Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A campaign has been launched to save a collection of birds and animals which is under threat because a council wants to save money . |
| 2 | It will detect extensions down to less than five Ångström units which is about the resolution of a good electron microscope . |
| 3 | my Lord , my Lord erm my Lord that really brings me to what are , er my conclusions , my Lord erm , can I just practice my conclusions with two erm comments , first of all about the , the my learned friend seems to paint erm in relation to this of course Mr made a point quite strongly that he agrees this is a relevant consideration and that er have exaggerated the situation and if they are willing to make a point a like this it would require evidence , they did point to their accounts , Lord erm I do n't see to put in evidence , but the , the statutory statement of business served er filed by on the first of September this year with the D T I , revealed that has a total of sixteen and a half billion in it 's members premium trust funds which is up four billion from the end of the previous year , erm , set against that the claims now made against the names is , is relatively speaking er small , erm my Lord |
| 4 | In conversations which involve speakers of both the first and second generations it is mainly the behaviour of the second generation speakers which is of interest , for it is these individuals who have " stylistic mobility " between London English and Creole and can be assumed to be using the two codes differentially ( though not necessarily consciously ) in a strategic way . |
| 5 | This is a good Scots which is at once distinctly literary and faithful to the speech of the city . |
| 6 | The treaty has advanced Europe , but it is a Europe of nations which is on trial . |
| 7 | There is a streamlined efficiency about his recordings which is beyond question , with everything well prepared and executed , but it has always struck me that his interpretative qualities have always lagged way behind his undisputed capabilities as an orchestral trainer . |
| 8 | Then she was like one of those seers who is at the same time a strange animal , like a priestess in a bear 's cave . |
| 9 | Soon as they did their words there 's like a another fag ! |
| 10 | With the United Nations there is at least the opportunity to start , to work together in new ways on issues that really matter . |
| 11 | This is potentially a glorious voice — one senses that instinctively — but to my ears it is at present just a voice , an instrument . |
| 12 | Yeah , something stupid , and they knocked on the door , do you know what I mean , the most kids it 's like , it 's hiya Matthew , hi aunty , they knock on the door , I want to play with Hannah , I want to play with Matthew , Mat has , Mat has got to go out and play with them , and it 's my Milky Bar you ca n't not can I have one of your sweets Mat , my mother said I , I can have one of those sweets . |
| 13 | In other words it 's about buttonholing a large crowd , together , instead of chasing them individually . |
| 14 | So in other words it 's about an introduction an expansion and an end Now as I 've said tomorrow I 'll fill in a bit more detail on those so if you leave some some gaps there between those three sections . |
| 15 | The meaning is not in the words it 's in the way you say it is n't it ? |
| 16 | When modern social anthropologists write about " primitive " peoples it is for want of a better vocabulary ; they could just as well be writing about " other " peoples . |
| 17 | Oh no no that 's because those are pictures it 's like a chapter . |
| 18 | If such people with planned social care can be kept in their own homes it is worth pressing for flexibility of resources to put in the extra help needed . |
| 19 | To be successful at meetings you need to know what is really going on , or in other words what is below the surface . |
| 20 | This is a question to be considered in the round , and nothing is gained by the introduction of shifting burdens of proof , which serves only to break down into formal steps what is in reality a single appreciation of what is or is not unfair . |
| 21 | ‘ In addition , it is likely that Customs will also seek to prevent the recovery of VAT on other costs incurrred by holding companies which is at present recoverable , for example the costs incurred in restructuring a commercial group . |
| 22 | According to Fidelity — one of the few companies which is to date offering these funds — the yield on its Tax Free Income Plan ( a unit trust comprising 51 per cent equities and 49 per cent bonds ) will fall from about 6 per cent now to 5.75 per cent after 5 April . |
| 23 | If it were , we should be subject to a kind of indecision about the causal connection between condition-sets and their effects which is in fact entirely missing from our deliberations. ( ii ) On the given probabilistic analyses an event e , if it lowers the probability of an event f , can not be cause of f . |
| 24 | ‘ She 's very clever , ’ William said at once , ‘ making lovely shoes she is for them actresses in the theatre . ’ |
| 25 | Compare this archive , one of the richest survivals there is on early nineteenth-century popular politics and culture , with an acquisition now promised to the British Library : the personal archive of Tony Benn MP . |
| 26 | But nothing has has really changed it 's surely implicit that green field sites will have to be released to meet the justifiable needs for development erm that there are ways clearly to minimize the impact by by first redeveloping the existing sites by by releasing sites in less sensitive locations , or developing sites that have minimal impact on on existing settle settlements or patterns of development un unless in exceptional circumstances there is for example the need for a new settlement . |
| 27 | In the circumstances there is in my judgment no option but to give effect to the literal meaning of the words as did the Court of Appeal . |
| 28 | ‘ In some areas it is as if nothing has changed , and in other areas there are some quite bizarre decisions . ’ |
| 29 | Whilst this may be attractive for the marketing companies it is of very little help to the consumer . |
| 30 | Even if this shift is due to the availability of cheap labour power in other countries it is by no means obvious that socialists should support long-run protectionism : it may represent considerable progress for a ‘ Third World ’ worker to be exploited by capital in the production of labour-intensive commodities rather than by a landlord . |