Example sentences of "[is] [prep] the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think to sum up , I would be wanting to say , that this County Council takes a view that it is about the provision of services . |
| 2 | ‘ With adults the process of acting is about the losing of inhibitions . |
| 3 | In this context , therefore , the research is about the transfer of ideas and institutions from a metropolitan centre to colonial countries . |
| 4 | Hands-on , value-driven : management is about the implementation of values which are explicit and form the basis for action . |
| 5 | You complain as it is about the number of dishes I use . |
| 6 | Well , my Lord the case is about the practice of solicitors and I 've pleaded upon the practice , that 's part of the statement . |
| 7 | The third is about the training of teachers of language and specific languages ( including Welsh , Gaelic , Classics , English as a mother tongue and languages of ethnic minorities , as well as foreign languages and ESL ) . |
| 8 | I mean , I 'm not that rude as to say that 's for the payment of allowances , but some people may say that . |
| 9 | I mean , I 'm not that rude as to say that 's for the payment of allowances , but some people may say that . |
| 10 | And the reason is , it 's for the benefit of taxis , cos , everybody knows , that London taxi drivers are above the law . |
| 11 | Specifically in Highways and Planning , if you look at the previous report , the enclos following profile one , you will see that in the Highways Planning Department excepting the offices , it is almost entirely male , and I think this is , it 's for the Director of Highways and Planning to say in the end , I think this is an acknowledgement by him that in the way that you mentioned nevertheless it seems to be apparent in some way , shape or form , women are not getting equal opportunity in that department . |
| 12 | it is for the Commissioner of Police , or the chief constable , as the case may be , to decide in any particular case whether enquiries should be pursued , or whether an arrest should be made , or a prosecution brought . |
| 13 | The first , looking inwards , is for the benefit of Councillors and Officers and the second , looking outwards , is for the public — both residential and business . |
| 14 | Well at the end of the day all our work is for the benefit of children , individual children , individual human beings like you or like me . |
| 15 | Its main use , therefore , is for the issue of advertisements to incorporated companies of a reasonable size . |
| 16 | Although there is no absolute legal requirement , it is safest to ensure that there is some reference to the terms on the face of the document ; for instance : This order is for the supply of goods subject to the terms printed overleaf or We acknowledge receipt of your order and agree to supply you , subject to our terms printed overleaf . |
| 17 | A second way in which stress begins to subvert home life is through the displacement of feelings of anger . |
| 18 | The first and most obvious extension of the wireframe model is through the addition of surfaces . |
| 19 | The way that ideology serves the interests of the ruling class , by obscuring the contradictions in the lived relations of the mode of production , is through the generation of ideas and explanations — knowledge . |
| 20 | It is through the exchange of women in the alliance of marriage that culture and society are founded . |
| 21 | It is through the setting of objectives and the process of resource allocation that control can be exercised on branches of the media and that control remains with the proprietors . |
| 22 | that 's about the size of things . |
| 23 | It 's about the number of keys to the Cathedral . |
| 24 | Randy is of the school of guitarists who gauge another 's ability by that inexplicable tingle at the back the neck … |
| 25 | Actual children , children of the heart and the imagination , old friends , new friends , the children of friends , they circle , they weave , and the pattern is both one 's own and not one 's own , it is of the making of generations . |
| 26 | However , the measure is of the number of organisms in aerosol at the time of testing and not the dose of organism to which the patient was actually exposed . |
| 27 | The first of the case studies we describe is of the use of robots in a West German factory and gives strong support to the de-skilling hypothesis described in the previous chapter . |
| 28 | Superposition is of the essence of waves , which can be added together to reinforce or cancel each other out . |
| 29 | Today 's obsession with preventing another round of hostile takeovers is like the habit of generals always to be fighting the last war . |
| 30 | ( iii ) stayed up late at night talking to someone who is under the influence of drugs . |