Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not a condition that the third State be specified by name provided it is clear from the context or surrounding circumstances what State is intended , or that a group or class of States is intended of which the claiming State is a member . |
| 2 | Taboo is distinguished from what the Polynesians call noa , that is , the common , or the generally accessible . |
| 3 | It is Davie 's contention that this view is quite wrong : there are a great many outstandingly talented British poets , including Charles Tomlinson , C H Sisson , Elaine Feinstein and others ( Davie , as distinguished a poet as any of his subjects , modestly excludes his own work ) who do not answer to this description , and one purpose of Under Briggflats is to claim for them the attention they have often been denied ; in some cases , indeed , to rescue them from scandalous neglect . |
| 4 | We may indeed find the great house still standing tidily in a timbered park : but it is occupied by what the villagers describe detachedly as ‘ the atom men ’ , something remote from the rest of us , though not remote in the sense they themselves like to think . |
| 5 | A NEW company has been set up to exploit an automatic bicycle transmission system , which is claimed to he the biggest breakthrough in bicycle gears since Derailleur invented his system in the 1920s ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 23 ) . |
| 6 | Exposure — Bodily injury includes exposure resulting from misfortune by any aircraft or other conveyance where travel is permitted in which the Insured Person is travelling . |
| 7 | But calling something a science does not guarantee that its practitioners forthwith cease to be attracted to the same specious accounts of what it is to communicate to which the rest of us are attracted when we try to say what communicating is . |
| 8 | Science explains what is happening around us the whole time . |
| 9 | Now , though , a tendency is developing in which the idea of ‘ polytechnic education ’ is being reduced from ‘ many arts , many skills ’ to simply ‘ many skills ’ . |
| 10 | A line is drawn under which the base category of the explanatory variable is noted ; the fact that some working class children attend selective secondary schools ( path a ) reminds us that there are some factors influencing attendance at such schools that this particular model does not set out to explain . |
| 11 | 34.1 ; see also 32.49 ) , and with God 's supernatural eyesight is shown by him the whole extent of the Promised Land from Dan in the north to Zoar in the south , and right across to the Mediterranean sea in the west . |
| 12 | Instead , a particular style of dance is used through which the performers play strongly defined characters who express not only social status in a particular community but also moods , emotions and actions , which are alien to the calm spaciousness of classical dance . |
| 13 | Every mental phenomenon is characterized by what the Scholastics of the Middle Ages called the intentional ( or mental ) inexistence of an object , and what we might call , though not wholly unambiguously , reference to a content , direction toward an object ( which is not to be understood here as meaning a thing ) , or immanent objectivity . |
| 14 | The discussion is based on what the author calls the ‘ Boltzmann-Gibbs ’ entropy , but in the terminology used above it is just the Gibbs entropy . |
| 15 | It is based on what the speaker wants to announce as his/her starting point and what s/he goes on to say about it . |
| 16 | As the forces of production change and develop , as men acquire new skills , fashion new implements , discover new raw materials , a point is reached at which the existing structure of society becomes an obstacle to further development . |
| 17 | In terms of the flexible lattice model , one can imagine the polymer and liquid lattices expanding at different rates until a temperature is reached at which the highly expanded liquid lattice can no longer be distorted sufficiently to accommodate the less expanded polymer lattice and form a solution , i.e. the loss in entropy during the distortion becomes so large and unfavourable that phase separation ( LCST ) takes place . |
| 18 | If mixtures of certain types of rocks including carbonates are held in a sealed evacuated chamber at a temperature equal to the surface temperature of Venus then CO 2 is given off and the pressure builds up until an equilibrium is reached in which the pressure of the CO 2 in the chamber equals the pressure of CO 2 at the surface of Venus . |
| 19 | If the board is sailed too close to the wind , the so called ‘ no-go ’ zone is entered within which the board will stop or even blow backwards . |
| 20 | He 's forgotten to mention , by some slip of the memory , the one fact about the pits which is known to everyone the impurity of the air breathed by the pitmen ! |
| 21 | I think that what what she is in danger of doing is cutting across what the District Council 's doing , we , er and in East Hertfordshire we are running at a , a composting scheme in conjunction with the County at and I , I , I understand that looks to be very promising . |
| 22 | … and no place , or limit of space , is defined within which the establishment of such an asylum is made lawful . |
| 23 | Perhaps the basic technique is relying on what the literary theorists call " stock responses . |
| 24 | Erm we which is actually putting forward a budget which is responding to what the Policy Committee asks us to do . |
| 25 | Thus , for example , an account of some episode of social conflict is constructed in which the discrete personalities of the protagonists are regarded as irrelevant to the outcome , and they are treated simply as the bearers or supports of certain political ideologies or economic forces . |
| 26 | If there are two guns they should stand side by side on the edge of the burrow , one shooting to the right and the other to the left , so that neither is endangered by whatever the other fellow does . |
| 27 | The essential point is that responsibility is assigned and , therefore , authority is delegated for which the individual is accountable in his role . |
| 28 | The air flow is then stopped and the second stage of the cycle is begun in which the hot coke is blasted with steam . |
| 29 | Here , an anaerobic ( oxygen-free ) environment is created through which the aquarium water is slowly trickled ( not to be confused with aerobic trickle filters ) . |
| 30 | Once the two continents have been welded together and active volcanism and tectonic uplift have ceased , a new plate is created in which the orogenic belt formed becomes an intra-plate feature no longer associated with an active convergent plate boundary . |