Example sentences of "is [conj] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I du n no who , who do I m I do n't know , I d do that to s er see there is somebody that I do that quite a bit to but I ca n't remember who it is or a few people maybe . |
| 2 | The proof of this theorem is that every such program can be transformed to x — IF/ALT using the said laws . |
| 3 | Grey breath in the air , snowmen on the heath , pub bores droning on about how typical it is that a few inches of snow throws the whole country into chaos when the Swiss handle metres of the stuff without missing a beat . |
| 4 | The basic idea is that a few parameters are turned into a smooth curve by a standardised computation . |
| 5 | Where they differ is that the former group will look at interest cover rather than dividend cover or earnings per share . |
| 6 | A stronger indication still of the difference between sense-qualifiers and referent-qualifiers is that the former examples will remain odd even when the relevant noun is indicated by the context ( yet there will be no problem with the referent-qualifiers ) : ( 15 ) that stranger is a total one the kid was a mere one ( 16 ) his hut is a rudimentary one the tree felled was a deciduous one Again we may note that the other pair of sense-qualifying adjectives from example ( 1 ) do not sound odd when used with an indefinite head : ( 17 ) a lawful one the distant one but this is not surprising because they are adjectives with more than one meaning ; in one of these they are ordinary referent-qualifiers and hence they may quite freely occur in ( 17 ) with a presumption that the referent-qualifying meaning is the one desired . |
| 7 | The distinction between the Use Classes Order and the GDO is that the former lists changes of use which do not constitute development , while the latter lists activities which , though constituting development , do not require ad hoc permission . |
| 8 | An obvious explanation for such a result is that the former compound evokes more suppression simply because the UR ( of suppression ) evoked by the novel stimulus combines with the CR elicited by the CS+ . |
| 9 | The problem for the Labour party is that the latter category is declining in size : more workers are buying their own homes . |
| 10 | Moreover , it would appear that the difference is that the latter sentence expresses my belief that I have the belief that it is raining , and says that I have the belief that it is raining , and does not express the belief that it is raining or say that it is raining . |
| 11 | My personal view is that the latter direction represents the more promising future . |
| 12 | What remains to be said here is that the objection-that science does not involve causal and other nomic connections-is sometimes a part of something more general and by its nature more difficult to deal with : scientific scepticism about philosophy and its categories . |
| 13 | The reason for reducing the event 's costs is that the less money which is spent on the gig means that more money goes to the artist . |
| 14 | Another important point is that the less time you have in which to do something , the more it costs because you start to run into things like overtime and special delivery payments , rush jobs and so on . |
| 15 | The other side of the coin is that the same observations can be deduced from alternative theories . |
| 16 | One hypothesis , which was first advanced by Deschner in 1975 and has recently been reproposed by Rozen , is that the same type of proliferative anomalies are also present in the second subgroup but in a localised rather than diffuse form . |
| 17 | Instead , the orthodox presumption is that the same concept can be measured in different ways using different indices . |
| 18 | The difference now is that the same factory supplies production to both sales forces and , in theory , our factories ( Runcorn and Elderslie ) have two chances to win the order instead of only one as in the past . |
| 19 | What is stressed rather is that the same phenomenon provides the foundation for both historical tendencies . |
| 20 | In particular it will help to resolve the deep paradox that has already surfaced in this book and will continue to do so : how it is that the same features of individuality can be expressed in such totally disparate forms . |
| 21 | But what young members , what young people find ironic , is that the same people who are telling them they 've never had it so good , in the same breath accuse them of being responsible for high community crime levels , drug and alcohol abuse and the violence . |
| 22 | There are people who feel that it 's great to break the law , and a word of caution , that I feel is important , is that the same group of kids will react against drug programmes in the schools . |
| 23 | At the same time , however , Ure warns that the team is not there to handle day-to-day risk management and the general belief is that the more responsibility for that is pushed down to line management , the better . |
| 24 | The paradox is that the more prejudices are criticized , the more prejudices of liberalism are justified . |
| 25 | So , what we say is that the more things are eight until twelve . |
| 26 | The basic argument is that the more adolescents are supervised by their parents and , perhaps , their teachers , the less likely they are to become involved with or influenced by delinquent contemporaries and delinquent values . |
| 27 | The irony is that the more people are encouraged to think about their behaviour and take responsibility for the impact it has on other people , the more they tend to become open and honest rather than furtive and clandestine . |
| 28 | The gamble is that the more people know about the workings of behaviour the more they will use it skilfully to benefit themselves and others . |
| 29 | The assumption here is that the more quality names you have in the race , the more likely the product is to be of high calibre . |
| 30 | It allows me to savour the end of the conflict , to enjoy it in a way I could not have done if it had really happened , that is if a few words had been exchanged , spoken with difficulty through the barbed-wire taboos that separate people in so-called intimate relationships . |