Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [is] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A principle informing negotiations about consents is to avoid the risk of creating a precedent on appeal injurious to the agency 's interests , a principle of wide applicability , for to appeal and win — or even to appeal and lose — publicizes the possibility of remedy which itself is a threat to the agency 's whip hand . |
| 2 | Perhaps the lesson for parents is to ignore the quarrel at the time ( if no harm is being caused ) but get both children together later on and discuss how they might have settled their differences . |
| 3 | To the language of books is added the language of television and radio , … the processed codes of the computer . |
| 4 | This set of words is called the word-initial cohort , since it is a set of words all having the same initial sound . |
| 5 | The ‘ problem ’ for management or the owners of organizations is to get the structure right and operate it efficiently . |
| 6 | The increasing power and sophistication of computers is advancing the brain sciences in two ways . |
| 7 | In New York a new generation of designers is eschewing the American sportswear direction and instead looking towards an American lady of a mid-fifties vintage for inspiration . |
| 8 | To read Tolkien , Morris , Hodgson , Wells and Verne , to mention a few of the most imaginative of authors is to expand the confines of the mind and to jolt it out of its habitual furrow . |
| 9 | Remember , one objective of Compacts is to raise the participation rate in education post-16 . |
| 10 | Mary 's poem of thanks is called the Magnificat . |
| 11 | Here , one of the striking effects of lesions is to affect the animal 's capacity to learn spatial tasks — for instance to run mazes . |
| 12 | This assumption concerning the formation of expectations is called the adaptive expectations hypothesis . |
| 13 | Now this is rather a banal claim I suppose that erm the proper function of government is to manage things well , I mean who would have doubted that , but the other claim that governments , one of the roles of governments is to improve the citizens is more surprising , particularly for a liberal view and there 's a more standard liberal position now would be that the moral well-being citizens is not a proper matter of governmental concern . |
| 14 | If however , as I have argued , the recognitional capacities of dumb creatures are parasitic upon the human paradigm , and to that extent attenuated , then to talk of concepts is to over-emphasise the similarities to human beings at the expense of the differences . |
| 15 | 1 If a Bill of Rights is to limit the exercise of political power through the state then it really has to be " entrenched " beyond the repeal of future parliaments . |
| 16 | By the allocation of resources is meant the kinds and quantities of goods produced , the production methods used and the distribution of income to individuals to enable them to consume output . |
| 17 | This batch of questions is called the test , and its main job is to produce a pattern of answeres called a ‘ normal distribution ’ . |
| 18 | This range of compositions is called the ‘ miscibility window ’ and has been reported to be present in other systems . |
| 19 | Whilst one of the rights of owners is to use the land which they own as they please , there are restrictions on their use of land due to the rights of others . |
| 20 | But our board of trustees is following the situation with interest . ’ |
| 21 | A delegation of councillors is lobbying the Government because they say the noise is unbearable . |
| 22 | Generally , as the order of the n-gram and the number of constraints is increased the accuracy of the results will be improved , but at the expense of computational resources . |
| 23 | This zone of farms is called the marginal fringe because it is at the upper margin for agriculture . |
| 24 | The task of teachers is to help the less able master basic skills , to meet the needs of the children of average ability and to encourage and satisfy the needs of the children who are exceptionally able . |
| 25 | If there is a range of technical possibilities for producing a particular commodity the function of prices is to show the least-cost solution . |
| 26 | The problem of historians is to analyse the reasons and the precise timing of the changes . |
| 27 | Perhaps the job of humans is to make the world , and they 're still doing it . |
| 28 | Another way of looking at the usefulness of tests is to evaluate the productivity of employees selected on the basis of a test , as compared with those applicants that would have been selected without the test , ( 1950 ) first demonstrated that the expected increase in output is directly proportional to the validity of a test . |
| 29 | Once a routine of breastfeeds is established the mother can then choose to eliminate them in gradual succession . |
| 30 | If the ISAM method is in use , the effect of adding a new record to a block of records is to cause the block to be re-built , incorporating the new record and pushing the last record of the last block on the track off into overflow . |