Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [is] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Ministry of Defence is threatening to abolish all commoners ' centuries-old grazing rights on the Greenham Common nuclear cruise missile base , unless restrictions on the rights are agreed within the next few days . |
| 2 | Mr Young said : ‘ A lot of money is needed to allow all the light rail schemes to go ahead , but it 's only a fraction of the cost of the roads budget . |
| 3 | The Department of Industry is trying to tempt more companies to enter this area . |
| 4 | A great deal of work is needed to close that conceptual gap . |
| 5 | A group at the University of Hokkaido is trying to isolate this chemical , which it calls glycinoeclopin A. So far the group has managed to obtain a tiny portion — 0.5 milligrams — of the substance and now it is trying to discover the chemical structure of the material . |
| 6 | Alongside such apparent contradictions the very condition of society is claimed to leave much to be desired as life was full of danger and trouble ( Page 1970 ) : ‘ life was cheap and illness , plague and famine were never far from the surface ’ ( Wilson 1976a , p. 13 ) ; weapons in graves point to the ‘ ever-present threat of death by violence ’ ( ibid. , p. 20 ) . |
| 7 | Hamadi Jebali was charged with defamation of a judicial institution under the Tunisian Press Code , under which prior authorization by the Ministry of Interior is required to publish any newspaper or periodical . |
| 8 | In Such the discourse of astrophysics is used to subvert that of classical psychoanalysis . |
| 9 | It also shows that the next section of commentary is cued to commence half way through shot 17 and that there is no musical background at this point in the movie . |
| 10 | A glass of wine/whisky/champagne is said to cure all sorts of ills such as the common cold . |
| 11 | This form of collaboration is said to have several advantages in that it offers greater control over research and development linkage by better managing the interface between public sector research and industry . |