Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [noun] be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | IAN IRONSIDE 'S reward for his defiant display for Middlesbrough against Newcastle is a first team call-up tomorrow against Aston Villa . |
| 2 | Perhaps the major requirement for change on Switchboard is a combination of the overt needs of the callers , and the needs of a group of self-interested and highly-motivated volunteers who find a reason to stay in the organization . |
| 3 | A third reason given for non-use of LGS was a non-availability of gur ( the unrefined sugar which was used to make LGS ) . |
| 4 | The lack of progress in China was a major cause of Japan 's advance into Southeast Asia . |
| 5 | The outcome of these parallel strands of support for municipalization was a growth , especially from the early 1890s , of municipal ownership of public utilities such as gas and water supplies and public transport , and municipal provision of such services as libraries , museums , baths , wash-houses and improved street lighting and refuse disposal . |
| 6 | Specify evidence of change of name being a marriage certificate , deed poll , statutory declaration or other document . |
| 7 | The rate of change of acceleration is a constant . |
| 8 | That it has been possible to reach this point in the book without describing the signs of insanity in detail is a measure of their universality and of the fact that most of us have an intuitive understanding of their general quality . |
| 9 | The assumption of responsibility for fees is a matter for agreement between the vendor and the management , recognising that the management costs , in view of the requirements of the financial advisers , are likely to be greater than those of the vendor . |
| 10 | ‘ How near is madness to genius ’ , said Diderot ; while Dr Johnson , confessing that he himself had often been nearly insane , commented that ‘ all power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness ’ . |
| 11 | The abuse of prisoners by staff was a serious problem before Ellis took over . |
| 12 | One thing 's for certain , though : committing this kind of money on equipment is a serious business , so buying all the components from the same company makes sense from the back-up point of view , and as the hard work has been taken out of the design — ie. flightcase , patch cables , mains feeds etc. — it makes even more sense . |
| 13 | For this reason , counting the number of syllables per word is a more convenient measure of complexity . |
| 14 | As 1936 was to prove , however , for very many Spaniards the choice of accidentalism over fascism was a matter of tactics rather than conviction . |
| 15 | The failure of the League of Nations in Danzig was a failure of nerve and understanding on the part of the member states : unforgivably they minimised the difficulty and frustrations of the position they had carved for Poland — a country emerging to modernity after over 100 years of partition , a country without financial capital , with hostile neighbours , border problems , huge minorities but without a port of its own . |
| 16 | It is assumed here that juries and others do attach considerable importance to the label when it is a question of homicide , and therefore that the excessive use of force in self-defence is a matter which is properly reflected by a separate qualified defence , rather than being left to sentencing ( which means executive discretion , if the mandatory penalty for murder remains ) or forced artificially into the doctrine of provocation ( when there may be no real evidence of loss of self-control ) . |
| 17 | It is unfortunate that shorthand here makes Lewis imply that the life of submission to Grace is a course of self-improvement . |
| 18 | The reduction in interest broadly matched the increase in tax paid between the two years , so the net movement of funds from operations are a critical parameter for whether we 're really generating cash for new initiatives , significantly better at forty five point six million and this this excludes the proceeds of fixed asset disposals , so all in all we had pretty nearly sixty million cash free and clear . |
| 19 | A similar blessing ( more obviously defensible ) was given to the Normans who invaded Sicily in order to recover it from Islam ; and the idea gained currency that the reconquest of Spain from Islam was a holy war . |
| 20 | Sport and the coverage of sport on television is a major part of the everyday life of the television audience . |
| 21 | In addition high usage of wood for fuel is a major cause of deforestation accounting for 75% of 1983 energy consumption . |
| 22 | In a sense the inclusion of an implied term of correspondence with description is a little surprising . |
| 23 | The subject of formulas for allocations is a controversial one , discussed by Graham and by Budd . |
| 24 | The unit of work for lexicographers is a table of entries . |
| 25 | The supervision of work on site is a key factor for ensuring a good quality end product as well as for monitoring progress . |
| 26 | The practice of telephone-tapping in Britain is a symptom of the deep-rooted problems facing civil liberties in this country . |
| 27 | The ferocity of ants in attack is a consequence of their haplodiploid sex determination : sisters in a brood are genetically identical with half of one another and half identical with the rest ( their fathers being haploid ) , so that , on average , they are 4 identical to sisters and only half to offspring . |
| 28 | In an otherwise superb issue on Debt ( NI 189 ) , you miss the opportunity to indicate that the increasing global reliance of capitalism on debt is a basis for internationalism . |
| 29 | The accountability of business and of boards of directors is a much-discussed aspect of corporate life . |
| 30 | Most obviously , both women and men can expect to have a recognizable period of ‘ old age ’ when they have ceased paid work , the creation of a standard age of retirement from work being a twentieth century phenomenon . |