Example sentences of "and [pers pn] is [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 During the Gulf conflict he was president of Hartlepool Gulf Troops Support Group , and he is chairman of the Northern Area Parliamentary Candidates ' Association and press officer for the Conservative Group on Cleveland county council .
2 The Class runs for an hour and it is playtime for the 24 children .
3 In the 1850s , when there was still little pumping from the Chalk aquifer , water levels were nearly as low as they are now ; low rainfall was the cause then , and it is part of the cause of Europe 's recent droughts .
4 This is what is referred to when one speaks of the implementation of a program being machine-independent , and it is part of the conventional distinction between hardware ( i.e. machines ) and software ( i.e. Programs ) .
5 For him , even choices which are clearly dictated by subject matter are part of style : it is part of the style of a particular cookery book that it contains words like butter , flour , boil and bake ; and it is part of the style of Animal Farm that it contains many occurrences of pigs , farm , and Napoleon .
6 The view that state subsidies encourage strike activity in a variety of ways is strongly held in advanced industrial societies , and it is part of the Conservative Party folklore on industrial relations .
7 combine such analyses with oxygen isotope analyses , and it is variations in the latter that are particularly significant .
8 We have overcome numerous technical problems and it is thanks to the commitment and expertise of all our people and those who have supplied their services to the PFR that this has proved possible ’ .
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