Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps your current self-image is at odds with your Dream ? |
| 2 | A second major area of functionalist thinking is in accounts of the legal system which are based on Marx 's base — superstructure metaphor ( Cohen , 1978 ) . |
| 3 | And we are coming dangerously near to admitting total defeat if we lamely accept the solution to street violence is for women to forego their liberty and put themselves under virtual night-time house arrest . |
| 4 | Geography is about maps , But Biography is about Chaps . |
| 5 | Dusak 's result is in terms of the futures price today ( time t ) and the futures price tomorrow ( time t + 1 ) , while the risk premium is usually discussed in terms of the expected delivery price ( S T ) . |
| 6 | The main pre-occupation is with suntans and nightlife and Puerto del Carmen is well equipped to provide both . |
| 7 | I , I would like to think they 'd been supported the same as the boxing club , but after all the boxing club is for youths , and I think they 've got to look after the youths erm , try and find something for them to do , as much as erm , community |
| 8 | ‘ This part of the club is for members only , he said in a voice of strangulated distaste . |
| 9 | Geography is about maps , But Biography is about Chaps . |
| 10 | As Fig. 7.1 illustrates , the greatest risk of desertification is in areas adjacent to the world 's hot hyper-arid zones , and include rain-fed croplands , irrigated lands and rangelands . |
| 11 | Social Anthropology is about men and women ( and children ) in society . |
| 12 | The only the only approach to residential homes and nursing homes is as advertisers in those medical books . |
| 13 | When his mind 's on fisticuffs he sits in on the training sessions there . |
| 14 | Male authorship almost disappears , and the concentration is on loves and friendships , on the Shelleys ' marriag , and Allegra . |
| 15 | Other land may , therefore , be available although the Department is at pains to point out that the Circular does not give the green light to a development free-for-all in the countryside . |
| 16 | Ever since the days when Lavoisier and then Davy had worked on gunpowder there had been close connections between science and defence ; but the quantity of hard science in these papers is small , as it is also in F. A. Abel 's on substitutes for gunpowder ( 17 May 1872 ) where he spoke of nitro-glycerine and dynamite and gun-cotton , and even in John Tyndall 's of 4 June 1875 on Whitworth 's rifled guns . |
| 17 | Since Hilton is at pains to show that true contemplation had nothing to do with the emotions and clearly disapproves of Rolle 's spirituality , the term seems puzzling . |
| 18 | The analogy is with parts of an enterprise that are allowed to establish their own base and make their own financial and marketing decisions . |
| 19 | Given that the remedies under consideration in the present case are primarily of an in personam character , perhaps a closer analogy is to cases concerned with the circumstances in which English courts have granted or refused injunctions to restrain creditors , who have not proved in an English bankruptcy , from taking proceedings abroad or compelling them to refund property obtained abroad . |
| 20 | ‘ You know , the future is with flying-boats . |
| 21 | In addition I think there 's some inconsistency , because within Selby district , for example , a lot of development which has been advocated in the past and is likely to be allocated in the future is in places like Selby or Sherburn in Elmet , which again are much nearer to Leeds erm than potential new settlement sites to the South and South , South West of York , and yet objection has been raised to er that particular erm element in the planning strategy for Selby , and I I ca n't see the reason why a new settlement should be treated in any different way to any other form of development in that sense . |
| 22 | The emphasis throughout the chapter is on developments at the world level to provide the backdrop for the more detailed discussions about individual firms and individual states in subsequent chapters . |
| 23 | This chapter is about firms in the private sector ; the next chapter about public sector firms . |
| 24 | This chapter is about details but , as usual , the same principles still apply : have your overall picture and your ultimate objective in mind and aim to make it easy for the presenter to present and audience to receive . |
| 25 | Poetry for both Beth and Lucy is about things that are familiar : the beach , the playground , laziness , fighting . |
| 26 | Good Friday is about punks at Hastings , where I lived for many years , seen feeding a hot-cross bun to pigeons . |
| 27 | If you guys really want to be anything more than a footnote in the annals of British history get this — ‘ Egalitarianism is for Losers ’ . |
| 28 | As gossip is to ladies and gambling to gentlemen , flirting is to both together . |
| 29 | A well constructed adjustable fence is one of the Woodworker 's plus points |
| 30 | Study is by lectures , seminars and tutorials . |