Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recent debate concerning the role of RE in the new legislation of 1988 has shown how powerful this attitude towards religion still is among politicians , the church and the public at large . |
| 2 | Otherwise , what can be seen of Patrington today is of the 18th century or later . |
| 3 | The Crisis and Truce Model rests on the assumption that the difficulty of management today is in finding an opportunity to use authority . |
| 4 | Perhaps the biggest area of misunderstanding here is in our approach to our American customers and competitors , where we are lulled into complacency by our similar language . |
| 5 | It might reasonably be argued that the single most inflammatory portrayal of Jesus anywhere is in D. H. Lawrence 's The Man Who Dies , published more than fifty years ago , a miniature masterpiece in which Jesus is depicted as having what used to be called ‘ sexual congress ’ with a priestess of Isis in an Egyptian temple . |
| 6 | Greater specialisation can also narrow horizons : ‘ For me , the highest pinnacle of achievement now is to be the director of a broadcast production . |
| 7 | The variety of colour here is in contrast to the simplicity elsewhere around Augusta ; all white clubhouse , lush greenness and yellow flags . |
| 8 | The only means of advance now is for those able to buy the council house in which they live . |
| 9 | In fact , a new career opening or a new way of life altogether is on offer around the 29th which ca n't be refused . |
| 10 | Unaware of how common this outburst of activity really is among housebound cats , they interpret it as some sort of abnormality and may even call in the vet to examine the animal . |
| 11 | The talk in Moscow now is of a 21-year-old ballerina called Nadezhda Gratchova . |
| 12 | Though the trend in tennis today is towards the high-tech , powerful , graphite rackets , often with larger heads , many women find them a little heavy and sometimes even a bit too large . |
| 13 | But certainly it appears that around 1 in 10 of the seizures of cocaine in Britain now is in the form of crack . |
| 14 | Dollar expenditure on tobacco alone is at present ten times that on timber . |