Example sentences of "is that [art] [adj] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great rectangular block on which are inscribed the one-sixtieth fractions of the allied tribute which were ‘ paid ’ to the goddess Athena has room for one fewer annual list than the available years , and the most likely solution from a technical point of view is that no one-sixtieth was paid to Athena in 449 . |
| 2 | what also emerges from these pages is that the poor are not necessarily apathetic about their situation , nor are they bound by a culture of poverty , but are quite capable of positive action to attempt to solve their problems . |
| 3 | Pseudo-Ulpian suggests that the distinction between civil-law dispositions and trusts is that the former are in direct and the latter in precatory words . |
| 4 | The distinction between adjudicatory and regulatory tribunals is that the former are making a binding decision following a reference by a person aggrieved by a decision which has already been made , whereas the latter are directly applying a system of government regulation rather than supervising or reviewing the proper application of the system of government regulation . |
| 5 | But , perhaps , the biggest single difference between the work of the TechDoc system and the more insidious desktop publishing package is that the former are designed to be used in conjunction with other systems . |
| 6 | What distinguishes suicide from euthanasia is that the former is the individual 's own act , whereas the latter involves the direct act of another . |
| 7 | The litmus test between the great mind and the clever mind is that the former is always conscious of how little he knows , and the latter of how much he knows . |
| 8 | The difference between assurance and insurance is that the former is a guarantee under contract to pay money on the death of a named person or , in some cases , earlier during the person 's lifetime , and the latter is an undertaking by an insurance company to , in return for regular premiums , undertake the risks of repaying cash for any loss or damage . |
| 9 | One difference between a moral sacrifice and a religious sacrifice , for example , is that the former is what morality may require on a specific occasion . |
| 10 | The difference between these two sections is that the former is supposed to show you where you should start pursuing the main themes of the chapter . |
| 11 | For instance , coins of the tribe of the Carnutes inscribed with the name ‘ Yllycci ’ were present , whereas those with ‘ Giamilos ’ were absent ; the inference is that the former were produced before 52BC and the latter after that date . |
| 12 | The main difference between the ‘ Oracles ’ and the Created God is that the former were believed to be of ‘ divine ’ origin , whereas the latter would be of mankind 's own creation , and therefore under human control . |
| 13 | The fundamental difference between the traditional City and Guilds awards and the new NVQ award is that the former were awarded by City and Guilds to students who had attended an approved course of study in a college which led to the student successfully passing the relevant City and Guilds examination . |
| 14 | This last description is often misunderstood : the point is that the economic is never a simple causal function that operates alone : |
| 15 | The only distinction that they offer between ideology and science is that the latter is ‘ empirically verifiable ’ . |
| 16 | One of the key differences between this type of play and educational drama is that the latter is specifically structured so as to create learning opportunities . |
| 17 | A major difference between brachiopods and bivalves is that the latter are capable of moving freely , using their foot to crawl or dig . |
| 18 | An important distinction between Bourbon and Tennessee whiskeys such as George Dickell and Jack Daniels is that the latter are filtered through maplewood charcoal after distillation and have a sweeter , dustier character . |
| 19 | One advantage of the fly and inner going up together is that the inner is kept at a set distance from the fly , preventing the two from touching and allowing moisture to leak through to the inside . |
| 20 | An alternative view is that the accused is guilty only if he foresaw that he might not be able to redeem the article . |
| 21 | The effect is that the accused is not guilty if the victim did not rely on the deception . |
| 22 | ( a ) The principal difference between this offence and the others in this chapter is that the accused is guilty of making off whether or not he deceived anyone . |
| 23 | One obvious conclusion that could be drawn from the review is that the Japanese are steaming ahead with welldefined information technology plans . |
| 24 | One of the difficulties he acknowledges is that the Irish are not given to fighting ‘ civilised ’ battles on a properly organised battle field . |
| 25 | The physical explanation is that the dielectric is capable of carrying a higher flux density . |
| 26 | A common message throughout computing , and indeed human endeavour in general , is that the large is different from the small . |
| 27 | Yes but the trouble about it is that the English are so insular that lots of them do n't , do n't realize it or wo n't believe it . |
| 28 | To the player , the difference between the two is that the 80–20 is the brighter-sounding string , and — I think , anyway — the one with the fuller bottom sound . |
| 29 | What remains true is that the enlightened were a minority within the nation as a whole , which neither shared nor understood the patriotism of these ‘ medieval knights , noble , generous men of the spirit ’ . |
| 30 | In November , he warned that if the likes of IBM and DEC did n't implement drastic measures they 'd go through ‘ Holy Heck ’ — DG has been through that and if the company is confident about one thing , it is that the worst is over . |