Example sentences of "is [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local authorities will need to become more ‘ customer sensitive ’ and return to a culture where local government is about service to the public . |
| 2 | First category I suggest is is about attitude in the sense of liking , disliking . |
| 3 | If democracy is about government by the people for the people , then it can not be about giving a bunch of politicians a blank cheque to govern us every five years . |
| 4 | Windows 3.1 can now handle images over 16Mb in size , which is about par for the course with large four-colour , high-resolution bitmaps . |
| 5 | To accept the truth of these accounts is a simple but giant step , and one which the academic and professional community is by its own self-definition incapable of taking : a social group which bases its very existence on its own claims to cleverness would risk its life if it opened even one ear to the voices of fools and heretics , especially when the topic itself is about foolishness in the form of ‘ learning difficulties ’ . |
| 6 | Pollution control is about action in the field and getting results . |
| 7 | Encouragement at the right moment is as water to a thirsty plant . |
| 8 | Inspection of a copy of the syllabus for Salters ' A-level chemistry ( obtainable from the Oxford and Cambridge Examinations Board ) will demonstrate how appropriate the course is as preparation for a chemistry degree . |
| 9 | The true place of inflation in calculating the cost of credit is as part of a triangle which has as its other sides the interest to be gained from instalment savings and the interest to be paid for instalment credit — both of which are broadly related to inflation rates anyway . |
| 10 | MARIANNE MACDONALD ( Weekend Guardian , October 28 ) obviously considers that no area of London is worth consideration outside the over-priced borough of Islington . |
| 11 | It is worth dwelling for a couple of seconds on what he has dropped out of . |
| 12 | In the recent case of Harlingdon and Leinster Enterprises Ltd v Christopher Hull Fine Art Ltd [ 1990 ] 1 All ER 737 , the Court of Appeal considered the issue of reliance on description and it is worth dwelling upon the facts . |
| 13 | and Ruth says I commit myself to him , he will now be my god , and therefore your people will be my people , your home will be my home , your destiny will be my destiny the way is clear , she makes that greatest decision of her life , a decision that will affect the whole of her life but its not as say a life decision is a commitment now , we , we , we are always confronted , day after day we are confronted to make decisions , some of you make decisions and were not too committed about them , and if things alter they will change our minds , not just a ladies prerogative to change her mind , men do it as well and things happen and we think oh no well , I wo n't go through with that I 'll change my mind before its too late , but here Ruth she is not just making a decision , she is making a total commitment , a commitment that is worth time of the whole of her life , to promised to be loyal to de to Naomi and her deceased husband , she promises loyalty to Naomi 's race and the people of god , but above all she acknowledge 's Naomi 's god and her willingness to follow him to the end , you know this , how she finishes of this commitment where you die I will die its to the end its to the end of my life , I will not walk out of it and even after you 've gone mother in law , even after you are dead I am still committed to that decision , this decision I am making today where you die I will die , there I will be buried , and here she sorts of puts this solemn vow to this commitment , thus may the lord to do me and worse if any thing but death parts you and me . |
| 14 | If you do get a bad start it is worth tacking through the fleet on port tack in search of clear wind . |
| 15 | Light-middleweight Robin , self-styled The Grim Reaper , is off scratch in the Human Race over the sanded 206metre course . |
| 16 | The Old Bailey was told : ‘ His only previous conviction is for parking on a double yellow line . ’ |
| 17 | For if , as I suggested , the enormous vitality of the language of Ulysses can , among other things , make us smile and even laugh out loud , that fact alone will underscore how little room there is for laughter in the earlier texts . |
| 18 | 32 ( 1 ) Subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , where in the case of any action for which a period of limitation is prescribed by this Act , either — ( a ) the action is based upon the fraud of the defendant ; or ( b ) any fact relevant to the plaintiff 's right of action has been deliberately concealed from him by the defendant ; or ( c ) the action is for relief from the consequences of a mistake ; the period of limitation shall not begin to run until the plaintiff has discovered the fraud , concealment or mistake ( as the case may be ) or could with reasonable diligence have discovered it … |
| 19 | When modern social anthropologists write about " primitive " peoples it is for want of a better vocabulary ; they could just as well be writing about " other " peoples . |
| 20 | The contract is for construction of a 220MW twin-turbine station , capable of burning either gas or distillate oil , at Serdang , 30km south of Kuala Lumpur . |
| 21 | The demand may be advertised in one or more newspapers if the demand is for payment of a sum due under a judgment or order and the creditor knows or believes that the debtor has absconded or is keeping out of the way with a view to avoiding service and there is no real prospect of the debt being recovered by any enforcement action . |
| 22 | The investment by Glaxo is for part of a new research site , due to open in 1995 , which will provide facilities for 1,500 staff including more than 1,000 scientists . |
| 23 | What is perhaps more common than a share-for-share exchange is for part of the consideration to consist of debentures issued by Newco to vendor shareholders . |
| 24 | The small circular bow is for suspension from a chain while the narrow square-sectioned shank is notched at each end and has a large incised ‘ X ’ on one side . |
| 25 | If freedom is made an absolute , as it is for example in the writings of Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek , such that it is impossible on intellectual grounds to place limits on the exercise of freedom , the result is an economic system shorn of justice . |
| 26 | A university is after all fundamentally an academic institution , world famous universities of course have all sorts of other attributes er for example , er theatres er as well as er sports grounds and that is just as true in this country as it is for example in the United States or Australia or even in the non-English speaking world . |
| 27 | A house built of mundic shuttered concrete at the turn of the century in Park Road , Camborne , has been condemned and is for sale at a site value of only £5,000 . |
| 28 | Yeah numbers twenty five , twenty six of the junction of Torquay Road is for sale with a building plot in one of the gardens , the premises being used for many years as doctor 's surgery ancillary accommodation and car parking , the property will be available when the doctors move into the new practice home in joining Cricket Field Road car park |
| 29 | None of the many experimental techniques are foolproof , but the Ericsson method for separating girl-producing sperm from boy-producing sperm is for sale in a string of clinics in the US . |
| 30 | And people may be wondering why they 're going up by so much , when after all , the S S A , and that is the figure that we 're restricted to set by the government , is only going up by three point three percent , and half of this is for care in the community money , so that , all that care in the community money remember , pound for pound in that it 's added to our budget , is knocked off the budget of Social Security , that is not , not any extra money spent on people . |