Example sentences of "[coord] [det] [is] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Everyone else had , or that 's the impression you get .
2 Right so is erm Y or that 's the velocity
3 you know this is the sort of thing and really , you know , sort of cropped hair and enormous moustaches like yard brushes , or this is the story that was told to me , and , and then there was this , all this , all this chortling about why their moustaches were so lubricant , oh yes , er so , so luxurious er rather , I beg your pardon , and erm
4 Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them .
5 When they say to you ‘ oh well , you know , surely you do n't mind a little bit of flirtation and so on ’ I think very often that 's an entirely mendacious reply , that they know perfectly well what you 're talking about when you talk about sexual harassment , and in the context of discussions in the SCR or over dinner , they simply do n't want to have to deal with it and so they will dismiss it by way of saying ‘ well , you know , I 'm only being chivalrous , or this is the way I was brought up ’ .
6 " It is betrothed to João you are and that is the sign of your betrothal .
7 ‘ Kylie feels she should have the copyright over her image , that is the way it is in Australia and that is the way she thinks it should be everywhere .
8 That is the way he conducts his business and that is the way it has been for centuries . ’
9 But skipper Rupert Moon insisted : ‘ We have the players who can run the ball and that is the way we like to play our rugby .
10 And that is the way it will stay until the food gets through . ’
11 When he is beaten then he will be a zek , and that is the way of them all , all eight hundred in the compound .
12 But that is the way that many people are living , says Paul , and that is the way that we were before we decided to follow Christ .
13 Nevertheless the English language seems to find it easier to talk of events rather than processes — and that is the way that we tend to talk .
14 Increasingly with voluntary bodies , and I know that this was discussed at length in the P A G , but will be of interest to members , increasingly with voluntary bodies , we are moving towards er , jointly providing services with them , in a partnership arrangement where we are effectively purchasing and commissioning services from them , and that is the way we would wish the policy to go .
15 Nothing happened to them , and that is the way institutions and local democracy will be de-valued .
16 And that is the way that we develop the concept of great living insurance .
17 Erm , and that is the way that
18 We must build armaments , military strength and that is the way to peace .
19 That 's it you have to put it in the simplest of terms and that is the way that most people would understand it , you know , you come to sixty five or whatever and instead of having three hundred pounds a week you 've got eighty five pounds a week and what are you going to do about it .
20 Order twen er , rule twenty , eight , four provides that when a party is entitled to costs , and that of course is the case of the plaintiffs , a , fails without good reason to commence or conduct proceedings for the taxation of those costs in accordance with this order or any direction or b , delays lodging a bill of costs for taxation , the taxing office may one , disallow already part of the costs of taxation that he would otherwise would warn about the party and two , after taking into account all the circumstances , including any prejudice suffered by any other party as result of such failure or delay as the case maybe , and any additional interest payable under section seventeen of the judgements act because of the failure or delay , allow the party so entitled less than the amount he would otherwise have allowed on taxation of the bill are wholly disallowed the costs , his provision for an appeal to allow to the judge and chambers and that is the way the matter is coming before
21 There is one feature that is included in the local government list of characteristics that may be unique to the public sector and that is the requirement that our public sector officials have political sensitivity .
22 There is only one requirement of re , to receiving God 's gift of the Holy Spirit and that is the requirement of being his child .
23 It 's to remove you from the source of this , and that is the school you 're working in .
24 We 've heard about the Education Area , but there is one very important unit that works largely in the wider community , and that is the Centre for Continuing Education .
25 One observation is essential to the construction of a GP box and that is the location of the vanishing point for diagonals of the squared plan grid , VPd , on the eye level .
26 ‘ Apply a labour rate and that is the cost of the job . ’
27 Eventually , Russia will sell the nuclear armaments to any country who will pay for them and that is the beginning of the end of the world .
28 Sorry to sound a little perverse on that issue , but I , we really wanted to have a clear indication of what you felt as District Planning Officers , er an and indeed we 'll hear what the County feel and in fact have pursued through this alteration , but can I again , just for clarification , and in fact it 's a sort of final head count , er and again I raise this in the context of P P G three paragraph thirty three , and that is the degree of acceptability , or otherwise , by the local planning authorities , erm and I only need a nod from you , or otherwise , for the record .
29 Although consideration has already been given both to the proportion and number of items of different ages requiring repair , there is one further possibly age-related factor which must be taken into account , and that is the degree of deterioration exhibited by the defective items identified .
30 And that is the significance of James Baker 's speech announcing that the United States would take responsibility for rebuilding Iraq and Kuwait .
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