Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [is] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With 300,000 tons of skimmed milk powder in Common Market stores already , dried milk for babies is a highly lucrative means of reducing EC surpluses . |
| 2 | This outpouring of private support for culture is a truly American tradition . |
| 3 | These surveys are invariably undertaken by specialist research organizations , since the construction and administration of questionnaires is a highly skilled operation . |
| 4 | While the top speed of 135mph is a little off the pace , the 0–60mph time of 7.6secs is well ahead . |
| 5 | The loss of income is a particularly hard blow for Joe because his Lebanese-born wife Elham was duped three times during his captivity into paying ransom money for his safe return . |
| 6 | While there are notorious cases of overt interference in domestic politics by TNCs — for example the role of ITT in the overthrow of President Allende of Chile in 1973 — fear of disinvestment is a more pervasive influence on government policy . |
| 7 | The assumption that a fear of strangers is a uniquely childish reaction has been questioned in a clever experiment by Karol Kaltenbach , Marsha Weinraub and William Fullard at Temple University , Philadelphia . |
| 8 | Judge Peter Greenwood told Hilton : ‘ The supplying of drugs is a very serious offence and you are fortunate to be getting a short sentence . ’ |
| 9 | The essence of Neo-Realism is a more theoretically refined systemic or structural account of international relations . |
| 10 | The former chairman of the board of governors of Longlands College in Middlesbrough is a quietly spoken man , who when he was elected in November said he was determined to serve all the people of Langbaurgh , whether or not they had voted for him . |
| 11 | Posting an employee to London is a very different matter from posting someone elsewhere in Britain . |
| 12 | Thinness at birth is a particularly strong predictor of death before 65 years of age . |
| 13 | Thermodynamics by contrast is a highly mathematical branch of physics , concerned with relations of heat and work , and conservation of energy really functions in it not as a law but as an axiom : as one of the bases for the deductive , mathematical system . |
| 14 | But the chairman of Velcro is a very British knight , Sir Humphrey Cripps , a 75-year-old Northamptonshire businessman whose extraordinary generosity to charities , Cambridge colleges , and Nottingham University earned him a knighthood in 1989 . |
| 15 | While it may be argued that unreasonableness and bad faith do not require separate treatment , the present category of fairness is a relatively new addition to the control devices used by the courts . |
| 16 | Although the addition of fibres is a fairly effective way of making these materials tough it does put up the cost of manufacture and it also restricts the number of applications for which they are suitable . |
| 17 | Putting a value on this kind of thing is a notoriously difficult area and one where few precedents exist . |
| 18 | The University of Salford is a highly successful and resourceful University . |
| 19 | Given the nature of the building , the provision of ducts is a very complex task . |
| 20 | The mainstay of treatment is a twice daily form of physiotherapy , usually done by the child 's parents . |
| 21 | But this measure of performance is a very narrow one and nothing more than an indication of stewardship . |
| 22 | The withdrawal of privileges is a very popular response by parents to non-compliance — for example : ‘ You 've been cheeky so I wo n't let you go out ’ ; ‘ You disobeyed me by going out on the road so you ca n't have that ice-cream . ’ |
| 23 | The law of value is a historically relative law ; it is a specific form ‘ on the face of which is writ large ’ that it ‘ belongs to the kind of social structure where the productive process masters ( ‘ hemeistert ’ ) men and not men the productive process ’ . |
| 24 | I refer in that context to the observations of Lord President Cooper in MacCormick v. The Lord Advocate in 1953 , when Lord Cooper , generally regarded as one of the foremost Scottish jurists of this century , said : ’ The principle of the unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle which has no counterpart in Scottish constitutional law Considering that the Union legislation extinguished the Parliaments of Scotland and England and replaced them by a new Parliament , I have difficulty in seeing why it should have been supposed that the new Parliament of Great Britain must inherit all the peculiar characteristics of the English Parliament but none of the Scottish Parliament , as if all that happened in 1707 was that Scottish representatives were admitted to the Parliament of England . |
| 25 | My experiences of friendship is a very complicated story . |
| 26 | A full circle is divided into 360 degrees , each degree into 60 minutes and each minute into 60 seconds , so that one second of arc is a very small angle indeed . |
| 27 | This type of structure is a very inefficient way of filling space because it contains a regular network of empty spaces which run both parallel to , and at right angles to , the puckered lattice layers . |
| 28 | In some American states , the idea of suing your employer for the effects of stress is a well established fact of life . |
| 29 | So the quantity of cocaine seized has increased considerably but the quantity of crack is a very small proportion of it and the quantity of crack coming into the country is minuscule . |
| 30 | Why , in particular , should we rule out a fourth possibility , that the origin of life is a far more probable event than is suggested by Statement 3 ? |