Example sentences of "is [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this stage , there is little reference to the likely difficulty of the criterion or to factors which are associated with variation in difficulty . |
| 2 | As for the detailed number criteria there is little reference at this stage to likely success rates or to the difficulty factors which are associated with variation in success rates . |
| 3 | Systems are relevant to how you run your office , not how you run your cases and there is little reference to the transaction criteria . |
| 4 | There is little exploration of the sorts of processes and events reported in research in Manchester ( Ward , 1979 ) and London ( Wall man , 1986 ) , for example , which documents the shifting forms of boundary maintenance , division and alliance that emerge in relation to local politics . |
| 5 | However much Labour may talk about public expenditure , it normally makes such a mess of the economy that there is little benefit to be found in the longer run . |
| 6 | Apart from two or three cafes and a restaurant or two , there is little habitation . |
| 7 | Very little research has been carried out on the functions of domestic pottery ; there must have been a variety of functions which , glibly , can be placed under the headings of cooking and storage , but behind such distinctions there is little clarity . |
| 8 | Despite the considerable attention given to poverty-environment linkages amongst donor policy agencies , there is little clarity as to the precise causal relationships involved . |
| 9 | There is also some evidence to suggest that there is little variation by social class in the amount of practical support given and received . |
| 10 | For systems in which there is little variation of both load torque and distance of travel it may be appropriate to operate with a fixed switching angle , so as to minimise the controller costs . |
| 11 | There is little variation by sex or social class in these attitudes , and little consistent variation with age except that the older the respondents , the more likely they are to consider Respect for authority and Discipline and orderliness essential , and the less likely to consider Sex education essential . |
| 12 | There is little variation with age or sex in these attitudes , but some variation between social classes . |
| 13 | On the other hand , male sterilizations are rare and there is little promotion of the operation . |
| 14 | There is little possibility of France rejoining the alliance 's integrated military command , which it left in 1966 ; that would be a French political retreat . |
| 15 | Today , the gap between treasure hunters and archaeologists is considerable , and there is little possibility of confusing the two : the main aim of the treasure hunter is to make a financial gain from what is found , whereas the main aim of the archaeologist is to investigate the past . |
| 16 | There is little possibility of any recovery of the costs of using a lawyer from the losing party and legal aid will not finance representation . |
| 17 | ‘ Since , however , he is away for a couple of days , there is little possibility of your doing that ! ’ |
| 18 | The working party found that the linkage between the IT research community and the IT industry is very strong , but that there is little linkage between the IT research community and the wider engineering research community or engineering industry . |
| 19 | There is little accumulation because many people sell the shares after the flotation , and most of those that hang on do not accumulate others . |
| 20 | Indeed , there is little differentiation by class at all in domestic divisions of labour . |
| 21 | In this type of marriage there is little blurring of roles . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , there is little pipe — so you would need quite a standardisation between nut sizes large selection of open-ended spanners to cope with all the nuts you might find . |
| 23 | Market research has shown that the company 's torches are seen as dependable but rather old-fashioned and there is little awareness of the newer products which have been introduced to fit the contemporary lifestyle . |
| 24 | More often there is little awareness of either the potential for independent living or how its denial is a denial of a basic human right . |
| 25 | Though there is little experience of overall trade union influence over change , the health and welfare aspects of " new technology " have frequently been covered by written technology agreements , in particular the design and operation of visual display units . |
| 26 | PILLARS OF GOLD by Alice Thomas Ellis Viking , £14.99 CANDLES AND DARK NIGHT by Grace Ingoldby Heinemann , £13.99 AN HONOURABLE DEATH by Iain Crichton-Smith Macmillan , £13.99 THIS DAY AND AGE by Mike Nicol Bloomsbury , £15.99 THERE is little repose in the Kentish Town described so vividly in Pillars of Gold . |
| 27 | If there is little generalization of the new response to the test stimuli , we may conclude that the stimulus used in acquisition and that used in the test are readily discriminated . |
| 28 | There is little disagreement with the view that the principal public interest issue at the present time is the quality of audit-ing . |
| 29 | Superficially , there is little disagreement between theoretical approaches over the fact that capitalist economies develop unevenly over space . |
| 30 | There is little disagreement between theories that economic development within capitalist societies such as the UK tends to take place unevenly , but different theories would set that unevenness in contrasting contexts : of long-term equilibrium , increasing polarization or shifting patterns of continuing inequality . |