Example sentences of "and [pers pn] is [adj] [noun sg] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is of course an external system , well over 150000 light-years away , and it is sheer coincidence that it lies almost behind the two globulars , 47 Tucanæ and NGC 362 . |
| 2 | The other is the far gamier world of Defoe and Fielding , and it is that memory that Amis and Murdoch revived . |
| 3 | ‘ Farmer Giles was backing his luck ’ , as people often do ; and it is common knowledge that while this is irrational it works much more often than mere ‘ chance ’ would dictate . |
| 4 | Part II deals with membership and it is common ground that Norwich was eligible to be , and became , a member of Lautro . |
| 5 | Accordingly there was no consideration for the owner 's agreement to pay the further 10 per cent. , since the yard were already contractually bound to build the ship and it is common ground that the devaluation of the dollar had in no way lessened the yard 's legal obligation to do this . |
| 6 | This is perhaps inevitable since deconstruction resists teleology , and it is this resistance that has enabled its enemies to call it nihilist . |
| 7 | The feature of human culture and human activities that gives rise to the representation problem is above all that human communities embody norms , and it is this notion that I shall principally discuss . |
| 8 | And it is this struggle that showed us a way . |
| 9 | Police determination to control the volume and the effect of picketing made movement around the country and demonstrations at collieries extremely difficult ; ‘ much secondary picketing was prevented from taking place , effectively or at all , by police action rather than the intervention of the civil courts , and it is this factor that is at the heart of complaints that the police broke the strike , or were used to break it ’ ( Wallington , 1985 : 148 ) . |
| 10 | Its inventor Kevin Inkster started with a loose chain on a disc , and it is this formation that Toolbox have chosen . |
| 11 | The presently accepted age range for Sivapithecus is 12.5 to 7Myr , and it is this date that provides the earliest evidence for the splitting of the orang-utan from the other hominoids . |
| 12 | Wimpey Environmental has built its reputation on the quality of its measurement work , and it is this element that distinguishes us from our rivals . |
| 13 | The judge however found that it was published , and it is this ruling that Unix Labs is contesting . |
| 14 | As we have noticed above , the success of any social dialectological project in a dialect-divergent community depends crucially on adequate methods of analysing linguistic variation , and it is this analysis that takes most of the time . |
| 15 | The point is that the psychophysical approach forces you to develop a model of how the system , in this instance the mechanisms of colour discrimination , might work and it is this model that is used to guide the direct physiological measurements . |
| 16 | On the whole people can be expected to have ‘ seen the facts ’ and assessed the evidence correctly , and it is this generalisation that guarantees the truth of the counterfactual in question . |
| 17 | Not only was the advent of computing perhaps rather longer and more protracted than in some other disciplines , but invariably it is the case that the very nature of computer application in history is rather different , and it is this difference that lies at the root of the oncoming problem . |
| 18 | Rather than acknowledge this , if he is infertile , he 'll often feel no longer a man , and it is this feeling that needs addressing by both of you . |
| 19 | And it is this aspect that I wish to deal with , rather than the controversy surrounding Luxemburg . |
| 20 | But , secondly , there is the demand that animal ( including human ) welfare be improved in general ; and it is this demand that leads animal welfarists to permit the death of some animals , sometimes large numbers of them , and even to permit the agony of some , so that others might benefit . |
| 21 | In Northern Ireland , such spending is estimated to be in the region of £3m and it is this figure that is three times the Agency 's £1m a year budget . |
| 22 | Kelly says that couples living together soon start to share the same skin bacteria , and it is this familiarity that enables women to pick out their men so successfully . |
| 23 | This lovely fragment from a larger drinking-vessel , the kantharos ( one is held by Dionysos often , as in fig. 56 ) , shows how Kleitias 's elegant strength could be raised to monumental weight and power ; and it is this combination that marks the central tradition in Attic black-figure . |
| 24 | Indeed , crevasse rescue is usually banished to the appendices of instruction books on mountaineering skills , and it is high time that an entire book be devoted to unravelling the conundrum of the permanent snows . |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman and his colleagues can save money if they do not believe in the nuclear deterrent , and it is high time that they told the country what their priorities are . |