Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [is] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Some questions which need to be addressed are what the overall quality of memory for driving is like , what types of detail can or can not be remembered , and what variables , both psychological and environmental , are related to memory ?
2 What you got ta do is like that .
3 Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you 're going to paint .
4 The Eighties surf bubble has well and truly burst , and competition prize money for the sport side of surfing is on the wane .
5 The sensation of seeing is for us very different from the sensation of hearing , but this can not be directly due to the physical differences between light and sound .
6 This means that the thankless task of nagging is of an elevated importance in the unknown band 's armoury of skills : the less notice they take , the more you need to pester them .
7 ‘ With adults the process of acting is about the losing of inhibitions .
8 yeah I think right but I think the way of analyzing is through just saying you , what are your grievances and then ultimately that will result in landlords being driven out .
9 The most obvious sign of ageing is through our skin tissues .
10 Better , yes , better than erm , some , in the old days when you used to take those photo 's they used to be awful did n't they , erm , everybody sort of look 's as if they were staring and sort of all
11 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 .
12 A further use of microprogramming is in writing programs to test for and diagnose faults in the computer hardware .
13 Another display entitled ‘ La Corrida ’ featuring 120 paintings and drawings by Botero on the theme of bullfighting is at the Grand Palais from 20 to 29 November .
14 The subject of feeding is of considerable importance and needs to be considered from two angles , the quantity fed and the feeding regime ; and the quality of the food .
15 The average size of holding is between 3 and 6 ha , and below 3000 m irrigation is practised .
16 This is interpreted as : maximum aperture 2.8 , focal length 32mm and the range of focusing is from a minimum of 0.6 metre to infinity .
17 Much of the controversy in the literature of weeding is over the most effective method of predicting the future use of a collection .
18 With the provision of booths and sound systems , most conference interpreting is now of the simultaneous variety but , as is frequently pointed out by interpreters themselves , the most common use of interpreting is in some personal consecutive mode and not in conferences .
19 One way of ensuring that locals have a reasonable chance of winning is to slightly bias just a few of the questions .
20 For the snail genes the method of leaving is via snail sperms or eggs .
21 If the choice of bearing is between a sixteen double O four and a six double O four , it may hang , for us it may hang on whether , er , whether we can localize the sixteen double O four
22 Now if we work as a team and we work very sensibly and reasonably , it may wo may well be that the most sensible way of working is for the project engineer to decide who 's gon na do the site measure .
23 I was a union representative for 14 years , and I know a lot about the industry and how important the legislation to protect the hours of working is to miners .
24 I BELIEVE the practice of embalming is in the interest of public health and promise to promote embalming to the best of my ability .
25 Recent commentaries , therefore , such as the review by O. B. Stabell , maintain that the case for imprinting is at best not proved .
26 By comparison , the energy released in chemical reactions like burning is on the order of one electron volt per atom . )
27 Something worth having is worth waiting for .
28 The knack in dowsing is to be in the right frame of mind , not caring too much what answer you get , but at the same time having a clear idea of what you are looking for , otherwise you are opening yourself up to a very wide ‘ waveband ’ and things will get very confused .
29 No one in racing is above ringing round for spare rides ; one great jump jockey was nicknamed ‘ Ting-a-Ling ’ because of his speed and skill in contacting trainers whose jockeys were injured or could n't do the weight or were simply out of favour .
30 As I switched on the television prior to using is as the computer screen to write this article , a lady was interviewing the country 's strongest man .
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