Example sentences of "[noun pl] is [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Our total budget for ethnic arts is in the region of about fifteen hundred pounds which , as you can probably appreciate in a region representing four million people , does not all us very much flexibility , but we also feel that it 's the type of event which we are prepared to support , which is also important .
2 The overall sum required to meet the payments due under the scheme to B.C.C.I. depositors is in the region of £78m .
3 A name that appears in Halling for a period of around five centuries is of the family of Usher .
4 Similarly a family of vertical parabolas is of the form y = ax n , where n is an even number .
5 A full description of the theory and practice of the generally accepted methods is beyond the scope of the guide , so please refer to the CFM , valuations training material ( from the advanced corporate finance course ) or textbooks ( see chapter 14 of the handbook for list ) for detailed technical guidance .
6 Reducing waiting lists is at the top of all politicians ' political agendas , regardless of their political persuasion .
7 Since wages and prices tend to be ‘ sticky ’ in the downward direction , the only way that the price mechanism can work and give the appropriate signals is for the prices of different goods and services to rise at different rates .
8 The theme of twin brothers is among the most resonant , and among the earliest , of all cultural/religious motifs .
9 The most marked change however which is obviously connected with the smaller number of candidates is in the number of lost deposits which were only 35 against 64 .
10 According to a recent RSPCA report , cruelty to animals is on the increase , yet , using one of the privileges of his beloved free society , he condones a form of ritualistic animal abuse merely because it is a ‘ tradition ’ within a tiny percentage of our population .
11 A lot of the argument among the authorities on these animals is about the equivalence or otherwise of certain bones in dinosaurs and bird skeletons ( and particularly the Jurassic bird Archaeopteryx ) ; this makes for rather dry reading for the layman .
12 In Brighton , where the system has been installed for a number of years , one in four homes is on the cablephone network .
13 In Bath ( Chris Patten , party chairman , majority 1,412 ) the biggest chunk of homes is in the top band .
14 A third method of making it easier on the parties is through the Fixed Costs Scheme proposed by the Law Society .
15 The whole question of the burden of proof was nicely summed up in the Esso case by Lord Hodson where he said : It has been authoritatively said that the onus of establishing that an agreement is reasonable as between the parties is upon the person who puts forward the agreement , while the onus of establishing that it is contrary to the public interest , being reasonable between the parties , is on the person so alleging …
16 One restaurants is by the shore , another on top of a hill in an old sugar mill .
17 So the only way they can get at the crees is through the west field and along the path here . ’
18 Indeed , with the rapidity of change in modern Britain , the need for continuing educational opportunities is on the increase for all adults .
19 In these days of widespread family planning , you might well think the number of unwanted pregnancies is on the decline .
20 Peter Lihou 's firm , Mainstream computers is in the doldrums .
21 SPELLING everyday words is beyond the grasp of millions of Britons , a survey revealed yesterday .
22 While none of these pictures is of the first rank , some are of interest : Paris Bordone 's ‘ A Courtesan ’ ; Pietro Marescalchi 's ‘ Madonna and Child enthroned , with Saints James the Greater and Prosdocimus ’ of 1564 and Michele Giambono 's ‘ Madonna and Child enthroned ’ .
23 It talks of anecdotal evidence in 1991 that the carrying of knives is on the increase among young people and it quotes Detective Chief Superintendent Roger Stoodley , who works in east London , as saying : ’ I have never known so many people to be carrying these weapons . ’
24 Another way in which there needs to be a rapprochement between statistical methods and GIS is in the area of spatial sampling and estimation from spatial samples .
25 Not all of the output from a GIS is in the form of maps .
26 But the threat of sanctions imposed by the United Nations is at the back of his mind , ‘ We have discussed it and it is of great personal interest to me as I would n't have a job .
27 A shop specialising in children 's books is on the Grossmunsterplatz .
28 One area that has since 1972 been recognised as a region of many UFO sightings is in the Pennine foothills surrounding Leeds and Manchester , an area that also has a high concentration of active faults .
29 Much truancy in schools is of the ‘ hidden ’ variety ( in one survey of fifth-formers , 52 per cent .
30 First because the behaviour of many of the marchers is in the worst traditions of bigotry , drunkenness and loutishness .
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