Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adj] that [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in view of the importance of even 3d. in the weekly budget of the poor , the inconvenience to , and lack of enthusiasm for the scheme of , employers and the absence of any machinery for ensuring that all workers earning under £150 p.a. wee indeed covered , it is probable that many of the poorest workers ( many of them women ) were not in the end provided for . |
| 2 | As we move on to the fifteenth century , it is hard to judge the extent or the severity of individual outbreaks of plague or of other diseases , but it is probable that some of the epidemics which occurred in urban centres , where plague was most common , were on a sufficient scale to outweigh any natural increase in the population . |
| 3 | A flight of external stairs allowed him easy access to the bookroom , and there he must often have been found when the ‘ noise of Women & children ’ , which made study impossible , had driven him once again from Lime Street : it is probable that most of the poems associated with the cottage were at least partly written in the bookroom . |
| 4 | Teeth and bones are largely composed of calcium and it is essential that enough of this mineral is present in the diet for them to remain strong . |
| 5 | It is ironical that one of the definitions of ‘ professional ’ given in The Shorter Oxford Dictionary ( 1975 ) is ‘ applied to one who follows , by way of profession , what is generally followed as a pastime , as a p. cricketer ’ . |
| 6 | It is ironical that one of the most beneficial developments of the war years , the Representation of the People Act of 1918 , should have occasioned so much party opposition . |
| 7 | It is better that most of us read , if we do , for pleasure . |
| 8 | It is ironic that those of us who want to live in an environment-friendly style , and are really ‘ on your side ’ , should have to fight an increasing plethora of restrictions and regulations designed , it seems , to discourage us from using rail at all . |
| 9 | It is ironic that those of us who want to live in an environment-friendly style , and are really ‘ on your side ’ , should have to fight an increasing plethora of restrictions and regulations designed , it seems , to discourage us from using rail at all . |
| 10 | Despite food hygiene regulations and the Food Safety Act , it is surprising that one of the principal aids to compliance is often neglected ; where one would expect to see commercial refrigeration it is still not uncommon to find domestic style refrigerators and freezers . |
| 11 | Looking at in-law relationships generally , it is apparent that one of their distinctive features in any culture is that they are conducted both through , and in a sense for the sake of , a third party . |
| 12 | The issues raised by this and subsequent questions go to the heart of the debate on the Compensation Fund , and it is apparent that many of those who answered negatively felt to varying degrees that in the present commercial climate the public could no longer expect the entire profession to compensate them for any losses they suffered at the hands of a tiny minority of errant solicitors — particularly as no comparable compensation was available from the providers of other professional services . |
| 13 | Quite a variety of Silurian plants are now known , and by the end of the Devonian it is apparent that most of the problems of terrestrial living had been solved , to the extent that large tree ‘ ferns ’ of the time would have had dimensions comparable with forest trees today . |
| 14 | Thus , though the placid British jurassic sediments have received vastly more than their fare shair of study , it is curious that some of their more spectacular features have been relatively neglected . |
| 15 | IBM Corp traditionally sends departing executives off with glowing resumees of their illustrious careers , so it was striking that the announcement late Friday that former chairman and chief executive officer John Akers had just retired from the company after 33 years was accompanied by the briefest and curtest summaries of his career — after all , the man had significant achievements behind him when he acceded to the top job , and it is arguable that many of the problems that plagued the company during Akers ' tenure were the fault of his predecessors , although it must be said that he was also in the loop at the time . |
| 16 | Some tragedy consoles , after all , and it is arguable that some of its consolations are facile and false . |
| 17 | These are discussed by J. Milroy ( 1983 ) , and it is noticeable that many of these features , such as w for wh ( in words of the type what , which ) , have reflexes in later English pronunciation . |
| 18 | While some landforms may have been so produced , it is possible that many of them may be relict forms subject to little later modification . |
| 19 | It is possible that many of the anti-microbial antibodies described in inflammatory bowel disease and other inflammatory disease states , may in fact be reflections of immunisation against microbial heat-shock proteins , which has been implied in the pathogenesis of several autoimmune disease states and which may induce anti-lactoferrin antibodies ( see below ) . |
| 20 | Of course it is possible that neither of these political showbiz programmes would actually survive even until the interval . |
| 21 | It is possible that one of the epitaphs Leapor wrote was for Mary Freemantle , rather than for her own mother as first seems likely [ ML , 1 , 263 ] . |
| 22 | One of the regions adjacent to Surrey which is referred to in Frithuwald 's charter is Sonning , the province of the Suningas in east Berkshire , and it is possible that one of the three sub-kings who witnessed with Frithuwald ruled here , in which case Wulfhere 's presence in Berkshire was already established at the time of Frithuwald 's grant . |
| 23 | It is possible that one of these earlier attacks had ended with a promise by Alaric II to pay tribute . |
| 24 | Both Thoc1 and Thoc3 have a single open reading frame and it is possible that one of the two methionine residues at nucleotides 76 and 94 ( Figure 1 ) is used for translational initiation in vivo . |
| 25 | In the ‘ worst case scenario , ’ say MAFF and DoE , ‘ it is possible that most of the Anglian region would have to be declared a water protection zone as well as substantial parts of Severn Trent and other areas , accounting in total for the great bulk of the UK arable protection area . ’ |
| 26 | From Freemantle 's account , however , it seems that Anne Leapor was more involved in her daughter 's reading ; thus , it is possible that both of the poet 's parents were at least minimally literate . |
| 27 | It is possible that some of the high recorded reflectance values from the East Midlands Platform and Cleveland High areas may have been enhanced by such effects . |
| 28 | A few , indeed , were alleged to have lived beyond a hundred , and it is possible that some of the cases were authentic . |
| 29 | While it is possible that some of these exceptions result from the differing energetic requirements of males and females and attendant selection pressures affecting the relative size of the two sexes ( Selander , 1972 ; Downhower , 1976 ) , the common association between sex differences in size and the development of male weaponry suggests that selection pressures associated with breeding competition are frequently involved . |
| 30 | It is possible that some of a company 's shareholders will have interests , for example , as employees or customers , that are distinct from their investment interest in the business . |