Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] is [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All I can tell you at the moment is that she is on the danger list . |
| 2 | Executive Director of the Tour , Joe Flanagan , says : ‘ It is not a pleasant task to tell a girl that she is off the Tour for the next four weeks , or in a few cases , a whole year . |
| 3 | She says that she is in the bath now , sir , but that she will be with you shortly . ’ |
| 4 | Again , on the face of the statute , I can not see any reason why in this case the constable should do more than tell the driver the reason under section 7(3) why breath specimens can not be taken or used ; tell him that in these circumstances he is required to give a specimen of blood or urine but that it is for the constable to decide which ; warn him that a failure to provide the specimen required may render him liable to prosecution ; and then , if the constable decides to require blood , ask the driver if there are any reasons why a specimen can not or should not be taken from him by a doctor . |
| 5 | The position on the particular issue to which the hon. Gentleman refers is that for some years now we have pursued the same policy that the money has been , in the formula applied , additional and is reflected in higher public spending plans , and that it is for the Commissioner to honour the pledge that we have had for years past . |
| 6 | The shareholders enjoy an additional layer of protection with regard to gratuitous payments , in that in order to show that a payment is authorised by the company 's memorandum it will usually be necessary to establish that it is reasonably incidental to the company 's business purposes , in essence , that it is for the company 's benefit , which is an objective question . |
| 7 | We must please be clear about those factors which actually matter , always bearing in mind that it is for the county council in the first instance and perhaps for the panel in the second instance , to take a decision about the suppression of past migration trends . |
| 8 | Similarly if the house is transferred upon certain terms and conditions ( see Chapter 6 ) s11 of the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 should relieve the transfer from charge ( see p99 ) on the basis that it is for the maintenance of the other party to the marriage . |
| 9 | For the extreme relativist , the distinction between science and non-science becomes much more arbitrary and less important that it is for the rationalist . |
| 10 | He confirms that he has no objection to the location of the seat providing that it is to the North of the large holly tree on his land . |
| 11 | The point that I was seeking to make a moment ago — I reiterate it now — is that I think that it is to the advantage of everyone in Northern Ireland for the politicians of Northern Ireland , of all shades of opinion , to come together , to talk and to express their mutual wish for peace in Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , Mitchell points out that it is of the nature of commitment to come to terms with what may count against one 's own beliefs as well as what may count for them . |
| 13 | That is , genes control the synthesis of protein molecules , and , for that reason , there is general acceptance that it is at the level of molecular interactions that the behaviour of cells and embryos needs to be understood . |
| 14 | The robot concludes that it is at the summit , and stops . |
| 15 | I find it appalling that Warwick , who are now well established in this country , are not apparently concerned with after sales service to the extent that it is at the moment impossible to get spare parts without sending off to Germany . |
| 16 | Many of the GPs who are now budget holders are proudly boasting of the better service they can offer patients but all freely admit that it is at the expense of the patients of nonbudget-holding GPs . |
| 17 | These are questions which history departments must pose for themselves but it should be borne in mind that it is at the end of the key stage that a final assessment will be required . |
| 18 | I think to sum up , I would be wanting to say , that this County Council takes a view that it is about the provision of services . |
| 19 | To suggest that it is worth the effort of destruction . |
| 20 | Some children never learn that it is worth the effort and so do not learn to read efficiently . |
| 21 | But unless the cost of installation and running is minimal I doubt that it is worth the effort . |
| 22 | Notwithstanding Dicey 's curt rejection of the vulgar Whig idea of the ancient constitution , I believe that it is through the influence of this tradition on Dicey that we are able to make sense of his thought . |
| 23 | Zechariah , after the Return from Babylon , has no doubt that it is through the Spirit of the Lord that God has sent ‘ the law and the words ’ through the prophets ( Zech. 7 : 12 ) . |
| 24 | The plain inference is that it is through the operation of the Spirit that these Gentiles have come to repentance . |
| 25 | Still , taking it for what it is , I can report that it is on the whole satisfactorily performed , due mainly to the merits of the soloists : Barbara Schlick 's soprano rings out finely in the wonderful air with cello , ‘ What passion can not Music raise or quell ’ ( I give titles in the familiar English rather than the German used here , of course ) , and again in her paean of the organ , though in the final chorus the sense and the noble simplicity of the solo soprano in turn with the choir , a real piece of English eccentricity , somehow becomes merely odd in German . |
| 26 | * The animal rights group , Lynx , has reported that it is on the verge of financial collapse because of the costs of defending a long-running libel action by a fur farm and a decline in contributions due to the recession in Britain . |
| 27 | Another is that of a broker/dealer department advising customer A to purchase shares in company B when the corporate finance department is acting for B and knows that it is on the verge of insolvency . |
| 28 | Returning to the example given earlier of the broker/dealer department advising customer A to purchase shares in company B when the corporate finance department is advising B and knows that it is on the verge of insolvency , the question arises as to what the firm must divulge to A in order to modify its duty of undivided loyalty to A to the extent necessary to permit it to withhold the information about B. |
| 29 | ensuring that it is on the agenda of various organizational meetings and is discussed systematically and in depth . |
| 30 | At its conference in Brighton , the Labour Party showed that it is on the way to becoming an electable party . |