Example sentences of "is [det] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little to see of the Potteries at Fenton other than relatively modern factories , but a couple of bottle ovens , now rather rare ( see Longton ) survive near King Street . |
| 2 | There is little said about what is called the messianic role of TM in the book , apart from a token two pages . |
| 3 | There is little to say about this except that if living alone is a new experience for you you will tend to buy too much at first and waste a lot unless you cook and freeze . |
| 4 | The importance of the study of elites , as a way of assessing political attitudes and change , is well established , but there is little know of the social background of the members of Indonesia 's parliamentary bodies , the People 's Representative Council and the Supreme Deliberative Assembly . |
| 5 | There is little to fear from them if they can be closely examined , though they can be rather more deceptive when framed and covered with glass . |
| 6 | But I believe in their treatment there is little to complain of ( 114 ) |
| 7 | As such there is little to report since the last European briefing . |
| 8 | There is little to do to container-grown herbs during their growth any more than there is to their open-ground counterparts . |
| 9 | Market buildings , in particular , have proved especially elusive in the small towns and there is little to compare with the forum or macellum of the cities . |
| 10 | But there is little to choose between the two in terms of overall performance . |
| 11 | There is little to choose between a game-based policy and a trust-based one ; both are miles from a rule-based system that the world could understand and the government would stick to . |
| 12 | Despite extensive evidence from numerous independent sources to the effect that there is little to choose between the performance of a well formulated detergent and the invariably more expensive combined products , known as sanitisers , a whole industry has been built around marketing sanitisation . |
| 13 | It is tempting to take the cynical view that compact disc is ‘ all in the numbers ’ , and in most cases there is little to choose between them . |
| 14 | You may not seem to have much in common with your cat or with the bacterium living in your gut , but in fact , in terms of basic biology , there is little to choose between you . |
| 15 | ‘ As to the ability to determine that issue between the parents , it appears to me that there is little to choose between the family court in England and that in Australia . |
| 16 | It is all too easy to assume that since they all offer the same types of mortgages there is little to choose between them . |
| 17 | When this is done there is little to choose between the UK , France and West Germany . |
| 18 | However , it is important to remember that there is little to choose between Labour and Tory attitudes to Scottish independence . |
| 19 | As far as personal computer local networking is concerned , ‘ there is little to choose from between Microsoft Corp LAN Manager and Novell Inc NetWare , although NetWare has the edge in performance , ’ the report concludes . |
| 20 | As far as personal computer networking is concerned , ‘ there is little to choose from between Microsoft Corp LAN Manager and Novell Inc NetWare , though NetWare has the edge in performance , ’ the report concludes . |
| 21 | There is little leaching from the catchment area , which is small and covered with perennial ice , bare rock or scree , with hardly any mineral soil or vegetation . |
| 22 | For a child who is very disruptive , however , there is little to lose by trying a diet . |
| 23 | There is little to distinguish between the Italian character dance and its demi - caractère form save only that heeled shoes are worn and thus from time to time take on a slightly Spanish flavour , the only difference perhaps being the more fluid way of phrasing and less rigidly accurate timing of the steps . |
| 24 | The latter dyads are also more compatible than female — female pairs , although in the latter case there is little fighting in the convening sequence . |
| 25 | The problem in both cases is that no process of reworking , assimilation or re-presentation has taken place : there is little added by you . |
| 26 | The real developmental loss for Ghana is that most of the power from the Volta goes to VALCO , so there is little left for local use . |
| 27 | On the other hand Richards ( 1983 , commenting on primary education ) , Raven ( 1984 , on secondary education ) and Desforges ( 1985 , commenting generally on classroom practices ) believe that , despite extensive attempts to create change , there is little to observe in classrooms as a result of this action . |
| 28 | Over the past decade subcontracting small firms have formed a significant proportion of all new business formation on the UK and yet there is little known about the characteristics , performance and the specific needs/demand for financial services by these firms . |
| 29 | The integrated circuits are best mounted in low-profile holders , otherwise there is little to comment on . |
| 30 | Even if it does go outside , there is little to hunt on the manicured lawns , and no serious threat from feline neighbours . |