Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | We may say that thinking is essentially the activity of operating with signs . |
2 | The measure of our thinking is often the performance of our intellect . |
3 | when a single entry is both the Target and Source for cross-referencing . |
4 | Compulsory competitive tendering is not the way forward , what is needed is quality services provided by a quality workforce . |
5 | Yet it seems that according to Lord Diplock such reasoning is merely the invention of a fancied ambiguity , which is no reason for denying the ‘ plain ’ meaning of a statute . |
6 | Consciousness is both the stage and the action upon it . |
7 | His kitchen is on the bottom floor and Merlin 's bedroom is where the driver of the bus would usually be ! |
8 | On this second approach , the refutation of scepticism is not the intention , and need not be the result , of a successful epistemology . |
9 | Speed is not the car builder 's over-riding need . |
10 | One of the top ANC men came back from the Dar Es Salaam talks and told us , ‘ I am more than ever convinced that violence is not the way . |
11 | The violence is only the exercise of an ultimate weapon available to men . |
12 | The president is ostensibly the driver of this large complex machine , but at the beginning of each new administration the question is : Will the man temporarily in charge of this unwieldy , temperamental vehicle be able to master its tricky controls and get it to move at all ? |
13 | The widespread belief that the limbic system is the substrate of emotion is also the result of an accident , in that Papez 's theory of emotion was not justified by the evidence available at the time and there are other , equally acceptable , interpretations of the effects of limbic system damage . |
14 | It was stated frequently by solicitors that the effective choice of solicitor by the unrepresented defendant is either the duty solicitor or a named or identifiable solicitor . |
15 | Literally it may be defined as ‘ the geography of living organisms ’ or since geography is traditionally the study of living things and particularly man in relation to the environment , the most accurate job description of the subject may be the ‘ geography of the biosphere ’ . ’ |
16 | ‘ … soil geography is largely the study of the spatial variation of the interaction of environmental elements ; and this is how soil is made . ’ |
17 | Geography is simply the study of places . |
18 | ‘ And the wind is n't the air conditioning , either . |
19 | ‘ Our side is n't the type you could send out every week with instructions just to knock it long all the time . |
20 | So the longer side is always the hypotenuse . |
21 | So at the end of each appointment you want a result and a result is either the business or introductions , hopefully both so I hang on the importance again . |
22 | The result is often the provision of a traditional service for disabled people to meet their ‘ special needs ’ with the only real changes being the words used to describe the service . |
23 | The result is quite the opposite . |
24 | The end of the movie is really the beginning of Johnny . |
25 | Course officials fear the seized batch is n't the end of the story . |
26 | When we see the sun , he says , the ‘ immediate object ’ of our perceiving mind is not the sun itself ‘ but something that is intimately joined to our soul , … an idea ’ . |
27 | In some of the higher settlements the pond is still the centre of the village ; the church , being more recent , is relegated to the edge . |
28 | The major difference between theorem proving and other forms of monotonic search is just the choice of basic operators . |
29 | Indeed , some privileged adults can not play , but concentration is not the problem ! |
30 | Spring is generally the season in which to sow , but some germinate better if sown in late summer or early autumn , that is , as soon as the parent plants have flowered and set seed , and the seed has ripened . |