Example sentences of "is [adv] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it is in those sectors of the housing market where government has taken most control and which provide cheap accommodation , that there is most restriction on entry for migrants . |
| 2 | But the wheels of bureaucracy take time to run , and British winter weather is rarely kind to fliers , while seaplanes have the additional disadvantage of needing several ground-crew and suitable tides as well as suffering all the constraints of more conventional land aircraft . |
| 3 | Electromagnetic radiation from a source small compared with the wavelength is predominantly dipole in character with higher multipoles becoming progressively weaker . |
| 4 | This magnificent constellation is arguably second in splendour only to Orion . |
| 5 | The Manager using the system is constantly face to face with data and this increases his knowledge of the company and its personnel . |
| 6 | Erm so Russia decides to intervene and at this point erm is especially concern of Britain . |
| 7 | Some may argue that this is merely abdication of responsibility ! — I prefer to consider that LM system is more sophisticated in removing any need for the practitioner to make such a judgement . |
| 8 | While I certainly accept that the witchcraft beliefs discussed so far could be considered as a variety of religion , this Lugbara data and certain clues in Evans-Pritchard 's account suggest that witchcraft ( or sorcery ) is only part of Zande religion . |
| 9 | In fact these are just shorthand labels for a type of practice that is only part of ABA . |
| 10 | This is only part of Samson Agonistes ’ contextualisation . |
| 11 | It is only human of Mr Teicher to make himself into the hero-victim of his own narrative . |
| 12 | This is the distinctive method of instruction at Oxford , and it is extremely prodigal of time . |
| 13 | There are other law officers who are politicians and members of the government , all of whom are expected to act impartially in their legal functions , but there is obviously scope for ambiguity and interpretation here . |
| 14 | Lord St John of Fawsley , chairman of the Royal Fine Art Commission , who , as Norman St John Stevas , was an early ministerial victim of Mrs Thatcher 's purge of the wets , has admonished the Prime Minister by reminding her she is not head of state ; treating her as such , his lordship suggested , would simply arouse public hostility . |
| 15 | This conflicts with earlier reports that Cu(I) gets incorporated into ZNO in the methanol synthesis catalyst ( but as Couves et al write , ‘ absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ’ ) . |
| 16 | He and his colleagues were understandably concerned about the lack of evidence to support the beneficial claims of holistic medicine , but Dr Richards , who thought much evidence could be produced if funds were available , sagely remarked that ‘ absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ’ , a remark that lingered after a discussion that would have been better if longer and better left to the end of this excellent series . |
| 17 | That the accounts department is not part of B S 5750 except in its relationship with er , researchers . |
| 18 | At the moment , the Convention is not part of Britain 's domestic law . |
| 19 | Ambitious New Yorkers , please note : Northern Ireland is not part of New York city , nor yet of the United States , nor even of South Africa . |
| 20 | It is not part of Stone 's business to look at the condition of working people , but the illustrations in the book reveal very little about the thought styles that the privileged brought to marriage and divorce . |
| 21 | On such a view , in so far as pragmatics is concerned with context , it can be claimed that by definition pragmatics is not part of competence , and thus not within the scope of grammatical descriptions . |
| 22 | And so you have then a political system in which you , which you have a presidency er faced by a powerful legislature , a president who is not part of legislature but who has to lead the legislature without any significant controls over it a very difficult and demanding task . |
| 23 | Admittedly , explaining their achievements is not part of Althusser 's project , and he might therefore be excused for failing to indicate the specific historical conjuncture from which Marxism arose . |
| 24 | It is not part of Locke 's empiricism that we know these things by observation and experience . |
| 25 | The other types of symbols are equally internalized by society 's members , and as this is not part of Freud 's theory , Parsons suggests modifications to it to incorporate these types of symbols also . |
| 26 | Does he recognise that dialogue is not criticism by Ministers of everyone else 's proposals without making any positive contribution themselves ? |
| 27 | Senna , on around £10 million a year , is at the top of the driver 's pay league , while at the other end there is not shortage of hustlers , pulling sponsorship deals of their own to buy seats with less wealthy teams . |
| 28 | If that is not proof of lack of investment , what is ? |
| 29 | Cellulose is not proof against attack and it was reckoned that a new car 's shine would be ruined in about two years . |
| 30 | The problem in meeting this need is not lack of resources , technologies or knowledge , but of political will and organisation . |