Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [is] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the language of books is added the language of television and radio , … the processed codes of the computer . |
| 2 | This set of words is called the word-initial cohort , since it is a set of words all having the same initial sound . |
| 3 | The ‘ problem ’ for management or the owners of organizations is to get the structure right and operate it efficiently . |
| 4 | The increasing power and sophistication of computers is advancing the brain sciences in two ways . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Remember , one objective of Compacts is to raise the participation rate in education post-16 . |
| 8 | Mary 's poem of thanks is called the Magnificat . |
| 9 | Here , one of the striking effects of lesions is to affect the animal 's capacity to learn spatial tasks — for instance to run mazes . |
| 10 | This assumption concerning the formation of expectations is called the adaptive expectations hypothesis . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This batch of questions is called the test , and its main job is to produce a pattern of answeres called a ‘ normal distribution ’ . |
| 16 | This range of compositions is called the ‘ miscibility window ’ and has been reported to be present in other systems . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But our board of trustees is following the situation with interest . ’ |
| 19 | A delegation of councillors is lobbying the Government because they say the noise is unbearable . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This zone of farms is called the marginal fringe because it is at the upper margin for agriculture . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | If there is a range of technical possibilities for producing a particular commodity the function of prices is to show the least-cost solution . |
| 24 | The problem of historians is to analyse the reasons and the precise timing of the changes . |
| 25 | Perhaps the job of humans is to make the world , and they 're still doing it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Once a routine of breastfeeds is established the mother can then choose to eliminate them in gradual succession . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | For one motive that drives men to commit a real crime there are a thousand that drives them to commit those indifferent acts which are called crimes by bad laws ; and if the probability of crimes is proportionate to the number of motives , to enlarge the sphere of crimes is to increase the probability of their being committed ( p. 94 ) . |
| 30 | Many are convinced that AIDS is a ‘ white disease ’ and that the real motive behind the promotion of condoms is to reduce the birth rate of black people so that white people are less heavily outnumbered when universal franchise finally comes to South Africa . |