Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preparation for instruction is again minimal , but with help from the trained staff the senior learner can develop a teaching role . |
| 2 | The pursuit of analytical insights into the reasons for cutting is probably unhelpful ( Simpson 1976 ) . |
| 3 | The Roman poet says , ‘ dutce est desipere in loco ’ , ‘ an opportunity for indiscretion is sometimes pleasant ’ . |
| 4 | Shaun Pantling , director of customer service , believes ‘ the opportunity for empowerment is practically limitless . |
| 5 | ‘ In my view , the case for compensation is now overwhelming , ’ he added . |
| 6 | If this excluded option is allowed back into the debate , and the claim that our existing intuitions should not be given the last word is seriously considered , the authority of the case for individualism is immediately questioned . |
| 7 | The case for island-driving is often argued in terms of efficiency . |
| 8 | Though some economic texts suggest that the case for charging is essentially the same as that for any price mechanism , the history of charging suggests the motivation has usually been quite different . |
| 9 | With many relationships the case for self-creation is even stronger , since in them the fact that one chose to have a relationship of a certain kind and chose one 's partner is part of what makes the relationship valuable . |
| 10 | The case for scheduling is once again undermined . |
| 11 | Translating aims into specific objectives can assist in removing the confusions that can arise between intentions and practice , but beyond this the case for objectives is less certain ; in fact , it has been one of the most hotly debated innovations in teaching for some time . |
| 12 | Scruton ( 1984 ) has argued that freedom for conservatives is only possible when subordinated to an organisation or arrangement which defines the individual 's aim . |
| 13 | The important point for the contemporary literature on subcultures is that this type of resistance through rituals is still ‘ symbolic ’ . |
| 14 | Funding for teaching is largely based on an institution 's record in attracting students in the past . |
| 15 | The political clout of the primary education sector in the struggle for resources is clearly limited . |
| 16 | How can you expect organization when the struggle for survival is so acute ? ’ |
| 17 | But the peculiar nature of the relationship between women and men means that women 's struggle for liberation is particularly delicate and difficult because it involves the most intimate facets of life and affects social and personal relations within the family . |
| 18 | In the Philippines the struggle for health is very clearly the struggle for a humane social , economic and political order . |
| 19 | The dogmatic attempt to hand on religious faith through education is very much alive within religions other than Christianity also . |
| 20 | Interaction between judges is probably more significant in the United States with the stable membership on the Supreme Court , but even in Britain the phenomenon of ‘ opinion deference ’ , whereby one or more judges defers to the opinion of another because he or she is acknowledged to be an expert or to have seniority , is not unknown . |
| 21 | Such connections are occasionally recognised in orthodox medicine where there is not a long time delay between one complaint developing and the next , though the significance of the link between diseases is frequently missed . |
| 22 | Well they did a lot of them are actually country songs that were like Old Flames and and even the Black Sheep was was an American song which we you know and yes you know if you send them back to America , Old Flames for instance is often back on the American those that played on the Irish programme . |
| 23 | For some fifteen years now researchers wishing to have special tabulations compiled from the 1961 census of England and Wales have been refused due to ‘ technical difficulties ’ , and more recently it has been discovered that the machine-readable ten per cent sample of the 1971 census for Scotland is no longer accessible ( Marsh 1980 ; Schürer 1985 ) . |
| 24 | The universities ' support for vouchers is less whole-hearted , but those committed to the system see it as a means of increasing university independence from government . |
| 25 | Public support for agriculture is now estimated at 166 per cent of farmers net incomes . |
| 26 | My support for Leeds is just as great as my hatred of the scum , so I for one will be rooting for a 1 nil defeat on saturday , with Leeds hopefully going on to do well in the FA cup . |
| 27 | The space-economy for example is simply the spatial pattern of organization created by the industrial economy ; it is not an independent variable . |
| 28 | The exemption of gifts and bequests between spouses is certainly to be welcomed , and the amended regulations which provide reasonable scope for gifts to charity are a belated honouring of the promise in the White Paper that charities would be at least as well off as under the old estate duty . |
| 29 | Another aspect of the protective function for HDL is possibly reduction of LDL uptake by competitive binding with the LDL receptor , thereby reducing the cholesterol supply to the endothelial cell ( Miller et al , 1977 b ) . |
| 30 | In this kind of office the variety of requests for service is probably such that it would be necessary to provide a set of categories of the main kinds of activities or functions . |