Example sentences of "[adj] is [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The case of Strange ( SW ) Ltd v Mann [ 1965 ] 1 All ER 1069 is an example of frequent contact still not being sufficient .
2 What is less clear is the significance of these differences for the practice of management .
3 Less clear is the question of whether mushrooms can be hunted to extinction .
4 Less clear is the equivalence between the upper levels of attainment at the age of 16 and the exemption of a student from some of the requirements of qualifications which are administered by the Business and Technician Education Council ( BTEC ) and by the National Council for Vocational Qualifications ( NCVQ ) .
5 What is not clear is the direction of any bias that might have occurred .
6 What is less clear is the extent to which a demonstrable need must be proven before they insist on the adoption of otherwise practicable control measures .
7 What is not clear is the age at which full penetrance occurs .
8 Slightly less clear is the effect of FSA , s 48(2) ( h ) , which authorises rules : " enabling or requiring information obtained by an authorised person in the course of carrying on one part of his business to be withheld by him from persons with whom he deals in the course of carrying on another part and for that purpose enabling or requiring persons employed in one part of that business to withhold information from those employed in another part . "
9 Equally heartening is the account of Cathy McCormack which combines the micro and personal with the wider , macro-issues of health and politics in Glasgow , Scotland , and in Nicaragua .
10 So mindless is the wiring of this sensible hygienic behaviour that a drop of oleic acid on an otherwise innocuous piece of wood or even on a live bee results in the removal of the offending object .
11 Table 6.6 is an illustration of the three measures in practice and illustrates the differences in rankings between them .
12 Acts 11:15–18 is a case in point .
13 Not all the commentators on The Cantos have remarked how conspicuous is the absence of Virgil 's name and presence , among the numberless names and presences which jostle on Pound 's pages .
14 Most conspicuous is the practice of placing large rhomboids in the rectangular panels which lie adjacent to a central square — in two panels ( e.g. pls. 23 , 13 , and 11 ) or possibly in all four ( e.g. pI .
15 This is a departure from the present law , which requires that ownership should be obtained ( Kilham ( 1870 ) L.R. 1 C.C.R. 261 , mentioned in paragraph 89 ; Ball [ 1951 ] 2 K.B .
16 This is a departure from the Circulars it replaces , and must be made good .
17 This is a departure from the administration of legal aid prior to the new Board coming into force .
18 This is a departure from the soul-searching that has gone on since Hayes v Malleable Working Men 's Club and Institute [ 1985 ] ICR 703 , of trying to find a useful comparative male illness ( prostate operation ? arthritic hips ? ) to emulate a medical condition comparable to the inconvenience caused to employers by a female employee 's pregnancy .
19 This is a celebration of Puccini in trivial mood , a collection of songs written for odd occasions at odd moments through his career .
20 This is a whole of a mish-mash , I think we ought to go back to what we did in nineteen ninety two , its the twenty ninth of January and to confer the rights of tenants and other occupiers of land to allow or stop fox hunting or any other hunting over land in their care and least trust some people instead of this business of we know best .
21 This is a friend of Bheki , ’ said Mr Thabane .
22 ‘ Mum , this is a friend of mine , Patrick Kelly .
23 This is a grandaddy of a long distance path which traverses Wales through some stunning and remote mountain country .
24 This is a description of an industrial disaster seldom experienced in peacetime conditions .
25 It has been argued that this is a description of a patinated alloy .
26 This is a description of Mnemba Club , one of the private island paradises featured in CV Travel 's Different World brochure .
27 This is a total of 23 000 tonnes : in 1978 the tanker Amoco Cadiz deposited nearly 223000 tonnes on the coasts of Brittany .
28 As well as a means of publicising information this is a document of some importance administratively , since without it the register would be cluttered , to a greater extent than it is , with files of moribund companies abandoned by their members .
29 Tied to this is a faith in the competence of epistemology to evaluate different forms of knowledge such that the ‘ scientific ’ and ‘ rational ’ can be distinguished and privileged as superior forms of knowledge to the ‘ ideological ’ .
30 Erm , the other important point I think , if by way of introduction , is in paragraph two , and that is , just to make it quite clear that this is a transfer of funding where people previously went to the Department of Social Security and claimed Income Support in order to assist them in accessing services that were provided by the voluntary and private sector .
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