Example sentences of "[adv] is [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here reading aloud is accomplished by retrieval of the information , which is thought of as being stored as an entry in an internal dictionary or ‘ mental lexicon ’ . |
| 2 | What he 'd like best is to stay in bed on Father 's Day . |
| 3 | In many societies occupational status has been or still is transmitted from father to son and from mother to daughter . |
| 4 | The delimited field thus consists of agents and institutions and involves three types of struggle — those between ‘ makers ’ of art ( between , say , makers of consecrated art , makers of avant-garde , heretical art , and makers of ‘ middle brow ’ art ( ‘ art moyen ’ ) such as photography , cinema , and jazz , which also is struggling for consecration by the institutions ) , those between makers and ‘ marketers ’ ( in essence the institutions ) , and those between marketers . |
| 5 | But that one should have believed something in a hypothetical situation may and often is used as part of an argument to establish what one should now believe . |
| 6 | The Carrier shall be relieved of its obligation to perform the contract to the extent that the performance thereof is prevented by failure of the Trader , fire , weather conditions , industrial dispute , labour disturbance or cause beyond the reasonable control of the Carrier . |
| 7 | The traveller today is bombarded with information about travelling : there are special supplements in newspapers , specialist magazines , television and radio programmes and videos . |
| 8 | Stonehill , last in Belfast two years ago is coming as part of a European tour . |
| 9 | On the other hand , undertaking R & D abroad is encouraged in response to subsidiary pressure and foreign government incentives . |
| 10 | That which spreads northward is warmed in summer to a maximum of about 4°C at the Convergence , where it sinks below still warmer subantarctic surface water ; beyond the boundary it continues to spread north as the subsurface Antarctic Intermediate Current . |
| 11 | MATTHEW HOWE standing back from the road nearby is thought to date from between 1665 and 1700 . |
| 12 | The basic distinction is that income is a flow and therefore is measured per unit of time , whereas wealth is a stock and is measured at a point in time . |