Example sentences of "is [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clive James , whose Observer column had made him the doyen of television critics in the Seventies , wrote ; ‘ One has been kept from previous series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em by its awful title , but it is time to say what everybody is saying-that the show is a must . |
| 2 | . This is where the posh chaps sat . |
| 3 | Now where that centre of that V is where the black ball will go . |
| 4 | She 's mentioned frequently but he never gives any clue as to who she is or the nature of their relationship . ’ |
| 5 | Consequently its Laplace transform is or The unit impulse function is infinite for an infinitesimal time as indicated in figure 11.5(d) and its integral over all time is unity . |
| 6 | Hence the Laplace transform of unit impulse is or The Laplace transform of a delayed unit impulse is of course |
| 7 | The University of Leeds briefly experimented with computer-assisted instruction , is although the emphasis was on more advanced subject instruction . |
| 8 | Lower that is than the County Council . |
| 9 | The reality of AIDS is that the person can die at any time . |
| 10 | A consequence of this tradition is that the sculptor 's own personality may receive less prominence in a monograph than a painter 's , as the effect of patronage given or withheld can be decisive in a sculptor 's career . |
| 11 | A difference between Morelli and Friedlander is that the former explains his method , while the latter does not . |
| 12 | Part of the charm of a sale is that the financial result is in itself a sort of critical judgement , reflecting even if not defining the taste and mood of the moment . |
| 13 | Part of the reason for this is that the American professoriat is the largest in the world , while the American market for current art is unprecedented ; it is evident that the turnover of the American art market as a whole is the largest in the world . |
| 14 | One incidental advantage of personality pieces is that the magazines in which they appear may be able to afford good-quality colour reproductions . |
| 15 | The trouble is that the allegation has begun to seem convincing . |
| 16 | All four books reveal a steady concern with imitation and interpretation , and to read them together is to be clearer about what it is that the writer intends us to think that he thinks about things . |
| 17 | One thing you can be sure of is that the panel will know the words of these characters very well ( they will probably be able to prompt you at any given moment should you ‘ dry ’ ) but each and every time the lines are spoken by a new voice they are different in their texture , humour , drama and music . |
| 18 | Quite clearly the most important thing about final presentations is that the play suits the talent available in the group . |
| 19 | However , one thing worth mentioning at this point is that the larger parts are not always a guarantee of an agent 's interest — quite often big roles will attract attention , but a student who has been very well cast in a smaller role may hit the mark just as effectively . |
| 20 | But the central and substantive argument that defenders of Roman catholic schools have had to deal with is that the dual school system in Northern Ireland encourages , supports , or at least reinforces the sectarian divide , and that it forms part of the vicious circle maintaining conflict in Ulster . |
| 21 | The fact is that the project itself will call into question the notion of success and failure , my theme in the big glass , he wrote , is , after all , the calling into question of such terms as success and failure , the calling into question of such notions as project and even work . |
| 22 | ( Yet beauty of glass is that the story it tells is that the parts can not cohere , can not form a whole , even though they would like to . ) |
| 23 | ( Yet beauty of glass is that the story it tells is that the parts can not cohere , can not form a whole , even though they would like to . ) |
| 24 | ‘ General opinion is that the rate will result in increased tariffs , which under the present economic conditions will serve only to reduce competitiveness , ’ the survey said . |
| 25 | The difference between most ARC members and professional chefs , male or female , is that the former have not been through ‘ the system ’ . |
| 26 | If the variometer is fluctuating and reading up on one side of the circle and down a little on the other , the probability is that the glider is not climbing at all but is just drifting further down wind . |
| 27 | The cause of almost every incident where the airbrakes open during the launch is that the pilot has failed to lock them correctly . |
| 28 | The first is that the wind tends to lift the upwind wing-tip and the second is that the glider tends to weathercock into the wind . |
| 29 | The first is that the wind tends to lift the upwind wing-tip and the second is that the glider tends to weathercock into the wind . |
| 30 | Most unintentional stalls occur , by definition , unexpectedly and usually the first obvious sign of what has happened is that the pilot is banging the stick on the rear stop with the nose still dropping — a frightening feeling . |