Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] is [adj] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly the current situation in which the use of force is illegal except in self-defence is inadequate . |
| 2 | Up-country the spirit of self-effort is better than in Rangoon , and there is more talk there of reconstruction than politics . |
| 3 | The power companies deny that orimulsion is environmentally damaging and claim that it is possible to clean the heavy metals from flue gases , and that the sulphur content of orimulsion is lower than in some British coal . |
| 4 | To satisfy the demands of their historicist ideologies it is necessary to promote Renaissance as a phenomenon , not a linguistic term whose field of reference is unstable and above all open . |
| 5 | As a hotel increases in size , however , the tasks have to be subdivided into separate areas of work and supervised by section heads ; and in a very large hotel ( Fig. 1.2 ) the volume of work is such that under departmental heads staff specialise in one aspect of the work only and there is little opportunity to relate their individual efforts to the whole operation . |
| 6 | It is a source of pride to know that overall government spending on civil R&D in this country as a proportion of GDP is greater than in either the US or Japan . |
| 7 | But this does not mean that the tradition of behaviour is arbitrary and without identity . |
| 8 | The gravitational separation of helium is negligible and in this model always would have been , because the evolutionary sequence that yields this present state has a hot start from formation 4600 Ma ago , the atmospheric regulated loss of the heat of formation bringing Jupiter to its present state . |
| 9 | Certainly there are broad similarities and a degree of categorisation is possible but with detailed analysis there are always differences . |
| 10 | On the other hand , its penalty structure might be thought to be preferable to that of New South Wales , for the maximum penalty for each category of offence is higher than in New South Wales and the ten-year maximum for simple sexual assault enables a heavier penalty to be imposed in serious cases which do not come within the higher categories . |
| 11 | Simplicity of operation is paramount and to that effect the machine will begin replay of a CD soon as it is powered up . |
| 12 | The visual examination of shape is easy but in all other areas the examination of " shape " is extremely difficult . |
| 13 | The population of Great Britain is increasing although the rate of increase is lower than at earlier times in our history . |
| 14 | Once again , it remains problematical as to whether this kind of input is appropriate and to what extent a child who has serious language difficulties actually restricts adults ' ability to provide appropriate linguistic support . |
| 15 | That a topic of discourse is such that on different occasions it can be referred to as the same is an analytic proposition setting out part of what " topic of discourse " means . |
| 16 | Obviously to say that an ontological existent qua possible topic of discourse is such that on different occasions it can be referred to as " the same A " is not to say a great deal unless a clarification is given of the distinction and the relationship between these two kinds of sameness . |
| 17 | The final factor of time is important because of the slowness of most chemical reactions at the Earth 's surface . |
| 18 | It has always been puzzling enough that the proportion of men in gynaecology is higher than in any virtually any other specialty , as if detachment were an advantage in this field . |
| 19 | Let us take the following equilibrium for example : At 273 K the absorption coefficient of oxygen in water is 0.05 whereas at 293 K it is 0.03 . |
| 20 | The reason for this seems to be that the opportunity cost of keeping boys at school when they could go out to work is greater than for girls , especially for poor rural families . |
| 21 | The transition to deceleration is slower than for the excitation jump method , because the motor torque only changes sign in response to a rotor movement , rather than an excitation change ; but the complication of decrementing tile step count is avoided . |
| 22 | Furthermore , the social aspirations of the cultivators themselves in a climate where actual and potential production per man per year is less than in temperate countries , and such simple facts as the rapid rotting of produce , have to be taken into account . |
| 23 | The evaluation of changes in disease specific mortality rates over time is problematic because of changes in classification procedures and death certification practices . |
| 24 | The effect is not observed in some renal and heart disorders ; then the rate of urine flow on lying down at night is greater than during the daytime and this will be diagnostically useful to the physician . |
| 25 | Unfortunately these are often difficult to calculate accurately , although it has been shown by Tung that the error introduced by broadening is negligible if for the sample . |