Example sentences of "[noun pl] [is] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of today 's worship songs is much in evidence and they are described in the United States as ‘ songs important to pilgrim people ’ . |
| 2 | The first , emphasised in the traditional readings of , say , Schopenhauer and Regan , is that kindness to animals is only of value as a psychological cause of human fellow-feeling . |
| 3 | Clearly their views may have been different from those of the people who died , but respondents are likely to have taken into account the reactions of their relatives and friends , and how these respondents felt about the care in the homes is also of interest and concern . |
| 4 | Through the Children Act 1989 and its associated regulations and guidance , the Government have ensured that a much more effective framework for controlling children 's homes is now in position . |
| 5 | John Simpson , who has complained about pressure from officials of both parties is also under fire for his report on the first John Major ‘ Val Doonican ’ rally , in which he suggested there was a tame audience and that Mr Major was no great orator . |
| 6 | Erm the third one is we 've got a small amount of money out of , think again it 's out of TEED and , but it 's N Y T E C have got hold of it and it 's to do with further development of the Careers Service Tech Partnership , but it 's only a few thousand , it 's a very small n amount compared , I mean the bid that we 've put in for this Standards and Indicators is more like sort of thirty thousand . |
| 7 | In both , there are contending forces in each direction and the final outcome for economies as a whole and for particular sectors is still in doubt . |
| 8 | The testing of 7 year-olds is well under way and tests for older children are now being developed . |
| 9 | The CORINE GIS is still under development , and problems of data checking and verification will occupy a considerable amount of time before the GIS will be capable of producing reliable information . |
| 10 | I remind the House that the 10-minute limit on speeches is now in effect . |
| 11 | But here I find the opinions often less easy to take , though the wide scholarship and enthusiasm involved in the books is not in question . |
| 12 | The stock of books is now in excess of 9,500 and will increase each year . |
| 13 | This sort of example of partnership between schools is always of interest to the local press . |
| 14 | Research on a new microcontroller with built-in fuzzy logic co-processors is also under development . |
| 15 | A four-tier system of Advanced Diplomas , Diplomas , Advanced Certificates , and Certificates is now in place . |
| 16 | The clarity and precision associated with CDs is there in abundance , and the more expensive the turntable , the less the clicks and scratches seem to matter — a stylus that is tracking accurately tends not to make a mountain out of a molehill in the groove . |
| 17 | The fact that these emotions exist in industrial and other enterprises and that the ego finds ways of defending against bad experiences is not at issue ; what is more difficult to establish is the complex way in which these feelings are dealt with . |
| 18 | The sporadic shutting off of town centres by selective use of barriers is already under way to stop the bombers . |
| 19 | Their ability to use landmarks and home cues is not in doubt , although whether they use olfactory cues as well as visual ones is still uncertain . |
| 20 | A comprehensive list of these functions is out of place in this overview , but a glance through the following paragraphs should provide a general impression of LIFESPAN 's functional range . |
| 21 | Quite rightly , social security contributions are applied to benefits in kind , but it creates an extra burden for employers if the system of assessing the benefit that will be subject to contributions is out of line with income tax . |
| 22 | The inclusion of core skills in general SVQs and the new preliminary awards is firmly in line with current thinking about how vocational education and training should be designed . |
| 23 | A communist old-boy network of managers and officials is still at work , shunting influential jobs to old comrades and hindering the break-up of old empires . |
| 24 | The Committee 's position on the nature of the English school within universities is entirely in line with this narrow viewpoint , and the same is true of their approach to examinations and research : |
| 25 | It is one of the paradoxes of contemporary political thinking that at the same time as much conventional theory has tried to restrict the idea of democracy to that of choosing a government from competing elites , it is also widely admitted that the theoretical sovereignty of these democratic governments is not in fact matched by their actual powers over society , particularly in relation to the vast conglomerate firms and multi-national companies on whose policies and decisions the employment and livelihood of so many millions now depend . |
| 26 | Cellulose forms on the average about a third of the weight of all vegetation and the world tonnage of plants is almost beyond computation , locking up in cellulose a large fraction of the world 's limited supply of carbon . |
| 27 | An eighteenth century mansion which has been a convent school , a Hari Krishna temple and a training ground for police tracker dogs is up for sale . |
| 28 | In Japan , that ability to transfer and spread costs is increasingly under pressure . |
| 29 | Frejji is completely at home in zerograv , having spent many years building magni-freighters among the moons of Cytostom . |
| 30 | A water mill that has n't changed for one hundred and fifty years is up for sale as a unique country home . |