Example sentences of "[is] [art] [noun] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the problem of how the necessary support , in a physical and environmental sense , which in different circumstances the old would obtain in the setting of a family or a closely-knit village community , can be available to these millions of ageing individuals isolated in a modern industrial society . |
| 2 | On one level Affliction is the story of how a man named Wade Whitehouse , living in a New Hampshire milltown , comes to be a murderer . |
| 3 | This is the story of how a woman made of iron emerged from the depths of a grocer 's shop in Grantham and , speaking with a strange tongue given to her by the God of Graven Images , Sir Gordon Reece , held a nation under her spell . |
| 4 | ‘ Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed … in disguise , and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage . ’ |
| 5 | This is the story of how the carol Silent night was written . |
| 6 | And also there is the issue of where the response er decision which you may have Heathrow terminal five , will in fact , in any future er discussions about er the further developments of Stansted Airport . |
| 7 | The local government officer is the servant of both the council and the public . |
| 8 | There is the concern about how the school can both maintain its own curriculum priorities and meet statutory requirements . |
| 9 | ( The problem will be in maintaining their interest ) ‘ The easiest to undertake is the vision from outside the buildings . |
| 10 | At present , long-term lending is the preserve of only a handful of merchant banks , such as Mediobanca and Istituto Mobiliare Italiano , which have built strong ties with Italy 's leading industrial groups . |
| 11 | Their example is the fountain from where the vulgar draw their habits , action and characters . ’ |
| 12 | If the sociologist regards the interview schedule ( and , as we shall discuss later , the questionnaire ) in this way then he will not rush blithely into the field with a schedule which is the product of just a few hours ' odd jottings on rough paper . |
| 13 | The Van Cliburn Piano Competition is the focus of both the cultural and the social life of Forth Worth ; founded not by Van Cliburn but by a Texan piano teacher in honour of the local hero . |
| 14 | The variety ‘ Queen Elizabeth ’ is a case in point and is the cause of not a little correspondence . |
| 15 | A spur , sometimes inappropriately called a snag , is the result of either a breakage not being cleaned back properly to an eye or growth bud , or of pruning too far above a bud — a common case is cutting a bloom , and not paying attention to what is left behind on the plant . |
| 16 | We can see that their present distribution upon the globe is the result of all the more recent changes the earth 's surface has undergone ; and by a careful study of the phenomena we are sometimes able to deduce approximately what those past changes must have been , in order to produce the distribution we find to exist . |
| 17 | What marks the ‘ explanation ’ range is the assertion of only the weak determinism involved in claiming that similar effects always occur in similar conditions . |
| 18 | A further example is the registration of either a notice or a caution to give priority to a charge and bridge the gap between its creation and registration . |
| 19 | DALE GORDON is only a fringe player at Ibrox but he reckons he 's the envy of almost every top footballer in England . |
| 20 | Now he thinks he can work it in , which I 'm pleased about because if this is the way the Indians react to me and Matt then maybe that 's a pointer to how the fans will go . |
| 21 | To see reindeer in a natural setting visit the Cairngorms where there 's a herd of about a hundred animals . |
| 22 | It 's not as though he 's a tourist with only a few hours . |
| 23 | There 's an igneous intrusion there , with fragments of garnet peridotite — that 's a rock from below the earth 's crust — and I 'd like to spend a bit of time there , though the rocks at the north-west end look pretty difficult to get at . |
| 24 | There is no sign from either the right hon. Member for Yeovil ( Mr. Ashdown ) or the Leader of the Opposition that they would draw the line anywhere on transfer of authority to Brussels . |
| 25 | Information on the interrelations between H pylori , chronic gastritis , and circulating gastrin or pepsinogen concentrations seems , however , confusing and in particular , there is no consensus on how the mechanisms interact . |
| 26 | Putting it the other way round : there is no problem about how the execution of an order is ‘ foreshadowed ’ in the order . |
| 27 | There is no evidence of when the committal order was drawn up , although Mrs. Butler 's solicitors were assured that this would happen in sufficient time for them to receive copies by fax later that afternoon . |
| 28 | There is no sense of how the various points discussed earlier in the book should or could be applied , for we are simply presented with certain aspects of the play 's style and development . |
| 29 | The survey shows , too , that while many businessmen believe the Chancellor should increase taxes to tackle rising public borrowing , there is no agreement on where the burden should fall . |
| 30 | Many people will not realise that they are entitled to a discount , because , there is no information on how the discount scheme will work . |