Example sentences of "[is] [prep] [det] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's for that little slip of a thing at the end . ’ |
| 2 | It is for that alleged breach of the orders that he is due to appear before a judge and jury in Middlesbrough on Monday . |
| 3 | It is for that difficult time of year , coming out of winter and into spring , that Charnos provide the ideal answer with their new semi-opaques . |
| 4 | This is because economic loss can be of unforeseen proportions , can far exceed , in many cases the total contract value , and thus be a risk which it is for all practical purposes beyond the financial strength of most businessmen to assume , particularly if they were to accept such risks routinely in all their business dealings . |
| 5 | Fine Print their latest release is for all those knitters with standard gauge machines who bought Ebony and Ivory and liked the patterns . |
| 6 | That is for each incremental increase in loading , some springs will deflect less than others , or are ‘ stiffer ’ . |
| 7 | Dividing the world up into nation-states , as it is for most practical purposes for most people , is therefore a profoundly ideological strategy . |
| 8 | The longevity of any one copy of a meme is probably relatively unimportant , as it is for any one copy of a gene . |
| 9 | At the moment I 'm not entirely clear what the difference is between these two forms of words . |
| 10 | There 's about another two weeks after that or a week . |
| 11 | But er anywa , the there 's about another thirty seconds on the tape , what would you do ? |
| 12 | When you hear some figure referred to as the federal deficit , that is after this convenient bit of jiggery-pokery . |
| 13 | It is of much less importance in large scale survey research where questions are formulated in advance and respondents contacted only once . |
| 14 | While the report was acknowledging considerable dieback , the press release which accompanied it three days before Christmas ( a traditional moment for government departments to ‘ bury ’ embarrassing statistics ) spoke only of ‘ no sign … of the forest decline which is of such great concern in central Europe ’ . |
| 15 | However , because compression is of such great significance in the development of multimedia , it is important to touch on some key ideas . |
| 16 | It is not always clear that polygyny is of such reproductive value to females as the views of Orians and his colleagues suggest . |
| 17 | Any distance up to about a kilometre from the dwelling is of such little moment for any specialised systems of irrigation and garden farming that little adjustment is called for in either the pattern of settlement or of land use . |
| 18 | It is of such minor significance to them that they ‘ override ’ it . |
| 19 | While it may cause a degree of hypoalbuminaemia through an intestinal leak of plasma , it is not a blood-sucker and consequently is of little pathogenic significance in dogs , causing only mild digestive upsets and occasional diarrhoea . |
| 20 | H. gallinarum is widespread in most poultry flocks and is of little pathogenic significance in itself , but is of great importance in the epidemiology of Histomonas . |
| 21 | Although it is the profit rate before taxation which reflects the underlying economic forces of capital accumulation , labour supply and competitiveness , it is the profit rate after taxation which is of most direct concern to employers when they make investment decisions . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , since the subject is of some general importance in Hong Kong the Board was invited to express an opinion upon it . |
| 23 | None of the points just mentioned is of any great significance in itself . |
| 24 | Nevertheless the general opinion seems to be that A commits a tort , certainly where his threat is of violence , and also , since Rookes v. Barnard , where the threat is of any unlawful act within the meaning of that case . |
| 25 | Any kind of first occasion always seems more difficult than subsequent occasions and this is no less true of a change in an electoral system than it is of any other kind of change . |
| 26 | Many say that the donkeys from Poitou in France are particularly suitable for siring mules , perhaps because they are particularly large , but it now seems doubtful that size is of any special virtue in obtaining the hybrid . |
| 27 | In one sense , literature is like any other form of social or cultural activity , so that it may be analyzed in semiological terms ; this would involve discovering what the nature of its component signs are , and how the system governing their use and combinations operates . |
| 28 | In that sense , it is like any other job of work , or like being any parent . |
| 29 | The agents trying to sell the yard admit it 's unlike any other property on their books . |
| 30 | To an otter it 's like any other hole in the ground , it 's cover . |