Example sentences of "[noun pl] [is] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Our total budget for ethnic arts is in the region of about fifteen hundred pounds which , as you can probably appreciate in a region representing four million people , does not all us very much flexibility , but we also feel that it 's the type of event which we are prepared to support , which is also important . |
2 | The overall sum required to meet the payments due under the scheme to B.C.C.I. depositors is in the region of £78m . |
3 | A name that appears in Halling for a period of around five centuries is of the family of Usher . |
4 | Similarly a family of vertical parabolas is of the form y = ax n , where n is an even number . |
5 | A full description of the theory and practice of the generally accepted methods is beyond the scope of the guide , so please refer to the CFM , valuations training material ( from the advanced corporate finance course ) or textbooks ( see chapter 14 of the handbook for list ) for detailed technical guidance . |
6 | Reducing waiting lists is at the top of all politicians ' political agendas , regardless of their political persuasion . |
7 | Since wages and prices tend to be ‘ sticky ’ in the downward direction , the only way that the price mechanism can work and give the appropriate signals is for the prices of different goods and services to rise at different rates . |
8 | The most marked change however which is obviously connected with the smaller number of candidates is in the number of lost deposits which were only 35 against 64 . |
9 | According to a recent RSPCA report , cruelty to animals is on the increase , yet , using one of the privileges of his beloved free society , he condones a form of ritualistic animal abuse merely because it is a ‘ tradition ’ within a tiny percentage of our population . |
10 | A lot of the argument among the authorities on these animals is about the equivalence or otherwise of certain bones in dinosaurs and bird skeletons ( and particularly the Jurassic bird Archaeopteryx ) ; this makes for rather dry reading for the layman . |
11 | In Brighton , where the system has been installed for a number of years , one in four homes is on the cablephone network . |
12 | The whole question of the burden of proof was nicely summed up in the Esso case by Lord Hodson where he said : It has been authoritatively said that the onus of establishing that an agreement is reasonable as between the parties is upon the person who puts forward the agreement , while the onus of establishing that it is contrary to the public interest , being reasonable between the parties , is on the person so alleging … |
13 | One restaurants is by the shore , another on top of a hill in an old sugar mill . |
14 | So the only way they can get at the crees is through the west field and along the path here . ’ |
15 | Indeed , with the rapidity of change in modern Britain , the need for continuing educational opportunities is on the increase for all adults . |
16 | In these days of widespread family planning , you might well think the number of unwanted pregnancies is on the decline . |
17 | Peter Lihou 's firm , Mainstream computers is in the doldrums . |
18 | SPELLING everyday words is beyond the grasp of millions of Britons , a survey revealed yesterday . |
19 | It talks of anecdotal evidence in 1991 that the carrying of knives is on the increase among young people and it quotes Detective Chief Superintendent Roger Stoodley , who works in east London , as saying : ’ I have never known so many people to be carrying these weapons . ’ |
20 | Another way in which there needs to be a rapprochement between statistical methods and GIS is in the area of spatial sampling and estimation from spatial samples . |
21 | Not all of the output from a GIS is in the form of maps . |
22 | But the threat of sanctions imposed by the United Nations is at the back of his mind , ‘ We have discussed it and it is of great personal interest to me as I would n't have a job . |
23 | A shop specialising in children 's books is on the Grossmunsterplatz . |
24 | If loss of amenities is for the rest of the plaintiff 's life the court will need to take into account in assessing damages his age and his expectation of life . |
25 | The probability So that while the mean position after n steps is at the origin , the root mean square ( r.m.s. ) path length is . |
26 | I would say that three months is about the maximum , and that long before this period is up the confection , like a fresh fruit sorbet stored in the deep freeze , has lost its exquisite flavour and the edge has gone from the sharp scent . |
27 | you know I , I think , I think usually what I say about questionnaires is towards the business of , you know , kind of writing them in people 's own words that , that sort of fit in with ordinary language okay putting them in a sensible order advising people to do scale type things with five or seven points or something which you 've got a lot of already so a lot of the comments that I normally make on people 's questionnaires er you can take as read as it were erm so I think erm you know just really one or two minor things about layout like , you know , you know sort of space and , and moving things around a wee bit , it might make them easier to read but again as I say that 's a you know relatively minor erm problem . |
28 | The affidavit evidence of the defendants is to the effect that they did not understand that executing a further charge was prohibited by the order . |
29 | Dead metaphors also have a certain syntactic rigidity ; the quality of being ‘ dead ’ is closely tied to a particular syntactic form , and with any modification the metaphor springs to life : compare He has one foot in the grave and One of his feet is in the grave . |
30 | The damage is being done and the survival of Scotland 's wild areas is at the cusp . |