Example sentences of "and [pron] is [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The justification for the possession offence is preventive , and there is little difficulty in holding that a person caught in possession of explosives with intent to endanger life has sufficiently crossed the threshold of criminality to justify punishment . |
| 2 | In political systems heavily dependent on trading and dealing , matters of principle get short shrift , long-standing problems are not faced and there is little scope for more than modest incremental change . |
| 3 | Clearly it is now almost impossible to proceed without the DUP , as some had hoped , and there is little enthusiasm in the UUP for full-scale inter-party talks . |
| 4 | On the other hand , male sterilizations are rare and there is little promotion of the operation . |
| 5 | The most popular use for the vehicles today is wedding carriage hire , and there is little call for items like the Fire Engine except occasional film work . |
| 6 | There are many ways of surviving to produce offspring , and there is little consensus between organisms about what counts as evolutionary ‘ success ’ in this sense . |
| 7 | You pick your best players and there is little doubt on current form that Beardsley is one of England 's finest forwards . |
| 8 | Systems are relevant to how you run your office , not how you run your cases and there is little reference to the transaction criteria . |
| 9 | In Better Schools ( 1985 ) the Government drew attention to the need to reconsider traditional teaching techniques in order to promote and encourage the development of oral skills : ‘ In the majority of primary and middle schools there is an over-concentration on practising skills in literacy and numeracy … much work is too closely directed by the teacher and there is little chance for oral discussion . ’ |
| 10 | There is a financial risk in producing your own cards and there is little chance of selling old stock in future years . |
| 11 | Checks have been made that this bone was not missed during laboratory processing of the pellet samples , and there is little chance of bones being detached from pellets before collection because of the compact nature of barn owl pellets . |
| 12 | When the book is closed , the cords hold the papers tightly and there is little chance of tearing . |
| 13 | Already one is seeing cases with Β-lactamase-producing gonococci in London which have been acquired in Ghana , and there is little hope of preventing their eventual spread throughout the community if no action is being taken in the source country . |
| 14 | Questions of attribution have been deliberately avoided , as has the work of amateur artists , and there is little emphasis on issues of social or political background . |
| 15 | Today , the gap between treasure hunters and archaeologists is considerable , and there is little possibility of confusing the two : the main aim of the treasure hunter is to make a financial gain from what is found , whereas the main aim of the archaeologist is to investigate the past . |
| 16 | Market research has shown that the company 's torches are seen as dependable but rather old-fashioned and there is little awareness of the newer products which have been introduced to fit the contemporary lifestyle . |
| 17 | The Somali nation has broken down into its tribes and there is little trust between them . |
| 18 | These are also concentrated in Kent with 65 per cent of the total ( 25 per cent at Faversham alone ) , and there is little change in this pattern through time except that the total quantities fall off during the seventh century . |
| 19 | The batsmen all attack like Greenidge or Richards , except that they do it virtually all the time and there is little idea of defensive play when the bowling demands it . |
| 20 | In this opera of ensembles there is , however , a price to pay for such fierce individualization : the beauty of Mozart 's blended vocal writing is sometimes sacrificed , and there is little sense of joint wonderment as each new turn of events is unfolded . |
| 21 | Smith 's application of Smelser 's model is forced to rely on an assortment of different examples and there is little sense of how well it applies to separate case studies . |
| 22 | Despite these findings key questions remain concerning the prediction of successful mothering after postpartum psychiatric disorder , and there is little evidence on how maternal competence can best be assessed . |
| 23 | The Left believed , and there is little evidence to the contrary even after 30 years of " revisionist " history , that the National government was willing to make concessions out of all proportion to those necessary and that it was supported by influential people who were quite willing to see Hitler at war with the Soviet Union . |
| 24 | In reality , the exercise Is often ritualistic , and there is little evidence of genuine learning or teaching during the activity , for two main reasons . |
| 25 | This is a worrying development for publishers , and there is little evidence in the book trade of the establishment of another source from which such a service might otherwise be obtained . |
| 26 | At an early stage in development the human face is made up of a series of bumps , which looks quite grotesque , and there is little hint of the face that will emerge . |
| 27 | The twentieth century may seem threatening at times for someone with these problems , but at least you are not likely to be struck down in your prime by cholera , smallpox or bubonic plague , and there is little risk of being eaten by lions . |
| 28 | Ali but 4% of the farms in Norway were under 50 acres and there is little movement in and out of the industry . |
| 29 | However , the number of skips provided is low and there is little incentive for consumers or manufacturers to collect and reprocess . |
| 30 | As there is a tendency to increase the complexity of CISCs in order to upgrade existing products , resulting in increased design time , increased design errors , and inconsistent implementations the university believed that a simpler RISC could be a cheaper alternative in the modern world where high-level languages predominate and there is little need for complex instructions for writing assembly code . |