Example sentences of "[is] [that] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clive James , whose Observer column had made him the doyen of television critics in the Seventies , wrote ; ‘ One has been kept from previous series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em by its awful title , but it is time to say what everybody is saying-that the show is a must . |
| 2 | If I have a gripe with Hartke , it 's that the reproduction is just a little too clear ; missed , fluffed and dissonant notes are all too easily discernible . |
| 3 | Muriel Box 's complaint , of course , was that the script was ‘ inaccurate , ’ critic Richard Winnington 's that the film ‘ contrives with something like genius neither to inform , excite , entertain , titillate or engage the eye . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ What angers me about the system goes beyond the unreliability of ‘ proof ’ … it 's that the way criminals are dealt with has nothing to do with rehabilitation and readjusting people who 've stepped outside society 's norms . |
| 5 | Within the general framework of his attack on the humanistic Hegelian tradition of Western Marxism , Althusser 's specific objection to Sartre 's attempt to mediate Marxism with existential subjectivity was that such a move went against the crucial discoveries which had founded Marxism in the first place ; in an extension of Lévi-Strauss ' argument , he maintained that the notion of ‘ man ’ that Sartre used was derived from a particular ideological definition of the human subject which represses Marx 's insight that the human subject is not the centre of history , together with Freud 's that the subject is not centred in consciousness . |
| 6 | When Dexter focused back on the conversation , Blanche was laughing at some joke of Eddy Russell 's that the sergeant had missed . |
| 7 | Coventry 's goal difference is so much better than Luton 's that the margin is more like four points . |
| 8 | I think I 'll have to get a new curtain rail it 's that the plastic snapped been on the curtain ring |
| 9 | Amiss had by now become so accustomed to the horrors of ffeatherstonehaugh 's that the appearance of their bedroom came as no surprise . |
| 10 | It 's that the class antipathies of black American culture the ‘ rap gap ’ have grown too wide for any one person , star or politician , to bridge . |
| 11 | These days the deal is often struck at the time of divorce ; and usually it 's that the house goes to your wife , for good . |
| 12 | One more important aspect of using LIFESPAN which should be explained at the outset is that every module must have a charge code associated with it . |
| 13 | My big fear , as with so many daughters , is that every year I am becoming more like my mother . |
| 14 | How can that erm you know if man does n't destroy the world , well what 's happening is that every year the earth moves towards the sun one centimetre . |
| 15 | The reason for this is that every income level ( which determines the transactions demand for money ) must now be associated with a lower interest rate and therefore a higher speculative demand for money if equality between the total demand for and supply of money is to be maintained . |
| 16 | One of the difficulties is that every person 's situation is different . |
| 17 | The idea is that every person has another person ( or sometimes a group or committee ) to whom he or she has to account for the proper discharge of responsibilities . |
| 18 | But we do have to face the paradox implicit in our contributing to the discourse , which is that every word we say on the subject of difference just underlines the salience and the importance of a division we are ultimately striving to end . |
| 19 | The short explanation , if you want to know why elephant seals keep er an even sex ratio and not a one to ten sex ratio , even though only one male in every ten mates , is that every male that does mate has ten times more reproductive success than those that do n't . |
| 20 | The most important general piece of advice on examinations is that every question in the paper that the student is expected to and can answer should be answered . |
| 21 | The most important thing to remember is that every idea , comment or observation must be supported by facts or reasons . |
| 22 | And er they have got it now to a state of what I would imagine almost perfection , and that is that every man , woman and child of the population of those two countries er has got adequate protection and even a woman er who wishes to go out and do shopping in the contaminated er environment has the possibility of , of suiting up and putting a special er cover on the pram of her child and actually pushing this child with a special ventilator out . |
| 23 | And the theory is that every individual has an innate inborn preference for behaving at one end or the other . |
| 24 | In brief , what this means is that every individual comprising the population of interest should have an equal chance of being selected for the sample . |
| 25 | The most significant difference is that every unit of the poly-HEMA chain contains a hydroxyl group . |
| 26 | In general , what the theory of dialectic materialism states is that every society is structured around its material basis of production . |
| 27 | The result is that every ledge , from those that would take a small tent to those that a modern rock climber would blanch to see , is packed with birds . |
| 28 | The trouble with All Fools ' Day is that every newspaper story suddenly looks suspect , but we assure subscribers that IBM Corp really is paying Louis Gerstner all that money it ca n't afford , that the sports shop that sells guns in Kingston really did close early and the UK government is considering a Congestion Charge , but we confess that we have no evidence that the next computer industry consortium will be a catch-all called Computer Industry . |
| 29 | She wrote : ‘ The reason China is in the state it is today after four decades of ‘ peacetime construction ’ is that every time a situation arises when people should shout ‘ No ’ to avert a serious policy error , there is nothing but silence . ’ |
| 30 | The thing about Kennedy is that every time I hear he has done something outrageous I think ‘ Oh God ! ’ , but then I spend a few hours working with him and leave thinking what a good heart he has and how serious he is as a musician . |