Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nature of the evidence about coin finds is of varying quality . |
| 2 | Tae kwon do is the Korean art of self-defence and Britain 's rather good at it , so expect a lot of that on your screens . |
| 3 | The landscape which generation after generation created is like a classroom blackboard at the end of a day , on which each lesson has been written without entirely erasing the previous one . |
| 4 | He justifies this argument not through reference to rock 's mass public but because its quasi-oral modes of composition and dissemination result , he says , in collective authorship lose links between musicians and audiences , constant variation of materials , and a spontaneous , ‘ Dionysian ’ approach to performance . |
| 5 | Research over the past few years has led me to observe elsewhere ( Cartwright , 1984 ) that in education in general — and arts education is no different in this respect — assessment comes in all forms and guises , and that the type of assessment practised is dependent upon the reasons for its use . |
| 6 | As a consequence , elderly persons entering residential accommodation tend to be more physically and mentally dependent than in the past , and the type of support needed is similar to that given in a nursing home , rather than a guest house or private hotel . |
| 7 | Whether Morrissey and Marr realise the degree of luck involved is still subject to some speculation , for the combination was of four very diverse musical influences . |
| 8 | ‘ The problem of drug taking is on the increase and we have taken every precaution to prevent it ’ . |
| 9 | The psychology of present giving is a great giveaway , revealing more about the giver than the recipient . |
| 10 | ( a ) If the kind of damage suffered is reasonably foreseeable , it does not matter that the damage came about in an unforeseeable way . |
| 11 | In each of the 650 single-member constituencies , the method of election employed is the plurality or " first-past-the-post " method . |
| 12 | Of course communicating is more than just telling someone something . |
| 13 | Of course walking is the chief activity . |
| 14 | Unusually for me , I saw a few paintings and so on which I thought were lovely , but of course purchase is quite out of the question — and anyway we have no wall space left here ! |
| 15 | The is interesting because of course planning is an eggshells area where you have to tiptoe delicately through the tulips . |
| 16 | The measure of income employed is therefore an imperfect indicator of comprehensive income , and this in turn is not truly equivalent to ‘ ability to pay ’ . |
| 17 | The most probable effect of exposure to light is a change of colour , but this is not necessarily the only or even the most important effect . |
| 18 | When a customer is granted a loan by his bank , the sum of money lent is added to his account . |
| 19 | But , as you will realise , the amount of money involved is not likely to be very large . |
| 20 | The ANOVA for the different models of regression tested is very explicit . |
| 21 | At its most extreme , someone 's capacity to choose which course of action to perform is removed from them . |
| 22 | 1.38 Suppose time has slipped by and the plaintiff 's solicitor suddenly discovers that limitation is on him ; he can take comfort from the fact that the day the cause of action accrues is excluded from the three-year limitation period ( Marren v Dawson , Bentley & Co Ltd [ 1961 ] 2 QB 135 ) . |
| 23 | In the instance illustrated here the type of action required is known arid what is required is to find a way of entering upon that action . |
| 24 | The course of action taken is influenced by the return , risk and liquidity available on various money market instruments , e.g. dollar time deposits , euro-deposits or US Treasury bills . |
| 25 | The limitation of theorem proving is , the description of the original task may be inadequate . |
| 26 | Both nationalized industries and local authorities publish a good deal of information on their various and diverse activities ( see chapters 8 and 10 ) In Type A nonprofit organizations the level of revenue raised is often regarded as indicative of the value that recipients place on an organization 's services . |
| 27 | The amount of force required is that which immobilises the child without causing pain or physical damage . |
| 28 | The only disadvantage of protein skimming is the loss of trace elements , but these are easy to replace as an additive . |
| 29 | So far as the type of crime committed is concerned throughout this century the great bulk of crime has always involved stealing of one kind or another . |
| 30 | Another way of expressing the central requirement of conspiracy to injure is to say that the law is concerned with the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate purposes , for the former will legalise the infliction of the most catastrophic and inevitable harm to the plaintiff 's business . |