Example sentences of "is [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now are aware that are losing the agency stuff therefore services should improve generally but this is mostly and the business travel , you know duty travel , cruise positioning that sort of thing , to the extent that erm and two of the ops people paid a visit to last week for a liaison meeting and one thing that I thought was absolutely remarkable that came out was in respect of complaining that they could never get through to anybody in erm in , they could n't get a reply from the extensions and they could n't send messages or anything . |
| 2 | The question is rather whether the accounts ought to record it in a meaningful way . |
| 3 | It is rather that the whole point of a national curriculum will be lost if it can not be assumed that children at 11 will be ready for whatever is the generally agreed content of the first year at secondary school . |
| 4 | It is rather that the idea and ideal is always likely to function as a corrective to complacency rather than as a prop to It . |
| 5 | The point is rather that the so-called independent check is a mere repetition of the procedure which it is supposed to be checking . |
| 6 | The first type of usage , that where the infinitive is non-realized ( He tried to get free ) , would appear to arise when the movement denoted by to is not carried to its end-point , i.e. when only the beginning of the movement signified by to is actualized : The second type , where the sense is rather that the infinitive 's event is actually realized ( He managed to get free ) , seems to arise where the speaker has actualized the whole of the movement signified by to , thus reaching the point where the realization of the infinitive event takes place . |
| 7 | The rationale for UDCs is presumably that the scale of urban decline necessitates the creation of independent , centrally-appointed development agencies that are free from the apparent constraints of local government . |
| 8 | The explanation for this effect is presumably that the very early events in the cascade of memory formation involve electrical activity within the neurons and that the immediate shock disrupts this process ; by the time the delayed shock is given , however , the cascade is already past this phase , and is no longer vulnerable . |
| 9 | This is presumably because the intact epithelium acts as a barrier , preventing FGF-4 from reaching the underlying mesenchyme . |
| 10 | This is presumably because the task requires the same cognitive processors as shadowing — both tasks are speech-based . |
| 11 | This is presumably because the situation was not foreseen : the Code takes a very strict line on questioning after charge , a course of action only permitted in very narrowly defined circumstance under caution ( para . |
| 12 | Its heart is in the right place , the detail is right but the texture is wrong . |
| 13 | Forster is right that the correlation between the variables is far from perfect ; the data points are spread quite widely to either side of the line . |
| 14 | He is right that the Lords has a great deal of collective wisdom , and probably more talented minds than the House of Commons during this administration . |
| 15 | Perhaps it is right that the official institutions of a community should express moral judgements on behalf of its law-abiding members — but why should it have to take form of punishment ? |
| 16 | During the middle years of their married life , and before Prince Charles becomes King , it is right that the paths and interests of the Prince and Princess of Wales should diverge somewhat . |
| 17 | My hon. Friend is right that the Labour party would be prepared to overrule parental ballots and to take grant-maintained schools back into the throes of LEA control , which is exactly what parents have voted to escape . |
| 18 | If there are any sources available to the Government that disprove that figure , it is right that the Minister should put those sources to the House . |
| 19 | Surely it is right that the House should be able to question the shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer about his apparent differences of opinion with his hon. Friend the Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) . |
| 20 | The catalytic activity of pancreatic lipase , like that of a number of other lipases , is greatly when the enzyme comes into contact with a lipid/ water interface — this is the phenomenon known as interfacial activation . |
| 21 | This is not to say that the researcher simply becomes the handmaid of the practitioner ; it is merely that the researcher who is not prepared to learn from the practitioner is arrogant and lacking in insight . |
| 22 | It is merely that the choice is made to run it as a self-contained entity and the appropriate structure thus created for it . |
| 23 | For example , the Kenyan scholar Ali Mazrui has written that the reason why the Swahili word for a newspaper is gazeti is merely that the first papers that East Africans came into contact with were government gazettes . |
| 24 | It is also worth noting that dealing need not actually take place ; the minimum requirement is merely that the insider had reasonable cause to believe that dealing in the relevant shares would take place . |
| 25 | The difference between a more conventional company and an incorporated contract computer programmer/analyst is merely that the former can and does respond simultaneously to a multiplicity of orders which partly overlap and partly succeed one another . |
| 26 | The implication of these observations for our discussion is that whereas with going to a movement towards the realization of the accompanying infinitive 's event is represented as being under way , with will there is no idea of a movement towards this event ( i.e. of something existing before it in time ) : the impression is merely that the potentiality for the infinitive 's event already exists , and will be actualized if certain conditions are met . |
| 27 | For the avoidance of doubt , Mr. Speaker , I do not intend to give way to the hon. Gentleman and , if he persists in intervening , it is merely because the Labour party 's grasp of democracy can not survive a week such as the previous one . |
| 28 | Finally , the twenty-four hours of detention do not have to have produced one jot of evidence to justify their continuation ; it is enough that the police want to obtain such evidence by further questioning . |
| 29 | Even in a healthy society it is enough that the officials accept the secondary rules of recognition , adjudication and change and that the citizens acquiesce . |
| 30 | Whereas the earlier section requires that the language or conduct be used ‘ towards another person , ’ the section currently under consideration does not do so ; it is enough that the language be broadcast generally . |