Example sentences of "is [det] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been so for decades and there is little on the horizon that threatens to curtail it . |
| 2 | Although this new edition emphasises quark models , there is little on the physics of the nucleus , except for beta-decay and an old fashioned discussion of electron-nucleus scattering . |
| 3 | ‘ Hospitals are full of posters with tips on healthy eating , urging people to eat fish and vegetables , to grill and steam instead of fry , yet often there is little on the hospital menu that is healthy . |
| 4 | At 24 , there is little of the pug image about him . |
| 5 | Otherwise there is little of the ritual of the courts , though everyone is expected to stand when the tribunal members enter or leave . |
| 6 | In addition to this and partially as a result of it , there is little in the way of national planning ’ . |
| 7 | There is little in the way of printed and audio-visual material that the clearinghouses do not attempt to acquire . |
| 8 | Indeed , in the extensive assessment of the economic potential of the SEM undertaken by the Commission there is little in the way of spatial analysis . |
| 9 | It may be considered that there is little in the way of information skills worksheets or programmes at Milne 's High School . |
| 10 | Is that about the bloke that used to go out with Joan Collins ? ’ |
| 11 | Is that about the festival ? |
| 12 | The problem simply Mr Mayor is that during the morning peak period traffic enters the city via causeway , going erm I think erm this traffic that 's coming over the is joined by local traffic from roads leading off causeway and the result of that is that er on many occasions er we get a long tailback of traffic er waiting to turn right at the junction of causeway and road . |
| 13 | thank you , is that through the service charge or through the management charge ? |
| 14 | The most important division between industries is that between the oil companies and the rest . |
| 15 | The second group of existing language skills I would like to address is that of the service providers . |
| 16 | Another matter raised by these figures is that of the proportion of different kinds of interaction . |
| 17 | The second widely used technique based on settling velocity is that of the sedimentation tube . |
| 18 | The next area in which you have control over the final quality is that of the software you choose . |
| 19 | Although it is generally supposed that the first truly mechanical escapement was of the verge-and-foliot type found in various church clocks throughout Europe , the earliest escapement of which we have definite detailed knowledge is that of the clock designed for the Abbey of St Albans c.1328 by Richard of Wallingford ( c.1292–1336 ) , the son of a blacksmith , who became Abbot in 1327 . |
| 20 | A case in point is that of the 100-cover , 19-bed Crown Inn , Westleton , Suffolk . |
| 21 | First and foremost , of course , is that of the user , usually an engineer , whether in mechanical or civil engineering , in aircraft or in textiles . |
| 22 | Their chorus was in harmony with the principals on the judicial stage : ‘ To any but those who desire to see a Sidney Webbian England ’ , wrote Allen , ‘ it is essential that the bureaucratic mind be confined to its proper function , which is that of the lieutenant , not the captain . ’ |
| 23 | Another is that of the past . |
| 24 | The first is that of the relationship between theory and practice , about which much has been heard since the Second World War as higher education has been used more and more as an entry route by professions seeking higher status . |
| 25 | Another well known and frequently reported story is that of the man and his dog at Swithland . |
| 26 | The one surprising tempo on this disc is that of the minuet , marked Allegretto by Haydn but here taken very smartly , faster , in fact , than the Allegro minuet of No. 102 : if the music sounds less massively symphonic than it can ( sf accents are again a touch comfortable ) it has an engaging spring , especially the trio , which becomes a one-in-a-bar waltz rather than a Ländler . |
| 27 | As we have seen , a waiter at a hotel implies that the wine he offers is that of the hotel and not his own : Doukas , above , and in Silverman there was an implied representation that a quote was fair in the circumstances of mutual trust . |
| 28 | Another pattern to be found in our landscape is that of the maze or labyrinth . |
| 29 | Perhaps the most significant lexicon under development is that of the EDR project in Japan which is developing bilingual resources for Japanese and English ( Uchida , 1990 ) . |
| 30 | The tone is that of the narrator , ironic and sad — yet the novel does contain some successful humour . |