Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] is [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It is , of course , very easy to pay too much attention to the famous names in Nonconformity , partially because of their importance , partially because information about them is more readily available and partially because they tended to be more involved in politics .
2 The use of prose for mockery in Much Ado about Nothing is so widespread as to make illustration superfluous .
3 The idea of the great house as a pattern for everyone is already an anachronism in the mind of Sir Leicester .
4 The optimism of 1959 which runs through them is quite breathtaking at this distance in time : ‘ Some experts insist on talking as if the only choices were immediate surrender , immediate preventive war or eventual world annihilation , ’ Kahn declared .
5 Though the result were decisive , the reason for them is rather less clear .
6 What social services ought this generation to be constructing which the next or next but one will erect when the need for them is already yielding place to others ?
7 The justification for them is well established : many local government services are required by national legislation , local variations in needs and resources can be equalized by grant adjustments , the impact of the regressive rating system can be reduced , and so on .
8 I think a lot of commentators were surprised when Arsenal paid so much money for Ian but his phenomenal strike-rate for them is probably why transfer prices have gone through the roof .
9 stuff that you learn for them is even better then the revision
10 This for them is just one step along the way .
11 Most are not pure public goods and charging for them is technically possible .
12 Life for them is often considerably less planned ore predictable !
13 Even more worrying is that in some LEAs the uptake of free school meals by those eligible for them is less then 65 per cent .
14 The problem is one which affects all libraries which follow a responsible programme of binding , since , for reasons both of conservation and security , serial parts must be bound as early as possible , with the result that they tend to become unavailable for consultation at a time when demand for them is relatively high .
15 What he has done for them is as various as the media he uses .
16 Bodies such as the Kenya Institute of Education with some thirty full-time professional staff and the Zambia Curriculum Development Centre with about forty , would claim , probably rightly , that they were still understaffed and often experience difficulty in securing the release of the most able teachers from schools and colleges , but the provision made for them is certainly more realistic than that available in University Institutes like those in Ahmadu Bello or Sierra Leone .
17 What we 're going to do for them is certainly provide a free of charge product , it 's the numbers
18 Accounting for them is therefore different .
19 BEST OF THE REST The casting of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny De Vito as Twins ( PG CIC ) is funny in itself , and the comedy that Ivan Reitman ( Ghostbusters ) has fashioned for them is consistently inventive .
20 They make up a physically-associated system , but the real separation between them is over 300000 million kilometres .
21 Whilst the problematic nature of the traditional pattern by which responsibilities have been divided between them is well recognised , there is little evidence which can be used to evaluate what would happen if other arrangements were tried .
22 The difference between them is just a matter of time .
23 The relationship between them is neither one of upward development nor of contrast ; it is one of beginning and completion , of hope and fulfilment .
24 The rift between them is now so bitter , it is believed they will take the final step as soon as possible .
25 The fact that the same word is used for either reflects the general feeling that the distinction between them is fairly hazy .
26 The relationship between them is essentially one of contract , and section 44 contains a number of requirements as to the contents of such a contract .
27 I have also argued that feminists should be careful not to confuse the linguistic and the metalinguistic , even if the boundary between them is often fuzzy .
28 When their paintings are hung together the dialogue between them is very clear .
29 For the purposes of the Act ‘ shares ’ includes ‘ stock ’ and the distinction between them is merely a source of confusion .
30 The dispute between them is too bitter , ’ said the judge .
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