Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another difference between Dr Tipler 's story and traditional religion is that man leads to God , not vice versa . |
| 2 | Religion is another variable of limited importance . |
| 3 | Both the long and short meditations are presented as prayers in which Rolle counterpoints awareness of the suffering caused by sin in the events of the Passion with a growth in horrified consciousness of the death blows of sin in the self , for which the only remedy is that love manifested in the death of Christ working in man : what Julian will call " the werkyng of mercy " , which lasts as long as sin pursues man , and of grace which works our " dredful faylyng " into solace and our " shamefull " " falling " to resurrection . |
| 4 | Under the frontispiece is another note concerning a new wall built and a plantation of cedar of Lebanon and pines made along it in 1761 . |
| 5 | The thinking is that Conner , or some of his key crew , could join one of Koch 's boats . |
| 6 | Positive thinking is another cause Pearce has always tried to promote . |
| 7 | On the other hand a diary entry such as ‘ ring X ’ is effective and if the entry is some way in the future it may be necessary to amplify with a trigger of the form ‘ ring X re Y ’ and to have easily accessible some factual data such as the X telephone number and some data re Y. In a different context a car driver will develop a strategy to ensure that he does not run out of petrol , he may rely on a light which appears when the tank is nearly empty or he may calculate from his expected travelling that he need not concern himself about the issue until at least the next weekend , or he may programme himself to react to the fact that he is approaching a particular garage . |
| 8 | For so long there has been no regulation or regulatory body who can impose standards upon the canopy designer and manufacturer and , as a direct conslequence of this omission , the quality of both have varied from very high to ‘ good grief is that thing legal ! ’ , all lwithout legal recourse . |
| 9 | Grief is another emotion — or rather , set of emotions — which often creates problems . |
| 10 | Slowly , the European Community is edging towards laws that might make rules on shareholdings and takeovers more homogeneous and more liberal , though a deal is many years away . |
| 11 | ‘ People 's perception is that education is cheap if not free , ’ says David Gleave . |
| 12 | First , the whole rationale behind the concept of the limited partnership is that membership can be divided between limited and ‘ general ’ partners . |
| 13 | They felt they 'd been made fools of … and the ring is some sort of family heirloom and his father went on as if it was all Rick 's fault that Angy had made off with it . ’ |
| 14 | The point of contact with the fable of disembodied consciousness is that thinking has become Raskolnikov 's work , it has almost become Raskolnikov , and if he did and were nothing but this work we would have the first part of Notes from Underground repeated . |
| 15 | The key to Humphrey 's concept of consciousness is that sensation is not the passive reception of stimuli , but an active process in which the organism responds by sending messages to do something . |
| 16 | ‘ His bedroom is that room there ; he preferred to sleep in the back . |
| 17 | Football is ALL confidence . |
| 18 | Could I then come to the body of the report , rather than the East Grinstead by-pass , which I , I , I I agree is , is pertinent erm I was , I read this a couple of times because I was a bit confused about the rather if I may say so convoluted argument that was in it erm I think I understand the argument that the erm is that the Mid Sussex District Council have asked for advice and the recommendation is that advice . |
| 19 | We long to see peace ; so we pray that you will strengthen those who work for peace , and restrain those who believe that the only solution to violence is more violence . |
| 20 | The President is former MP and Minister of Sport Denis Howell and with him is Malcolm Willcox of the Midlands Club Cricket Conference , Warwickshire Chairman of Cricket Dennis Amiss and Alan Oakman . |
| 21 | And this was a particularly popular view in the nineteen sixties and you found lots of people arguing that the American system needed reform that here was the president who was hamstrung by congress , or in the er in the er question I 've set in the , in the programme , you know , the president is less Gulliver in Lilliput , you know , as more like Pinocchio in Lilliput erm that the president has enormous responsibilities , that the nation looks to the president , the world looks to the president but the president ca n't do anything and that you need an increase in presidential power . |
| 22 | Its president is another Duke-Portland — and the chairman is J. C. C. Stewart , with a most effective director in Jim Corner , whose office is at St Alban 's Street , London W1 . |
| 23 | The shelf-life is that period of time during which a product stored under market conditions changes from the limit of the release specifications to the limit of the check specification in respect of its least stable parameter . |
| 24 | The shelf-life is that period of time during which the value of the least stable parameter changes from the limiting value of the release specification to the limiting value of the check specification . |
| 25 | The solar wind is another example of a plasma ( section 2.2.2 ) in this case a plasma in motion . |
| 26 | The episode is another reminder of just how shaky are the foundations upon which the international aspirations of many of the City of London 's securities houses are built . |
| 27 | When a plaintiff is injured and as a result is paid no wages his immediate real loss is that part of his net earnings that were available for current expenditure . |
| 28 | The current strength of decorative art at auction is another indicator of this trend ( see p. 17 ) . |
| 29 | The result is some variation among cultures in the frequency of its members who adopt this preference . |
| 30 | But even then , this is not to suggest , in the way that the positivists often seemed to do , that the result is some form of objective , scientific exercise . |