Example sentences of "[det] [noun] is [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of that money is spent on research . |
| 2 | Each strip is viewed in turn , starting at the end where the light test card is positioned . |
| 3 | Some firms , such as Prudential Assurance , insist that employees indicate that payment is made on behalf of the company . |
| 4 | To recover this tax ( VAT ) it is essential that any invoices or bills which exceed £50 indicate that payment is made on behalf of ‘ The Prudential Assurance Company Limited ’ and show separately the amount of VAT included in the gross total . |
| 5 | Evasion of Voluntary Agreement : Sports sponsorship blatantly circumvents the Voluntary Agreement 's provision that ‘ advertisements should not imply that smoking is associated with success in sport ’ . |
| 6 | A man convinced that the world is a trap , that existence is plagued by death , can ill afford to have complete faith in the established order , whether of the Right or the Left . |
| 7 | The electricity within that storm is released by lightning . |
| 8 | Trading check Document giving credit up to fixed total ( often £30 ) at certain shops ; each purchase is deducted from check , leaving smaller credit balance ; fixed instalments including interest set at start on full value of check usually collected weekly ( often in 21 or 22 weeks ) . |
| 9 | From here , each sentence is elaborated by coordination and subordination — by progressive elaboration of " trailing constituents " ( see 7.5.3–4 ) , as if to imitate the movement from the observer 's eye towards the distance . |
| 10 | Although I accept that the Home Secretary will not resign at this stage , does he accept that , when that case is combined with prisoner escapes and Sunday trading , his credentials as a law and order Minister begin to look a little threadbare ? |
| 11 | Thus , while there may be preferences discernible in the choice of elements most-likely-to-be-concentrated-on within a sentence if that sentence is presented in isolation , such preferences may reflect the rather trivial fact that names are more salient than anything else , in isolation . |
| 12 | That assessment is confirmed by analysis from business and independent academic organisations . |
| 13 | It is also vital to remember that the Purchaser may be assuming liability for the creditors — and whether or not that liability is described as part of the Consideration , it is in fact part of the ‘ price ’ which the Purchaser is paying . |
| 14 | In this country much of that experience is differentiated along class lines : crudely , the very well-off use the predominantly single-sex public and boarding school system to accustom their children to an elite future , and the middle class ensure that their neighbourhood state school reinforces the values of their children 's socialisation at home and that , in a streamed system , their children are all in the higher streams ; meanwhile , working-class children are largely concentrated in the less well-resourced state schools , are often in the lower streams , and are frequently regarded by their teachers and even encouraged to think of themselves as ‘ no-hopers ’ . |
| 15 | Conventionally , each font is encoded from scratch , to produce a file anywhere between 30Kb or 50Kb . |
| 16 | But he still managed to find time to compose , and in February 1784 he began to keep a catalogue of his music , in which each piece is entered by date . |
| 17 | the maximum amount of a week 's pay taken into account with effect from 1 April 1990 is £184 per week , but that figure is reviewed from time to time . |
| 18 | The size of each dictionary is shown in Table 4.6 . |
| 19 | Under this system each department is divided into programme areas and a detailed programme description is provided . |
| 20 | Little guidance is given in legislation as where precisely to draw the line between business and private sales . |
| 21 | The design and development of each aircraft is described in turn using contemporary film footage . |
| 22 | His argument is not simply that action is preceded by thought . |
| 23 | This finding is replicated in figure 13.4 ; overall , 0.215 more young people than old people say they would be prepared to break the law . |
| 24 | This finding is discussed in detail in our earlier publication ( 14 ) . |
| 25 | This grant is intended for maintenance during the three terms and the vacations at Christmas and Easter , but also includes some provision for books , travel , clothes and the like . |
| 26 | It seems that this change is based on advice received from the Royal Society of Chemistry , though it has not been applied in the latest issue of Chemistry in Britain , neither can I recollect having seen it mention any possibility of change . |
| 27 | The basic response to infection is inflammation ( see above ) ; another response is related to immunity . |
| 28 | Some definitions of poverty have sought to define it in terms of absolute deprivation , where some measure is made of subsistence requirements based on physical needs . |
| 29 | Although some protection is provided by appeal to the Mental Health Review Tribunal or nearest relative right to discharge , in practice both are rarely undertaken or successful , relative to the total sectioned . |
| 30 | Western diplomats believe that the Islamic movement will grow unless the economic crisis , caused in large part by the Gulf war , is resolved and some progress is made in peace talks with Israel . |