Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most significant reasons for deforestation are the spread of shifting cultivation , increasing plantation agriculture and large-scale ranching , logging , mineral extraction and road and dam construction . |
| 2 | One of the reasons for failure is the need to measure more background variables , chosen to meet the needs of decision-makers ; critics of NAEP think that more effort should be made to find out the needs of such decision-makers . |
| 3 | The Regional Council refused planning permission for the development in November of last year , and among the reasons for refusal was the lack of justification for the commercial development , and the harm that would be caused to this particular part of the Green Belt . |
| 4 | In a common law country , the preparation of a case for trial is the private responsibility of the parties , and so the taking of evidence , without compulsion , by a consul or a commissioner does not necessarily offend such a country 's concept of judicial sovereignty ; but the position may be very different where , as in many civil law countries the obtaining of evidence is part of the judicial function , and official permission is be required before the evidence can be taken privately . |
| 5 | The most basic case for charging is the general case for pricing in a competitive economy ( Seldon , 1977 ) . |
| 6 | Among the responsibilities that accompany academic freedom for students are the following . |
| 7 | The most pernicious causes of contamination for PCR are the products of previous reactions . |
| 8 | The catalyst for change was the so-called ‘ Agreement ’ signed between the Government and the Stock Exchange in 1983 . |
| 9 | The final blow for Philip was the defection of his chancellor , Conrad , bishop of Würzburg . |
| 10 | Part of the reason for the uncertainty surrounding the new administration 's plans for science are the large number of unfilled positions at OSTP and the ambiguous relationship between it and the office of Vice President Al Gore , the leading figure within the administration on technology issues . |
| 11 | Prayer for Gandhi is the essence of religion and the core of a man 's life . |
| 12 | One of the difficulties in establishing development programmes for DRAs is the way in which the community at large views the land issue . |
| 13 | A further difficulty for children was the distance of the skischool meeting place in the village from the slopes . |
| 14 | The sticking-point for Buckingham is the murder of the princes in the Tower , and in two brief soliloquies Richard resolves to break with this half-hearted Machiavellian — ‘ High-reaching Buckingham grows circumspect ’ ( IV.ii.31 ) . |
| 15 | Medvedev argues that the Chernobyl disaster and the resulting struggle for truth were the main causes of the abolition of censorship in the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | A common theme , especially from those enthusiastic about the proposal , was the need for commitment : ‘ the struggle for justice is the only hope for the movement of society towards the kingdom of God … |
| 17 | The link through language is the most obvious and most straightforward one to make if your syllabus is based on linguistic items such as language structures or functions . |
| 18 | Another kind of formal link between sentences is the substitution of words like do or so for a word or group of words which have appeared in an earlier sentence . |
| 19 | The loss of working-class support for Labour is the outstanding feature of post-war electoral sociology in Britain . |
| 20 | That split between cultures is the focus of this uncritical biography by Dore Ashton , an art historian who knew Noguchi for thirty years . |
| 21 | A recommended course for beginners is the RYA Competent Crew Certificate , which can be taken over three sailing weekends ( £110 per weekend ) or a full five-day course ( £215 ) . |
| 22 | The best part about camping is the fact that you 're out in the open . |
| 23 | Back on the rails and shelves at Woodhouse for autumn are the designs of Marithé and François Girbaud , who were among the most creative design teams in the world in the 1980s . |
| 24 | NO-SEX clubs for teenagers are the latest trend in America and Canada . |
| 25 | He will tell them that the fight for Albion is the fight for Britain 's manufacturing base and that the plant 's plight clearly highlights the need for Government action and an active industrial policy . |
| 26 | That working-class wages would remain at subsistence level — the fact is that the real wage of the average worker has increased by a factor of over ten between 1900–70 in the UK and by a factor of fourteen in the U S over the same period ; that collective ownership of the means of production would result in an increase of wealth for the workers and so improve their lot — the fact is that in both Russia and Cuba it has been necessary to restore discipline in factories by introducing a military routine with the surplus value being siphoned off by the state ; that communist revolutions would start in such advanced industrial countries such as Britain , France , America and Germany — the fact is that a socialist revolution has taken place in none of these countries ; that conflicts between states are the results of capitalism and will cease under communism — the fact is that in the streets of Budapest and Prague , in Afghanistan and on the Soviet-Chinese border we have seen the power of the Red Army being used against fellow communists ; that the income difference between capitalists and workers will rise — the fact is that in all industrial countries the effective after-tax , after-benefits real income gap between rich and poor has diminished ; that capitalism will collapse because of its internal contradictions — the fact is that capitalism has not collapsed in any Western country , yet . |
| 27 | It decided that the criterion for liability for damage was the reasonable foreseeability of the injury . |
| 28 | Assuming , of course , that your story about Adam is the truth . ’ |
| 29 | Three likely candidates for study are the comets Enke , Tempel 2 and Honday-Mrkos-Pajdusakova . |
| 30 | I wrote to the effect that I did indeed look forward to life with him , and that my guidelines for living were the same as his . |