Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] is [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 8 ) Rights of control must be exercised in good faith and the oppression of a minority is unacceptable . |
| 2 | The performance of a skill is dependent on practising it and so a pupil 's success will be crucially dependent on how recently it has been practised . |
| 3 | There is , of course , absolutely no doubt that even when only a facsimile of a document is available a professional historian or amateur specialist can gain a great deal from its perusal ; much more so when there is the opportunity to examine the original itself . |
| 4 | Head as chief teacher , believing , and demonstrating , that the teaching function of a school is pre-eminent and that the head must play the leading part , by action and example , in advancing it . |
| 5 | As has already been suggested , the management of a school is concerned primarily with the development of its pupils . |
| 6 | Besides , Mr Ramaphosa 's claim that the negotiations would otherwise have been on the threshold of a breakthrough is questionable . |
| 7 | Is n't it also about the hypocris , hypocrisy of a society that 's saying that one kind of a drug is okay , and another sort of a drug is n't okay ? |
| 8 | The basic principle of a budget is straightforward it 's to forecast your forecast your expend expenses so they can make plans for the future . |
| 9 | The absence of a throng is incidental . |
| 10 | In AD 685 St Cuthbert perambulated ‘ illis murum civitatis ’ and also saw a fountain working , implying that there was still a functioning aqueduct ; whether he was looking at the walls of a genuine town or of a fort is arguable . |
| 11 | 1 The form of the agreement The form of a restraint is irrelevant . |
| 12 | Sometimes people assume that the meaning of a pronoun is clear when it is not . |
| 13 | These are but a few of the principal sources of authoritative information that AIB look to when their own knowledge of a subject is insufficient to resolve the problem at hand . |
| 14 | Although the IAAF do have a three-month ban for minor offences like using ephedrine , manipulation of a test is equivalent to a fully-fledged steroid offence — a point Mr Emig twice missed during the proceedings . |
| 15 | Fundamental to the proper design of a test is clear definition of the objectives of the test . |
| 16 | However , where a term of a contract is unclear , is capable of having more than one meaning , or is specific to a particular trade or market , there is considerable scope for looking at the factual background or " matrix " known to the parties , in order to clarify how it should be applied . |
| 17 | The purported withdrawal of a resignation is ineffective as the resignation is final when received by the proper officer of the authority or the chairman as the case may be . |
| 18 | This is a derivation of the formal systems model , and is used in essentially the same way , ie as a checklist to ensure that the model of a procedure is well-formulated and all the necessary attributes are considered during the analysis . |
| 19 | ( 6 ) The licensing board , if in its opinion any objection to the renewal of a licence is frivolous or vexatious , may find the objector liable in the expenses caused by such objection to such extent as the board thinks fit , or , if in its Opinion any such objection is unauthorised , may find the agent of the objector liable in the expenses as aforesaid ; and the amount of any expenses so found due may be recovered in the sheriff court having jurisdiction , and a certified copy of the finding of the licensing board shall be sufficient evidence and authority for discerning for the said amount with expenses . |
| 20 | This is inappropriate , since in most domains , more than one sense of a word is relevant . |
| 21 | If one of a couple is disabled or older than the other , the couple will qualify for the higher amount . |
| 22 | The degree of sorting of a sediment is dependent on the size range of the supplied grains , the mode of deposition ( for example , whether wave reworking or current deposition ) , the current characteristics ( predominantly strength ) and the time involved in deposition . |
| 23 | The effective porosity of a sediment is dependent on the degree of interconnection of the pore spaces , which are thus utilized during fluid migration through the sediment . |
| 24 | ( i ) What quality of a relationship is protective ? |
| 25 | The pain of this incomplete ending of a relationship is impossible to comprehend . |
| 26 | For example , Forster and Olbrei ( 1974 , p. 320 ) propose that : ‘ syntactic processing is relatively independent of semantic processing , in the sense that the time required to analyze the syntactic structure of a sentence is constant , despite variations in the meaning of the sentence . ’ |
| 27 | The hierarchy of a church is important in the libidinal ties in churches , for they do not only rest on the love of the abstract figure of Christ , but on living people who are his priests , bishops and ministers in the various groups . |
| 28 | Point three five of a rand is fucking nothing when you work it out . |
| 29 | Although Young 's picture of a meritocracy is fictional , it indicates many of the possible dysfunctional elements of such a system . |
| 30 | Hearsay evidence given in connection with the upbringing , maintenance or welfare of a child is admissible in all civil proceedings ( The Children ( Admissibility of Hearsay Evidence ) Order 1991 ( SI No 1115 ) ) . |