Example sentences of "[verb] is [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The subjectivity she has is as a subject who desires to be object-a subject who wants only to satisfy the wants of the Master . |
| 2 | Another low-cost way to draughtproof is with a DIY window insulation kit . |
| 3 | A picture as they say is worth a thousand words and so it was that on the afternoon unemployment broke through the three million barrier I chanced a glimpse of the private feelings of John Major . |
| 4 | An inland walk I 've enjoyed is around a five mile route starting from Bosullow Common , south of Morvah , an area rich in prehistoric remains . |
| 5 | * Finally , another place for presuppositions to hide is in a clause which sets the scene in a sentence ; an example is the TEMPORAL CLAUSE , as in the following example : When Blake saw his first angels he was sitting in his garden . |
| 6 | ‘ All it needs is for a journalist to go down to Abbotsfield . ’ |
| 7 | NEXT YEAR is the 80th birthday of the Union of Catholic Mothers , and they plan to celebrate is with a national pilgrimage to Lourdes . |
| 8 | LET is in a strong position . |
| 9 | ( Since then I have learned that the way it is done is in a body bag , which is much easier to handle , and then transferred to a coffin either in the pick-up vehicle or at the undertakers . ) |
| 10 | B's remedy is against A alone . |
| 11 | The final case where the victim was named is of a different order from the others . |
| 12 | He has ‘ written ’ far more books than any other driver in the history of the sport ; he has given an infinite number of ‘ in depth ’ interviews ; he has been the subject of as much and as adulatory film footage as the Fellini-like Enzo Ferrari , and while everything he says seems absolutely straight , nothing he says is without a sharp edge to it . |
| 13 | therefore , the rate we can grow is to a large extent governed by the rate we can either attract or develop the specialised management staff we need . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The white Makrana marble of which the Taj is built is of a different structure from the Carrara marble of Italy with which we are more familiar . |
| 16 | The father of modern psychology , Sigmund Freud believed ‘ … psychiatry is not possible near or above the age of 50 ; the elasticity of the mental processes on which the treatment depends is as a rule lacking — old people are not educable . ’ |
| 17 | The example we shall give is for a person who starts the regime moderately overweight and whose normal meals are fairly typically too high in fat , sugar , and salt , and too low in fibre . |
| 18 | We 'll be saying is that the first appointment of investigative staff to be made is of a complaint examiner . |
| 19 | The decision that must be made is between a postal questionnaire and some form of face-to-face interview . |
| 20 | ( One film surely crying out to be made is about a special-effects team which finds that their creatures are coming to independent life and taking over the movie — or the studio , or the world ) . |
| 21 | The adjustment needed is towards a partnership of fellow professionals rather than a hierarchy of expert superordinates and inexpert subordinates . |
| 22 | Fortunately for frail elderly people , there are many who offer altruistic neighbouring acts , that is to say , they are done without assumptions of reciprocity ; the gratification which they obtain is in a sense their own private business ! |
| 23 | The accommodation offered is of a high quality with private facilities , toilet , room telephone , colour television , private car park and evening meals are available on request . |
| 24 | Dramatic as imprinting is as a form of learning , it suffered from my point of view from the problem that for a bird to become imprinted requires exposing it to the stimulus , the flashing light or whatever , for a couple of hours ; memory builds up slowly over that time , and so the cellular changes that are going on during the period inevitably intermingle the effects of learning and of visual stimulation with those of memory formation . |
| 25 | The crèche I run is in a factory . |
| 26 | She argues that the main task is that of deciding what to do , and that the best way of deciding is through a genuinely democratic epistemology . |
| 27 | Cos append is like a path for data |
| 28 | Thus the question of whether a legal duty exists is for a positivist a relatively simple matter of examining the relevant commands , norms or rules of a legal system and does not involve a consideration of , for example , what this duty really means in political , economic or social terms . |
| 29 | But when you are really up against it there are times when the only way to win is by a little crafty reinterpretation of the rules . |
| 30 | With due respect to these performers , Solomon 's achievement in those Beethoven sonatas which was able to record is in a different league . |