Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our main argument in this paper is that linguists have not often recognised the need for this sort of justification ; that their views about what is educationally relevant in the field of language study does not always coincide with the concerns expressed by educationalists ; and that linguists and educationalists need to begin a common search for relevance in which the linguists ' knowledge is related to a frame of reference based on the needs of learners and teachers . |
| 2 | Certainly it 's the case that there 's a a down side if you like with providing the new roads through what is mostly open countryside . |
| 3 | While there are few hard and fast rules about what is precisely right to wear at the office this season , there are some pointers to keep you heading in the right direction . |
| 4 | While there are few hard and fast rules about what is precisely right to wear at the office this season , there are some pointers to keep you heading in the right direction . |
| 5 | We have a lot to learn from our city cousins in this respect who cheerfully compete with equally excellent traders for what is probably not a much more profitable income when rates and overheads are taken into account . |
| 6 | AEA has enormous strength in technology transfer and I will be aiming to use my background and experience to help create additional opportunities for what is now such a valuable resource for industry . |
| 7 | In other words , these are the cases where there is the greatest public impact , so , while a small minority , these high-profile cases will tend to be used by the public as indicators of what is normally the outcome . |
| 8 | It should be emphasised , however , that although in a sense Spinoza recommends the ethical precepts he endorses to each of us as what we will accept if we act with a view to our own best interest , these best interests are conceived in a way which is very far removed from the goals of what is commonly called egoism . |
| 9 | My Lords , this appeal raises an important question on two aspects of what is compendiously , albeit inaccurately , called ‘ the right of silence . ’ |
| 10 | Treasury [ 1979 ] 1 W.L.R. 1056 , but it seems to me that the court regarded the powers as being capable of legitimate exercise after charge , but only if ( a ) the questions put were limited to those permitted by what are now the concluding words of what is now paragraph 16.5 of Code C , and ( b ) they were preceded by a caution . |
| 11 | These wo n't be major giveaways , but the puppets have become magically affected by the overall magic of the Castle and their ‘ minds ’ have picked up fragments of what is elsewhere . |
| 12 | They built homes throughout the Dale up to the borders of what is now Drinan , and their chief town was at Dun Merkadal . |
| 13 | It is dusk by the time the wild elephants reach the funnel and now the noise of the beaters behind them is so loud that they simply keep going — into the khedda . |
| 14 | The computer holds the microprograms in what is normally referred to as a control store . |
| 15 | Namibia continues to kill these animals in what is still variously called a harvest or a cull . |
| 16 | The so-called ‘ one-door approach ’ has many attractions in what is fast becoming an over-crowded arena and a strategic , national approach to export promotion is to be welcomed . |
| 17 | ‘ Once you accept outside Palestinians , you validate the concept of their right of return to their former homes in what is now Israel , ’ a Likud source said . |
| 18 | They still hoped in 1980 that the Palestinian issue — the demands of Palestinians who lost their homes in what is now Israel — could be dealt with as part of a general Arab–Israeli peace settlement , that the whole two and a half million Palestinian diaspora could be given a lump-sum , once-and-for-all payment of compensation . |
| 19 | He went on to exploit the complete range of types and styles from what is practically a secular ‘ Netherland ’ motet in two partes , corresponding here to the ottava and sestina of the sonnet text , to the completely Italianate lighter forms in the tradition of the simplest type of frottola such as the North Italian villotte and the canzone villanesche alla napolitana of which he published a collection in 1545 . |
| 20 | We have tried to respond to increasing demands from what is now a growing membership . |
| 21 | In her favour , though , was the configuration of the Aqueduct track : at a little over seven furlongs round it is very tight , and demands the pace to lie in a handy position , the balance to negotiate the turns , and the acceleration to dominate the race in the home straight . |
| 22 | Er I I think that with three million people out of work , we have an unemployment problem which creates erm a a disadvantage group particularly in some of the stress urban areas where we have to look at more radical solutions to what is basically the payment of cash for nothing in return . |
| 23 | I thought I 'd play for thirty minutes , 'cos any more than that is kinda boring — thirty minutes of anything is enough . |
| 24 | He has filed a PCT application ( 82/04174 ) in 30 countries for what is unashamedly a perpetual motion machine . |
| 25 | It may seem extravagant to invoke such a range of processes in order to explain the effects of what is perhaps the simplest of training procedures ; , but in fact the list is as yet incomplete . |
| 26 | ‘ One has long made a habit of beheading his wife at intervals in what is now my study : the other , a lady named Madam Sharpe , drops rings and other small objects into a china basin in my dressing room … . |
| 27 | I sometimes wonder at the sheer multiplicity of the oyster Gryphaea arcuata there must have been on the earliest Jurassic sea-floors over what is now Europe , and the millions upon millions of creatures ( whatever they were ) that chewed their way through mid Jurassic mud to produce the trace-fossil Zoophycos . |
| 28 | The Piazza della Scala was created in 1859–60 when several old buildings between what is now La Scala and the Palazzo Marino were pulled down . |
| 29 | As an appendix to the Vespers , Monteverdi added two versions of what is essentially the same Magnificat , though one is for six voices and organ only , the other for seven voices and a considerable orchestra . |
| 30 | Yet this you would expect ; it is one of the hallmarks of the dominant culture , after all , that it is about thirty to fifty years behind what is actually occurring in the world in the present time . |