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

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1 Consequently its Laplace transform is or The unit impulse function is infinite for an infinitesimal time as indicated in figure 11.5(d) and its integral over all time is unity .
2 Lower that is than the County Council .
3 The reason for this is that every income level ( which determines the transactions demand for money ) must now be associated with a lower interest rate and therefore a higher speculative demand for money if equality between the total demand for and supply of money is to be maintained .
4 The trouble with All Fools ' Day is that every newspaper story suddenly looks suspect , but we assure subscribers that IBM Corp really is paying Louis Gerstner all that money it ca n't afford , that the sports shop that sells guns in Kingston really did close early and the UK government is considering a Congestion Charge , but we confess that we have no evidence that the next computer industry consortium will be a catch-all called Computer Industry .
5 One observation which illustrates this principle is that a Foucault pendulum at the North Pole swings in a plane fixed relative to the frame of the distant galaxies ; however , an earthbound observer sees the plane of swing rotate through 360° every 24 hours .
6 The ideal of land registration is that a government office , after investigating the title , enters the applicant upon the register as owner , and furnishes him with a certificate in accordance with the entry ; the entry is conclusive as to his right , and no further investigation of the previous title can subsequently be necessary .
7 The reason is that a spreadsheet program is generally inefficient at performing calculations and so much of the theoretical gain is lost .
8 Some would say that the result is that a Classification Society does act as an expert in resolving technical disputes .
9 The idea is that a service representative talking to a customer on the phone will be able to view a document on the screen that looks the same as the printed document the customer has .
10 The essence of a ‘ contrat de programme ’ or ‘ contrat d'entreprise ’ is that a state enterprise agrees to achieve targets for economic performance , physical output , productivity , quality of service , and so on in return for a commitment from the government to provide necessary finance , and to provide compensation for obliging the enterprise to undertake non-commercial activities in the public interest ( Durupty 1986b : 357–96 ) .
11 A disadvantage of this model is that a reasonableness test might be thought to entail unacceptable uncertainty .
12 The upshot of all this is that a Court Scheme may not be a viable proposition if there are likely to be competitive bids .
13 And their very clear view based on their long and practical experience of the Greater York development market , is that a location South South West of York is more likely to be a successful location particularly for the employment component of the new settlement , than any other sector of York .
14 The simplest criterion for the distinction between a skill and a task is that a skill description is susceptible to individual differences but a task description is not .
15 Not the least of its benefits is that a music group provides a means of involving more people , especially youngsters , in its life .
16 They 're reduced to five thousand with short commons and sickness , and the extra irony is that a cargo ship diverted from Chios got in just before the port closed .
17 The decision of the Tribunal is that a salary increase of 1.69% should apply for 12 months from 1st March 1993 .
18 When the reality is that a cottage pie housing a six-year-old ingredient could probably qualify as a listed dwelling .
19 What happens is that a matter particle , such as an electron or a quark , emits a force-carrying particle .
20 One of the interesting discoveries about this evolutionary process is that a team operating at the skilful stage gets there via the formal stage .
21 The books tell you that badgers love peanuts , but what they do n't tell you is that a plastic peanut packet is likely to go off in your pocket with a high-decibel rustle that will send any self-respecting badger right back underground .
22 The main thrust of the integration difference is that a hypertext system is often wrapped intimately together with other software to provide a solution to a user 's need .
23 And police sources say the major concern is that a prison warder has been ‘ bought ’ financially or compromised by threats or other means .
24 The difficulty is that a recruitment system has to be both a production system and an information system , and this is what makes it so much more complex than personnel records .
25 But the fact is that a Hunt victory was not on the Ferrari books if they had ceded — after a re-start which looked as though it favoured Hunt — they would have been lynched in Italy , where only a Ferrari is allowed to win .
26 ‘ Need a training officer , though size of authority probably does not justify — perhaps what should be done — though it won ‘ t be — is that a library school or SLA should employ somebody to look after staff development ’ .
27 One is that a loading dose is required in patients with apparently normal renal function , and the other is that the ‘ standard ’ dose is 80 mg intravenously eight hourly .
28 There is another necessary condition and that is that a pitch difference must be perceptible ; it is possible to detect differences in the frequency of the vibration of a speaker 's voice by means of laboratory instruments , but these differences may not be great enough to be heard by a listener as differences in pitch .
29 The only difference between the significance of a tide chart and the significance of a railway timetable is that a railway timetable can be altered , is n't it ?
30 So the invariable requirement now is that a market member trading on the market floor or its equivalent ( eg an automated trading system ) is required by market rules either to be a clearing member or to have a clearing agreement with a clearing member .
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