Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun sg] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's so different about Turnaround Cream is its persistence . |
| 2 | A timetable for budget setting is illustrated in Table 1.1 . |
| 3 | Again , the difference between them is in the language used to describe this process : for determinists manipulation is achieved by altering the factors that cause criminal behaviour ; for indeterminists it is achieved by making crime a relatively less attractive choice . |
| 4 | Quite how a man who could not bear to hurt a living thing after seeing the damage his childhood air-rifle did to a starling could serve as defence secretary is something of an enigma . |
| 5 | Even his battle with the Danes off Peveril Point is only a story . |
| 6 | Probably the single most important area for atom bombardment is in the design of better catalysts for chemical reactors . |
| 7 | For Steiner homosexuality is it anything even more central to , and definitive of , the modern . |
| 8 | A BRITON sentenced to 40 years in a Thai jail for drug trafficking is being kept in chains , his father revealed yesterday . |
| 9 | The longest period for which an order book can be issued to an asylum seeker who makes a successful application for income support is 20 weeks . |
| 10 | The target for income support is five days . |
| 11 | My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement is present on the Front Bench and will have noted what my hon. Friend has said . |
| 12 | A fascinating tip for defence secretary is General Colin Powell , who master-minded the Gulf War . |
| 13 | The effect that this has on LDOCE 's efficacy for text recognition is discussed in later sections . |
| 14 | ‘ The establishment of an information officer for user education is a clear need in order to rationalize and exploit ongoing programmes . |
| 15 | If cover for funding adequacy is to be offered the insurer will normally require an additional premium . |
| 16 | What he has done for leukaemia research is brilliant — and what he has done for me is give me my confidence back . |
| 17 | The use of neural networks for handwriting recognition is also currently being researched ( Schomaker and Teulings , 1990 ; Morasso and Pagliano , 1991 ; Skrzypek et al , 1991 ) . |
| 18 | And yet I do n't think there 's anybody in this room who could last a minute in a ring with a sumo wrestler because obviously being fit for sumo wrestling is quite different from being fit for sprint running , you need a completely different physique . |
| 19 | On erm food and noise , we 're still very , very busy indeed , and our figure for noise inspection is higher than it ever has been before , and the comment that was made under that section will show you that some of that most certainly is the amount of work that the team had to carry out during the summer , one of the benefits of our glorious summer is that most of us slept with our windows fully open for three months or more and one of the dis-benefits was that if anybody else down the road had a party that went beyond normal bed-time , everybody shared that , and our team was very busy in consequence . |
| 20 | The method used for transferring stitches for cable pattern is similar to hand knitting but instead of using a cable needle , we use the transfer tools . |
| 21 | By contrast , the norm for curriculum change is for it to occur piecemeal and gradually over long periods . |
| 22 | Less secrecy about drug regulation is in the public interest |
| 23 | Much of the evidence for settlement colonisation is based on the first reference to a place in documents , but this can not now be accepted as a date for origin . |
| 24 | An example log file for Update Baseline is shown in Section 10.2.6 . |
| 25 | Remember too that the consistency of the icing to be piped will affect the handling — for instance buttercream is much runnier ( and perhaps easier ) to manage than thick royal icing . |
| 26 | In the Western world , the use of computers is no longer novel in , for example , industry , commerce and banking , and the need for computer literacy is recognised to the extent that education for the computer age now begins at primary school level . |
| 27 | The current situation in Horticultural Education , where over forty students are sharing two PCs , is unsatisfactory , but the demand for computer time is very uneven , peaking during the preparation of 3rd year dissertations , and being very low at other times . |
| 28 | The abbreviation for computer display is surely wrong ; VGA stands for video , not virtual , graphics array . |
| 29 | English for Computer Science is designed for the growing number of people working with computers or studying computer science , who need English to carry out their jobs more effectively . |
| 30 | English for Computer Science is suitable for in-company training programmes , and for universities , colleges and technical schools . |