Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only study of ‘ causality ’ for index futures is by Merrick ( 1987 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ The release of life sentence prisoners is at the discretion of the Home Secretary , subject to a favourable recommendation by the Parole Board and to consultation with the Lord Chief Justice and , if he is available , the trial judge . |
| 3 | As McHale suggests , any ‘ stable world ’ the text projects is at best fragmentary , and is generally ‘ overwhelmed by the competing reality of language ( McHale 1987 : 234 ) . |
| 4 | One of the ways in which the children at the school develop their computer skills is by keeping weather and farm records . |
| 5 | The probability So that while the mean position after n steps is at the origin , the root mean square ( r.m.s. ) path length is . |
| 6 | Thus , one of the functions of parents sending their children to elite schools is for them to be identified as more able . |
| 7 | Work in progress relating to long term contracts is to be stated at cost plus attributable profit earned to date less provisions for anticipated losses and progress payments received . |
| 8 | Work in progress relating to long term contracts is to be stated at cost plus attributable profit earned to date less provisions for anticipated losses and progress payments received . |
| 9 | Not all the information present within dictionary definitions is of use for handwriting recognition . |
| 10 | Leaving aside the ( many important and detailed ) criticisms which people have made of these procedures , it is clear that , in principle , developing a basis for appraising investment projects is of considerable importance . |
| 11 | It has a large pool to lounge around , and attentive barman Tassos is on hand to top up your glass . |
| 12 | Stephenson horse car Information about the horse cars is on page 26 . |
| 13 | The average ward population is 9488 ( Table 5.1 ) and so the RMS errors are comparatively small ( the range of RMS errors is from 815.13 for the Shotgun ordinary least squares ( OLS ) to 1035.29 for the Simple Poisson ) . |
| 14 | A petition carrying 4.5 million signatures collected from the public by ambulance crews is to be placed before Parliament with the help of the Labour leader , Mr Neil Kinnock , this week , calling for the dispute to be referred to arbitration , which Mr Clarke still opposes . |
| 15 | By far the biggest concentration of football boozers is to be found in the streets around Hibernian 's Easter Road ground where players like Alex Cropley , Jimmy O'Rourke and Peter Marinello have all had bars . |
| 16 | The sculpture on the side altars is by J. 0 . |
| 17 | In my opinion , the only technique a musician needs is to be able to translate emotions onto an instrument ( a cliché , but very true ) . |
| 18 | But now he seems to have attracted the attention of Chesky Records ( the CD of Wild 's dazzling Gershwin transcriptions is on Chesky CD32 ) . |
| 19 | Exchange of witness statements is to be the norm in all actions , not just personal injury actions . |
| 20 | Another area of work for the Action Teams is in building up links between local schools and work . |
| 21 | Orbach ( 1978 ) , for instance , suggests that the solution to women 's eating problems is for them to develop more positive feelings about their physical , sexual , intellectual , and social selves . |
| 22 | He continued : ‘ The Parthenon without the Elgin Marbles is like a smile with a missing tooth . ’ |
| 23 | After grinning broadly , Mr Kinnock replied : ‘ I continue to believe the place for the Elgin Marbles is in the Parthenon . ’ |
| 24 | Even with subjects ' strategies constrained , it will be necessary to know how those interact with hemispheric specialisation as a function of different cognitive tasks and experimental variables if a complete account of visual hemifield asymmetries is to be achieved . |
| 25 | A plan to turn over millions of hectares of unused agricultural land to the growing of willow trees is to be implemented in Britain . |
| 26 | A similar case of petitio principii is to be found in Trevor Roper 's presentation of the claim that good history emerges from imaginative counterfactual analyses of events and states of affairs . |
| 27 | Car Wars is in this tradition . |
| 28 | He shows that the cost information which underpins today 's policy and practice decisions is of poor quality , and employed in ways which can easily produce the wrong conclusions and encourage inappropriate action . |
| 29 | ‘ One thing that industry likes is to be able to foresee the changes in the next few years , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Newly-crowned Formula 3000 champion Erik Comas is to be Thierry Boutsen 's team-mate at Ligier next year . |