Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The decision to publish will involve a calculation of many risks — it is only when the apparition of a successful legal action tips the balance against publishing a story of genuine public interest that " freedom of expression " has been meaningfully curtailed by law . |
| 32 | In the case of protozoan parasites , and indeed gill and skin flukes in particular , almost every Koi carries around a resident population — it is only when the balance is tipped in favour of the invaders , rather than the host , that human intervention will be necessary . |
| 33 | For Lacan notes how it is only when the infant encounters itself in a ‘ mirroring ’ image that a form is set up for the face and body ; the mirror provides a perceptual gestalt ‘ ideal ’ form , which does not reflect a reality since it differs from the subject 's fragmentary experience . |
| 34 | This is so since the relation of dependence between the variables given in the law is wholly symmetrical : a later state of a system fixes an earlier state as much as an earlier fixes a later . |
| 35 | The kinematics of materials , considered as assemblages of particles may be described by either of the two methods and this is so whether the material is elastic , viscous or a classical fluid . |
| 36 | This is so because the world around us — including the social world — channels our actions , constraining us to act in particular ways . |
| 37 | We know that this is so because the X-ray diffraction pattern , which shows the crystal lattice spacing , does not change when cellulose swells in water . |
| 38 | It is perhaps because the element of the surreal which is more strongly emphasised here , conveys a livelier sense of discovery . |
| 39 | That it is not so here is perhaps because the charioteer was not designed to be looked at on its own but as part of a larger whole . |
| 40 | This is perhaps because the infant 's relation with its mother is disturbed when the child begins to perceive its father as another figure in the family . |
| 41 | She 's already provided the couple with a tape of tribal fertility dances to ‘ release endorphins in the pelvic region ’ and before long she 's going on about the healing properties of dolphins . |
| 42 | It is exactly as the explorer 's biographer predicted it would be : 1,800 feet high , half-covered with jungle , a little way off the trans-Isthmian Indian tracks and somewhat detached from the rest of the Sierra — an outlier , distinct and somewhat aloof . |
| 43 | The point at issue is not whether a corporation and its practices are foreign , but to what extent they are transnational . |
| 44 | The question is not whether a reform bill will pass but how strong it will be . |
| 45 | The question that should be asked at this point is not whether the West should intervene militarily , but what does it want out of such an exploit ? |
| 46 | It is not whether the idea is correct but the great scope o f the vision that should interest us . |
| 47 | Thus , the issue is not whether the state is an association defined in terms of law , but whether this law is instrumental or non-instrumental . |
| 48 | The criterion for capitalists to scrap old equipment is not whether the machine is physically serviceable — most machinery is withdrawn from use well before it has worn out — but whether it can any longer be operated profitably And the key factor which renders unprofitable the operation of older vintages of machinery is a rise in wage costs . |
| 49 | The issue for Britain now is not whether the country should be cabled , but how . |
| 50 | Does he concede also that the question is not whether the war can be won , but whether it can be won with fewer casualties ? |
| 51 | The real question is not whether the Book of Genesis has it right ( most modern theologians read it as a poetic account ) but whether evolution is correct . |
| 52 | So far as mens rea is concerned , the issue is not whether the defendant himself considered that the words or conduct in question was insulting , but whether he realised that the persons whom he was addressing might do so . |
| 53 | The wider question is not whether the summary falls apart because the staples are not strong enough , but whether it falls apart because it is not sufficiently objective simply because it has been commissioned , paid for and its contents finally determined by the promoter of the original Bill , now working in co-operation with the Government . |
| 54 | ‘ The real question posed for our decision is not whether an action lies in respect of pre-natal injuries but whether a plaintiff born with injuries caused by the pre-natal neglect of the defendant has a cause of action in negligence against him in respect of such injuries . |
| 55 | ‘ The real question posed for our decision is not whether an action lies in respect of pre-natal injuries but whether a plaintiff born with injuries caused by the pre-natal neglect of the defendant has a cause of action in negligence against him in respect of such injuries . |
| 56 | This is not because the law does violate human rights . |
| 57 | It might take five moves , or 10 , or 15 , to get to the goal , but when that happens , it is not because the player looked ahead that number of moves . |
| 58 | That is not because the economy looks suddenly resilient . |
| 59 | This is not because the family had become less powerful . |
| 60 | This is not because the family had become less powerful . |