Example sentences of "[noun pl] is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Our total budget for ethnic arts is in the region of about fifteen hundred pounds which , as you can probably appreciate in a region representing four million people , does not all us very much flexibility , but we also feel that it 's the type of event which we are prepared to support , which is also important . |
| 4 | This may suggest that he travelled , but the presence of texts in foreign languages among his songs is by no means conclusive , for in some cases it can be shown that the words are not original . |
| 5 | The Fourth Interamerican Film Festival of Indigenous Peoples is to be held in Lima and Cuzco 17–26 June . |
| 6 | Think of the five other roads as leaving at various times on a clock face ; as already pointed out , all movement on roundabouts is in a clockwise direction . |
| 7 | The overall sum required to meet the payments due under the scheme to B.C.C.I. depositors is in the region of £78m . |
| 8 | Just under two and a half acres of land untouched for centuries is at stake . |
| 9 | The fact that this may take centuries is of little importance , for mankind has limitless time if it uses it wisely . |
| 10 | A name that appears in Halling for a period of around five centuries is of the family of Usher . |
| 11 | Similarly a family of vertical parabolas is of the form y = ax n , where n is an even number . |
| 12 | The nominal subject of such quarrels is of course secondary to the couple 's need to hurt each other , but in this case it appeared to centre on the Parsons ' childlessness . |
| 13 | But another clear example of the way in which erm domestic and in erm foreign policy overlaps is of course in economic affairs . |
| 14 | Nigel says the support of the fans is worth half a second a lap and he believes that people power helps him to win |
| 15 | A full description of the theory and practice of the generally accepted methods is beyond the scope of the guide , so please refer to the CFM , valuations training material ( from the advanced corporate finance course ) or textbooks ( see chapter 14 of the handbook for list ) for detailed technical guidance . |
| 16 | A good account of test methods is to be found in Ferry ( 1980 ) and in Read & Dean ( 1978 ) . |
| 17 | BRITAIN 'S safety arrangements for pesticides is in disarray following a ruling by the European Commission that the voluntary code , which is operated by the industry , is a breach of the EEC 's rules on free trade . |
| 18 | Reducing waiting lists is at the top of all politicians ' political agendas , regardless of their political persuasion . |
| 19 | The tax treatment of companies ' foreign exchange gains and losses is to be reformed , and the Government has now authorised the preparation of draft legislation . |
| 20 | If the source direction makes an angle θ with the baseline , which is of length d , then the path difference to the two dishes is d cos θ and the phase lag between their signals is at a wavelength λ , and in terms of frequency v this becomes . |
| 21 | Since wages and prices tend to be ‘ sticky ’ in the downward direction , the only way that the price mechanism can work and give the appropriate signals is for the prices of different goods and services to rise at different rates . |
| 22 | Applying Kirchhoff 's voltage and current laws respectively to the input and output circuits of figure 10.6(b) yields However , and so from equation ( 10.18 ) the small-signal current gain between input and output is while the input resistance presented to small signals is from equation ( 10.17 ) Making use of equation ( 10.19 ) , the latter becomes Proceeding further , the small-signal voltage gain between input and output is and , on substituting for and from equations ( 10.19 ) and ( 10.20 ) , it is seen that To obtain an expression for the output resistance , observe that in the input circuit Eliminating through equation ( 10.18 ) gives and rearranging this equation in the form establishes that the output resistance is |
| 23 | Information systems in the body act at subtle levels in minute , trace amounts and the scale of the homoeopathic remedies is in keeping with much of what we now know about biological integrating and controlling mechanisms . |
| 24 | What I really could not understand was why the senator did not beat ten kinds of nonsense out of a son who told him to cool it , but telling middle-class Americans to thump their kids is like asking them to burn their flag , so I did not waste my time . |
| 25 | Finally , the effort required of readers is to some extent always dependent on the amount of energy they are prepared to expend in any given situation . |
| 26 | The most frequent plea we hear from readers is for a no-fuss dinner-party menu . |
| 27 | Where so many of this book 's predecessors have failed their readers is in not providing honest appraisals of the effort required to complete and fly a homebuilt . |
| 28 | Finally , copyright protection of electronic databases was considered , since legal protection for such databases is of critical importance for the continued growth of this market . |
| 29 | As Fazzi Brothers is to Glasgow and the west of Scotland , the magisterial Italian food and wine merchant Valvona and Crolla is to Edinburgh and the east . |
| 30 | The theme of twin brothers is among the most resonant , and among the earliest , of all cultural/religious motifs . |