Example sentences of "is [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further proposal which appears to have little , if any , current support , is for litigation to be financed from public funds irrespective of the means of the parties . |
| 2 | It is suggested that this captures the core of what it is for conduct to be insulting . |
| 3 | The answer is for registration to be linked to compulsory dog insurance . |
| 4 | He would not have disagreed either with the implications about the unfairness of Providence ; we should note that a recurrent prospect in The Lord of the Rings is for Frodo to be taken by Sauron and tormented till he too goes ‘ under the shadow ’ , becomes a petty ‘ wraith ’ himself , worn out by addiction and privation and torture and fear to a state of nothingness like that of ‘ the haggard king ’ of Minas Morgul . |
| 5 | The best insurance against this happening is for time-off to be planned well in advance so that staff and the ward manager can make the adjustments necessary to ensure that patient needs are met . |
| 6 | The only way for popular science to break out of its niche market is for science to be presented as something else . |
| 7 | A suitable compromise is for completion to be conditional on the results of an environmental audit . |
| 8 | Secondly , does he agree that the quickest way to ensure longer waiting lists , unreasonable behaviour and hospitals again being run by unions rather than by consultants is for power to be given to the Labour party ? |
| 9 | But the best form of support for her is of course to be found in the framework of an affectionate and united family who will make sure that she is not too lonely and can help her to rebuild her social life . |
| 10 | Here a necessitated event is of course to be understood as an event which does stand in the given relation to some or other antecedent . |
| 11 | It will be pleasing if the features of this sketch seem intuitively natural , as indeed we would claim , but justification for them is of course to be sought primarily in the observations of Chapters 2 to 10 and the way that these observations fit our assumptions about the bases of adjectival syntax . |
| 12 | The international community , which has expressed overwhelming support for President Barco 's offensive , is under pressure to be seen to be doing something to help , and quickly . |
| 13 | It supplies a lot more information about the business , in Mr Hall 's estimation , and the Post Office is in favour of being as open as possible . |
| 14 | It is difficult not to see the seeds of authoritarianism in this thinking : Rougemont says , ‘ C'est pour obéir que nous sommes libres ’ : it is in order to be able to obey that we are free . |
| 15 | A teenage girl is in hospital after being trapped in the wreck of a stolen car which overturned . |
| 16 | A shopkeeper is in hospital after being clubbed to the ground with a baseball bat . |
| 17 | In the women 's event , the accident-prone Joanne Conway is in danger of being dethroned after suffering another tumble when she missed a combination jump in her original programme , leaving her behind Gina Fulton going into today 's free programme . |
| 18 | Now , however , the Treaty of Rome , which Mrs Thatcher once called a ‘ charter of economic liberty ’ , is in danger of being transformed into one of central economic and political planning . |
| 19 | With ‘ Allegro ’ discs retailing at mid-price , there is always the problem that programme notes will be curtailed : that 's certainly note the case here , although the ship is in danger of being spoilt for ‘ ha'penth of tar ’ thanks to some careless proofreading . |
| 20 | ‘ But with the launch of TECs , their contribution is in danger of being overlooked , ’ says Parallel director Colin Moore . |
| 21 | This position is in danger of being misunderstood as an opposition to the changing position of women in society . |
| 22 | It is a considerable headache for Taylor , whose plan to retain the midfield that performed so effectively against Norway last month is in danger of being destroyed . |
| 23 | While this comedy of errors is being played out , the central element of the president 's programme , a five-year package of measures designed to reduce the federal deficit by almost $100 billion , is in danger of being rejected on Capitol Hill — by members of the party he is supposed to lead . |
| 24 | Like others before him , Mr Gerstner is in danger of being bewitched by IBM 's glorious past . |
| 25 | At the same time , many critics show notable preference for stories with a moral conclusion over those which seem to offer simple entertainment ; and any critic who looks at a book from the angle of the potential reader rather than of the book itself is in danger of being tempted by false hierarchies . |
| 26 | Amid all the fuss about ‘ Bringing It Back Home ’ , another RTE series of genuine interest to Irish music historians is in danger of being ignored . |
| 27 | On the most general level Foucault 's society of normalisation is in danger of being as rigidly functional , tending towards a necessary social equilibrium , as Talcott Parsons ' , particularly as both the resistances and the individual internalisations are not specified : social control seems to be absolute . |
| 28 | He warned that economic development was lagging so far behind that of the rest of the EC that the EC 's " course towards the single market , monetary union and European unification is in danger of being permanently undermined " . |
| 29 | If that material is subsequently found and shows that the invention was not new when the patent was applied for , the patent is in danger of being revoked . |
| 30 | Environmental data and expertise which exists already in the Corine resource , a project which ends this year , is in danger of being lost whilst the EEA wrangle continues . |