Example sentences of "[is] [det] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shaw 's wit and good humour are at their most engaging in this play , his analysis of language and class characteristically acute , and there is little of the wilful perversity that so often mars his drama . |
| 2 | The usual characters of the two composers are reversed here ; there is little of the English scene-painter in Britten 's Sonata , and it stands as one of his most nervous and angry works . |
| 3 | In our day there is little of the earlier resignation in the face of death ; we resist it to the limits of medical technology , and our obituaries speak of our ‘ gallant struggle ’ . |
| 4 | But there is little in the current regulatory structure which is designed to inspire the confidence of investors . |
| 5 | There is little in the Outer Hebrides at the present time which can be described as natural woodland . |
| 6 | Which ‘ type ’ of customer is each of the following : |
| 7 | The effect here is that during the last five years the Conservatives have played no part in the management of this county whatsoever , and it has been left to the other two parties to come to an agreement . |
| 8 | Te the important message that you 're , you 've raised and it is a very important one , is that over the next years , I mean we , we will have to change the way that we charge for |
| 9 | erm I think the real danger however is that over the next three four five years , erm people all over the world will get into the habit of regarding Britain as an impossibly expensive country to study in , because no other country in the world attempts to charge the full cost of it 's university education in tuition fees , and erm that gradually people will turn elsewhere . |
| 10 | The issue which has preoccupied commentators in the United States of America is that of the possible infringement of the constitutional right of freedom of speech . |
| 11 | … the complete Union of the two countries is stamped and sealed in the most satisfactory and solid manner for it is not only a union of the two governments — the two sovereigns — it is that of the two nations ! |
| 12 | A desirable state is that of the two energies in balance , and the best site is located where there is a change from landscape expressing one type of energy to landscape expressing the other . |
| 13 | An important issue when examining urban employment structures is that of the varying performances of different sectors of employment . |
| 14 | The underlying ethic is that of the traditional folk mythology from which we started out . |
| 15 | The nucleotide sequence is that of the upper strand numbered with respect to the start site of transcription ( +1 ) , each nucleotide is written above its corresponding bp . |
| 16 | In general this is certainly true , as the experienced eye can tell at a glance whether the style of an ancient Greek coin is that of the archaic or of the later , classical period ; in a similar way one can argue from the change in the type of helmet worn by the goddess Athena on Athenian vases in the period 540–510 BC that Athenian coins depicting the same goddess with the same helmet are unlikely to have been made before that time . |
| 17 | So , too , is that of the taller , scented border phloxes when they are open after mid-summer . |
| 18 | Perhaps the most interesting name , though , is that of the useful hurdler Mr. Gossip , previously trained by Nicky Henderson and now owned by David Wales . |
| 19 | The self Burman presents to us is that of the postmodern subjectivity , fractured , fragmented , multi-layered , vibrant and dynamic . |
| 20 | This rule does not apply to an action for the recovery of land , where the return day is that of the final hearing ( N5 — 6 ) , unless a claim is joined for some relief other than the payment of mesne profits or arrears of rent or for moneys secured by a mortgage or charge ( Ord 3 , r 3(4) ) . |
| 21 | The most convincing affinity however , is that of the squat urns , ( which occupy at least three of the half-roundels along the borders ) with those of the Bacchus and Leopard mosaic and the pavement from Halstock . |
| 22 | The historical example of Taking the Side of the Other is that of the great English political cartoonist , James Gillray . |
| 23 | Another group which can be isolated and excluded is that of the fortified posts ( burgi ) along Watling Street from Uxacona ( Red Hill ) to Bannaventa and which will possibly be extended eventually to the south-east . |
| 24 | The classic example offered is that of the diffident schoolboy , who has learnt the dates of , say , the English kings the previous night but who is so alarmed by his hectoring schoolteacher that he becomes completely unsure that the answers that suggest themselves to him under questioning are in fact the right ones . |
| 25 | The most easily recognisable training need is that of the new recruits . |
| 26 | The decisive period of the assimilation of Greek culture in Rome is that of the first two Punic Wars . |
| 27 | Our earliest play-text of The Winter 's Tale is that of the First Folio , also of 1623 , and whether this represents a play-text from the missing licensed text or a later version we do not know . |
| 28 | One is that of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ) and the other is that of the Association for Science Education ( ASE ) . |
| 29 | Another consideration that has arisen from the work on AI and , in particular , expert systems is that of the legal implications . |
| 30 | The central role is that of the demented Renata — ‘ half-saint , half-whore , torn between the two extremes of sexual indulgence and religious self-denial ’ . |