Example sentences of "is [conj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The first is that stopping popular schools from expanding because spaces are available at other less-popular schools nearby is a fundamental contradiction of the Government 's education policy . |
2 | Then there is that warmed red billiard ball with its skin slit round the middle , so oddly known as a grilled tomato . |
3 | The truth is that learning new skills does take time , and progress may appear to be very slow . |
4 | But the bigger point is that pursuing wrong priorities discredits greenery as a whole — just when it needs friends to defend it from hard-pressed businessmen and rabid deregulators . |
5 | Very soon afterwards because of that blood leaking into the tissues , what is that wound that injury going to do ? |
6 | Another boost for the tourists is that lineout ace John Eales is on the mend and could even creep into Saturday 's Test . |
7 | The central idea of long-wave theories is that advanced capitalist economies go through a regular cycle of boom and slump with each trough or peak occurring approximately fifty years apart . |
8 | Another possibility is that advanced patient age prompts a less aggressive hospital treatment so that its effect on mortality is exerted before discharge . |
9 | However , one suggestion is that acquired human retroviruses ( such as HIV ) might act as superantigens , and that this property could contribute to the T-cell abnormalities they produce . |
10 | Other news on pathogenesis is that fibroblast stimulating factor 1 , a cytokine first described in schistosomiasis , stimulates deposition of extracellular matrix ( D. Wyler , Tufts ) . |
11 | The rub is that measuring nanomolar changes in an ion , with minimal cell disturbance , has been a physiologist 's headache for decades . |
12 | and the other thing is that to get this kind of continuity even at one post he 's got to work with Dave for at least six months and Dave 's going in March next year so we want a A L O in post by September of this year if that 's possible . |
13 | He was brought up by a gaggle of ladies , and the result is that has enormous affection for them . |
14 | His final reflection was that ‘ such a picture can not be defined at all until we find a way of describing whatever it is that makes first-rate entertainment what it is ’ . |
15 | It is not at all easy to see what it is that makes one thing tough and another brittle because the substances in each of these lists seem to have little enough in common . |
16 | Yes , so what act , so do you know Mark what it is that makes these people think those things ? |
17 | One of its central tenets is that studying black civilisation will boost the self-esteem of black students , and with it their academic performance . |
18 | In general , the classical perspective contained a peculiarly narrow view of what it actually is that controls human behaviour . |
19 | The necessity of a supply bag to the parachutist is that dangling twenty feet below him on a cord it hits the ground first , a useful precaution when landing in the dark . |
20 | My concern is that increased external influence with accompanying loss of autonomy could lead to the demise of all that has been gained . |
21 | Williams argues that the utilitarian , given his empirical approach , should recognize this fact and be prepared to investigate what it is that gives these people happiness . |
22 | Perhaps the strangest case on record is that described five years ago in The Lancet ( 1978 , vol 2 , p 952 ) by Dr M. Loughhead and two colleagues at the Royal Hobart Hospital , Tasmania . |
23 | The most irritating assertion of the anti-downsizing lobby is that distributed open systems end up costing more because of all the hidden training and support costs . |
24 | Mervyn Wilson gives a good service to his cricket clients and it is hoped that he was able to put his money where his mouth is and lay this price to all that wanted it to reasonable limits . |
25 | ‘ The precept of dying should be part of the studies of those that live in health ; all that a sick or dying man can do is but to exercise those virtues which he before acquired . ’ |
26 | Cat-equipped two-litre 16-valve engine sounds even more potent than it is but gives good economy . |
27 | You have already set up a LIFESPAN Process VMS account ( Section 1.2.2 ) ; the only decision you need to make now is whether to run all LIFESPAN Processes on the same UIC , or to have separate UICs for each process . |
28 | In table 5.1 , ( h ) is treated as binary , that is as having two variants , [ h ] and [ ? ] . |
29 | I eat around 2000 to 2500 calories per day , have a sedentary job and my weekly exercise schedule is as follows two x 30 minutes , one x 6 miles , two x 30 minutes weight training . |