Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [noun] is [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The distinction between the two kinds of role in functionalist theory is simply the stereotyped separation between women/home and men/work . |
| 2 | Calling the distance in boat lengths is normally the best way . |
| 3 | Going to law in truancy cases is undoubtedly the ‘ easier ’ option , and accords with the prevalent notion in child law of parental responsibility . |
| 4 | Flexible arrangements for decision making on projects in which having a bare majority in equity ownership is not the deciding factor are now becoming more common ( UNCTC , 1988a : p. 326 ) . |
| 5 | Since the important variable in population size is always the number of females rather than the number of males ( because one male can impregnate a large number of females but any female can only manage one pregnancy at a time ) , selective forces determine that the daytime gelada social structure is one in which a single dominant male forages with an attendant group of females and young . |
| 6 | It is important to bear in mind that while inflected verbs in languages such as Arabic , Spanish , and Portuguese ( to name but a few ) do carry the same information as an English pronoun-plus-verb combination , the effect of placing them in theme position is not the same . |
| 7 | The impact of a series of I 's in theme position is not the same as the impact of a series of verbs inflected for first person , such as ‘ saw-I ’ , ‘ took-I ’ , etc. , where it is difficult to discern a theme line as clearly as in the pronoun-plus-verb combination . |
| 8 | Where the aim of the calculations is to estimate the potential rate of genetic change , total variance in breeding success is clearly the relevant measure to use . |
| 9 | One of the most important issues in zeolite science is therefore the modification of diffusivity by changing pore geometry or by chemically changing the effective pore diameters . |
| 10 | In fact swimming is undoubtedly the b–st possible form of exercise — not only because it develops stamina , suppleness and strength but because the buoyancy of the water removes the danger of straining an otherwise unfit body . |
| 11 | Some of the change in grassland area is also the result of a downward trend in the area of land under cereals in Cantal ( Table 7 ) which has declined to over half its 1955 area . |
| 12 | Perhaps only William Joyce could have taken for his text , as he once did , Edmund Burke 's axiom , ‘ In politics magnanimity is often the truest wisdom ’ — and promptly used it to show the necessity for the extinction of Jewry . |