Example sentences of "[is] [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would agree with you that if the if we have gone along and said to people , well er yo , we 've got alternative accommodation for you and they have n't wanted to go then , well I 'm sure that we hope not to give them that er er , alternative accommodation er , and it 's not in our interest at all to er , keep er , places empty , and further more we have n't really got er enough er , alternative places to put er , these er tenants in so I 'm that it 's as the result of the sort of dwellings that er we 've er we now find ourselves with as a result of the er initial buildings in the first place . |
| 2 | This is not intended to be nomination in the traditional sense and once the subcontractor has been named ( subject to reasonable objection by the contractor if the naming is during the course of the contract ) , that subcontractor becomes almost entirely the responsibility of the contractor . |
| 3 | JustText , by the way , includes a Thunderscan to PostScript routine that 's worth the price of the product alone . |
| 4 | Francis — who 's worth the whole of the rest of the family put together ! ’ |
| 5 | It is about the possibility of learning . |
| 6 | So the report is about the possibility of a grand enterprise . |
| 7 | Now the view er was that they were dignified and above taking action and also in the sense that the public was credited I think with more sense than to believe everything and that the public memory is relatively short and therefore if you start a court action and you then have coverage in the court action , you are merely making the thing worse erm sometimes the things that some people may have thought were highly actionable one day , become almost a joke and something of affection later on and you can , one of the classics maybe is about the Prince of Wales talking to his plants , now that a national joke and he will make jokes about it in speeches |
| 8 | It is about the enjoyment of language through speaking and joking and ‘ creative ’ writing : poetry , stories , diary-keeping , letter-writing . |
| 9 | It is about the interaction of energy and matter , cause and effect , understanding phenomena . |
| 10 | The implant is about the size of a saucer , 3.5 inches ( 9cm ) across and an inch deep . |
| 11 | Selling space in a hypermarket is about the size of a … |
| 12 | The human heart is about the size of a fist and is a muscle filled with blood . |
| 13 | Each spring is about the size of a swimming pool and produces enough helium for use , after liquefaction , at the Cyclotron ( small nuclear accelerator ) in Calcutta . |
| 14 | The marking device is in the form of a microchip , enclosed within a tiny container which is about the size of a rice grain . |
| 15 | So I was able to make excursions throughout the state , which is about the size of Hampshire , admiring its astonishing number of traditional country houses , and enjoying the company of many of their owners . |
| 16 | You take the biggest of the logs , which is about the size of a man 's arm , and walk softly across the room to the bedroom door . |
| 17 | One is about the size of or the half size of a football . |
| 18 | Can you identify this hammered silver coin , which is about the size of a 10p piece ( 29mm ) ? |
| 19 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 20 | NCR has just introduced a model that is about the size of an A4 pad making it possible to walk around and make notes as you go . |
| 21 | ‘ The Food of the Gods ’ by H.G. Wells is about the invention of a food which causes living things to grow to six or seven times their ordinary size . |
| 22 | Philip Glass 's latest opera is about the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus . |
| 23 | The film chooses an exaggerated case , but it is about the sameness of people . |
| 24 | The subject is about the management of resource and decision-making within different types of organisations and endeavours to develop decision-making skills in pupils by highlighting the contribution made by Information Technology . |
| 25 | If you compare the amount of meat on an ordinary mouse with the amount of meat you place in your pet 's food dish , you will find that the average cat-meal is about the equivalent of five mice . |
| 26 | The next main point is about the complexity of the system . |
| 27 | This is not a consideration which applies to other factors of production : there is far less concern about the proportion of a country 's capital stock which is lying idle than there is about the proportion of the labour force which is unemployed . |
| 28 | It is about the achievement of new perspectives or , as Ross ( 1980 ) has appropriately described it , it is about ‘ … the cleansing of the doors of perception ’ . |
| 29 | I think to sum up , I would be wanting to say , that this County Council takes a view that it is about the provision of services . |
| 30 | Above all though , aromatherapy is about the prevention of illness . |