Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes every day and I can assure you that your cousin who is helping Germany to victory with her work will receive them very quickly . ’ |
| 2 | Sears is using EDI in pursuit of a ‘ quick response ’ strategy , whereby the process of restocking its retail outlets becomes more of a science and less of an art . |
| 3 | One of the main aims of all financial institutions , including banks , is to channel funds from surplus to deficit units in an economy . |
| 4 | Even though I may be in a minority , I feel quite strongly that the job of the record companies is to issue recordings of music at prices the music loving public can afford — not to enhance that price by paying for learned disquisitions seeking to explain what ought to need no explanation . |
| 5 | The main purpose of this letter , however , is to enclose payments in respect of . |
| 6 | The whiskey glass from which King Brian drank is given pride of place as a hallowed relic on the top shelf of The Rathcullen Arms , destined to be the basis of many a tall tale . |
| 7 | This passage is given pride of place at the start of the title on trusts in UE , but it is not a very laudable analysis of the notion of a trust . |
| 8 | A magnolia which has become world renowned and is given pride of place at Lanhydrock is M. ‘ Albatross ’ ( cylindrica × veitchii ) . |
| 9 | The subject is given examples of print of decreasing size to discriminate , or single letters of measured and decreasing size . |
| 10 | Now Eleanor is Catering Manager in charge of the staff restaurant at STB Headquarters in Edinburgh . |
| 11 | Called ‘ Trade Ups ’ , the idea is to provide proof of purchase of a competing product , for which you get to buy the ‘ better ’ product at a very low price , probably only a few pounds more than existing users can upgrade for . |
| 12 | The aim is to provide security of capital with an attractive and rising level of income . |
| 13 | The aim of the awards is to provide candidates with evidence in the form of certificates to show that they are proficient in the skills necessary for them to operate in a business environment in at least 2 European languages . |
| 14 | The purpose of this and future practice notes is to provide auditors with guidance on new or changing issues , with explanatory and other material to help them interpret and apply auditing standards . |
| 15 | The point of the structure is to find patterns of relationship among variables ; patterns which can , hopefully , become established empirical generalisations and , ultimately , strongly established theoretical laws . |
| 16 | My feeling is that what we ought to do is preserve areas of countryside without having to have this excuse for doing it . |
| 17 | The idea is to secure peace of mind for the elderly whose greatest worry is fear of attack . |
| 18 | In the former case the firms are involved in a co-operative game , the problem is to reach agreement on division of the gains from co-operation . |
| 19 | The condition can also follow heavy applications of lime and is one of the risks that have to be taken when a heavy liming is needed to neutralize severe acidity quickly when it is causing problems like canker for example . |
| 20 | But in considering the privilege against self-incrimination it is difficult to see any logical distinction between an order for discovery and disclosure where the defendant has stolen the plaintiff 's property and an order for discovery and disclosure where the plaintiff is seeking damages for fraud in dealings by the defendant with the property or moneys of the plaintiff . |
| 21 | The European Commission is urging acceptance in principle of a carbon tax within the Community and of the global carbon tax as proposed by Argentina and Brazil , and realization of the UN 's long-standing target of development aid totalling 0.7 per cent of each donor country 's gross national product . |
| 22 | Again , the Secretary of State 's specious point is answered point by point by the Social Security Advisory Committee which stated : ’ The number of applications for review , while it creates additional work for local offices , may simply be a measure of use rather than manipulation of the provision . |
| 23 | To pay for all this LWT is turning £50m of cash into £72.5m of debt . |
| 24 | One important corollary of the decision that obscene material must have more serious effects than arousing feelings of revulsion is the doctrine that material which in fact shocks and disgusts may not be obscene , because its effect is to discourage readers from indulgence in the immorality so unseductively portrayed . |
| 25 | ‘ Difference ’ has an ambiguous but central significance in psychology , a discipline whose first concern is testing hypotheses of similarity for differences which are statistically significant . |
| 26 | What the court can do is to withhold consent to treatment of which it disapproves and it can express its approval of other treatment proposed by the authority and its doctors . ’ |
| 27 | If there is a suspicion that a group of individuals is buying shares in concert without declaring their ties , the DTI should investigate . |
| 28 | The first possibility in relation to BSL — English mixtures is to use speech in conjunction with sign . |
| 29 | Despite the threatened status of the rhino , China is still using rhino horn to produce large quantities of traditional medicine , according to Dr Esmond Bradley Martin , a Kenyan-based conservationist who is conducting research on behalf of the World Wide Fund for Nature . |
| 30 | The firm says it 's providing peace of mind for a growing number of women — opponents say it 's unfair to male taxi drivers . |