Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [is] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So I do n't think a £4.5m tag for Pally is over the top . |
| 2 | The sale ( subject to British export control regulations ) was made through Christie 's after the completion of the loan period and after the National Gallery had been offered first refusal . |
| 3 | A reference may be controversial from the start , with allegations that the question referred for decision is outside the terms of the expert clause : if a reference is outside the scope of the expert 's jurisdiction , there it will stay , and the issue will be unaffected by an expert having purported to make a decision about it . |
| 4 | Like many issues within Homœopathy there are a variety of ways of interpreting the instructions for LM 's in the Organon . |
| 5 | pointed out ) an effective police force requires a margin of reserve strength in order to deal with emergencies , and to employ that margin of reserve , when not otherwise required , on special police service for payment is to the advantage both of the persons utilising their services and of the public who are thereby relieved from some part of the police charges . |
| 6 | My love for Edgar is like the leaves on the trees — I 'm sure time will change it . |
| 7 | you know I , I think , I think usually what I say about questionnaires is towards the business of , you know , kind of writing them in people 's own words that , that sort of fit in with ordinary language okay putting them in a sensible order advising people to do scale type things with five or seven points or something which you 've got a lot of already so a lot of the comments that I normally make on people 's questionnaires er you can take as read as it were erm so I think erm you know just really one or two minor things about layout like , you know , you know sort of space and , and moving things around a wee bit , it might make them easier to read but again as I say that 's a you know relatively minor erm problem . |
| 8 | Stone does not go this far , although he can not resist quoting an Irish opponent of divorce during the referendum campaign of 1986 to the effect that ‘ a woman voting for divorce is like a turkey voting for Christmas ’ ( p. 420 ) . |
| 9 | John Butcher says at this moment a man on bail for rape is on the run ine the Midlands . |
| 10 | For Tobias is on the dresser : one meal a day on the kitchen window-ledge ( otherwise the hedgehog gets it ) . |
| 11 | The importance of ISDN is as the foundation for the entire model ; the single , standard interface through which all the rest will be provided : ‘ Our model says that this guy needs one interface ’ , says Corris , then he can decide when making a call that he wants to use certain intelligent aspects of the network , he can say ‘ I need another channel … |
| 12 | The wider issue of the extent to which the judiciary may naturally favour certain types of values is outside the scope of this book . |
| 13 | Their main line of support is through the day centre manager . |
| 14 | The book of Acts is about the spread of Christianity after the resurrection and ascension of Jesus , through the giving of the Holy Spirit , empowering Jesus 's followers in making his good news known . |
| 15 | In England , James Robertson ( 1953 , 1958 ) , a colleague of Bowlby 's at the Tavistock Clinic , started a campaign to persuade children 's hospital wards to admit mothers together with their children , or at least not to restrict visiting in any way ; some hospitals welcomed the idea , others resisted it , but meanwhile a Government committee was set up which in 1959 published the ‘ Platt Report ’ on the welfare of children in hospital , recommending ‘ that all hospitals where children are treated will adopt the practice of unrestricted visiting , particularly for children below school age ’ , that ‘ it is particularly valuable for the mother to be able to stay in hospital with her child during the first day or two ’ , and that ‘ children should not be admitted to hospital if it can possibly be avoided ’ . |
| 16 | JCI played a major part in the early years of mining this precious metal and its group metals , but the technology for extraction of PGM 's from the ore became a considerable problem for all the mining companies . |
| 17 | ‘ The main differences between the two styles of cuisine is in the way the Chinese blend ingredients , how they introduce colour into the food , and that up to 90% of the work is done prior to cooking . ’ |
| 18 | Although the question whether there is any way of determining those in need of protection is at the heart of this debate , this is unlikely to be the prime determinant of professional practice . |
| 19 | The standard UK period of protection is for the life of the author and fifty years . |
| 20 | The woe of sheep is like a battlefield |
| 21 | Mike came down yesterday morning , mind you he had been on his own quite a lot , a lot of time yesterday for the day Josh , cos I went to Altrincham with me mum at half nine and it , I 'd taken him out for a walk to make sure he 'd had his walk and Mike did n't get up till gone half two and when he come down he 'd cut a report of Lisa 's on the floor |
| 22 | Second , the only way of avoiding this presumption of responsibility is for the defendant to prove either ( a ) that the driving , accident or damage occurred before he took the car , or ( b ) that he was neither in , on or near the vehicle when that driving , accident or damage occurred . |
| 23 | Peter was now a colleague of Bernard 's at the poly . |
| 24 | Another key area of preparation is in the creation of ‘ stability zones ’ — constants in one 's life which it is important to maintain . |
| 25 | The other one that immediately comes to mind is er is is Strensall common but that of course is within the greenbelt erm anyway . |
| 26 | She of course is in a hurry to return to Rome where she left a sweetheart and has offered to do the ironing there to save on laundry expenses so great is her anxiety to be taken . |
| 27 | The following day Bildt presented his new four-party Cabinet and his government programme , declaring that " the age of collectivism is at an end " , and announcing " a clear and unequivocal change of course " . |
| 28 | Travel and widening your scope of experience is on the menu and , with Mercury back on form from the 1st , journeys , meetings and discussions over joint affairs — monetary and otherwise — look promising . |
| 29 | Oh God , what if I 've got it all wrong and Friend 's just some trick of Karel 's like the garden-master was ? |
| 30 | What could be more natural than for three members of Prince 's plus a girlfriend to wander over to St. George 's to see the closing stages of the Million Sterling Tournament ? |