Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attainment of the happy state of Utopia requires vastly more personal discipline and co-operation between peoples than is to be found in this late twentieth-century . |
| 2 | Erm it 's a community isolation because is like mountains around which makes barriers against physical mobility that ca n't really be moved round that easily . |
| 3 | 10.7.1 Subject to due performance of its obligations hereunder each Party shall be entitled , subject to reimbursement of the costs of collation reproduction and delivery , to receive copies of all results and of such background technical information of the other Parties as is in each case reasonably necessary for such Party independently to exploit results in the manner specified herein . |
| 4 | First , sub-divisions would only serve to create the appearance of a more precisely demarcated critical field than is in fact the case . |
| 5 | Its very provisionality though is to be stressed . |
| 6 | I often say that nowhere in our empire — not even in the slums of Calcutta or Bombay — is there worse poverty than is to be found in the shadow of the mother of Parliaments . ’ |
| 7 | Council staff provided an estimate of the gap between rates payable in Scotland in 1990/91 and the rates that would be payable were the same system in place as is in England ( The Uniform Business Rate ) . |
| 8 | for the same reason , it might be useful to provide a fuller account of rural development policy than is at present available in the WIIC 's planning documents or the various reports of the HIDB . |
| 9 | For example if is of unit length its components would be 0 , 1 , 0 , and 0 along the ct , x , y , and z coordinate directions respectively ; we would write these components . |
| 10 | The most interesting example though is of a man whose name was probably Barathes ; he is described as a Palmyrene , from Syria , and also as a vexillarius , most likely a manufacturer or merchant of military standards , although the possibility that he was a standard-bearer can not be entirely ruled out . |
| 11 | Both centre frequency and shift will be subject to component tolerances , but the circuit fills the bill as is for undemanding applications ; alternatively , present can be designed in to allow adjustment to a standard I.H shift such as 170 or 850 Hz . |
| 12 | This would entail a view of nature as organic and ecological , rather than mechanistic ; an interpretation of lower forms of organisation in terms of higher ones , as well as vice versa ; an acknowledgment of sentience much further down the organisational ladder than is at present commonly imagined ; a biocentric ethic ; and a holistic approach to knowledge . |
| 13 | The rifts of the The Fairy Melusina are heavily overloaded with ore ; during the Pre-Raphaelite Period it was admired by certain critics , including Swinburne , who called it , ‘ a quiet , muscular serpent of a tale , with more vigour and venom than is at all usual in the efforts of the female pen , but without narrative thrust ; rather , as was Coleridge 's Serpent who figured the Imagination , with its tail stuffed in its own mouth . ’ |
| 14 | The question of the ‘ Lanfranc forgeries ’ — that is , of the additions made to nine papal letters addressed to archbishops of Canterbury in order to provide clear papal authority for Canterbury 's primacy — hangs like a cloud over the primatial disputes of the years from 1072 to 1123 ; and it is important to seek such certainty as is to be obtained on this question . |
| 15 | ( 3 ) A notice under this subsection shall give such information identifying or assisting in the identification of the person who committed the act or default or gave the information as is in the possession of the person serving the notice at the time he serves it . |
| 16 | Trouble in the Middle East is generally a signal to the oil markets for an increase in prices , implying a coming shortage of supply and a general willingness to bid higher for such oil as is on offer . |
| 17 | Delamont and Galton ( 1987 ) think that arts teachers may be attempting to overcome the low esteem in which their work is held by other teachers by adopting even more rigorous practices of pupil work assignment and evaluation than is to be observed in the practices of teachers in other areas of study thereby establishing their academic credibility . |
| 18 | To my mind this is because the present policy of control to an ‘ acceptable ’ level is subject to different interpretations by different health authorities and the extreme interpretation can be to accept any level as is at present the case in most parts of tropical Africa . |