Example sentences of "is [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this new edition emphasises quark models , there is little on the physics of the nucleus , except for beta-decay and an old fashioned discussion of electron-nucleus scattering . |
| 2 | This has been so for decades and there is little on the horizon that threatens to curtail it . |
| 3 | ‘ Hospitals are full of posters with tips on healthy eating , urging people to eat fish and vegetables , to grill and steam instead of fry , yet often there is little on the hospital menu that is healthy . |
| 4 | The usual characters of the two composers are reversed here ; there is little of the English scene-painter in Britten 's Sonata , and it stands as one of his most nervous and angry works . |
| 5 | In our day there is little of the earlier resignation in the face of death ; we resist it to the limits of medical technology , and our obituaries speak of our ‘ gallant struggle ’ . |
| 6 | At 24 , there is little of the pug image about him . |
| 7 | Shaw 's wit and good humour are at their most engaging in this play , his analysis of language and class characteristically acute , and there is little of the wilful perversity that so often mars his drama . |
| 8 | There is little of interest or character remaining , much of the site consisting of ugly , utilitarian buildings . |
| 9 | Although there is little of essence in common between the two approaches , it is perhaps not hard to see how on occasion unlikely alliances between radical feminist anti-pornography campaigners and moral entrepreneurs such as Mrs Whitehouse might have been countenanced . |
| 10 | There is little of interest in Corvus ; curiously , the star lettered Alpha is only of magnitude 4.0 . |
| 11 | Otherwise there is little of the ritual of the courts , though everyone is expected to stand when the tribunal members enter or leave . |
| 12 | ‘ There is little of that left now , she says . |
| 13 | There is little of substance to be seen at the head office and , therefore , only brief accompanied visits are envisaged . |
| 14 | Nor do they need their daily practice to be exposed to the analytic eye of anthropological ‘ thick description ’ , for in their task-driven world there is little to be gained by reflecting on what they already live and understand . |
| 15 | This may lead some health workers , families and older people themselves to believe that there is little to be done to improve the circumstances of people with care needs . |
| 16 | Without them there is little to which to relate . |
| 17 | There is little to be gained from refusing to do so , but if you object to the warning for some reason , you should make that clear and pursue your rights under the appeals procedure . |
| 18 | There is little to be seen of the former docks now , only depressions marked with stakes identifying the site , but the village remains , where some of the master shipwrights lived who built Nelson 's favourite ship , HMS Agamemnon , as well as many other men o' war for the British fleet . |
| 19 | There is little to be gained in trying out something which one already knows to be inadequate . |
| 20 | There is little to be achieved by scolding a dog when this happens as this simply adds to the emotional charge linked to your reappearance . |
| 21 | But its use is not by any means the main function of the books in which it may be necessary , and there is little to be said about it . |
| 22 | There is little to be said about music in the Roman Catholic Church in this country until the 1960s and the Second Vatican Council . |
| 23 | With such limited information there is little to be gained by interleaving the two processors since neither can provide much assistance to the other processor . |
| 24 | There has been an assumption that young visually impaired children have little or no ability to use tactile maps to find their way around , and it has been argued that there is little to be gained from introducing visually impaired children to maps at an early age . |
| 25 | There is little to be gained from looking at the past achievements of a school if the head and the governors treat their task as having been totally defined by the Education Reform Act . |
| 26 | There is little to be gained from this however . |
| 27 | Down there they will escape the buffetings of the storms to come and there too , where temperatures are much lower , their bodily process will slow down and so use less energy at a time in the year when there is little for these animals to eat . |
| 28 | In essence , there is little for local authorities to do , and what does need to be done can wait at least a couple more years ! |
| 29 | ‘ The music scene is very male dominated and there is little for the girls ’ he said . |
| 30 | Furthermore , there is little about splits in the various branches which makes them understandable as a product of conflict between moderate younger activists and older extremists . |