Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] is [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes this knowledge is supplemented by some familiarity with theoretical linguistics illustrated by examples from the language in question , or more rarely the knowledge of literature is wholly or partly replaced and supplemented by knowledge of the contemporary history , sociology and economics of a country where the language is spoken . |
| 2 | There are also independent traditions in the Cyclades and East Greece ; but the central line of vase-painting is now and for many years to come in Athens . |
| 3 | The original conception of review is indeed that set out above . |
| 4 | Previous research has shown that a child 's skill in recognising facial expressions of emotion is strongly and positively associated with his or her social popularity : socially isolated children tend to be less able than their more popular counterparts to recognise facial expressions of emotion . |
| 5 | No , I do n't think so , because I think the God is dead school of theology is well and truly dead . |
| 6 | The defence of formalism is always that it serves to control an excess of feeling , but here in the absence of formalism there is nothing but empty pathos , artificiality in its weak form . |
| 7 | ‘ A crucial problem in the law of rape is precisely that it focuses unswervingly upon the non-consent of the complainant . |
| 8 | Kinematograph Weekly 's critic remarked , ‘ The aura of wealth is everywhere except in the person of Michael Crawford , whose Harry is yet another study in his gallery of perky , slightly common heroes . |
| 9 | The northernmost tip of Hokkaido is less than 50 kilometres from the now Russian-owned island of Sakhalin . |
| 10 | The other problem with the concept of consent is simply that it is susceptible of very weak and even negative interpretations . |
| 11 | There is a comparable contradiction in those other eases where the form of appropriation is directly or indirectly by the State , and socialized forms of production are in practice controlled by an imposed management . |
| 12 | If the endowments are positively correlated , and the share of capital is less than 50 per cent , the inequality-reducing effect is larger . |
| 13 | While their criticism of reductionism is just and their emphasis on ‘ downward ’ causation ( mind influencing matter ) timely , it seems to me that the problem of ‘ interactionism ’ largely disappears when the systemic position of information processing in the life of a subjectively aware organism is understood . |
| 14 | If you can do this , then the tone of voice is forward and more resonant . |
| 15 | An alternative explanation for the general enhancement of performance is simply that the subject populations differ between the studies . |
| 16 | The Queen of Beauty is more than one view or expression of beauty . |
| 17 | F. The sugar content of sugarbeet is highest where there is plentiful sunshine and moderate rainfall . |
| 18 | Where the level of infection is more than 1,000 larvae per kg of dried herbage , the daily larval intake of grazing cows is in excess of 10,000 larvae . |
| 19 | The ideal source of information is therefore that collected prospectively , that is , from subjects in their childhood who are then followed up and re-interviewed many years later . |
| 20 | A major study of England and Wales using 1966 census data has shown that the pattern of out-migration is largely as expected ( figure 4.3 ) : the principal destinations are the South West , East Anglia , Wales and the outer South East , with the metropolitan London area being the source of most moves ( Law and Warnes 1976 ) . |
| 21 | In principle , of course , whether the repressed constituent of identity is outside or inside the subject makes a difference . |
| 22 | Often this criticism is less than coherent , and it sometimes seems that a principal reason for the volume of protest is simply that rates are an unusually transparent tax ; there are few other cases where individuals are personally and directly responsible for making payments ’ . |
| 23 | We have seen that the continual tendency and law of the development of the capitalist mode of production is more and more to divorce the means of production from labour , and more and more to concentrate the scattered means of production into large groups , thereby transforming labour into wage-labour and the means of production into capital ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 24 | The mortality after partial or total colectomy in adult patients with cirrhosis is more than 60% and portosystemic shunting or transplantation , depending on the status of the liver disease , is preferable . |
| 25 | ‘ My routine in practice is just as it is on course . ’ |
| 26 | The κ statistic is a widely used measure of observer agreement , but its value can be misleadingly low if the base rate of the condition in question is less than 20% . |
| 27 | So the black youth 's progress in sport is partially or totally neglected by parents . |
| 28 | Much of what is often praised in broadcasting is there because of a regulatory structure which encourages diversity in programming . |
| 29 | His figures show that even at 1990 inputs and output the occupier 's surplus from farming is less than £300 , becoming about £6000 after allowing for all sources of income . |
| 30 | A case in point is inland and coastal flooding . |