Example sentences of "[prep] [det] be [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A main reason for this is that preparation for housewifery is intermingled with socialization for the feminine gender role in the wider sense . |
| 2 | The main reason for this is that extraction of many types of information from corpora usually pre-supposes the capability to automatically analyse the raw text in various ways . |
| 3 | My reason or excuse for this is that interest in scepticism has revived . |
| 4 | Dutch department stores tend to be disappointing — De Bijenkorf ( 'The Beehive' ) is the best — for this is another sphere of Dutch life in which smallness wins . |
| 5 | I could-perhaps should — go back to Ken Hurren tomorrow morning and tell him that there may after all be some question of security involved . |
| 6 | ‘ A result of that is this rise in right-wing racist activity . |
| 7 | I guess that most of that is old hat to most of you but I 'm sure it will be of some use to somebody somewhere … |
| 8 | To the left of this are various reproductions of work by Chagall , Toulouse-Lautrec , Palmer and one by Holbein whose relevance is further underlined by the monograph on his work on the floor . |
| 9 | We have seen that both Marx and Weber see contemporary Western societies as capitalist , and both agree that the crucial distinctive features of this are private ownership of the means of production , and a market for labour . |
| 10 | However , they are not convinced that the primary cause of this is toxic concentrations of aluminium released into the soil as acidity increased . |
| 11 | Only by restoring the confidence of these sectors can crime control by the police be successful , and the prerequisite of this is democratic accountability to local communities . |
| 12 | None of this is good news for MIPS , whose chief executive , Bob Miller , recently told Unigram that his job ‘ is to maintain a two-to-one [ better ] price performance advantage over Intel ’ ( UX No 377 ) . |
| 13 | All of this is bad news for Mrs Thatcher . |
| 14 | It is likely that all of this is common knowledge to US Congress members — a secondary twist to an increasingly complex and sordid tale . |
| 15 | One consequence of this was that work on toroidal systems — especially pinch systems in which the plasma carried a large current with evidently unpredictable properties — became relatively unfashionable . |
| 16 | The first sign of this was two approaches to Gabriel for her services ; one disguised as a joking phone call , the other as a polite invitation to lunch , but both real . |
| 17 | The Japanese government had pledged $4,000 million in August 1990 ; half of this was non-military aid to the allied forces and half was in the form of low-interest loans to Egypt , Turkey and Jordan . |
| 18 | In western Europe West Germany in the 1980S became the biggest producer of chips Much of this was captive production for Siemens , IBM and Japanese companies . |
| 19 | Both of these are major considerations in comparing deaf and hearing recall ; unfortunately they are not so easily realised when stimulus material is non-verbal . |
| 20 | All of these are varying intensities of the same basic sound unit and should be treated as such . |
| 21 | There has been a retirement migration to small inland towns in these regions for , as the authors of the study stress ‘ ail of these are rural areas with attractive scenery which have been largely by-passed by industrial development of any scale ’ ( Law and Warnes 1976 , p. 470 ) . |
| 22 | Both of these are early representatives of articulated heterostracan fishes with well developed dermal skeletons and they may offer insights into the anatomy of the earliest vertebrate armour . |
| 23 | Some of these are indirect ways of reducing speeds , but nowhere is the direct way used ie a change in the law to bring speed limits below 50 km/h , applied street by street or across a zone , delimited by signs , enforced by the police , publicised widely , and then supported by infrastructural measures to ensure compliance as well as by environmental enhancement to reinforce perception of the changing function of the street to one of pedestrian ownership . |
| 24 | The human operator has characteristic ways of doing things and detection of these is one aspect of the skill of the skills analyst . |
| 25 | The most certain of these is that employment in the primary sector has fallen for over 100 years , and continues to fall by around 2 to 3 per cent a year . |
| 26 | One of these is prestressed concrete in which the brittle component is kept in compression by strong tension wires . |
| 27 | In 1981 Reagan appeared regularly on television to advance the claims of his economic policy , and several of these were impressive performances with the president drawing on the skills acquired during many years in the business of communications . |
| 28 | Until the recent amnesty it housed just under 3,000 inmates at 80 per cent capacity ; some 2,000 of these were former members of the National Guard . |
| 29 | Far from all of these were eager seekers after learning , secular or religious . |
| 30 | Most of these were large machines with spans up to 110 feet ( 33 metres ) , frequently made to carry tanks and other heavy equipment . |