Example sentences of "[prep] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether they will look after our type of clients in the way they are used to being looked after is of course a different question . |
| 2 | Some of the costs are met by head office — it gets all of the revenue because we sell in this country — but in the case of France where we have a separate legal entity , what we 're after is contribution statements by unit of accommodation for the UK revenues , and one or two other costs with those French locally incurred expenses . |
| 3 | ‘ What we are after is consistency , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Without consulting Ann , he announced that the boy was to be named after is grandfather Tristram Pascoe ; and having taken that decision he went off down to the harbour to see if Gristy was back from the fishing and to crow over winning the wager . |
| 5 | I 've got it here in , in , in black and white , Mao said what we are after is the abolition of feudal ties , to get rid of feudalism . |
| 6 | for people who are caring for their , their family we 've , we 've also said , that employers should recognise that people should be able to get , erm some kind of leave occasionally from their work er , perhaps ten days a year when they find the person they 're looking after is is sick . |
| 7 | The most sought after is the silver and golden holly , which is essential for making the most attractive wreaths . |
| 8 | and , looks so ill , it 's not very good for the people he 's looking after is it ? |
| 9 | the one I was after is just called Cher |
| 10 | is a filter function representing smearing due to a finite beam size , and is the conformal time , where a(t) is the cosmological scale factor . |
| 11 | One thing you can be sure of is that the panel will know the words of these characters very well ( they will probably be able to prompt you at any given moment should you ‘ dry ’ ) but each and every time the lines are spoken by a new voice they are different in their texture , humour , drama and music . |
| 12 | perhaps the only thing I feel proud of is this : No excuses . |
| 13 | The England that Pound mourns the loss of is , as it had been for him from the first , an integral province of western Europe , sharing a common culture with France and always reaching out , through France , to the shores of the Mediterranean . |
| 14 | The careful , thorough examination continues : each charge in the pamphlet complained of is brought out and evenly dismissed . |
| 15 | Now one thing the Elliott household is not short of is oily fish . |
| 16 | The learned gloss , ‘ Superfetation of is deliberately awkward . |
| 17 | What there is a shortage of is good propositions which are realistically priced and properly thought through and presented . |
| 18 | Look at three things in a shop and make sure that the last thing you ask the price of is the thing you want . ’ |
| 19 | He gained a lot of brownie points , for example , when the company announced its record interim losses of £45.1m and then revealed plans to sell off the majority of is leisure division . |
| 20 | Four children and their father set off on a bear hunt in high spirits , but by the time they 've forded a river , squelched through mud , survived a snowstorm and a wild wood to penetrate the bear 's dark cave , all they are capable of is running home again , with bear in hot pursuit . |
| 21 | MI5 never replied , GCHQ expressed polite and emphatically arm 's length interest , and the CIA offered help , exhibits and the information that the only other museum of spying they know of is in Havana . |
| 22 | What the carpet is made of is also an important consideration when buying a new carpet . |
| 23 | The mineral to be most wary of is calcium , which can toughen some grains when used during cooking . |
| 24 | One plan being talked of is to close all India 's universities for a year , during which students and graduates would move into the impoverished rural areas to teach villagers to read and write . |
| 25 | Such knowledge as he was full of is fast decaying and it is interesting to come across this old exponent of time-honoured homely skill . |
| 26 | One thing I can be certain of is that we have all been involved in rows , misunderstandings and quarrels . |
| 27 | The only thing you can be sure of is that US interest will always come first . |
| 28 | ‘ The only thing I can think of is that there is a convent near where I live , and they take a few elderly people . ’ |
| 29 | All they can think of is getting the adrenalin going with some warlike talk . |
| 30 | The state has to be assured that the person being disposed of is the person others say he is , that the manner of his dying can be explained and is legally acceptable . |