Example sentences of "[is] that [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ His theory , Greg , is … how long you got ? … his theory is that the best music is the stuff which makes you go doolally , lose yourself . |
| 2 | Paul Williams 's thesis in ‘ Bob Dylan : Performing Artist ’ ** is that the best — indeed the only — way of getting to grips with the importance of Dylan 's work is by treating it as performance art , since that is the way the man himself seems to treat it . |
| 3 | What is now plain is that the best work has a deep capacity for humane , even spiritual insight . |
| 4 | The truth is that the best cleanser for you depends largely on your skin type and how much make-up you wear . |
| 5 | One of the underlying assumptions in our society is that the best most morally valuable care is that provided by family , friends and neighbours . |
| 6 | One of the major points to emerge from computational theory is that the best way of achieving a representation of the environment is via a modular system that represents different properties of the environment in different parts of the system . |
| 7 | The result is that the best qualified recruits for the Branch as Inspectors ( Operations ) tend to be in their late forties or early fifties , rather than the middle thirties as is preferred . |
| 8 | So the word is that the best bet is on the appointment of another academic ( Sir Roger himself , though just due to become president of the Publishers Association , is expected to return to his chair of physics when he retires from the press in the summer ) . |
| 9 | The feedback I get from my heart is that the best skiing is to be found not at big resorts but small ones . |
| 10 | The fact is that the greatest mystery of all — the Incarnation — comes at the very beginning and is the central reason why we believe in God . |
| 11 | ‘ The second [ point ] is that the grossest violation of fundamental proportions … and the resultant erroneous calculations , are by no means unavoidable . ’ |
| 12 | The good news is that The Fastest Thumb in The West , and his friends , can still do the business , but the downside of the story is that ‘ Guaranteed ’ offers no perspectives which differ radically from those which came before . |
| 13 | The odd thing is that the earliest models — unstreamlined and primitive ( thermostats were n't available until the 20s ) — seem just the thing you 'd see in today 's trendy kitchen . |
| 14 | Their main conclusion is that the earliest occupants of the Klasies River Mouth site ( before 100 000 years ago ) were modern-looking people ( Homo sapiens sapiens ) who would have been ancestral to the indigenous African Negro and Klioisan peoples . |
| 15 | The answer is that the earliest attempt to explain the disorder was that the brain regions for understanding and for producing speech were intact , and what was damaged was the neural pathway which conducted information between these two pathways . |
| 16 | The above two lists speak for themselves , but what is evident is that the smallest income is from membership and the biggest income is from the Sports Council . |
| 17 | The irony of police work is that the lowest of the low — the street constable , unlike in other ‘ professional ’ occupations , is the one who can exercise the maximum discretion at work . |
| 18 | My own experience is that the lowest ebb after a very hard run is not the morning after but the morning after that . |
| 19 | The trouble is that the finest tournament starts appear in photographs to be hitting late . |
| 20 | Speaking in Castlemilk , Mr Dewar said : ‘ The disgraceful truth is that the poorest in society became poorer in absolute and relative terms during the 1980s . ’ |
| 21 | One reason they have not done better is that the largest and most inefficient Italian banks remain in the hands of the government , which has done its best to protect them . |
| 22 | And do galaxies with unusually compact companions show any sign of past quasar activity ? one intriguing clue is that the nearest compact galaxy we know happens to be a companion to the giant radio galaxy M87 — and its orbit must have taken it to within 6000 light years of M87 only 100 million years ago . |
| 23 | So , the answer is that the strongest motives restrain Governments from limiting the rate of growth of public expenditure to that rate which they could be sure of meeting within the growth of the national product and thus without any substantial increase in taxation but also without relying upon borrowing and without monetisation of debt . |
| 24 | The simple idea to follow is that the quickest way is the best way . |
| 25 | In November , he warned that if the likes of IBM and DEC did n't implement drastic measures they 'd go through ‘ Holy Heck ’ — DG has been through that and if the company is confident about one thing , it is that the worst is over . |
| 26 | A startling fact is that the biggest application — accounting for 762 robots — is in ‘ non industrial ’ applications , which include the use of robots as toys or teaching aids . |
| 27 | The conventional wisdom is that the biggest effects are produced after the veil of material from an eruption ( called a ‘ dust veil ’ , although suspended droplets of liquids such as sulphuric acid may be just important as solid particles ) has spread around the hemisphere and is blocking the Sun 's radiation more or less uniformly . |
| 28 | The clear implication of this study is that the biggest response of northern hemisphere temperatures ‘ should ’ have been in June , two months after El Chichón 's eruption , and that is just what the temperature record shows . |
| 29 | Over the years , I have seen so many private gardens and advised so many gardeners on labour-saving tools and equipment , and what comes through loud and clear is that the biggest problem facing gardeners is that they are caught in the trap between growing all they would like to grow , doing all they want to do and having the lime to do it . |