Example sentences of "[verb] is [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The knack in dowsing is to be in the right frame of mind , not caring too much what answer you get , but at the same time having a clear idea of what you are looking for , otherwise you are opening yourself up to a very wide ‘ waveband ’ and things will get very confused .
2 In grammar , putting a noun or noun equivalent beside another for the purpose of a more complete explanation or description , eg in The news that he had won surprised Tom , a young lad of eight the clause that he had won is in apposition to the noun news and the phrase a young lad of eight is in apposition to the noun Tom .
3 This , however , is surely not a matter for grave concern ( except of course to ardent devotees ) since the precise metaphysical status of the magic shibboleth is of much less interest than the insights which it has inspired .
4 Which I suggest is after that workshop .
5 Therefore , if the assumption that the speaker is actually cooperating is to be preserved , some informative inference must be made .
6 The second implication of the ability to reduce dramatically the D-D process is in testing the influence of spin polarisation on fusion reaction rates .
7 Nor would the letting of the house at £400 a month be advisable , because the accommodation in the hotel that the Povah family would need is worth considerably more in terms of income .
8 What I do not need is to be awoken at 4 a.m. in the depths of winter , forced from my bed and summoned to gawp at an empty space where once a football stand stood .
9 It 's then we 've got of course and once we 've got it , we 've got ta take on board the implications in relation to what the training we provide is in relation
10 The only way in which visual recognition of a word can be primed is by previously seeing the word .
11 ( 3.1 ) unc The order in which the expression/variable pairs appear is of no consequence .
12 The only way that illegal wildlife trade will be successfully curbed is by governments committing more time and resources to do so .
13 This is n't a case of writers bleating because their own books wo n't be available ; we all spent hours in libraries learning our trade , the only way to learn to write is to how it 's done by other people be it well or badly
14 In the rumen , H 2 is consumed by methanogenic bacteria and similarly , in methanogenic human subjects , 75% of the hydrogen excreted is as methane .
15 Erm I mean everything yo you can buy is in here .
16 The final way in which the decision might be varied is on appeal .
17 His story as it unfolds is at times scarcely credible when we think back to the way things were in Frome in the 1790s .
18 The arbitrary implications of undefinable rights are particularly evident where the right claimed is by its nature not capable of being satisfied by any degree of compulsion exercised within the relevant society .
19 Although any one assignment which the company has is of short duration , the company itself continues in being , following up that assignment by another .
20 The speed it has is for motorway shunting .
21 The subjectivity she has is as a subject who desires to be object-a subject who wants only to satisfy the wants of the Master .
22 Wilko has nt a problem with buying players … the only problem he has is with selling players too cheap .
23 Somebody er to whom the erm er er matters could be referred er whom er could remove trustees er who are er not acting in er the best interests er of the fund erm to whom er I understand that the erm beneficiaries could er appeal if they felt that their fund was being erm used i in the wrong way which is something that we have n't got at the moment erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees and the answer is that most of them are employed , and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going and redundancies are being made .
24 Erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees , and the answer that most of them are employed and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going , redundancies are being made , you 've got a pensioner employee er a pensioner trustee on there , and they 're not looking over their shoulder for their job , they are going to do the job of a trustee and watch the fund and they would then be able to go to the regulator if they saw something that was amiss , but if somebody is employed by the firm might be very worried about doing because they 're more bothered about keeping their job .
25 ‘ All I need to know is in your demeanour .
26 Anxious to conclude the meeting , he added : ‘ Everything else you need to know is in that envelope — that includes any funds that you may require .
27 Everything you need to know is in this document . ’
28 The capital cost is to be financed from a local property tax .
29 I 'm never quite sure really to be honest whether these individuals had an interview with Jesus or Jesus had an interview with them , because whether they thought that Jesus or whether they thought they were doing the , the probing and the questioning really it was Jesus who was in charge of the interview , you may of watched er certain chat shows on the , on the television or heard them on the radio and er depending who the person being interviewed is , very often it actually changes , and its the interviewer who really is being put through it , its the , its the person who 's being interviewed is in charge of the situation and that was the case here Jesus .
30 The ability to observe is of far greater importance and is readily enhanced by practice .
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