Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] is [vb pp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Class teachers are the main category of professionals involved in the education of children , and more detailed information about them is given in the next section . |
| 2 | Every document that goes through them is recorded . |
| 3 | The dilemma is that if they are enlarged the danger of stepping through them is increased . |
| 4 | To increase the labour force will require that the potential of minority groups , including those with disabilities and learning difficulties , is recognised and that appropriate training and support for them is made available . |
| 5 | Percy the park-keeper rescues the animals when their old oak tree is blown down in a storm , and the new house he builds for them is presented in a fold-away poster at the end of the book . |
| 6 | South of the Border many of us consider the predicament of the Scottish salmon to be an international disgrace ; there is such world-wide concern for Atlantic salmon stocks that drift-netting for them is banned everywhere save off England , Ireland and Greenland , where action is being taken . |
| 7 | Adult education 's concern for them is mediated through community education outreach schemes based in neighbourhoods , community centres , clinics and mother and toddler groups . |
| 8 | Those already retired will stay in until a new scheme specially for them is set up , but all their assets will continue to be managed by the trustees of the new joint scheme . |
| 9 | Yet how else do we explain that ( i ) differences remained between legacies and trusts ; ( ii ) the distinction between them is maintained in practically all of the texts of all jurists other than Scaevola ? |
| 10 | Although there is some latitude between these grants , in that part of the capital grant can be transferred to be used on the current grant , the distinction between them is maintained and is important . |
| 11 | Through this over-anxiety for her and consequent blindness to her real needs , the whole relationship between them is destroyed . |
| 12 | The difference between them is given in syntactic terms : " Equative prolongation … is usually articulated by overt repetition or apposition … |
| 13 | Each model can cope with all the evidence and the choice between them is thrown back on criteria like elegance , economy , fruitfulness , or perhaps , indeed , conformity with deep underlying presumptions about human nature . |
| 14 | The manufacturer 's safety data sheet warns of a potentially hazardous reaction between sodium borohydride and fine dispersed heavy metals but this reaction with charcoal and solid sodium borohydride are stored and handled in such a way that the risk of contact between them is avoided . |
| 15 | The husband , loving him , looking after him is regarded by us as a duty . |
| 16 | CORONATION Street actress Lynne Perrie was recovering in hospital today after what is believed to have been a severe asthma attack that led to her sudden collapse at Granada 's TV studios in Manchester . |
| 17 | A mechanism for periodic review after what is deemed an appropriate time must , then , be built into any plan that is devised . |
| 18 | It is terminated by an Arch , through which is seen other Arches with close Arbors , and a row of Trees to the end of the View . |
| 19 | Like Eliot 's sharply witty version of this paradox : The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part ; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer 's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart , the meditator in the short text exclaims : But the force of this metaphor of healing is lost , together with the lyrical cadences of alliteration , in the long version : This existentially known contrast between the body of death through which is encountered the possibility of life is at the heart of Christian mysticism itself experienced in playing the game of faith which renews the truth of the Incarnation . |
| 20 | Esquire is a prism through which is refracted a spectrum of good writing , be it the latest work of an established voice , or the emerging voice of a master in the market . |
| 21 | All other stress components are zero as are the strains except for which is given by where u is the displacement measured on a fiducial length l . |
| 22 | The intensional pattern corresponding to ( 44 ) is that of ( 47 ) , where once more the property instantiated by the adjective is underlined : ( 47 ) The mapping of the intensional pattern onto the surface syntax of English is again very direct and very natural , being reflected solely in the order of the instantiating elements , with again adjectival form as an overt marker that the second property is applied to the initial E. What ( 47 ) suggests , however , is that the similarity of construction is not between postverbal and predicate qualifier , which has the intensional structure given in ( 48 ) , but rather between postverbal and adverbal , the intensional structure for which is repeated here as ( 49 ) : ( 48 ) ( 49 ) From the point of view of the adjectival property , ( 47 ) and ( 49 ) are essentially the same ; the adjectival property syntactically qualifies another property word , while it is applied to the entity of the noun phrase in immediate construction with the property expression of which the adjective forms part . |
| 23 | Thank you for the cheque for £300 , a receipt for which is enclosed . |
| 24 | The University has been developing ever stronger links with Europe , such as the European Credit Transfer system in Medicine ( the symbol for which is shown above ) . |
| 25 | Farrow urged the abolition of Bills of Sale , the statutory form for which is reproduced here . |
| 26 | The three remaining elders — Chen Yun , Wang Zhen and Song Renqiong , each of whom is believed to be in poor health — have conspicuously failed to put their name to a cause that , according to their past views , could lead to a ‘ capitalist restoration ’ . |
| 27 | Djinn are governed by a race of kings named Suleyman , one of whom is believed to have erected the pyramids . |
| 28 | The outstanding collection of seventeenth century pictures includes an exhilarating landscape by Rubens and works by Poussin , Claude , Frans Hals and Murillo , the last of whom is represented by a grandly orchestrated Marriage Feast at Cana , one of the undoubted gems of the collection . |
| 29 | from this point on , Spencer Stuart became a genuinely international firm owned by its own consultants ( none of whom may hold more than 2% of the stock ) and managed by a Chairman and a Chief Executive , each of whom is elected to the position for a defined period . |
| 30 | Joseph and Ann had six children , none of whom is named in the will . |