Example sentences of "is [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( One film surely crying out to be made is about a special-effects team which finds that their creatures are coming to independent life and taking over the movie — or the studio , or the world ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And I 'll tell you what the problem is about the Trusts , and I 'll explain why they are opting out of the National Health Service . |
| 4 | That apparent drawback means that each rotating show is as much about curatorial overview as it is about the objects themselves . |
| 5 | ‘ The catechism is about the beliefs , the worship , the prayer and the way of loving of those who wish to follow Christ in the Catholic Church . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As John would say , that is about the birds . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Men Behaving Badly , back on Tuesday night , is about the antics of a randy football team . |
| 10 | This chapter is about the possibilities for creating learning environments which encourage children to work and learn collaboratively . |
| 11 | This is about the pilots who make up this famous aerobatic team , and it focuses on the three new pilots who join it each year . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The question now is not whether the other countries of Europe can absorb Germany ; it is about the costs and the benefits of latching on to her . |
| 14 | Obviously then we need to pick up the appraisal system , and I think what I 'll have to do with that , is as the targets kep co start coming in , erm we 'll have to set up some sort of system , preferably I suspect computerized . |
| 15 | Leapor was without question committed to educating herself , and yet here she asks whether her struggle is worth the insults and the discouragement . |
| 16 | From now on , they 'll be acquiring a taste for school food — the next step is for the orphans is to start attending lessons as if they were English boys and girls . |
| 17 | The hon. Lady has failed to understand that the ring-fenced money held by the regions is for the trusts or directly managed units . |
| 18 | We all know how essential oxygen is for the lungs and the whole organism , but few of us remember that the skin also needs air as a stimulus for its normal functioning . |
| 19 | The other way is for the adults to make up a course . |
| 20 | A third alternative , proposed by Demsetz ( 1968 ) , is for the rights to supply to be auctioned off to bidders whose bids would be in the form of a contract to supply at a given price ( rather like bids for the construction of a motorway ) . |
| 21 | A great deal of our concern is for the rights and needs of the council residents . |
| 22 | What is much more common is for the Lords to pass such Bills but with amendments . |
| 23 | erm there is for the Kuwaitis erm we just recently started a social security system for the Kuwaitis . |
| 24 | It is for the humanities to speak up for the value of retrospective conversion , and for some national planning to be undertaken to achieve this , as they , and to some extent the social sciences have most to gain from such an investment . |
| 25 | What I am doing is for the youngsters . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | What needs to be done is for the leaders who gather in Edinburgh to accept all that and begin to forge the new kind of European Community which is needed . |
| 28 | He says all he wants is for the lies to stop . |
| 29 | Lord Justice Browne-Wilkinson said that it is now apparently accepted that it is for the courts to decide whether a privilege exists and for the House of Commons to decide whether such privilege has been infringed . |
| 30 | No clear principles determine the allocation of disputes to these bodies although the greater the element of discretion and the more important the policy considerations , the less likely it is for the courts to take on the new area of responsibility . |