Example sentences of "[conj] is [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Or is part of it missing so that you trust what you know but wonder what the rest is like ?
2 The question of whether the recognition of faces is a specific ability ( Yin , 1970 ; Tzvaras , Hécaen and Le Bras , 1971 ; Whiteley and Warrington , 1977 ) or is part of a more general visuo-spatial processing system is unsettled ( Ellis , 1975 ; Hay and Young , 1983 ) .
3 But there are times when a dispute is harder to resolve , or is part of a wider problem .
4 If the car belongs to someone else or is part of a hire purchase or leasing agreement , payment for the total loss or destruction of the car will normally be made to the cars legal owner .
5 If the car belongs to someone else or is part of a hire purchase or leasing agreement , payment for the total loss or destruction of the car will normally be made to the cars legal owner .
6 If the car belongs to someone else or is part of a hire purchase or leasing agreement , payment for the total loss or destruction of the car will normally be made to the cars legal owner .
7 A person who manages or is part of the same group as the investment manager of an investment trust company will not normally be regarded as an appropriate person to give independent advice in relation to that company .
8 Or is change from a religious perspective a process which is sui generis ?
9 though free from any of the above defects , the contract stems from or is collateral to another agreement affected by illegality .
10 This is the crux of it : Are there good and sufficient reasons to believe what we need to believe or is faith on shaky ground ?
11 Does the accused have to intend to cause or be reckless as to causing actual bodily harm or is intention to recklessness as to battery sufficient ?
12 Is the area team to be the focus or is organization at secondary level to be addressed ?
13 Is it the responsibility of medicine to compensate for poor quality of life or to eliminate injustices by non-consenting life-terminating acts — or is death to be seen as a therapy ?
14 Nor is storage of large amounts of data a problem anymore , CD-ROM technology offers the ability to store many million words on one small disk .
15 It is usually found ( from pilot studies ) that ‘ personalization ’ of the letter of introduction is of no benefit , nor is use of a printed letterhead ; neither the colour of paper nor the day ( of the week ) received seem to make any difference .
16 Indeed this emerges immediately from the fact that adjectives which are plainly non-restrictive can accompany proper names : ( 4 ) the eloquent Dryden is too learned for some tastes clever Polly left before they called for volunteers Even if we accept the view , less than universally supported , that proper names do have meaning , being clever is certainly no part of the name Polly on the type level , nor is eloquence of the name Dryden .
17 ‘ This implies intervention in the economy in a way that is anathema to the Tories . ’
18 As far as the CBR is concerned the distant galaxies provide a preferred frame , something that is anathema to SR or classical mechanics .
19 Conditions in the base camp that is home to me , photographer David Hill , the remaining 15 expedition members , 18 Sherpas , three cooks , three kitchen boys , and one mail runnner are harsh .
20 Merseysider Glenice Inglis-Moore vividly described seeing the city that is home to Hollywood being torched by rioters .
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22 But consider how the following additional constraints would make your task so much more difficult ( and relate these constraints to the problems of being unable to study the SCN directly , of being unsure of exactly how it then sends its information to produce the rhythms in , say , temperature or urine flow — things that we can measure — and even of not being certain that the SCN is the only area in the brain that is part of the body clock ) .
23 And suddenly hearing something that is part of your body , out there , beyond your control , entering other people 's lives — it was too much for me , I just collapsed , crying , everyone had to hold me up … ‘
24 At No.2 is the Piccola Scala , the ‘ little Scala ’ , a small theatre that is part of the La Scala complex , and in which are performed modern , experimental works , rare operas and concerts of chamber music .
25 ABOVE –Preconstruction' by Andrew Farmer showing a hypothetical probe approaching a black hole that is part of a binary system .
26 Soon the three members of Right Said Fred will put on their pop faces , two of them will put on their unplugged guitars , and they will walk along a corridor , down some stairs , into a colourfully-lit plastic cave that is part of the set for the children 's TV programme Parallel 9 .
27 Ideology becomes not a mechanistic side-effect of the material relations but a dynamic process that is part of the practice of human beings .
28 The gene for GH5 was cloned into a plasmid that is part of the T7 expression system , and we expressed the gene in the E. coli strain B834(DE3) , which is a methionine-requiring auxotroph with an inducible gene for T7 RNA polymerase on the host chromosome .
29 The image has an integrity that is part of its physical make-up .
30 ‘ Can you find a secure area of the station that is part of the original structure ?
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