe , Middlesbrough said : ‘ Death Of A Gasholder is about a poetry gang who get a grant from the local authority . |
| 28 | Oh , well air is about a bird I suppose but not what I had in mind . |
| 29 | It is about a man who gets fed up with the New York rat race and forsakes advertising to buy a Gendamerie in Provence . |
| 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 . ’ |