Example sentences of "[verb] is [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although any one assignment which the company has is of short duration , the company itself continues in being , following up that assignment by another . |
| 2 | You may be asked for a replacement photograph if the one you supply is of poor quality . |
| 3 | They occur more commonly , and surgery is more frequently practised upon them ; but what I say is of equal relevance to female-to-male transsexuals . |
| 4 | This year 's ‘ local ’ booking they say is at Old Shildon Working Men 's Club on February 14 . |
| 5 | Anything you say is in absolute confidence . ’ |
| 6 | The picture thus sketched is in strong contrast to the popular view of housewives as a leisured class . |
| 7 | One possibility being considered is for solar power to be used to pump downstream water back up to the main reservoir , so restoring the head of water needed to generate hydro-electric power . |
| 8 | The extent to which this should be viewed as a utilitarian calculus of some kind , or whether a more dignitarian approach should be pursued is of considerable importance . |
| 9 | Rightly or wrongly , what chairmen want is to narrow ownership back into the hands of rich individuals . |
| 10 | When it comes to saving lives or building bridges , the last thing we want is for uninformed and inexperienced students to form their own ideas . |
| 11 | Indeed , the way in which they interact is of crucial importance . |
| 12 | The only thing you can do is to quiet him down , to frighten him off . |
| 13 | The best time to visit is in stormy conditions when the birds are on the wing , but the day we went was calm and we saw them only sitting on their nests . |
| 14 | The best time to visit is from early May to late July . |
| 15 | They do not need to go erm and th th they they have their own positions and I think a lot of what they speak is of genuine concern . |
| 16 | At least in Drosophila , ageing is in general genetically variable and polygenic . |
| 17 | When speaking of laying tesserae , the main distinction to be made is between direct and indirect methods of application : the choice depends on the abilities and preferences of the mosaicist . |
| 18 | So what she wears is of considerable importance , and you will need to describe her clothes in fair detail , though with as much economy in the writing as you can manage . |
| 19 | The only special preparation needed is for euryalid species , the thickened skin covering the arm spines must be dissolved using bleach ( sodium hypochlorite ) or KOH . |
| 20 | This bridge we 're guarding is of great strategic importance . |
| 21 | Changes in the law may take time , but time is in short supply for pensioners . |
| 22 | If you are importing , the cheapest and most straightforward methods of settlement are by international payments in currency or sterling , and Midland offers three options : Priority Payments , where speed of funds transfer is of paramount importance ; Mail Payments , where there is less urgency ; and Bankers Drafts , which are particularly appropriate for low priority , low value payments . |
| 23 | can be produced is through mental tension being translated into muscle tension , especially in the muscles of the neck , jaw and head . |
| 24 | The only solution I can see is in future to save any pattern of this sort as a variety of widths . |
| 25 | Most of the information I 've got is about residential homes and that is because Social Work Services Group is an awful lot better at pulling together statistics and putting them out again than the Scottish Home and Health Department . |
| 26 | In such cases it is perfectly understandable that discussion of the culture from which a language grows is of minor importance and may in fact be actively discouraged . |
| 27 | A second distinction that has been drawn is between analytic and holistic modes of processing ( see Bever , 1975 ) , sometimes referred to as analytic versus gestalt processing . |
| 28 | Again , ‘ The possibility of this universal love and joy in all that exists is of supreme importance for the conduct and happiness of life , and gives inestimable value to the mystic emotion , apart from any creeds which may be built upon it . |
| 29 | The most agreeable way to manage is to subordinate yourself to nobody |
| 30 | For the adult , feeding is of secondary importance . |