Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't , we , I do n't even know where Penny want 's to be buried . |
| 2 | Where Britain and the United States differ is in the way that the subject of politics is taught . |
| 3 | The work that Levi valued is of an order to which Auschwitz — with the lying motto over its gates , Arbeit macht frei — was built to be antithetical . |
| 4 | What Odysseus hears is without consequence for him ; he is able only to nod his head as a sign to be set free from his bonds ; but it is too late ; his men , who do not listen , know only the song 's danger but nothing of its beauty , and leave him at the mast to save him and themselves . |
| 5 | The May record is of a bird which remained at Piddinghoe until 13 May 1956 . |
| 6 | The main problem that Ash foresees is among the younger academic staff . |
| 7 | In South East Thames Regional Health Authority about 0.96% of the NHS spend is on research and development , of which only 0.03% is recorded as for primary care . |
| 8 | The second implication of the ability to reduce dramatically the D-D process is in testing the influence of spin polarisation on fusion reaction rates . |
| 9 | Meanwhile former West Indies captain Sir Garfield Sobers is to be the subject of a solo painting . |
| 10 | The other example that er er Newstat uses is about segregation in southern schools . |
| 11 | In fact Samuel omits is from this point on , and in this respect his repetitions of the phrase become more Creole ; however , the consonant of the now starts to appear as [ ] ( l. 8 , three times ) , the pronunciation associated with " Standard " both in Jamaica and Britain . |
| 12 | Another way the AX deceives is by the noise it makes , or rather the lack of it . |
| 13 | Aston 's Newport Pagnell works is like a room at the Science Museum : on a given day in any given corner , two men will be shaping a bonnet-lid by rocking it through a hand-press ; in another , a third-generation Astonian will be hand-beating an aluminium ( Astons have always been aluminium ) wing . |
| 14 | Like the outside world , the island ( before , a paradise ) has been destroyed by the evil of man which Golding believes is in everyone . |
| 15 | One of the several things we would advise any visitor to San Gimignano to do is to be in its main square , Piazza della Cisterna , towards evening when the light of the setting sun tinges the buildings with delicate colours . |
| 16 | Male Thai teens head to the fleshpots of Bangkok to make is as transvestite beauty queens in Ladyboys . |
| 17 | One source of inverse Laplace transforms is of course direct comparison with known Laplace transforms . |
| 18 | Malc was still struggling to revive our ailing business , leaving me to travel alone and , despite my well-earned local reputation for purity — ‘ The only place Marti Caine performs is on stage ’ — I was prey to the occasional foreign wolf . |
| 19 | It is dated by Michael Jaffe to around 1605 , although Ann Marie Logan puts is at around 1601 . |
| 20 | The seventh direction is a ‘ Turn around ’ which John Davies suggests is like a stop in some sentence or dance . |
| 21 | Everything Madonna does is for specific business reasons . |
| 22 | To turn three pages of essay into 77 pages of story looks suspiciously like the kind of redundant ornamentation that Steiner suggests is at the heart of what is wrong with Western values . |
| 23 | ‘ An intensely interesting portion of the 25 shops that make up Wolverton Works is before me as I enter the wheel department , for here I have an opportunity of studying in detail the basis of the running of the modern railway-coach . |
| 24 | The router John uses is in fact a Makita laminate trimmer , which has long collar so is easily mounted in the jig . |
| 25 | That dalmatica that Tony sent is for you to wear , it 's not a pudding cloth for making spotted dick in . |
| 26 | . The long-term psychic damage Pound underwent is beyond calculation . |
| 27 | SyQuest Technology Inc , Fremont , California has had enough of French start-up Nomai SA and has started legal proceedings in Paris to stop the sale of what it claims are illegal copies of SyQuest removable Winchester disk cartridges and to obtain other legal relief : the complaint was filed before the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris ; it already has an injunction against the company in the US , but Nomai has continued to ship its cartridges outside the US , which SyQuest believes is in violation of both the original temporary restraining and subsequent stipulated order . |
| 28 | The principal distinction that Anderson makes is between capitalism and pre-capitalist social formations : |