Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quicker thinking readers will probably have noticed what I did n't , which is that the first appearance of ‘ adverb ’ is a mistaken correction by a typesetter or proofreader of the correctly wrong ‘ abverb ’ . |
| 2 | Are not we entitled to be told the whole truth , as revealed by Greenpeace , which is that the total lifetime cost of Trident will be more than £23 billion ? |
| 3 | There is something more important , which is that the essential idea of the background view does not in itself conflict with our necessitation view . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to want ’ , the underground man 's lonely cry , is also his though he does n't utter it , and biting the governor 's car , like sticking the tongue out , is a one-against-all drumming of the heels of consciousness — but again with a difference which is that the biting extends beyond the notional ; it happens and it hurts , though it 's a minor foray compared with Raskolnikov 's spectacular eruption into actuality with the murder . |
| 5 | Such interrogatories shall bear a note at the end setting out the effect of RSC Ord 26 , r 3(2) , which is that the opposing party may within 14 days apply to vary , or have withdrawn , the interrogatories . |
| 6 | This is due to many factors , one of the more obvious of which is that the cumulative physical demands of manual work may well affect the worker 's health . |
| 7 | Hence fair play , one of the rules of which is that the eventual murderer shall be one of a small group , delimited in some way . |
| 8 | My suggestion to you is that the only connection between them is basic human nature itself , namely that the heart of man is incurably evil . |
| 9 | One point that may help you is that the lower the potency the more frequently it is likely to need repeating . |
| 10 | One is that the small river or stream was low one night as it was a particularly dry period , the innkeeper deposited the body as per usual , but by the morning it had not drifted away . |
| 11 | The difference between a direct hot water cylinder and an indirect one is that the latter has a heat exchanger , often in the form of a coiled pipe , which takes the hot water from the boiler and passes its heat to the domestic hot water in the cylinder , the two never mixing . |
| 12 | An important one is that the possible substitutes for man ( preserving grammaticality , but not necessarily semantic normality ) are virtually identical in the two positions . |
| 13 | Psychological research on human thinking suggests two alternative views of the machinery of the mind ; one is that the mental representations and cognitive processes are abstract , language-like forms manipulated by rules , and an alternative is that they are mental models whose structure corresponds not to language but to states of affairs in the world . |
| 14 | One is that the present level of unemployment must concern the health service ( and 1 have said nothing about other social problems ! ) . |
| 15 | One is that the bigger the event ( up to about 3,000 people ) the more it costs proportionally . |
| 16 | One is that the light-sensitive pigments of the eye could also act as magnetic sense organs . |
| 17 | One is that the statutory services are not uniformly ideal and beyond reproach and those of us who have worked in and with them would acknowledge that . |
| 18 | Of ‘ all the oppositions that furrow Freudian thought ’ it can be said that ‘ one is but the other different and deferred , one differing and deferring the other ’ ( Margins of Philosophy , 17 — 18 ) . |
| 19 | I 've heard you selling the guy that showed you these two manifestos one by the Tories and one by the Labour and the one that stuck in my mind it 's that the Labour Party will have a minimum wage to comply with the rest of Europe . |
| 20 | People walking in but we need to need to clearly define the areas and if it 's that the national account department at has this list of corporate clients then maybe it makes sense that the national account manager responsible for deals with those also |
| 21 | So they wo n't do that , and of course it 's and the main thing that costs is the transport is every time you go on a bus you 're down to whatever it is two hundred pounds , and because of the two areas that we use , I mean we 're not gon na , I mean I do n't really know |
| 22 | I suspect it 's because the 1992 election is the first in which the BBC is following ITN 's lead by using exit polls . |
| 23 | It 's because the whole thing was off kilter in some way , not what it seemed , not what people thought it was , not … well , just not right . ’ |
| 24 | It is but the momentary flicker of a candle in the dark . |
| 25 | If a single criticism of Degas Sculptures is to be made , it is that the Gauthier prints are reproduced on a small , often miniature scale and are not presented , as they deserve to be , on a one-to-a-page basis , preferably beside their bronze counterparts . |
| 26 | It is that the appropriate design of policy and policy institutions is crucial to a successful competition policy . |
| 27 | In addition , they help to explain why it is that the average length of custody imposed by the higher courts is a historically proven index of prison population generally , once allowance has been made for changes in the level of recorded crime ( Home Office , 1956 ; but cf. |
| 28 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |
| 29 | It is not a new idea , and it is the only demand around which all women can unite , the demand which makes explicit how it is that the working class is divided between the waged and the unwaged . |
| 30 | How strange it is that the Danish ‘ No ’ vote does not count , while the narrow French ‘ Yes ’ vote does . |