Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cockcroft stated that the list should " constitute by far the greater part of the syllabus of those pupils for whom CSE is not intended , that is , those pupils in about the lowest 40 per cent of the range of attainment in mathematics " . |
| 2 | There follows a discussion of the identification of the target sample , variously described in the Cockcroft Report as " the lowest 40 per cent of attainers " and " those for whom CSE is not intended " . |
| 3 | It seems likely that this is typical of tasks at the operational level , such tasks can be performed automatically and no episodic memory for their performance is normally formed . |
| 4 | A recent study of long-term fraud in the United Kingdom ( Levi 1981 ) also documents how companies are set up with the deliberate intention of using them to obtain goods on credit for which payment is never intended to be made . |
| 5 | This Clause shall not apply to injury to a person in or on a vehicle , other than a motor vehicle , liability for which injury is not covered by the Policy of the Insurer of such vehicle . |
| 6 | The feeling of em pathy is closely linked with our intuitive and higher feelings , whereas sym pathy hooks into our personal distress . |
| 7 | All processing and refining of mine output is now carried out in South Africa and its management vested in Matthey Rustenburg Refiners ( MRR ) , a company set up in the 1960's by Johnson Matthey and RPM . |
| 8 | Stan holds nothing back in his admiration for Billy : ‘ if the history of my generation is ever written , Butlin 's name is going to rank along with Sir Winston Churchill 's , Marconi 's and Sir Alexander Fleming 's ’ . |
| 9 | The first day of my trip is now completed , and all in all , I must say I am quite satisfied . |
| 10 | It 's alright , part of my job is actually monitoring the managers what they do as well , so that they 're doing what they should be doing , which is fair enough is n't it ? |
| 11 | The objective of this part of my analysis is therefore to provide a historical and theoretical overview of socialist realism with specific reference to the situation in interwar France , in order to establish a conceptual framework within which to place the work of Paul Nizan . |
| 12 | Although there are differences in emphasis in the contributions of individual Formalists , the theoretical value of their work is best understood and appreciated as a collective effort to establish a coherent theoretical basis for literary studies . |
| 13 | The point that the so-called professions themselves appeal to the moral status of their work is well argued in a recent paper on the creation of a professional ideology in the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | The main focus of their sponsorship is totally to re-equip the department 's studio with state-of-the-art electronic flash and tungsten lighting equipment ; in exchange , KJP have a distribution site on campus , serving the Lothians , and a showpiece setting in a real studio situation . |
| 15 | But this aspect of their playing is best heard in the first-movement cadenza , for elsewhere their individual and ensemble skill is not well favoured by a fairly reverberant , high-dynamic recording in which the balance allows them to be overshadowed by the orchestra . |
| 16 | As soon as a character is within reach , or if they are attacked themselves , the Daemonettes attack and the illusion of their appearance is immediately dispelled . |
| 17 | The basis of their programme is clearly outlined in an inaugural lecture given by G. H. Bantock at Leicester in 1965 . |
| 18 | The cost of the clinical consequences of their research is currently met by central funding , their research itself being paid for by the Medical Research Council , charities , and the pharmaceutical industry . |
| 19 | HAVING completed the first two legs of their Caribbean tour , the South Africans , who arrived here yesterday on what is the least volatile island on their itinerary , feel the political success of their visit is already guaranteed . |
| 20 | The date of their arrival is still disputed , although a temporary pre-Agricolan presence at least seems certain . |
| 21 | Their presence in this country and the meaning of their citizenship is continually questioned . |
| 22 | Very small proportions , even of dementia sufferers , live in institutions ; most of their care is indeed provided by relatives or friends , even when they live alone . |
| 23 | If one accepts the story of Molla Yegan 's bringing Molla Gurani to the Ottoman court-and there seems no reason not to-then on the basis of what appears to be the fairly firm evidence for this part of Molla Gurani 's career , Molla Yegan 's return from his journey can not be dated earlier than 845/1441–2 ; and on the reasonable assumption that the purpose of Molla Yegan 's journey was to make the pilgrimage , it seems entirely likely that it was in the year 844/1440–1 , the same year that Molla Gurani made his abortive pilgrimage , that Molla Yegan also performed the hajj and that the two met somewhere after that pilgrimage , though clear information about the actual time and place of their meeting is entirely lacking . |
| 24 | The theoretical sophistication of the literary half of their equation is not matched in the non-literary part of it . |
| 25 | Medium shots come between these two extremes , and the length of their stay is generally decided by the action ; the shot is held for as long as something interesting is going on or being said . |
| 26 | It is widely used in this tradition to describe a quality of the tasks of which policing is normally comprised — that these tasks are mostly mundane , ordinary , and day-to-day . |
| 27 | However , it is often the case that the service of a counternotice is the only step in the review procedure of which time is expressly made of the essence . |
| 28 | Much of its strategy is now coming together with the purchase of stakes in USAir , Australia 's Qantas and TAT , a small French airline . |
| 29 | The idea that a film 's director is the primary , shaping source of its meaning is simultaneously inscribed as middlebrow commonsense ( see the film review columns of The Observer , City Limits , or any publication targeted at the bourgeois intelligentsia , with their umbilical linking of film title and director 's name ) and dismissed as hopelessly outmoded by every branch of recent critical theory . |
| 30 | The blond shells of the pistachio nuts , with their seductive little green gleaming cracks , repose in a small Sheffield plate dish on a stem , an oval dish which echoes , satisfactorily , elegantly , the shape of the nuts : the surface of its lining is tinily scratched , pitted and polished , golden , antique , dull but shining . |