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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Its main use , therefore , is for the issue of advertisements to incorporated companies of a reasonable size . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A second way in which stress begins to subvert home life is through the displacement of feelings of anger . |
| 14 | The first and most obvious extension of the wireframe model is through the addition of surfaces . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is through the exchange of women in the alliance of marriage that culture and society are founded . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Randy is of the school of guitarists who gauge another 's ability by that inexplicable tingle at the back the neck … |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Superposition is of the essence of waves , which can be added together to reinforce or cancel each other out . |
| 23 | Today 's obsession with preventing another round of hostile takeovers is like the habit of generals always to be fighting the last war . |
| 24 | ( iii ) stayed up late at night talking to someone who is under the influence of drugs . |
| 25 | Kirkpatrick is a marvellous rugby man , but surely his expertise is with the development of youngsters he enjoys so much . |
| 26 | Its abiding concern is with the interconnectedness of things , with all the links in the social chains that bind individuals together as members of a community . |
| 27 | This explains the lower value of total lipid concentration in hepatic bile than that in retained bile of the common bile duct , but the value is within the ragne of values ( 8–29 g/l ) reported for hepatic bile collected by T tube drainage . |
| 28 | That none of this is within the competence of animals would seem to influence a preference for them as laboratory subjects . |
| 29 | The most important thing in this report is from the Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland and it 's a resolution that they passed on Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | In the same way we can also define short periods of currency life ; it is from the composition of hoards that we know , for example , that neither of the two principal coinages of late twelfth- and thirteenth-century England , the Short Cross coinage of 1180–1247 and the Long Cross coinage of 1247–79 , survived in circulation after their production had stopped . |