Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [is] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the er main word for that is club foot , what does that mean , does anybody like to tell me ? |
| 2 | The main reason for that is John Birt , the BBC 's boss , and his belief that Radios One and Two must be different to justify their bit of the licence fee . |
| 3 | ( An insurance company catering for this is AXA Equity and Law on 071-588 6026 . ) |
| 4 | The theological term for this is analogia fidei ; that is to say , when we talk of eternal verities we have to resort to pictures , stories and other analogical expressions . |
| 5 | Another equally good word for this is endurance exercise . |
| 6 | That industry probably started in nineteen seventy five with the diaries of Labour 's Richard Crossman . |
| 7 | None of that 's rubbish Mary actually . |
| 8 | I think I have to make the point to you that we are planning to roughly double the size of the er airforce equipment programme er between now and the end of the century , a very substantial chunk of that is E F two thousand and its er associated weapon systems and , you know , one has to frankly , take er a view on priorities er in the light of the strategic requirement and given the er extent of the threat as we see it , the possibility of using er of taking part in out of area operations in coalitions , that kind of thing , that was the judgement we took er the medium term priorities were such that we could n't afford the first er stage of A M S A M. |
| 9 | The most stubbornly uncategorisable woman musician to have emerged in all of this is Polly Harvey . |
| 10 | A good example of this is voice change in languages with a category of voice . |
| 11 | Mechanisation of the USA has got wheat production to 44 per cent more output than input , but a substantial amount of this is fossil fuel and that is at the farm gate . |
| 12 | It would appear to be most of this is Kwiksave Supermarket . |
| 13 | the first players to take advantage of this is alf inge haaland who will join nottingham forest and ole bjorn sundgot who will join oldham . |
| 14 | ‘ An indication of this is Bill Gates courting Washington with claims of NT 's Posix-compliance . |
| 15 | An elegant example of this is La Bourgoise d'Orliens , " The townswoman of Orléans " , in which the husband , a merchant , suspecting his wife of having a clerk as a lover ( which she has ) tests her by pretending to go away but returning in the guise of a clerk . |
| 16 | It is possible to represent intonation as a simple sequence of tonic and non-tonic stressed syllables , and pauses , with no higher-level organisation ; an example of this is Windsor Lewis ( 1977b ) . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most striking case of this is J. A. Thugut , Austrian representative at Constantinople in 1769–75 , who was throughout these years an agent in French pay regularly transmitting confidential information to his French colleague , the Comte de Saint-Priest ( though it is true that French and Austria were at that time allies , at least in name ) . |
| 18 | Firstly , the windowing system is a set of tools for creating windows and their characteristics — an example of this is X Windows . |
| 19 | The best example of this is crime statistics . |
| 20 | The most crucial example of this is trade policy , for access to markets in the industrialized world may be critical to a recipient country 's export programme . |
| 21 | A widely-cited instance of this is Hopewell Holdings , the construction and property group controlled and managed by Gordon Wu . |
| 22 | At the centre of all of this is Ivars Ozols and the Latvian Aviation Club ( LAK ) . |
| 23 | A good example of this is glass giants Pilkington Bros . |
| 24 | Under the heading of coarse fishing there are different types of fishing which concentrate on one species an example of this is Carp fishing . |
| 25 | The second main component of the GUI is the imaging model which controls the drawing of the screen representations such as fonts and icons ; an example of this is Display Postscript . |
| 26 | One quarter of this is wine imports . |
| 27 | The final new company in the clutch of six is Adacom Gateway Systems Ltd , which is busily transplanting the company 's existing ‘ Supernet ’ gateway software from its IBM environment to Sun Microsystems Inc 's Solaris operating system . |
| 28 | One of these is performance appraisal . |
| 29 | The first of these is Stan Kemp 's Kingfisheries in Beckenham which has a fully-working Sea-Max system on display . |
| 30 | One of these is Rasbora uropthalma with a maximum length of 3cm. the other is the tiniest with a maximum size of just 2cm . |