Example sentences of "is [verb] [subord] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty of interpreting such information is highlighted though by the fact that this educated elite , two-thirds of whom had been to public schools and universities , chose as their leader a man who had been to neither . |
| 2 | In view of the new wording of Condition 2 the claimant must produce , if loss or damage is sustained while in the care of an airline , a Property Irregularity Report , a copy of the formal written notice to the airline which should have been written within three days of loss or damage and all travel tickets and tags . |
| 3 | Her career has become a kind of obsession ; her voice , the instrument of his enrapturement , a thing to be cherished and protected , to the degree that social life is circumscribed because of the effect which smoky parties might have on her . |
| 4 | As well as the standard size of wall-hung basin , you can also get smaller sizes and corner designs which are useful where space is limited as in a cloakroom . |
| 5 | It is only valid if it is pressed while on a field which is used by the LIFESPAN cache facility ( see below ) . |
| 6 | Nothing is said about cross-examination , not even a request for the facility to be afforded if it would be compatible with foreign procedures ; no detail is given as to the manner in which the evidence is to be ‘ reduced into writing ’ , so that , for example , no preference is expressed for a verbatim transcript rather than a summary minute prepared by the foreign judge . |
| 7 | The auctioneer is given as against the vendor , a lien on the proceeds for his commission and charges . ’ |
| 8 | In [ 13 ] this effect is accentuated because of the succession of stressed syllables ( " -creet door clicked shut " ) , and because of the accompanying clattering of consonants , especially the stops /k/ , /t ) , and /d ) . |
| 9 | erm Yes , I mean it seems very difficult to keep in touch with exactly what is happening because of the communication blackout , but erm from what we 're hearing erm obviously there is still a lot more mileage in this conflict it seems to me . |
| 10 | As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four . |
| 11 | Nor was Roland in reality quite the great man and imperial favourite he is presented as in the poem , but a fairly obscure governor of Brittany . |
| 12 | Here , however , ‘ no admission is made as to the existence of a warrant , so national security is not raised to justify an undisputed act . |
| 13 | No representation is made as to the accuracy of such statements , estimates and projections . |
| 14 | This is applied because of the wards , you understand what I mean . |
| 15 | This problem is selected because of the importance given to the division of labour within modern Marxist discussions of social class and also within more orthodox sociological analyses of class ( i.e. ‘ occupational classes ’ ) . |
| 16 | Since a Prime Minister without a majority in the Commons is an impossibility , he or she is seen as in a position to make any law he or she sees as fit . |
| 17 | In a three-quarter view of the head the knot of hair at the back of the head is seen as in a profile view , and the double outline of the foremost shoulder gives the impression that the top of it has been tipped up into the picture plane . |
| 18 | However , it could be that , in some transactions , where economic loss is suffered because of a breach caused by wilful default ( or perhaps even inadvertent default ) , such clauses would not be regarded as reasonable where a consumer suffered economic loss . |
| 19 | Give time , cobalt users could develop ways to recycle cobalt from superalloy scrap ( little of this is done because of the industry 's strict purity specifications ) . |
| 20 | ‘ The process under section 268 is needed because of the difficulty in which the liquidator in an insolvent company is necessarily placed . |
| 21 | You may get help with the cost of NHS treatment if it is needed because of the disability for which you get a War Pension . |
| 22 | The result is that the foam comes high up on the neck which is possible an advantage on the back as extra protection to the base of the neck is offered though around the front it feels rather bulky . |
| 23 | This is thermoluminescence ( ‘ heat-light ’ ) ; it is produced because of the radiation dose , and is additional to any red-hot glow produced by heat alone . |
| 24 | The price each individual is asked to pay is shown as in the diagram . |
| 25 | It is not so much a question of what is promised as of the attitudes of those who will implement the decisions if the Tories are successful . |
| 26 | However there is evidence to indicate that Ulster 's share of the world 's seed potato market is declining because of a failure to respond to changing customer needs in existing markets , and an inability to penetrate new markets . |
| 27 | The world is redeemed because of the sanctity of this man Jesus , because of the love for his Father and for his sisters and brothers which made him totally accept his mission from the Father . |
| 28 | Prime ministerial power , and therefore prime ministerial government is challenged ; Cabinet government and collective responsibility are challenged because of the claim that the first allegiance of a Labour minister is not to the Cabinet but to the mandate given by the party conference ; parliamentary government and the autonomy of MPs to deliberate as representatives is challenged through the notion of mandate reducing them to delegates ; and liberal-democracy itself is challenged because of a refusal to accept limits to participation and to the role of the state in the struggle to attain socialism through democracy . |
| 29 | It is recognised that the established electoral system does discriminate against third parties securing seats in proportion to votes , but this is defended because of the virtues that are seen as flowing from the fact that the system helps to ensure that just one party has a secure majority in the Commons and is therefore able to form a government without the need for coalition . |
| 30 | Our environment is suffering because of the leaks . |