Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] is a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New for 1993 is a suite of WordPerfect applications for the IBM OS/2 operating system . |
| 2 | As point of order I believe as this is a proposal of an amendment of the city board city board is the city board chair 's right of reply . |
| 3 | Help such as this is a form of ‘ travel insurance ’ — it insures families against the need to travel for food . |
| 4 | Division then returns , for this is a struggle to the death , or life . |
| 5 | The reason for this is a question of aesthetics , but it is true , nonetheless . |
| 6 | The fundamental reason for this is a fact of ego-psychology which the individualistic fallacy and the therapeutic tunnel-vision of modern psychotherapy obscures . |
| 7 | Italians call it the ‘ Silent South ’ for this is a region of real peace and tranquility , where life is relaxed and full of simple pleasures . |
| 8 | First a guy comes round with a tray of Cokes ; 10 minutes later another guy brings peanuts ; 10 minutes after that is a guy with ice creams ; then a guy selling the legendary Fenway frankfurters ; and then the sequence begins again . |
| 9 | And just below that is a shelf of books with only one page . ’ |
| 10 | The effect of this is a clustering of four carboxyl side chains in the interior of the subunit , in contrast to the normal distribution of charged residues in proteins . |
| 11 | Essentially the recommendations consist of a combination of demand restraint within the USA , and a key component of this is a reduction in the federal government deficit , together with a moderated fall in the foreign exchange value of the US dollar in order to restrain import growth and boost exports ( the depreciation of the dollar would cheapen US exports and raise the price of imports ) . |
| 12 | While some of this is a question of chemistry , it is the style in which you dress which says most about your personality and the way you operate . |
| 13 | While some of this is a question of chemistry , it is the style in which you dress which says most about your personality and the way you operate . |
| 14 | There are countless examples from most African countries of a similar negligence of completed investments , although some of this is a by-product of the nature of development aid , as we shall see in Chapter 11 . |
| 15 | How much of this is a consensus by the way ? |
| 16 | The political significance of this is a matter of controversy . |
| 17 | None of this is a matter of syntax ; the intensional relations and the syntactic constructions which realize them are just the ones we have discussed in previous chapters . |
| 18 | Much of this is a legacy of the British Empire . |
| 19 | All of this is a testimonial to the belief that when the emphasis is placed on the practical experiences of individuals and communities rather than on ideologies , and when the grassroots leadership of people is developed rather than theories and constitutions , then workable solutions can be developed which are adapted for both local and the national situation by those people who have to put these solutions into practice at the sharp end of the stick . |
| 20 | Among other signs of this is a lecture on Byron for the Germania and , during the same period , a remarkable " letter to a friend " in praise of Hölderlin , who was at this time little read Concomitantly , he felt great enthusiasm for Shakespeare , long since appropriated by the German Romantics as an honorary ancestor . |
| 21 | Each step of 1:50,000 is a rise of approximately 2.5C so that considering we started with a 3C a LM 1 is just over 5C , LM 6 = 17C , LM 12 = 31C , LM 30 = 73C ( all approximate figures ) . |
| 22 | Yet his Concertino of 1920 is a work of historic importance for the clear way in which it marks the connection between his early Russian style and the kind of neoclassicism that occupied him thereafter . |
| 23 | Since being autonomous includes both freedom of choice and the capacity to reason about those choices , the impairment of either is a bar to autonomy . |
| 24 | Each of these is a type of contract of sale of goods and each has the characteristic that the buyer is committed to acquiring ownership of the goods . |
| 25 | Typical of these is A Glossary of the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes , first published in 1886 and later reprinted , in Guernsey , in 1980 . |
| 26 | Typical of these is A Glossary of Household , Farming and Trade Terms from Probate Inventories by Rosemary Milward ( Chesterfield 1982 ) . |
| 27 | Each of these is a symbol of a deeper reality for us in the home of Christ . |
| 28 | The first of these is a retrospective of the glass artist A.D. Copier which will start on 20 May , the day on which the building will be officially opened . |
| 29 | One of these is a fear of wires and hose-pipes , the sight of which will set the springs in his legs going . |
| 30 | They can not be so related if ( i ) they share all truths : if any truth about either is a truth about the other . |