Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [is] [adv] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 It is plain that staying home and looking after children is culturally and economically undervalued by our society .
2 C. A. Moser in Survey Methods in Social Investigation identifies three sources of bias in sample selection : ( 1 ) the use of a sampling frame which does not cover the population adequately , completely or accurately ; ( 2 ) the use of a ‘ non-random ’ method of sampling , so that the selection of subjects is consciously or unconsciously affected by human judgement ; and ( 3 ) the refusal to co-operate among some segments of the chosen population .
3 This realization has led to the abandonment of the large institutional type of children 's home and a policy favouring the boarding out of children in ordinary homes where possible .
4 Otherwise the course of events is more or less predictable .
5 We we got lots of evidence to suggest that actually the amount of noise problem outside weekends is actually and we do n't actually have the staff to actually deal with this problem without considerably more expenditure than anybody in this council is actually talking about and our tendency towards this erm again this is a bid of of what 's it sounds good and as as to the public conveniences this has been liaised it 's been negotiated about , it 's been looked at very , very expansively indeed .
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