Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [be] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my hon. Friend agree that Labour 's charter for sport is about more interference , more committees , more regional committees and , most of all , more costs ? |
| 2 | The distribution of wealth used for consumption is of less interest to Marxists , though its distribution does give some indication of life style . |
| 3 | The parents ' sense of disempowerment was at this stage complete . |
| 4 | Information about shape and size will of course be to some extent writer dependent . |
| 5 | It may be that this was done only where there was a public interest , but we have already seen that in the two areas in which trusts involved purely private interests , restitution of property and manumission , the remedies of cognitio were in any case adequate to secure specific performance . |
| 6 | Althusser is emphatic that the means of production are just as essential to the fashioning of theoretical products as to something like shoemaking , which plainly requires leather , tools , etc. , and he points out that the Marxist concept of labour is in this sense irreducibly material . |
| 7 | Its air of peacefulness was in such contrast to Broadway , and to the harbour and waterfront on the day they had landed . |
| 8 | A second satisfaction of indeterminism is in some relation to the first . |
| 9 | The European Commission did accept support measures in Denmark and Greece , for example , on condition that these did not include nationality requirements ( discrimination on grounds of nationality is in any case forbidden by Article 7 of the Treaty ) . |
| 10 | My standard of tennis is at that level where merely returning a serve constitutes a match highlight . |
| 11 | There are critical windows of time during which maturation must be achieved ; failure of maturation is to some extent irrecoverable . |
| 12 | The years of slavery are in some measure paid for by the clothes and jewellery heaped upon them by the Egyptians , now only too anxious to see them go . |
| 13 | The allocation of work was in some cases based upon people 's skills outside ; for example , prisoners who had been barbers , washermen , gardeners or ‘ sweepers ’ ( refuse collectors and cleaners from the lower castes ) were given similar jobs if available , but , generally speaking , new inmates were assigned a task without much deliberation or consultation . |
| 14 | Any atom of oxygen is like any other in its essence , even if they differ in their position , velocity , state of excitation , and so on . |
| 15 | We have seen how the corporatist welfare state which has emerged in this country over the past hundred years is a reflection of a humanist philosophy in which the creation of wealth is of less concern and morally inferior than its distribution , in which the pursuit of equality has become the dominant economic philosophy and in which the state rather than the individual has come to be held responsible for solving our problems . |
| 16 | How dared he assume her refusal of wine was in any way connected with him ? |
| 17 | For lone mothers the experience of poverty and the consequences of poverty are in some respects similar to , and in others different from , those of married mothers . |
| 18 | While it is therefore acceptable to talk of Japan as strongly influenced by Confucianism , the emphases of th Japanese brand of Confucianism are in many respects far removed from the Chinese original . |
| 19 | Because the experience of parenthood is to some extent idealized in our culture we have chosen to draw attention to stressful aspects of the transitions involved . |
| 20 | Executives who get distracted with love affairs , golfing weekends and nightly entertainment under pretence of business are in all probability not Profitbosses . |
| 21 | Much of ecology is about this process : finding energy ; putting it to use . |
| 22 | And , thirdly , there is the expectation that the body of knowledge is in some sense developmental or cumulative , though this notion is perhaps easier to relate to the sciences and technology than the social sciences and easier to the social sciences than the arts . |
| 23 | Pounds , gallons , tons of sweat are in that building and on the roof . |
| 24 | parochials — whose world is largely bounded by the ward , individual constituents and their problems ( 15 per cent of sample were in this group ) ; |
| 25 | Then the second paragraph 9 of the council 's statement of claim is in these terms : |
| 26 | Man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble … |
| 27 | In such cases the issue of representativeness is of less concern than in the sample survey . |
| 28 | The exemption is a recognition of the desirability of spontaneity in certain circumstances ; where there are sudden events such as the ‘ release of pollutants , a traffic accident , a shipment of nuclear waste or a visit by a political leader , ’ the response to such events must be immediate if it is to be effective , and the giving of notice is in such circumstances not reasonably practicable . |
| 29 | Dr. Leadbetter then commented on the other side of the coin ; the problems of under-funding were to some extent compensated for by the rewards of hard earned success . |
| 30 | In many family-run businesses , the source of authority is of this kind . |