Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] is [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words there is little pay off in providing an explanation which implies nothing can be done . |
| 2 | As a result there is some prospect of schools once more becoming places where children are expected to learn and teachers to teach . |
| 3 | Once a customer has participated in a demonstration there is less likelihood of ‘ customer remorse ’ ( i.e. the doubt that value for money is not good value after all ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Beneath all the declamations there is another tone , and behind all the illusions there is another vision . ’ |
| 5 | As pollution in India is set to rise with the growing pace of industrialisation and the increasing ownership of motor cars there is little hope that the Taj will survive without considerable damage to its surface and a need for continuous restoration . |
| 6 | For problem.solving , strategy formulation or appraisal there is little logic to the voting approach . |
| 7 | There are no remarkable buildings in the town ; there are banks , churches , very many general merchants , and a few bakers , butchers , curing yards , ship-building yards and suchlike , while in the harbour there is some shipping life . |
| 8 | One may anticipate the conclusions of the following discussion of the fifteenth-century Muftilik by saying that while both traditions are less than satisfactory and while , in the present state of knowledge , there are questions of considerable importance which remain unresolved , on the particular point of the origins of the institution there is some evidence to support at least the broad outlines of the Mustakimzade tradition , however vexed the details may be ; whereas , on the other hand , not only is there a lack of positive evidence to support the Katib Celebi tradition , there is also a certain weight of evidence , largely of a negative nature , against it . |
| 9 | In practice there is much overlap and all of the above must be taken only as a very approximate guide . |
| 10 | In the data there is some support for the notion that certain matters such as child care and support for elderly people are regarded as women 's business in families , while men 's business is money ; but it would be too crude to assume that this simple division of responsibilities could explain all the gender differences which occur in kin support . |
| 11 | At Horsted Keynes there is another experience of the past well supported by memorabilia of all sorts and often hosting a special event of some kind . |
| 12 | Where there is an express agreement to such effect there is little difficulty . |
| 13 | This is mainly because in the summer months there is less rainfall and cloud and so the grain ripens well and can be harvested easily . |
| 14 | And , of course , if the enthusiastic shooter fires at a rabbit in a burrow entrance there is some risk of killing an unseen ferret just behind it . |
| 15 | We will continue to look at er the future programme er we will also as you know , look at ballistic missile defence which is another element to this and that must need to be fact facted in as well but I think clearly we are not talking about in the medium term er and longer term , we are talking about er a fairly late stage of the programme . |
| 16 | None of Offa 's immediate forebears had been king of the Mercians and Offa himself is another example ( like Aethelbald ) of an aetheling competing successfully for the kingship from outside the innermost core of royal power . |
| 17 | I take in my opinion the size , scale of settlement that is being pursued by erm North Yorkshire is of sufficient size , erm my experience erm are twelve fifty to fifteen hundred new settlement is sort of of a size that can sustain a reasonable balance of community facilities , I think in looking at the new village and in the context of P P G thirteen its highway implications , we see from table one of er Mr Curtis 's supplementary statement that public transport , I E bus and train , in terms of journeys to work to the Greater York area amounts to about eight percent of all journeys made , now I think if we were to follow Mr Curtis 's view through and put all development on the periphery of York , if we put two hundred to the North , two hundred to the East , two hundred to the South and so on and so forth , the contribution that those , that new housing can make to improving the public transport system , will be very small , if you concentrate your developments in a new settlement , or or maybe two new settlements which is another point , erm you have a better opportunity to provide a public transport system which would not only serve that new village , but also settlements in the surroundings , and I think you will find that the percentage of people in the new village who are reliant on public transport as a means of getting to work is greater that what you find in the Greater York area at the present time . |
| 18 | Fight the flab with fat-burning aerobic dance which is another alternative for those who only want to shake in the right places . |
| 19 | As with most of Braham 's work there is more darkness than light . |
| 20 | Whatever the differences between Protestantism and Catholicism there is little doubt that financial matters play far too important a part in their affairs . |
| 21 | In most liberal democratic countries there is some measure of agreement in the news media on political facts . |
| 22 | ‘ Beneath all the declamations there is another tone , and behind all the illusions there is another vision . ’ |
| 23 | Without this experience of reconciliation in the home there is little chance to learn models of mutual forgiveness and the reinstatement of love . |
| 24 | Tesco is not publicly endorsing any political party , but reading between the lines there is little doubt where the sympathies of Sir Ian and his top team lie . |
| 25 | Again after the middle ten lines there is another break which takes us into the last section of the poem with the words ‘ at last ’ . |
| 26 | York Minster Archives There is much material from the Middle Ages to the present ( 1150 onwards ) . |
| 27 | In this type of marriage there is little blurring of roles . |
| 28 | In answer to the first question there is some evidence that initially there is a degree of opposition — staff see themselves losing the opportunity of sixth form teaching , parents , who often went to 11–18 schools themselves , regard them as a second best alternative . |
| 29 | As a broad generalization there is much truth in this , and both groups can usefully remember from their own education how sometimes learning is " taught " and at other times " caught " . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , in the contemporary English village it is this feeling of having been ‘ taken over ’ by outsiders that usually prevails among the agricultural population and with it not only a sense of ‘ loss of community ’ , but an inevitable animus against the invasion of ‘ furriners ’ . |