Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Selection between factory and user presets is via the User/Preset button which illuminates the attendant LED . |
| 2 | The last thing the retailer wants is to be left with a lot of stock that does n't sell . |
| 3 | I think where the dilemma emerges is in finding equity for an entity that may have had its balance sheet shot to hell in the recession but may now have a strong future to go forward on . |
| 4 | What Odysseus hears is without consequence for him ; he is able only to nod his head as a sign to be set free from his bonds ; but it is too late ; his men , who do not listen , know only the song 's danger but nothing of its beauty , and leave him at the mast to save him and themselves . |
| 5 | The law of retaliation ( lex talionis , verses 15ff. ) : the principle this law expresses is of exact public justice , as opposed to individual revenge . |
| 6 | The main problem that Ash foresees is among the younger academic staff . |
| 7 | Meanwhile former West Indies captain Sir Garfield Sobers is to be the subject of a solo painting . |
| 8 | The other example that er er Newstat uses is about segregation in southern schools . |
| 9 | One form which it is believed that this move takes is to new types of collaboration between commercial enterprise and public sector science . |
| 10 | One method of dating finds is by the use of typology , the importance of which was demonstrated by Pitt-Rivers . |
| 11 | Where the Huarache excels is in combining light weight ( at 270 grams it competes comfortably as a racer/trainer ) with stability . |
| 12 | In fact Samuel omits is from this point on , and in this respect his repetitions of the phrase become more Creole ; however , the consonant of the now starts to appear as [ ] ( l. 8 , three times ) , the pronunciation associated with " Standard " both in Jamaica and Britain . |
| 13 | The section on Doing corrections ( page 18 ) is about what the pupil might do , but what the teacher does is in many ways more important . |
| 14 | Another way the AX deceives is by the noise it makes , or rather the lack of it . |
| 15 | Aston 's Newport Pagnell works is like a room at the Science Museum : on a given day in any given corner , two men will be shaping a bonnet-lid by rocking it through a hand-press ; in another , a third-generation Astonian will be hand-beating an aluminium ( Astons have always been aluminium ) wing . |
| 16 | Whether any of these works would not have been produced under a ‘ Son-of-Sam ’ regime is debatable , but what is not debatable is that being convicted and imprisoned does not necessarily mean that one has actually committed an offence nor that what that person produces is of no value to society . |
| 17 | The winners will receive an 18-week business training course — which the foundation says is worth £5000 — at Stirling University in the autumn . |
| 18 | The particular question that my hon. Friend raises is for my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , but I am grateful to him for reminding me of the precise statistics with which it is always sensible to be armed in any conference on the agreement . |
| 19 | Decide if the answer that the person gives is as a Parent , an Adult or a Child . |
| 20 | The suit is meant to head off a legal attack against it by Apple which Quorum believes is in the works , see page four . |
| 21 | The suit is meant to head off a legal attack against it by Apple which Quorum believes is in the works . |
| 22 | Like the outside world , the island ( before , a paradise ) has been destroyed by the evil of man which Golding believes is in everyone . |
| 23 | BSDI , which the USL suit suggests is in collusion with CSRG , declines to publicly identify any of its founders or investors declaring such information ‘ proprietary ’ on the basis that BSDI is a closely held company . |
| 24 | The nature of the evidence about coin finds is of varying quality . |
| 25 | The centre of the Sun where fusion occurs is at a temperature of around fifteen million degrees but practical fusion needs a much higher temperature than this — hundreds of millions of degrees . |
| 26 | The example Winch cites is from the film Violent Saturday in which a gang of bank robbers hide from the police on a farm belonging to a strict religious community which upheld the principle of non-violence . |
| 27 | One of the most powerful , though imprecise , ways in which music communicates is by its setting and sustaining a mood . |
| 28 | Therefore , the great bulk of the money to which that answer refers is for the King 's Cross and channel tunnel rail link projects . |
| 29 | One source of inverse Laplace transforms is of course direct comparison with known Laplace transforms . |
| 30 | I have covered all the major items of tackle that warrant discussion , but before this chapter is concluded I think that a comparison of end tackles is worth looking at . |