Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agenda for public debate about defence issues is increasingly shaped by the activities of the Pentagon 's biggest arms ' suppliers . |
| 2 | Whatever the reasons for this anomaly , the outcome for curriculum managers is highly contradictory . |
| 3 | A specialist examination for insolvency practitioners is already in place and both the Tax and IT faculties are in various stages of consultation about setting their own exams . |
| 4 | Study for the dissertation for postgraduate degrees is normally undertaken during the summer vacation . |
| 5 | The SCOTVEC framework for core skills is largely based upon existing modules which are already well-established in centres . |
| 6 | The use of the Bosch injector pump and having the head drilled for heater plugs is as good as this engine is going to be and , as such is a reasonable conversion , in relation to the cost . |
| 7 | A variety of assessment schemes is currently being developed following the publication of the Cockcroft Report . |
| 8 | If the domain of a criterion statement is broad the representativeness of assessment tasks is more difficult to arrange and criterion performance may thereby be ambivalent . |
| 9 | The Ca 2+ transient associated with the synaptic activation of NMDA receptors is substantially reduced in the presence of ryanodine or thapsigargin , drugs which inhibit Ca 2+ -induced Ca 2+ release and deplete intracellular Ca 2+ stores , respectively . |
| 10 | A period of adjustment will be required as the role of support workers is properly identified and established . |
| 11 | The use of skin products is particularly difficult to deal with . |
| 12 | The occurrence of shell ridges is also inherited . |
| 13 | The growth of cable networks is even more of a threat . |
| 14 | Cost-justification of DIP systems is now easier than ever , with component prices falling fast and large cost savings being achieved through improved productivity and reduced staff numbers . |
| 15 | The range of chest exercises is really only limited by the equipment that is available . |
| 16 | No-one disputes that the real number of drug users is much higher than the official figure . |
| 17 | Whilst cultural methods might be used to reduce the impact of some insect pests , they are by no means a reliable control and biological control of field pests is no than a pipe-dream at present . |
| 18 | Its range of text samples is indeed admirably wide-ranging and eclectic , taking in The Rape of the Lock and Edna St Vincent Millay , The Battleship Potemkin and advertisements for Lil-lets and Famous Grouse . |
| 19 | It may well be that the overall shape of income distributions is roughly constant , but that is not to say there is not much movement within it intra-and intergenerationally . |
| 20 | One of the most ambitious and colourful of diffusionist theories is undoubtedly that advanced by the English anatomist Eliot Smith ( 1871–1937 ) , a contemporary both of Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown , who sought to explain the global distribution of mummification and other exotic practices . |
| 21 | The European Federation of Stock Exchanges is currently working on a project called Eurolist , which aims to have the biggest companies ( those with market capitalisation of over Ecu 1bn and annual market turnover of Ecu 250m annually ) listed on a minimum of six European stock exchanges . |
| 22 | If the firm 's tills are connected to a computer , the record of stock levels is automatically adjusted ever , v time a sale is recorded at the till . |
| 23 | Cost of labour increases by 20% ; prices increase by 10% ; and the number of labour hours is now reduced to 600 . |
| 24 | The central importance attached to the inefficiency of labour markets is either so generally abstract as to have little or no practical application or so partial as to ignore the necessary interdependence between labour supply and a whole range of institutions . |
| 25 | The evaluation of investment risks is generally accepted to be a corporate responsibility . |
| 26 | The evaluation of investment risks is generally accepted to be a corporate responsibility . |
| 27 | The intricate knot-tying nest building of weaver birds is a case in point , but given the undoubtedly limited intellectual ability of the performer , surely the construction of orb webs is even more impressive . |
| 28 | The variance-covariance matrix of equation errors is then : where is the variance of and is the variance of t and , to ensure that the structural parameters in the model are identified , it is assumed that the covariance between and t is zero . |
| 29 | The range of research topics is correspondingly great , the major areas being Cosmology ( particularly Galaxy Formation ) , Star Formation , and Instrument and Telescope Technology . |
| 30 | We should recognize that the validity of research findings is always relative , and relative in two quite different ways . |