Example sentences of "is [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The comedy drama , called Henri , is about the adventures of a brilliant young accordion player from a small rural town who wins a place at a Belfast music school . |
| 2 | The second , related one is about the reasons for treating all people as if they were the same , regardless of their individual peculiarities of sex and gender . |
| 3 | Er and solicitors well they 're there the point is about the solicitors among other things they can er mediate when you have the sort of family who are going to fallout and I 'm afraid people do have families that are going to fall out . |
| 4 | Men Behaving Badly , back on Tuesday night , is about the antics of a randy football team . |
| 5 | This chapter is about the possibilities for creating learning environments which encourage children to work and learn collaboratively . |
| 6 | Similarly , our analysis of how time was used across the curriculum provoked further challenges to conventional assumptions : that the way to do a subject justice is to give it more time ; and that ‘ balance ’ is about the proportions of time given to the various subjects . |
| 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 | It is common ground that it is for the governors of a voluntary aided school to decide who is to be admitted as a pupil and to lay down the admissions policy of the school . |
| 9 | Yet the more heavily regulated the market is , and the greater the restrictions on the property rights given to suppliers , the less scope there is for the benefits of competition to emerge at all . |
| 10 | The first requirement is for the terms to be written in grammatically correct English — errors of grammar may disguise or even distort the meaning of a term . |
| 11 | The normal rule in such circumstances is for the convictions to be set aside : ‘ no reasonable jury who had applied their mind properly to the facts in the case could have arrived at the conclusion , and once one assumes that they are an unreasonable jury , or they could not have reasonably come to the conclusion , then the convictions can not stand . ’ |
| 12 | There are a number of solutions , but the most interesting solution is for the cells to ‘ know ’ their position in the line . |
| 13 | The largest uptake is for the subjects in the Final section , which are common to the Pre-Associateship Route . |
| 14 | The singing is flexible and responsorial and all the music is for the words of the Liturgy itself . |
| 15 | The alternative is for the children to be educated abroad in English-speaking international schools . |
| 16 | The author is for the purposes of this book broadening the definition to include all the cowboys in and out of the City of London , selling shares , futures , and occasionally other financial instruments . |
| 17 | A buyer under a conditional sale agreement which is a consumer credit agreement within the meaning of that Act ( see Chapter 19 ) , is for the purposes of section 25 of the Sale of Goods Act and section 9 of the Factors Act , not someone who has ‘ bought or agreed to buy , ’ ( Consumer Credit Act 1974 , Schedule 4 and section 25(2) of the Sale of Goods Act ) . |
| 18 | Dual assessments will be most common where the local authority is assessing a child 's special educational needs under the Education Act 1981 or where a child is disabled and the assessment is for the purposes of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 or associated legislation . |
| 19 | The aim is for the rates to be adjusted so that , overall , the employer 's national insurance contribution does not rise . |
| 20 | It is often the case that a letter is for the eyes of a particular person and nobody else . |
| 21 | The one on the north wall is for the men of the cavalry regiments from the Krems area who fell in the First World War . |
| 22 | Once a woman has decided what and who she wants to be , it is for the men in her life , if there are any , to re-educate themselves to take account of her . |
| 23 | Your comparison is to Latin America , when the most direct precedent is for the debtors of sub-Saharan Africa . |
| 24 | This is for the proportions of the elderly to decline in the populations of some large , traditional retirement resorts , such as Bournemouth and Torquay , and to rise in adjacent and nearby local authorities . |
| 25 | ‘ We firmly believe the best way to achieve this is through the skills of individual lessees , ’ he said . |
| 26 | It is through the processes of cultural reproduction , social integration and socialization that the lifeworld is constantly reproduced . |
| 27 | The first is through the ways in which Chas thinks about his parents , often stream-of-consciousness fashion , in their absence . |
| 28 | Although the United States economy is embraced by a single currency , and although many harmonised conditions conceal the differences , one wonders how much real internal convergence there is between the economies of Illinois , Texas and North Dakota — probably far less than there seems . |
| 29 | After meeting with Klibi on July 21 Shaikh Sabah appeared optimistic of a peaceful settlement , stating that " what is between the brothers in Iraq and Kuwait is merely a summer cloud which will go away " . |
| 30 | We could say that the conflict in any modern marriage is between the needs of self , the needs of the partnership ( each partner wanting to support the other , but refusing to be swamped by or subjugated to the other ) , the needs of children , the needs of the family as a group and the needs of those outside the family . |