Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company estimates 27,000 RS/6000s and 14,000 Sparcservers have been installed this year , saying the total installed base for each is now around 37,000 and 28,000 respectively . |
| 2 | The reason for that is partly the attitude of the people involved ; they will identify with individual cows and know them . |
| 3 | The reason for that is principally to protect people who are hunting ; I think that is unreasonable . |
| 4 | Erm , I 'm bound to say to Congress , that under normal circumstances , we do n't take additional supporting speakers on resolutions , er and the reasons for that is very obvious , it 's because of lack of time . |
| 5 | yeah , but why do you think , what do you think the reason for that is then ? |
| 6 | And presumably the advantage of using a computer for that is much greater than the mere saving of time in a library and taking out a card and putting it in a wallet or erm a card folder or something like that , because you can retain in your computer a lot of information about what books are in the library and what books are out with lenders and so on . |
| 7 | And presumably the advantage of using a computer for that is much greater than the mere erm saving of time in a librarian taking out a card and putting it in a wallet or a card folder or something like that , because you can retain in your computer a lot of information about what books are in the library and what books are out with lenders and so on . |
| 8 | Heterosexism ensures that the gut reaction of every heterosexual woman and young woman , as well as many lesbian workers and young lesbians , is to deny the ‘ accusation ’ — for that is certainly what it is meant to be . |
| 9 | Erm and again the key times for that is usually September to April . |
| 10 | The need for that is plain , the time for that is now . |
| 11 | through that 's merely a minor check ) until |
| 12 | So the maximum value a coeffic correlation coefficient can obtain is plus one , and that would be when there 's a total positive correlation Conversely , the minimum value it can obtain is when this expression on top is minus N minus one , so it goes down to minus one for a complete negative correlation and it 's zero if there 's no correlation and then there 's the values in between That 's just saying what I 've said . |
| 13 | How they go about this is entirely up to them . |
| 14 | What the early Church believed about this is quite clear . |
| 15 | You know what really worries me about this is that early on you said that tinkers deal in antiques , and I 'm beginning to wonder whether you , as antique dealer , have got a somewhat of an interest in this matter and maybe we should be taking care of you as a possible tenant of one of our sites , but this this is a typical example of all the thin , unreasonable excuses being put up to a party that 's trying to deal with something . |
| 16 | THE 1992 Calendar was a great success and an improved calendar for 1993 is now available with 15 black and white photographs . |
| 17 | The largesse the NHS received in an election year was predictably short-lived and the settlement for 1993 is only 0.8 per cent above the inflation forecast . |
| 18 | Suddenly , though , trading one career for another is no longer just a way to obtain release from a boring job . |
| 19 | Information such as this is conveniently stored in the form of addition and multiplication tables as follows . |
| 20 | Diverse cropping such as this is ecologically sound because it is much more akin to the rainforest that it replaces , in contrast to monoculture , and provides a year-round protective cover for the soil . |
| 21 | A source of potential talent such as this is particularly important for rural areas . |
| 22 | Geographical distance is a barrier to face to face meetings which is maybe why a network such as this is particularly attractive to teachers working away from centres of population . |
| 23 | This has been implied er in Mr 's analysis of road , rail and bus and clearly there is to be integration between all three systems but particularly er with regard to the bus er method of tran public transport as this is most likely to be accessible . |
| 24 | This was actually caused by an integrated circuit failure , though an intermittent fault such as this is less likely than a total failure . |
| 25 | ‘ An expedition such as this is very good experience for students , ’ Kate added , ‘ Most zoology students do n't get such a great chance to visit an area as remote as the Serrania . ’ |
| 26 | Meanwhile , Martin Pipe 's Run For Free is now 7-1 second favourite for the Cheltenham Gold Cup with Coral after his brilliant all-the-way eight-length win in the Welsh National at Chepstow . |
| 27 | The explanation for this is partly cultural — the legendary loyalty of the Japanese employees ( and bearing in mind that an estimated 75% of misuse in the West is carried out by insiders ) ; and partly technical — the current predominance of internal networks . |
| 28 | The reason for this is probably that the fields are situated on top of upthrown fault blocks . |
| 29 | One reason for this is probably that subjects who were not told the overall theme of the passage until the end were able to draw on their knowledge of similar stories which they had heard before . |
| 30 | The justification for this is probably that it provides the chargee with an additional incentive to ensure that his charge is registered . |