Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Antonescu 's at the cutting edge of psycho-technology . |
2 | The EPA is within the jurisdiction of the Fish and Wildlife Service and is an agency of the Interior Department . |
3 | The wheel is of Flemish type , typical of the Donegal flax wheel . |
4 | Here the wheel is of ‘ pitchback ’ type , the water falling short of the highest point of the wheel , and thus turning it , as it were , backwards , or in the opposite direction to the flow of water . |
5 | Conversely , if the main wheel is behind the c.g. , the directional stability will be less and the rudder more effective . |
6 | The wheel is inside the building , as is usual in this part of the country . |
7 | A second water wheel is in the heart of the main building , this being a smaller one producing around six horse power . |
8 | I compiled an anthology a few years ago about , of misogynist quotes , and it 's everything from the bible , the Koran , the Hindu , to , every religion 's in there , all the judges are in there , pop singers are in there , I mean everybody under the sun ! |
9 | To this end , Ritschl offered a fresh account of the nature of religion , an account which began by considering what religion is for . |
10 | The one Religion is beyond all speech . ’ |
11 | But if religion is beyond speech or predication as Gandhi affirms , can it be hypostasized , or referred to as if it is a referent ? |
12 | Only man 's will to triumph over life survives , making the world a human jungle in which religion is at best evolutionary humanism . |
13 | It is , however , because religion is about the archaic heritage of humanity , and involves relations with parent figures , particularly the father , that one would expect emotional reactions to the subject ; either religion is the most important part of life , and immune to scientific investigation for that reason , or it is too trivial to be worth a working scientist 's time . |
14 | Themes like " rites of passage " or " festivals " can so attract attention to sociological aspects of religion , that the impression is given to pupils that religion is about how people organize themselves and give meaning to their lives — that the essence of religion is manufactured by societies and by people . |
15 | Morality without religion is unthinkable for religion is to morality as water is to seeds in the soil . |
16 | A particularly famous instance of the search for a natural religion is to be seen in the early years of the French Revolution . |
17 | It is important to note that in any case this question of the essence of religion is to be debated by pupils , not assumed for them . |
18 | There is the suggestion , therefore , that the traditional popular religion is in decline , albeit still responsive enough to hierarchical religious leadership to produce the necessary political religious results . |
19 | To many observers in the outside world it would appear that the religion is in little danger . |
20 | But though the churches are failing , religion is in some ways more powerful than ever , if by ‘ religion ’ we mean some way for people to make sense of their lives , and particularly suffering . |
21 | They stand condemned by the very tenets of their religions unless that religion is in itself a perverse and cancerous development which will in time kill what gave it birth in any case . |
22 | Is it not the case that such a religion is by its very nature harmful to the cause of human equality ? |
23 | ‘ A moral life without reference to religion is like a house built on sand . |
24 | Perhaps your current self-image is at odds with your Dream ? |
25 | It 's all right , but you 've then gone that 's not nought point two five minutes the speed 's per hour . |
26 | Terry Major , 59 , has been going to Butlin 's at Bognor Regis in West Sussex for 20 years . |
27 | In my youth ( many years ago ) I worked as a redcoat at Butlin 's in Bognor Regis and used to be House Captain of York where we trained teams of holidaymakers to go as fast as possible . |
28 | I worked at Butlin 's in the kitchens first . |
29 | They have tended to conclude that the most effective method of increasing the risks is by increasing the certainty of detection rather than by increasing the severity of the penalty ( but not always ; Ehrlich , 1975 , is best known for his advocacy of stiffer penalties , especially the use of capital punishment ) . |
30 | I 'd like to erm just say a few words about erm the three erm reductions in the budget of the erm er the erm community services erm the erm deletion of the arts budgets , you probably have heard this before , but I I do think it 's a great pity that erm when it was on the basis and I think very little knowledge of un and understanding with erm er of what arts is about which is to delete one of the , was one of the erm the the erm things in this council which we actually do best , it 's one of the things which has attracted attention from way beyond Cambridge erm and which is undoubt has undoubtedly to communities in which it takes place , erm as far as the erm erm oh the erm community , staffing of community centres erm this looks like erm in calculations involved handing over the r the management to the community centres to erm volunteers . |