Example sentences of "is [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An alternative approach to reducing phenylalanine accumulation is oral treatment with the enzyme phenylalanine ammonia lyase . |
| 2 | There is PCB-burning capacity in Sweden , Finland , Germany and France , of which only the last is , like Britain , prepared to import such waste . |
| 3 | In Indomalesia , there is concentrated interest in fewer than 100 species with exports of 12 or so . |
| 4 | The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord . |
| 5 | How reliable is monetary policy in controlling monetary variables ? |
| 6 | Now it did n't mean that you build his war machine , but the Kuwaiti people being so close , or actually bordering , we helped the economy of Baghdad , we helped the economy of the Iraq , and we contributed thirteen billion dollars , just the government alone , to their economy and the people of Kuwait also helped with their own private donation to help the schools , the hospitals , the food , whatever they needed , and the country of Kuwait was erm trying to be , as my friend said , as neutral as possible because there is Irani interest in Kuwait , very great through trade , through Iranis who work in Kuwait , so we had a very difficult position with respect to keeping both parties erm sort of in sight , not lose sight of them from our humanistic point of view , but it was erm difficult to avoid being on the side of the Iraqui , mainly because they 're neighbours and they 're Arabs , and you 're part of the league of Arab states , so you ca n't draw the line and say the government was pro or against , but that was the atmosphere which we were leaving . |
| 7 | Despite considerable urban development , particularly on the coast , most of this plain is agricultural land of the highest quality and intensively cultivated . |
| 8 | In peace-time the selection ratio , the ratio of applicants to available jobs is a key feature , there tends to be more testing in times of economic depression when jobs are scarce and also in post-war periods when there is extensive experience of using tests . |
| 9 | Of course , there is extensive dislocation at headquarters , but our branches will be functioning as normal . |
| 10 | In other words , there is extensive support in Britain and many other western states for government welfare and economic programmes which help the ‘ deserving ’ poor , and are also thought to be credible and realistic . |
| 11 | However , while there is extensive evidence of assortative mating ( O'Donald , 1980 ) , of the importance of plumage characteristics in courtship ( Williams , 1982 ) and of female preference for males who can defend superior breeding territories ( Pleszczynska , 1978 ) only very recently has it been demonstrated that consistent female choice for any continuous morphological character in males is an important source of variation in male reproductive success . |
| 12 | On the other hand , there is extensive evidence for specific factors which can control the pathways of differentiation . |
| 13 | Specifically , it seems plausible that if there is extensive competition in the market , relatively inefficient firms will be forced out . |
| 14 | Patrick Green , the environment group 's radiation consultant , says : ‘ There is extensive contamination along 6 kilometres of the River Esk in Cumbria , which is not discussed in official reports published by the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |
| 15 | To the north and east of the village there is extensive meadowland along the river Yeo , with no earthworks except drainage ditches . |
| 16 | Less evident , however , is extensive consciousness of its essentially political nature , involving conflict over control of scarce resources between North and South , that is between affluent and less developed regions of the world . |
| 17 | Geriatric units are particularly vulnerable because treatment of UTIs tends to be long term and there is extensive use of indwelling urinary tract catheters . |
| 18 | Long-firm frauds are to be found in most western countries , and are liable to occur wherever there is extensive use of credit in business transactions . |
| 19 | What is anatomical basis of this orientation selectivity ? ( personal communication ) suggests an answer which is reminiscent of that proposed by to account for the ability of octopuses to recognize spatial patterns . |
| 20 | One is Israeli withdrawal from ‘ territories [ not , deliberately , the territories ] occupied in the recent conflict ’ . |
| 21 | At this stage , there is little reference to the likely difficulty of the criterion or to factors which are associated with variation in difficulty . |
| 22 | Systems are relevant to how you run your office , not how you run your cases and there is little reference to the transaction criteria . |
| 23 | As for the detailed number criteria there is little reference at this stage to likely success rates or to the difficulty factors which are associated with variation in success rates . |
| 24 | There is little exploration of the sorts of processes and events reported in research in Manchester ( Ward , 1979 ) and London ( Wall man , 1986 ) , for example , which documents the shifting forms of boundary maintenance , division and alliance that emerge in relation to local politics . |
| 25 | However much Labour may talk about public expenditure , it normally makes such a mess of the economy that there is little benefit to be found in the longer run . |
| 26 | For systems in which there is little variation of both load torque and distance of travel it may be appropriate to operate with a fixed switching angle , so as to minimise the controller costs . |
| 27 | There is little variation with age or sex in these attitudes , but some variation between social classes . |
| 28 | There is also some evidence to suggest that there is little variation by social class in the amount of practical support given and received . |
| 29 | There is little variation by sex or social class in these attitudes , and little consistent variation with age except that the older the respondents , the more likely they are to consider Respect for authority and Discipline and orderliness essential , and the less likely to consider Sex education essential . |
| 30 | On the other hand , male sterilizations are rare and there is little promotion of the operation . |