Example sentences of "is [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There is little problem in getting agreement to such an assertion . |
| 32 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 33 | It is perhaps a measure of Leapor 's character that even where there is little hope that injustice will be overcome , she is willing to raise a protest . |
| 34 | Already one is seeing cases with Β-lactamase-producing gonococci in London which have been acquired in Ghana , and there is little hope of preventing their eventual spread throughout the community if no action is being taken in the source country . |
| 35 | But unless there is constant effort to innovate , unless new knowledge is applied more effectively , and unless research is more explicitly directed toward the problems of those most in need , there is little hope that societies will be able to overcome the difficulties they now face . |
| 36 | If that is right , there is little hope unless they can quickly persuade people to start buying again . |
| 37 | That will be harder to bear if there is little hope of a controlling interest in the near future . |
| 38 | ‘ There is little hope that the Taj will survive without considerable damage to its surface ’ |
| 39 | As pollution in India is set to rise with the growing pace of industrialisation and the increasing ownership of motor cars there is little hope that the Taj will survive without considerable damage to its surface and a need for continuous restoration . |
| 40 | Aerospatiale has its own light single division , Socata at Tarbes near the Pyrenees , and there is little hope that the American singles can compete with the French Caribbean range in the 1990s . |
| 41 | So , for whom is Belfast working ? — surely there is little hope that West Belfast will ever really work until the ‘ hidden agenda ’ is acknowledged and changed ! |
| 42 | The lesson of this period is that this type of legislation by itself , even when backed by executive exhortation , is insufficient to change sentencing outcomes ; and that unless sentencing discretion is restricted there is little hope of modifying sentencers ' own objectives in the pursuit of policy goals favoured by the executive ( Sabol , 1990 ) . |
| 43 | However there is little hope that the above six laws , or any reasonable extension of them , will be adequate for every problem likely to be encountered in practice . |
| 44 | In short , the computer system is seen as unreliable , inaccessible , inflexible and therefore largely irrelevant to the needs of local managers Once seen to be irrelevant to local needs , there is little hope of sufficient local commitment to the system to ensure the accuracy of data supplied . |
| 45 | I have ruined everything , and Aycliffe says there is little hope of your succeeding in a contest with Araminta . ’ |
| 46 | But with an external debt of $5 billion and scheduled interest payments of over $180 million1 annually , there is little hope that the meagre amounts pledged by sympathizers will be sufficient . |
| 47 | There is little hope of slowing the destruction of tropical forests until they do " he said . |
| 48 | Questions of attribution have been deliberately avoided , as has the work of amateur artists , and there is little emphasis on issues of social or political background . |
| 49 | There is little emphasis on symbolic acts ( there is no obvious English equivalent to saluting the flag ) and little formal teaching of politics as such . |
| 50 | Lest it be thought that there is little help at hand , the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) , responsible for much of the supervision of the 1974 Act , does supply some helpful explanatory material . |
| 51 | Because there is little tradition of using research , social workers find it difficult to suggest areas for investigation and most of the running is , therefore , made by central government . |
| 52 | The poorest are the clear waters of ice-scoured uplands , where there is little soil or vegetation . |
| 53 | We feel there is little division between the players and the images of fact . |
| 54 | Durkheim distinguishes between simple , pre-industrial societies in which there is little division of labour ( sometimes referred to as Gemeinschaft societies ) and more advanced ( Gesellschaft ) societies in which people perform specialized jobs . |
| 55 | There is little surface evidence of limestone in Barbondale . |
| 56 | In a harshly competitive world there is little mercy . |
| 57 | There is little contact between the two districts . |
| 58 | And while media attention is useful in arousing the public conscience from time to time , there is little follow-up . |
| 59 | Although there is little documentary evidence , it has been suggested that the mill , in conjunction with those at Cambridge and Moreton Valance , could have been used for the production of brass pins . |
| 60 | Sadly there is little documentary evidence relating to early introductions to Britain , although it is claimed that the Romans brought the walnut and sweet chestnut while remains or myrtle , bay and rosemary have been found on the sites of Roman villas , suggesting that these Mediterranean shrubs were cultivated in their gardens . |