Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] is [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present procedure when a judge is about to pass a life sentence for murder is for him to invite defending counsel to make submissions on what advice the judge should give to the Secretary of State on the appropriate tariff . |
| 2 | Its defenders claim that to create the impression of progress is in itself a vital part of crisis management . |
| 3 | The candle of hope is to me a more satisfactory symbol than a sickly stanza . |
| 4 | What matters is simply a profession of faith in Jesus as a manifestation of God , and such a profession of faith is in itself sufficient to ensure salvation . |
| 5 | The conflict which characterizes our everyday feelings usually causes part of them to be inhibited or suppressed ; in contrast poetry and the other arts ‘ spring from and perpetuate hours in the lives of exceptional people , when their control and command of experience is at its highest ’ ( Richards 1967 : 22 ) . |
| 6 | One supposes that sort of snobbery is behind us . |
| 7 | Although this area of research is beyond my technical competence , I am assured by experts in neo-Walrasian economics that very strong apriori restrictions need to be imposed before even a glimmer of a general market clearing solution can be discerned . |
| 8 | ‘ Noyon , your concept of independence is like your concept of slavery — confused and badly reasoned . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It can never be satisfactory for a child to be educated in a school in which the standard of work is above his powers , or the curriculum not suited to his particular aptitudes . ’ |
| 10 | The insistence by scientists that the World is merely a series of chance collisions of indifferent forces of nature is to him a dangerous road , since they believe they can discover and harness those indifferent forces through determining Nature 's ‘ laws ’ . |
| 11 | A fourth sack holds 400 Imperial gold crowns of some antiquity — the head of Carolus is on them with the date 1903 IC . |
| 12 | The name of Holly is behind you , it does nothing to help you . |
| 13 | The true heart of Morar is in its unfrequented interior where tourists never go and only the brave venture . |
| 14 | But it is in Lady Lazarus that the similarity between the life of suicide and the life of anorexia is at its clearest : ‘ Dying/is an art , like everything else . |
| 15 | ‘ I bet Ross 's idea of compromise is for you to do what he wants ! |
| 16 | Whereas for Soviet historians this fear of revolution is in itself a sufficient explanation for liberal weakness , revisionist work has stressed , in addition , the deep divisions that beset Russia 's middle classes . |
| 17 | However , the repetitive nature of this type of credit is in itself a barrier against its users weighing up the advantages of credit which does not involve weekly collection — and perhaps against them considering cash as an alternative . |
| 18 | Their existence should not be taken to mean that studying the neural bases of behaviour is beyond us , but they should be recognized when designing and interpreting experiments . |
| 19 | For Juliet I did ‘ Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face ’ and for Hermia I did the ‘ puppet ’ speech . |
| 20 | They come into the theatre , it 's like our home , and they sit there saying , ‘ Oh , she 's absolutely not a Tatyana ’ , or ‘ Can you imagine what kind of leadership is in our theatre — who is the idiot who gave this lady the role of Aida ? ’ . |
| 21 | Another major way in which the social security system discriminates on the grounds of age is in its failure to acknowledge disability among older people . |
| 22 | In so far as the fear of relativism is of it becoming even for the most aware a matter of taste whether one is selfish or unselfish , compassionate or cruel , the fear is misplaced . |
| 23 | Members ' primary duty when acting in the capacity of librarian is to their clients , i.e. the persons or groups of persons for whose requirements and use are intended the resources and services which the members are engaged to provide . |
| 24 | The UK Library Association Code of professional conduct ( 1983 ) does not make separate mention of young people but provides the important principle that ‘ Members ’ primary duty when acting in the capacity of librarian is to their clients ' ( para.2d ) . |
| 25 | I am immensely gratified that those who participate in the activities of co-operation between the RUC and Garda Siochana say that the quality of co-operation is at its highest point for 30 years . |
| 26 | However , as the real appeal of DTP is in its ability to manipulate pages it 's likely that we are looking for a page makeup product such as PageMaker or its many rivals . |
| 27 | As in the psalms translation , he is much preoccupied with the Christian outcome of Old Testament doctrine , and his particular concentration of effort is on his own countrymen , and his own Church . |
| 28 | Thus , where a conflict of interest exists between satisfying the wishes of the manager/employer and protecting the interests of the patient , your duty of care is to your patients first . |
| 29 | The difference between this and the more probabilistic version of determinism is in what it is that is seen as being responsible for the ‘ looseness ’ of the association . |
| 30 | Really you could n't ask for much more , of course we wanted United to win , but as people will see on the television tonight , they contributed so much to this game , they played so much good football and to watch Paul Gascoigne in this sort of form is worth anybody 's admission money . |