Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The result is that today a recording is seldom the transcription of a single musical event .
2 From the consumer 's point of view , the drawback to the implied terms in the Sale of Goods Act is that only the buyer can sue the seller .
3 Initially the capacitor voltage is and therefore the phase voltage is , but this decays to as the capacitor discharges .
4 My contention is that both the justice and inhumanity of capitalist societies result inevitably from the failure to assert certain absolutes and so place proper limits on the use of freedom .
5 But it does not matter what our opinion is but how the zander feel about this relative to other variables .
6 That group is nor only the group which has supported the US-led intervention against Iraq , it is also the group which effectively controls Gulf oil production and Opec .
7 Misunderstandings have sometimes arisen from an unwarrantable belief that title deeds are sacrosanct documents , whereas the truth is that neither a conveyance nor a land certificate retains its value if the landowner is so indifferent as to lose physical control of his land .
8 But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available !
9 The lesson from Butler is that not every document sent between the parties is in fact a counter-offer .
10 The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission .
11 The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission .
12 The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission .
13 The trouble is that both the product and the claims made for it are so unusual that it is impossible to predict whether it will disappear , never to be seen again , or become the biggest thing since MS-DOS .
14 The trouble is that both the product and the claims made for it are so unusual that it is impossible to predict whether it will disappear , never to be seen again , or become the biggest thing since MS-DOS .
15 He concluded : ‘ the cardinal rule of library stock control is that both the loan period and the duplication policy should be related to the level of demand for the title and to each other . ’
16 The fundamental difference between the traditional novel and this the new novel is that now the style is analytical and psychological .
17 But the warning is that not every road is treated with salt — and even if it is , not every road is safe in icy conditions : and sometimes it 's even hard going for the experts .
18 Although he did not say so , the logic is that only the company itself would have a cause of action .
19 The reason is that otherwise the surface charges would be in motion contrary to the assumption that a static equilibrium exists .
20 The difference between this and Helby v. Matthews is that here the customer was committed to making all the payments and therefore to acquiring ownership of the goods .
21 His only explanation is that possibly the gentleman had travelled on the line for many years in the past and that his ghost fitted into a well-worn slot in time .
22 The big change is that literally the market place is now global .
23 Everyone has ability but some never take the trouble to find out what that ability is and so the world goes by .
24 ‘ Some of the human figures were life size , the bodies and limbs very attenuated and represented as having numerous tassel-shaped adornments appended to the hair , neck , waist , arms and legs : but the most remarkable fact in connection with these drawings is that wherever a profile face is shown , the features are of a most pronounced aquiline type , quite different from those of any natives we encountered .
25 A further possibility is that either the prestige or the style of the journals has altered over the study period , thus encouraging submission ( or acceptance ) of larger studies .
26 One politically unfortunate aspect of the problem is that often the generator of the pollution is not the country suffering it .
27 My own view is that perhaps the concept of normality is inappropriate here , since doubtless much of the hostility and prejudice which exists towards homosexuality is a product of this notion .
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