Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [det] [is] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some support for this is the finding that leukaemia cells have unusually few plasmids ( Nature , vol 296 , p 219 ) . |
| 2 | The mayor does not automatically become Lord Mayor for that is the subject of a further grant from the Crown . |
| 3 | The result of this is the development of chronic lymphatic oedema , due to accumulation of fluid , and eventually to elephantiasis , which is irreversible enlargement . |
| 4 | Another indication of this is the position of the Strat-style neck pickups . |
| 5 | An essential ingredient of this is the ability to categorise each patient by disease type or treatment group . |
| 6 | The disadvantage of this is the amount of resistance against the vane when striking preventing hook penetration , difficult enough at 200 yards without adding problems . |
| 7 | The key to this is the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics , which states that one can not measure both the position and speed of a particle to great accuracy ; the more accurately you measure the position , the less accurately you can measure the speed , and vice versa . |
| 8 | The down side to this is the sacrifice of the solid , ‘ in the car ’ feel provided by desk-attached wheels . |
| 9 | But perhaps the most welcome change of all is the resiting of the automatic transmission selector lever from the steering column to the central console ; Rolls-Royce 's famed electronic control is retained , though . |
| 10 | At the heart of this is the introduction of an Integrated Services Digital Network ( ISDN ) system which not only allows fast , cheap transfer of data along lines that are free of interference but also voice and data transmission at the same time rather than using two separate lines . |
| 11 | The most notable case of this is the application of transformational grammar to automatic parsing systems which proved theoretically very appealing , but computationally unsuccessful ( c.f. $2.2.3.1.2 ) . |
| 12 | The standard measure of this is the half-life ; the time taken by the body to eliminate half the dose taken . |
| 13 | because I think er Mr 's motion is erm , similar to er Rosie 's erm except that , I mean I think what we 're actually saying is that we do actually have a number of waste planning sort of policy panel , er and this is something look , needs to be looked at in , in some detail , erm and if we just do it via a sort of straight report to the Environment Committee and I mean look at the sort of agenda we 've got today er you know how much time can we spend on the details so I mean I hope the Liberal Democrats would accept that erm yes it will obviously come to the Environment Committee eventually er but that it actually should go to the Waste Planning to the Policy panel and other bits no doubt to the Waste Disposal sort of Sub Committee for this is the policy er committee of course . |
| 14 | One dimension of this is the under-representation of women in senior positions in schools . |
| 15 | A reflection of this is the way they are all trying to develop their lager interests in a market where lager is growing at nearly 10 per cent per annum and is likely to command over 40 per cent of all sales this year . |
| 16 | The clearest exposition of this is the poet Novalis 's essay ‘ Christianity or Europe ’ ( 1799 ) which describes the Golden Age of European ( and German ) unity before the Reformation . |
| 17 | The corollary to this is the claim that bureaucracy in police stations is chimerical . |
| 18 | The person with the greatest influence over these is the priest or presiding minister . |
| 19 | The attraction of doing a sketch like this is the speed at which it can be achieved . |
| 20 | It 's our view Chairman that the figure of a hundred and forty five hectares for the Greater York area is too high , erm the basis for that is the government guidance P P G twelve , paragraph five point one three , which says that the structure plan should provide a strategic framework for local plans development control and it should also indicate broad areas of restraint on development . |
| 21 | The focus of this is the language itself and , in particular , the use of ‘ verbs ’ within it . |
| 22 | I thought it was interesting as well that the stuff I got from the I and R V with it , was a lot about audio description and the tape and how much it cost and how wonderful this was and it was the first time it had ever been done , but there was nothing , as is always the case , there was nothing actually about what the film was about , it was full of sort of , this is the first time it 's done , but nothing about sort of this is the film about , about this , this is what the story 's about , you know . |
| 23 | I think the strong point of this is the light . |
| 24 | The record of this is the authorising of the |
| 25 | A possible limitation to this is the suggestion that it would cover only those matters which had been before the House , or at least those coming before the House in the current Parliamentary session . |
| 26 | Kind of make you hoot with laughter half the time , erm , and the contrast with that is the point , which I do n't know whether any of you has looked at , of course , called Gandhi 's Truth . |
| 27 | The evidence for this is the system of kinship terms which Morgan found in various parts of the world . |
| 28 | The clearest evidence for this is the dearth of people keen to work with frail older people . |
| 29 | Another one of the most er interesting bits of evidence about this is the rate of fraternal twinning . |
| 30 | On top of that is the fact that the society and type of education they have received both led them to expect wage employment — probably in an office … . |