Example sentences of "[verb] [is] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although any one assignment which the company has is of short duration , the company itself continues in being , following up that assignment by another . |
| 2 | You may be asked for a replacement photograph if the one you supply is of poor quality . |
| 3 | They occur more commonly , and surgery is more frequently practised upon them ; but what I say is of equal relevance to female-to-male transsexuals . |
| 4 | This year 's ‘ local ’ booking they say is at Old Shildon Working Men 's Club on February 14 . |
| 5 | Anything you say is in absolute confidence . ’ |
| 6 | The picture thus sketched is in strong contrast to the popular view of housewives as a leisured class . |
| 7 | One possibility being considered is for solar power to be used to pump downstream water back up to the main reservoir , so restoring the head of water needed to generate hydro-electric power . |
| 8 | The extent to which this should be viewed as a utilitarian calculus of some kind , or whether a more dignitarian approach should be pursued is of considerable importance . |
| 9 | Rightly or wrongly , what chairmen want is to narrow ownership back into the hands of rich individuals . |
| 10 | Indeed , the way in which they interact is of crucial importance . |
| 11 | The best time to visit is in stormy conditions when the birds are on the wing , but the day we went was calm and we saw them only sitting on their nests . |
| 12 | The best time to visit is from early May to late July . |
| 13 | They do not need to go erm and th th they they have their own positions and I think a lot of what they speak is of genuine concern . |
| 14 | So what she wears is of considerable importance , and you will need to describe her clothes in fair detail , though with as much economy in the writing as you can manage . |
| 15 | The only special preparation needed is for euryalid species , the thickened skin covering the arm spines must be dissolved using bleach ( sodium hypochlorite ) or KOH . |
| 16 | Changes in the law may take time , but time is in short supply for pensioners . |
| 17 | If you are importing , the cheapest and most straightforward methods of settlement are by international payments in currency or sterling , and Midland offers three options : Priority Payments , where speed of funds transfer is of paramount importance ; Mail Payments , where there is less urgency ; and Bankers Drafts , which are particularly appropriate for low priority , low value payments . |
| 18 | can be produced is through mental tension being translated into muscle tension , especially in the muscles of the neck , jaw and head . |
| 19 | Most of the information I 've got is about residential homes and that is because Social Work Services Group is an awful lot better at pulling together statistics and putting them out again than the Scottish Home and Health Department . |
| 20 | In such cases it is perfectly understandable that discussion of the culture from which a language grows is of minor importance and may in fact be actively discouraged . |
| 21 | Again , ‘ The possibility of this universal love and joy in all that exists is of supreme importance for the conduct and happiness of life , and gives inestimable value to the mystic emotion , apart from any creeds which may be built upon it . |
| 22 | For the adult , feeding is of secondary importance . |
| 23 | The subject of feeding is of considerable importance and needs to be considered from two angles , the quantity fed and the feeding regime ; and the quality of the food . |
| 24 | These fortifications deserve a word : much of what survives is of fourth-century date , for a good reason : in the fifth century Athens had her fleet , and that was the chief instrument of her classical imperialism . |
| 25 | Closed-loop control is then the natural choice if the stepping motor itself must be utilised effectively , for example in aerospace applications where weight rather than cost is of primary importance . |
| 26 | One form which it is believed that this move takes is to new types of collaboration between commercial enterprise and public sector science . |
| 27 | Q8 The answer is Yes since there is no longer a capital investment to finance and buying is at competitive prices . |
| 28 | The context in which courts operate is of major importance , and for this reason , care should be taken not to exaggerate the link between sentencing practice and penal policy . |
| 29 | The only ultimately effective way the worker can resist is through collective class action to overthrow the capitalist mode of production . |
| 30 | I now wish to consider something that I believe is of acute importance to every Member of the House and to millions of people beyond it — the negotiations in which we are currently engaged on the intergovernmental conferences . |