Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] is [adj] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Good visualisation of the stones during lithotripsy is essential to optimise fragmentation , especially with the Wolf 2300 lithotriptor , the focusing area being small .
2 For though the factor of change is essential to retain interest , it is the thing most guaranteed to destroy unity .
3 9.1 In terms of the Regional Council 's policy , an employee who is absent from work as a result of a reported incident of violence is entitled to receive sickness allowances in accordance with the provisions of the relevant scheme of conditions of service .
4 First , decreasing average incremental costs of each product plus economies of scope is sufficient to imply subadditivity .
5 Clearly therefore a bare majority of DGMs believe that at least the threat of competition is necessary to exert leverage , even if , as the case studies show , they do not contemplate moving much business from their main providers .
6 Thus a state whose institutions appear to be newly absorbed or influenced by the partisan considerations of government is likely to suffer erosion of legitimacy whenever it is challenged on a particular point .
7 The Postgraduate Dean in the Faculty of Medicine is available to give advice about further courses and clinical training .
8 That section states that a person convicted of taking without consent is liable to pay compensation for any — and I emphasise that word — damage to the property ’ occurring while it was out of the owner 's possession ’ and that such damage is to be treated as ’ having resulted from the offence , however and by whomsoever' the damage was caused . ’
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