Example sentences of "is [adv] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | Electromagnetic radiation from a source small compared with the wavelength is predominantly dipole in character with higher multipoles becoming progressively weaker . |
| 3 | This magnificent constellation is arguably second in splendour only to Orion . |
| 4 | The Manager using the system is constantly face to face with data and this increases his knowledge of the company and its personnel . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The entry fee is only £6 per team and entry is restricted to 32 teams who will then be split into eight groups of four in the round robin stages . |
| 7 | Now , after 9,500 miles , I wish I had gone for something else as there is only 3mm of tread left on each tyre all the way round . |
| 8 | In fact these are just shorthand labels for a type of practice that is only part of ABA . |
| 9 | It is only changes in test scores which exceed these reliability estimates that can be regarded as reflecting real changes in the child 's ability . |
| 10 | All sections are subject to an excess of £15 per person per section , except for Sections 1 , 3 , 9 and 12 which do not have an excess , and Section 4 in respect of Loss of Deposit only claims where the excess is only £5 per person . |
| 11 | Kik-Step offer price is only £34.95 including VAT , postage and packing . |
| 12 | The running cost of a cardiac rehabilitation session is only £4-£15 per patient . |
| 13 | ( By the way , do n't forget that it is only types of eruption , that are being discussed , and that any individual volcano may erupt in any of these ways — or in none . ) |
| 14 | This is the distinctive method of instruction at Oxford , and it is extremely prodigal of time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The price for a residential two-day workshop is approximately £400 plus VAT per person . |
| 17 | The cost of simply keeping the Falklands going is approximately £20,000 per person per year ( compared with Britain , where the figure is about £4,500 per person ) . |
| 18 | The current average cost of an afternoon course organised by the Institute is approximately £80 plus VAT . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If that is not proof of lack of investment , what is ? |
| 26 | Cellulose is not proof against attack and it was reckoned that a new car 's shine would be ruined in about two years . |
| 27 | The worst sin in an engineering material is not lack of strength or lack of stiffness , desirable as these properties are , but lack of toughness , that is to say , lack of resistance to the propagation of cracks . |
| 28 | The obstacle to disarmament in this case is not ambitions of superiority but the fear on each side of being tricked into a position of inferiority . |
| 29 | Is not dread of thirst when your well is full , the thirst that is unquenchable ? |
| 30 | It goes without saying that it is not £75,000 in respect of each but the total earnings ’ figure which must not exceed £75,000 . |