Example sentences of "[is] [conj] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 thirty P off cans of beer that is or a bottle of wine
2 She 's mentioned frequently but he never gives any clue as to who she is or the nature of their relationship . ’
3 Amiss had by now become so accustomed to the horrors of ffeatherstonehaugh 's that the appearance of their bedroom came as no surprise .
4 The most significant difference is that every unit of the poly-HEMA chain contains a hydroxyl group .
5 The difficulty is that every handful of weed that 's pulled out is likely to contain its fair share of aquatic creatures too .
6 A key point to note is that every stage of processing was able to affect the score of a reading ; thus , for example , a reading that scored more highly during the first ( semantic conflation ) phrase could later be overtaken by another which allowed easier reference resolution .
7 The nub of informed consent , they say , is that every human of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what will be done with his body , and they trace the history of informed consent citing the Nuremberg Code ( 1949 ) and the Declaration of Helsinki ( 1964 , amended 1983 ) , which in the aftermath of war atrocities , attempted to ensure the principle of informed consent .
8 The solution being put forward is that a member of the RICS may only carry on practice as a surveyor through the medium of a company ( limited by shares or unlimited ) provided that he complies with the new conditionally approved regulations .
9 But the rumour in Germany is that a member of the public shopped Stuttgart by making a call to UEFA .
10 The weakness in the argument is that a herd of wild horses , totally lacking in the striped pattern , also has accurate individual identification and every member of every equine herd , including all domestic horses , is known individually to every other member .
11 ‘ Your opinion , then , as a medical man , is that a girl of eleven years old might be kept at work constantly , day after day , year after year , with the intermission of Sunday , without injury to her health ? ’
12 This rather sad quote illustrates very sharply a point made in the previous chapter , which is that a field of learning such as physics , which has great power to change our lives , is usually divorced from a consideration of moral issues .
13 ‘ What surprises us is that a man of his means should have such superb false ones . ’
14 The problem this creates for Christianity is that a part of the turning to faith in our generation may be only a reflection of the psychological and sociological undercurrents of our time .
15 One of the effects is that a survey of a range of prep school publicity material revealed nothing in the way of knocking copy aimed at other schools within or outside the private sector .
16 The key to yesterday 's deal is that a problem of this magnitude is now unlikely to happen again .
17 The scenario envisaged here is that a buyer of a car will have a contract not only with the supplier , but also a collateral contract with the manufacturer on the basis of the terms contained in a precise advertisement , the consideration for which being the entry into the main contract of supply ( see Shanklin Pier Ltd v Detel Products Ltd [ 1951 ] 2 KB 854 ; Andrews v Hopkinson [ 1957 ] 1 QB 229 ) .
18 What we know , rather , and roughly , is that a proportion of a certain number of events will be such-and-such .
19 The idea is that a race of animals that regularly erupts in plagues gains the benefit of alternately " swamping " and starving its enemies , predators or parasites .
20 What is almost certain is that a range of methods is required , not a single one .
21 So what 's is that a mixture of
22 The second defining characteristic of compatibility guarantees a genuine relationship of sense : it is that a pair of compatibles must have a common superordinate .
23 The simplest view to assume is that a tape-recording of a communicative act will preserve the ‘ text ’ .
24 The general practice is that a discount of up to one third should be allowed from a sentence but may be limited when the protection of the public is required , when there is a ‘ tactical ’ plea , or when an offender is caught red handed .
25 The idea is that a user of Ardis , presently the largest wireless network and equally owned by Motorola and IBM Corp , would for example be able to talk to RAM Mobile Data users , says Reuter .
26 A third property which may be universal is that a change of a single molecule can , regularly and predictably , cause large-scale changes in the body .
27 So the idea is idea is that a kind of arms race will develop between the siblings to amplify the signal to get as much back as they can from , from the parent .
28 One of the powerful motivating forces behind any spatially focused social or economic policy is that a degree of political consensus can be reached in identifying economic dislocation and poverty with particular places .
29 The result is that a degree of leeway is normally granted to dischargers , and a certain amount of pollution allowed to occur with impunity .
30 Another is that a degree of tension exists in English between the ideals of subjectivity and objectivity .
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