Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Kennedy added : ‘ We consider that today 's industrial action is unnecessary as a number of reasonable and generous offers have been made to the individual at the centre of this case . ’ |
| 2 | This is unnecessary in a tank with only one or two hard corals and regular water changes — or with no hard corals at all . |
| 3 | The air is sticky with a varnish of sea mist . |
| 4 | These flashbacks to his past in Texas show him making love to a girl whose family seems to object to him , then ( in an obliquely filmed sequence ) he is gang-raped by a group of yobs . |
| 5 | This is due to a lack of the hormone insulin , normally produced in the pancreas . |
| 6 | This is due to a lack of clarity in role definition , lack of training and inappropriate deployment of non-teaching staff . |
| 7 | At summer temperatures the major water quality problem is due to a lack of dissolved oxygen which results in the fish gasping at the water surface , showing rapid gill movements and , in severe cases , dying . |
| 8 | On the basis of this evidence , it has been suggested that poverty is the primary cause of the failure to seek legal advice , and it has been proposed that the failure is due to a lack of ‘ legal competence ’ among the less affluent who suffer not only from lack of money , but also from lack of influence , lack of energy and lack of awareness . |
| 9 | This is due to a variety of circumstances ranging from accessibility and remoteness of locations and their suitability for women to local legislation in some countries which prohibits the employment of women either completely or in certain types of jobs . |
| 10 | This is consistent with the recent studies showing that the increased gastrin concentration in H pylori infection is due to a rise in the biologically active G17 form of the hormone . |
| 11 | In practice we distinguish between the external cause of a rhythm , which is caused by our life-style or environment , and another internal cause , which we might say is due to a clock within our body . |
| 12 | This fault is due to a shortage of an electrical part . |
| 13 | Building and sculptures certainly underwent repairs in antiquity ; but a theory that the present order of the metopes is due to a rearrangement before Pausanias 's time , the six Peloponnesian labours having been originally together on the west , the others on the east , seems to me unnecessary ; indeed certainly wrong , since I find a stylistic distinction between the two ends as they are which cuts across the geographical division . |
| 14 | It is due to a more far.reaching failure — the failure to conceive the full meaning and possibilities of national education as a whole , and that failure again is due to a misunderstanding of the educational values to be found in the different regions of mental activity , and especially to an underestimate of the importance of the English language and literature . |
| 15 | Their success is due to a plague of rats , which thrive in the burgeoning oil palm ( Elaeis guineensis ) plantations of the Peninsular . |
| 16 | Indeed , unlike the lowlands where much of the change is due to a rejection of the 200-year-old ‘ enclosure landscape ’ much land use change in the uplands is the result of a continuing revaluation of the economic benefits , or otherwise , of reclaiming moorland for agricultural use , and abandonment of farmland ( Parry , 1976 ) can take place along-side reclamation ( Parry et al . |
| 17 | A very common surface contamination is due to a film of pump-oil acquired from the diffusion pumps , which gives a prominent carbon 1s signal . |
| 18 | It is due to a change of life-style |
| 19 | But in the main I believe it is due to a change of attitude by props in particular . |
| 20 | This is due to a number of misguided actions , the chief of which is the yielding to a deep-seated wish on the part of some parents to prolong the babyhood stage for as long as possible . |
| 21 | The salience of the concept in recent work in pragmatics is due to a number of sources . |
| 22 | The brown/black discolouration of the peeled potato is due to a reaction between tyrosine , a colourless substance found in the potato , and oxygen in the air . |
| 23 | Low birthweight associated with maternal smoking is due to a restriction in the growth rate of the baby caused by a reduction in the oxygen supply reaching the baby through the placenta . |
| 24 | The special nature of the progress zone is due to a signal from the overlying ridge . |
| 25 | Much of this is due to a combination of deforestation and the use of fire for clearance , which leave the soil susceptible to erosion , especially during periods of heavy rainfall which are relatively common . |
| 26 | Popular wisdom suggests that baseball crowd violence is due to a combination of the macho tendencies of 20- to 30-year-old males , fuelled by the heavy consumption of beer . |
| 27 | Sclerotization , whereby the exocuticle acquires its hard , tough , inelastic character , is due to a process of tanning , in which adjacent protein chains are cross-linked by O-quinones . |
| 28 | I 'm , in my own mind , I 'm sure this is due to a proliferation of working parties , extra committee meetings a , a , and seminars , and I personally think it 's typical of when your party get anywhere near control that there is always more talking and less action , but I do believe that we , we , we 're , we are not looking good in the eyes of the public in this overspending of our own allowances . |
| 29 | This greater abstraction in meaning is due to a shift from the essentially spatial sense of the preposition to a strictly temporal sense with the infinitive . |
| 30 | Terms have n't been finalised , but an an announcement is due in a couple of weeks which will likely see DEC bundle IXI 's X.desktop with its systems — the interface manager already runs across DEC 's entire range of platforms in any case . |