Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] is [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference between them is given in syntactic terms : " Equative prolongation … is usually articulated by overt repetition or apposition … |
| 2 | The seminary itself is difficult to see , the approach from the road leading only to an imposing wall with faceless windows and a usually , barred door It was built by San Carlo Borromeo in 1564 and is square , the four walls enclosing a courtyard that measures 56 metres on one side and is surrounded by a double tier gallery , each floor of which is supported by double Doric columns . |
| 3 | Awards are made in the form of grants , the level of which is based on financial need , and all matriculated students are eligible for application . |
| 4 | Written entirely in two parts , the lower of which is made of standard accompanimental figures ( mostly Alberti bass ) , it is nevertheless somewhat more expansive and faintly more interesting than the ‘ Eckard ’ The following Corrente ( which demands a keyboard compass of F' to d'' ) , while made exclusively out of the rather mechanical formulas of the first few bars , at least generates plenty of energy with its leaps and crashing octaves . |
| 5 | There is also a fine collection of Swiss and German masterpieces in the municipal art gallery , much of which is owed to enlightened patronage by other leading local entrepreneurs down the years . |
| 6 | For a public good-the consumption of which is defined over geographic subsets of the total population and for which the costs of providing each level of output of the good in each jurisdiction are the same for the central government or the respective local government — it will always be more efficient or at least as efficient for local government to provide the Pareto-efficient levels of output for their respective jurisdictions than for central government to provide any specified and uniform level of output across all jurisdictions . |
| 7 | An estimated $US600 m. annual damage occurs in India due to flooding and siltation , much of which is caused in Himalayan watersheds in Nepal ( Gribbin 1982 , Thompson and Warburton 1982 ) . |
| 8 | The mouth of the Loire has a submerged delta of this type , the two distributary channels being near the land on either side and separated by a mass of sediment some of which is exposed at low tide as banks in mid-estuary . |
| 9 | According to Peterlin it is due to the increased number of taut tie chains , whereas Ward proposes that crystalline bridges are formed , the effect of which is assessed by Takayanagi-type models or , again , by a fibre-composite model . |
| 10 | But they admit that far more important will be a proposed new law on market supervision and investor protection , the first draft of which is expected in late spring . |
| 11 | In Botswana , the negative effects of low rainfall years are offset by the consequent increased sale of livestock , much of which is exported to high-value EC markets , since Botswana 's urban meat-eating population is small . |
| 12 | The EC imports 4.5 to 5m tonnes of maize gluten annually , most of which is used by Dutch and German traders . |
| 13 | These are made mainly of grain , much of which is imported from other parts of the world . |
| 14 | Richard Gould had published a book Yiwara , foragers of the Australian desert which unwisely included a photograph of sacred objects , knowledge of which is restricted to initiated men . |
| 15 | By getting to grips with such details as whether tradesmen negotiated with the servants at the front door or down the area steps , how the speculative system which produced most of London 's houses between 1700 and 1830 worked between landlord , builder and tenant , how builders skimped on brickwork and laced their masonry with pieces of wood , how the proportioning of windows in façades and interior details were worked out , and how water supplies entered houses and were stored ( in decorative lead cisterns usually prominent in the basement kitchen ) , it gives an extraordinarily vivid sense of contact with the life that created London 's Georgian world of squares and terraces , all of which is heightened by effective quotations form the impressions of foreign visitors . |
| 16 | So much of you is given to ordinary people , suppressed , in ordinary life . |
| 17 | Consequently most of it is scored for orchestral accompaniment : to extract the songs and perform them with piano , either in a performance-art format , as does Angelina Réaux , or as a Liederabend like Carole Farley , is to present a one-dimensional aspect of the music and an ultimate disservice to the composer . |
| 18 | Much of this belief is soundly based in experience but part of it is based on wishful thinking . |
| 19 | We feel we do a great deal of work in this area but the majority of it is incorporated in thematic work or incidental . |
| 20 | A so called ‘ rationalisation ’ of the market is now leading to the price charged in Britain rising at over twice the rate of inflation towards what is charged in other countries . |
| 21 | From the point of view of what is taught by public libraries in schoolchildren programmes , however , there is now a problem . |
| 22 | Governments can assist the Church greatly in the execution of its important office if , in laying down their ordinances , they take account of what is prescribed by divine and ecclesiastical law , and if penalties are fixed for offenders … |
| 23 | Or are we able to exert freedom of choice regardless of what is determined by other factors ? |
| 24 | Not only do such cases provide — like other contested cases — public evidence of what is regarded as appropriate behaviour , but also the public humiliation of a named victim will not go unnoticed . |
| 25 | In 3 we have discussed theories of the pragmatic interpretation of language : how people create meaning and make sense of what is said in specific circumstances . |
| 26 | How does the analysis of society into related Practices affect our conception of what is included in economic practice ? |
| 27 | The reduction of the concept of communication to comprehensible input , in association with the absence of any clear definition of what is meant by comprehensible or any criteria for knowing whether language has been comprehended or not , means that almost any approach to teaching can claim to have the blessing of the theory . |
| 28 | I intend to approach this problem piece by piece and in the final section ( section 1.6 ) I shall attempt to outline a general concept of what is meant by structural change . |
| 29 | Speakers also have the option of anchoring deictic expressions to a different centre of orientation by means of what is known as deictic projection ( Levinson 1983:64 ) : The anchorage point for the deictic verb " come " , which , in unmarked cases , indicates movement towards the speaker 's location at the moment of utterance , is shifted to the speaker 's future home base in 5 , and to the addressee 's position at a specific future moment in time in 6 ( cf. |
| 30 | Most of what is known about acute aluminium poisoning comes from studying patients treated for kidney failure by dialysis . |