Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [prep] the [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The biggest entry is for the handicap singles with 74 players competing . |
| 2 | The following extract is from the opening pages of With Peter and Susan , the McKee Readers , book 3 ( London : Nelson — no date , although from the illustrations it appears to be a pre-war reader . |
| 3 | The usual method of incorporation is for the exemption terms to be set out in printed conditions which are commonly attached to or referred to in the auction catalogue and copies of which are usually displayed on the premises . |
| 4 | One area of television where frequent reference has been made to homosexuality is in the arts programmes . |
| 5 | The primary emphasis of the work is on the support networks of old people living in the community ; that is , all those people who provide company , advice , help and other kinds of support which make continued independent living possible . |
| 6 | The museum is in the record books for paying the highest auction price for an old master : Pontormo 's Portrait of Duke Cosimo I de'Medici . |
| 7 | The disparity is in the prosecution policies , not the sentencing ( McEwan 1980 ) . |
| 8 | This question is for the railway specialists , but is also included because quizzes are a way to learn odd railway titbits . |
| 9 | The only visible wood is in the cocktail sticks , decking is metal plating and cups are plastic . |
| 10 | The most immediate danger is to the desalination plants that supply nearly all the region 's water ( there are no permanent rivers in the Arabian peninsula ) . |
| 11 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 12 | An early arched gateway is in the town walls of Ferentino where the Porta Sanguinaria has radiating stone voussoirs ; here the sides are vertical ( 72 ) . |
| 13 | When this happens , the first place I look for trouble is at the sinker posts . |
| 14 | The focus of this theory is upon the comparison individuals are presumed to make between the marginal value of an extra hour of work or leisure . |
| 15 | The Royal Society of Portrait Painters ' annual exhibition is at the Mall Galleries , The Mall , SW1 , 11–21 May |
| 16 | The Health Centre is in the Student Services suite on the top floor of the building at York Street . |
| 17 | For example , although the central government proportion of the finance of local government is within the appropriation accounts , the locally-financed proportion is outside . |
| 18 | THE LIVING WORLD is within the Sussex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty , and on the Southdowns Way long-distance footpath . |
| 19 | We looked into all sorts of different buildings , and that would be suitable , and we 've decided the best thing is on the shipping containers , they 're water proof , they 're vandal proof , and they 're recycled as well , which helps . |
| 20 | The other thing is under the CONDAM regulations , the responsibility for arranging the right quality of staff in terms of providing resources , in terms of time and finance , lies with the client . |
| 21 | Its most immediate threat to human health is via the desalination plants , which provide Arab Gulf cities with much of their water . |
| 22 | Really that was n't actually dis the staffing issues themselves were n't discussed , but just to recap on what the situation is with the staffing issues and what 's meant by that . |
| 23 | One answer is to the EFL schools and colleges operating in this country . |
| 24 | When nookey is in the offing bosoms do not so much swell as burst over the lace like a pair of dumplings rising to the surface of a casserole pot . |
| 25 | Glory is about the class divisions in the French army during the First World War . |
| 26 | Now that the shouting is over and the most homophobic piece of legislation for over a century is on the statute books , lesbians and gays are picking themselves up and asking if our involvement with local government was really worth the effort . |
| 27 | The one concession to it you see a lot of in the French Basque country is on the road signs which now duplicate the French place-names with their Basque equivalents . |
| 28 | In the aquarium , twilight is when you turn your tank lights out and the only light entering the tank is from the room lights . |
| 29 | The official launch of An Illustrated History of Hartburn Village Through The Passage of Time is at the Stockton Arms Hotel from 10.30am . |
| 30 | As Dicey says , ‘ the appeal to precedent is in the law courts merely a useful fiction by which judicial decision conceals its transformation into judicial legislation ’ . |