Example sentences of "is [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is during the initial design phase , and the second is during design change . |
| 2 | His latest series , Walk on the Wild Side , is about animal behaviour , and will be shown on BBC1 in the spring . |
| 3 | But er their , their real function is , is to fight ; the whole thing is about turtle power , and er their , their main theme song says ‘ we 're a fierce fighting team ’ , and er so you , you see a change from the quite sort of innocent er appearance to suddenly er a lot of aggression . |
| 4 | The initial phase of the training is as much about learning as it is about skills development and the multi agency study groups system in Lothian which underpin this package is the vehicle for achieving this . |
| 5 | My Lords , this appeal is about Sunday trading . |
| 6 | Sadly , the question is about May day . |
| 7 | ‘ Economic recovery is as much about confidence as it is about deficit financing' |
| 8 | Economic recovery is as much about confidence as it is about deficit financing , as the resolute measures recently announced by President Clinton have demonstrated . |
| 9 | Economic recovery is as much about confidence as it is about deficit financing , as the resolute measures recently announced by President Clinton have demonstrated |
| 10 | Economic recovery is as much about confidence as it is about deficit financing , as the resolute measures recently announced by President Clinton have demonstrated . |
| 11 | There 's been a very interesting episode of The Bill which is about wife battering and makes all kinds of progressive points that wife batterers are not , in fact , the sort of British lower-class people of the stereotype . |
| 12 | ‘ Budgeting ’ is therefore not simply about money management : it is about health care management as well . |
| 13 | The question is about Torrells school . |
| 14 | And I hope that John Major and central office of the Conservative Party study it carefully since it is about party democracy and the Conservative party have a few lessons to learn in that direction . |
| 15 | It is as part answer to that question that I have put forward the notion of language as screen , the dazzling play of words and tones , fragments , sequences , movements this way and that — calls constantly to the eye and ear of the reader . |
| 16 | Its main use in furnishing fabrics is as linen union , a hard-wearing fabric . |
| 17 | An important difference between conventional statistics and statistics of grain size distributions is that in the former frequency is expressed as numbers whereas in the latter it is as weight percentage . |
| 18 | Erm my role is as volunteer coordinator so looking after you , that 's my main job . |
| 19 | Yes , I can reassure management that it is worth spending money on advertising , because I can demonstrate , with good numbers , that it produces results . |
| 20 | Wrong again , because along comes Greg Hutchings of Tomkins with an offer which is worth 260p cash , or 270p if you include the dividend . |
| 21 | S is for Sex Ban : |
| 22 | Alcatel NV 's Alcatel Standard Electrica SA has won a new $500m telecommunications contract in China : the contract is for 6m telephone lines and comes after the $300m Chinese contract already announced . |
| 23 | However it is possible in some cases to obtain a broad indication for 1985 of the contrast between firms with over 1000 and those with less than 100 employees although the data is for manufacturing industry rather than all employees . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , the majority of energy used in homes is for space heating ( heating the rooms and the people ) and this is mostly needed in the winter when there is not sufficient sunshine in this country for solar energy to be feasible . |
| 25 | We may soon see a nursery ABC frieze , which goes : A is for Aids , B is for Bondage , C is for Condom , D is for Deviancy , E is for Equality , F is for Feminism , G is for Gender Stereotyping , H is for Haringey , I is for Income Support , J is for Joyriding , K is for karma , L is for Liberalism , M is for Ms. , N is for New Age , O is for Outing , P is for Positive Discrimination , Q is for Questioning Authority , R is for Radical , S is for Single Parent , T is for Therapy , U is for Underprivileged , V is for Virtual Reality , W is for Wimmin , X is for Malcolm , Y is for Yoof and Z is for Zen . |
| 26 | Adjacent to this room , the well-appointed bathroom is for nursery use only . |
| 27 | The more categories that are used , of course , the less room there is for category error . |
| 28 | The authors believe that a major reason for the public 's perception that auditors lack independence is their ‘ weak structural position ’ , and that the only way to overcome this is for audit regulation to be taken away from the profession . |
| 29 | But since the thrust of the argument is for grass-roots power and the paper refers implicitly to unpopular counties created by the 1974 reforms , the districts are less worried than the counties that contain them . |
| 30 | The Harcros Timber & Building Supplies Stayers Handicap looks a great deal more competitive , but firm preference is for Dreams End . |