Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] is [conj] " in BNC.

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1 And the only thing that seems to stand in the way of doing anything commercially sensible with County Farms is that every time we deal with it , somebody says , ah , but it can only exist as an entity , let's keep it as that , let's pass it on to a trust , let's safeguard it , let's do this and that .
2 What is equally clear among business men is that they have no enthusiasm whatever for a Labour Government .
3 At one level an attractive feature of goods subject to excise taxes is that they are relatively price-inelastic in demand , so that it is possible to raise taxation appreciably and increase revenue , because with only a modest effect on the level of consumption there is a small excess burden .
4 One of the better known theories concerned with leadership styles is that put , forward by McGregor ( 1960 ) .
5 The argument that fixed costs are incompatible with scale economies is as follows .
6 What is even more significant for wage profiles is that all of the figures quoted for average tenure are well below the 25–30 years that it takes to reach the peak of the earnings profile .
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