Example sentences of "[am/are] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I am off food hunting . ’
2 Although all are for solo voice we are drawn into a quasi-theatrical experience .
3 The exact numbers or names that we use to label a given address are arbitrary , just as they are for computer memory .
4 These discs are for shock absorption as well as protection of the bones from rubbing against each other during movement .
5 The line meanders along this stretch : oil pipelines are crossed and the meanders are for sound engineering reasons .
6 The three applications are for report writing , cataloguing and document interchange .
7 Additional damages are also provided for as they are for copyright infringement and the unregistered design right generally .
8 In addition , there are for example licensing functions performed by the executive in respect of which the traditional view has been that procedural safeguards do not apply .
9 If the choices are between understanding policy making as a pure exercise in rational decision making , as the putting into practice of ideologies , or as a quite incoherent process of bargaining and muddling through , it is sensible to reject each alternative .
10 Many people remember and have fond memories of Community Programme , could you explain what the differences are between Community Programme and Community Action ?
11 The IMS 's final comment is important : ‘ If economic revolutions are about wealth creation rather than redistribution , this latest one still has a long way to go ’ ( ‘ Services : the second industrial revolution ? ’ by Amin Rajan , Report by the Institute of Manpower Services Group , Butterworths , reported in the Financial Times , 5 February 1987 ) .
12 But most of his lessons , to my surprise , are n't about the human body being a machine : they are about hospital administration .
13 Many of their colleagues are off work sick for long periods being treated for nervous disorders .
14 The levelling-off will be due to the coincidence of the smaller birth cohorts of the pre-war years entering old age whilst the larger war and post-war cohorts are of working age .
15 Of every 100 people in this country 55 per cent are of working age .
16 Bn estab by scientists tt all races are of eql intell , except prhps egg-&-spn race .
17 The majority of buckets found in early Anglo-Saxon graves are of stave construction , bound with bronze and whose construction requires the same control over materials as a cooper .
18 The majority of children whose parents separate and divorce are of school age and a significant amount of their time will therefore be spent at school .
19 ( b ) Activities for school children Local authorities must provide appropriate care or supervised activities outside school hours and during the school holidays for children in need who are of school age ( s18(6) ) .
20 First , ‘ the national interest demands that woodlands should be managed in accordance with the principles of good forestry ’ , and second , where they are of amenity value , the owner has ‘ a public duty to act with reasonable regard for amenity aspects ’ .
21 Erm modern theorists of human rights just start from the position that human rights are of course self evidently inherent in each individual , I 'm thinking for example of erm Nosette In the tradition of , of natural , in the natural law tradition which Locke erm erm shares erm there is a basic position which runs throughout them all and that includes incidentally even Hobbes to the effect that erm we do n't just have rights as individuals , we have rights for a very particular reason .
22 The two names she had mentioned are of course rhyming slang for ‘ pissed ’ , but nothing in Rebecca Kraemer 's innocent little face betrayed whether or not she was aware of this .
23 It is because carbon-based molecules are necessary for the kind of life that we find on Earth , and because those molecules are of necessity complex , that life itself is fragile .
24 The state 's increasing insistence , for example , that what people study and how they study it are of government concern and to be directed at ends which a government finds acceptable is part of the character of our critical environment .
25 If the basis vectors are of unit length ( and the signatures of the µ and v components are the same , i.e. both + I or both — 1 ) , then is the cosine of the angle between and .
26 There are some churches in the area ; some are of hall church pattern , others have an English influence from commercial contacts with seafaring traders .
27 Tougher are the newer flocks made with vinyl film : these also have a paper backing , but the fibres are of viscose rayon .
28 CRAMANT : Those vines on the south face of the Butte de Saran belonging to the commune of Chouilly are planted on rich sand , sandstone , clay and lignite soil , while those which belong to Cramant , being physically beneath those of Chouilly , are of Belemnite chalk .
29 ‘ Why should you imagine you are of officer material .
30 But the close scrutiny of the lunar craters and examination of lunar samples plus theoretical investigations and laboratory experiments have established beyond reasonable doubt that all , or very nearly all of the lunar craters are of impact origin .
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