Example sentences of "[noun pl] [is] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Northern Arts is giving the money on top of annual grants from a special Drama Production Fund , money ‘ unclaimed ’ by Newcastle-based Northern Stage after it ceased production while looking for a new artistic director . |
| 2 | Remember , one objective of Compacts is to raise the participation rate in education post-16 . |
| 3 | The ‘ problem ’ for management or the owners of organizations is to get the structure right and operate it efficiently . |
| 4 | The crest-to-crest distance between adjacent waves is called the wavelength of the energy ( Figure 5.5 ) . |
| 5 | That portion of the epicranium which lies immediately behind the frons and between the compound eyes is termed the vertex . |
| 6 | The objective of these guidelines is to place the cylinder index on the file cylinder that is of lowest possible activity , in such a position that the majority of head movements away from the index will be short . |
| 7 | This would be the case where an R&D programme and its objective are clearly defined and each of the parties is given the opportunity of exploiting any of the results that are of interest to it , or where the results are used solely for the purposes of further research . |
| 8 | The cost of Christmas cards , free parcels and telegrams is costing the taxpayer millions of pounds , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 9 | A more common system on modern computers is to store the return address in an index register . |
| 10 | The increasing power and sophistication of computers is advancing the brain sciences in two ways . |
| 11 | The man who makes the most speeches is called the Speaker . |
| 12 | The approach of all these Usborne books is to introduce the reader to the fun that can be had with electronics . |
| 13 | To the language of books is added the language of television and radio , … the processed codes of the computer . |
| 14 | The combined effect of these adaptations is to make the archer fish a highly efficient predator of insects . |
| 15 | One of the 12 steps is to acknowledge the existence of a ‘ higher power ’ . |
| 16 | But now Oxford City Council says grazing in the winter months is wrecking the land encouraging the spread of thistles and ragwort and threatening the rare species . |
| 17 | Victoria 's genius in the Tenbrae Responses is to set the text to music of simple strength , built on memorable melodic lines in which the text often receives one note per syllable . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In as much as the purpose of the trials is to establish the suitability of a package of products , used for maintenance rather than remedial cleaning , it may also be necessary to arrange for a ‘ deep clean ’ prior to the trial otherwise the results may be distorted . |
| 20 | Although few performers really enjoy working under the glare of high-power lights , their use is sometimes essential , and the most acceptable way to use them for the illumination of small areas is to employ the technique known as bounce-lighting . |
| 21 | Of course the increasing population in some countries is harming the progress that they could otherwise make on development issues . |
| 22 | Whatever may be the case in practice , the formal constitutional position of the administrative and coercive elements is to serve the state by serving the government of the day . |
| 23 | The chief function of the Apolline elements is to shield the spectator against the full impact of the music ; and it is actually the presence of this shield that permits the highest potential of music to be realized . |
| 24 | However , if the total effect of this and other stress effects is to exaggerate the effect of stress then this could be less a problem than an advantage in detecting stress early , although not an exact measurement . |
| 25 | We believe that the best chance of keeping out imports is to improve the efficiency and productivity of the industry . |
| 26 | He also sold up and left because the only alternative in these miserable circumstances is to spend the rest of your life living next door to someone who will never speak to you again . |
| 27 | The aim of these articles is to inform the Fellowship of missionary activity , both at home and overseas . |
| 28 | In fact the volume of traffic on Scotland 's mountains is making the sighting of anything more exotic than a slug increasingly difficult . |
| 29 | Many times the chub take slugs so viciously they rip them clean off the hook , and the only thing you can do to improve matters is to thread the line through the full length of the slug with a baiting needle , attach the hook and pull it back so that one end of the slug is lying in the bend of the hook . |
| 30 | 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 . |