Example sentences of "is that [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They show an African head and the story behind these is that during a battle in the 15th century , when all the Pucci adults were killed , an African slave hid a baby of the family under her garments and fled via an underground passage , thus saving the Pucci line and earning herself a place in the family 's heraldry . |
| 2 | Presumably the reason why the lights appear stationary while the " ghost " is seen to revolve is that during the duration of any light the stimulus from it is accompanied by fused after-images of the other three . |
| 3 | On the continuity point their argument is that under the system of election by thirds , you do n't see a dramatic switch in the party control of the council . |
| 4 | One of the drawbacks of alluvial sources is that under the pressure of a growing demand they tend to be depleted to a point at which more intensive methods are called for . |
| 5 | ‘ The paradox of this reform is that despite the abolition of PRT for new fields , and the reduced rate for existing fields , after 1993-94 it will actually raise revenue for the Exchequer , ’ he added . |
| 6 | The irony is that despite the scandal surrounding some of his cabinet , it is the prime minister who has in fact begun to reform the system with the support of President Scalfaro after voters abandoned the traditional parties in droves in elections last April . |
| 7 | The truth is that despite the siting of the creamery it has probably not been made with local products for some time . |
| 8 | The final point which needs to be made about ethnicity is that as a speaker variable it can not usually be isolated from social class . |
| 9 | Certainly , one theory as to why crime appears to be going up is that as a society we are more intolerant of certain types of violence than we were in the past . |
| 10 | My own assessment is that as a country we are being daft about candle ends . |
| 11 | His greatest asset , of course , is that as a man he is so well liked . |
| 12 | The fact is that as a consequence of climbing out of the depression in the early 1980s , of remodelling our business processes , and of becoming a serious entrant into the high tech race , the work force profile has changed and will continue to change . |
| 13 | A very important point for married couples to know is that as a result of independent taxation each partner now enjoys his/her own annual exemption of£5,800 instead of , as before , their gains being aggregated ( i.e. added together ) for tax purposes . |
| 14 | The fundamental one is that as a result of the mathematization of physical science , what importantly occurs in it are equations or formulae of several kinds , propositions to the effect that one set of magnitudes is related in a certain way to another set or sets . |
| 15 | ‘ The good news is that as a result of those measures , and despite the hostile trading environment throughout the world , the Group is in a better position today than many believed possible a year ago . |
| 16 | One problem with this cosy consensus , and its greatest irony , is that as a nation we take our pubs too much for granted . |
| 17 | The first observation to make is that as a code , language is multilevelled . |
| 18 | What he calls the ‘ fancy explanation ’ for this architectural love is that he was baptised in a Romanesque font in the Dorset village of Stoke Abbot , but the reality is that as a student at Durham he was profoundly influenced by the majestic presence of the cathedral : |
| 19 | What is certain is that as the relationship between doctors and their patients becomes less paternalistic , so must the manner in which we seek to obtain their consent for treatment . |
| 20 | The final point of caution is that as the conveyancer for the buyer , you should check that any endowment mortgage arrangements are suitable . |
| 21 | The essence of the flaw is that as the process by which aggregate demand is determined becomes known and therefore predictable , rational people will predict the changes in aggregate demand that governments engineer . |
| 22 | What it means in practice , at least in the simplest cases , is that as an animal increases in overall size , various of its organs may not keep pace . |
| 23 | The second assumption inherent in climatic geomorphology is that as an attitude it is actualist , i.e. it attributes the landscape to present processes . |
| 24 | What is indisputable is that as an undergraduate and then as a research worker for Child Poverty Action Group , far from regarding such evidence as ‘ defeatist talk ’ you not only accepted it but added to it . |
| 25 | The reason for this is that for a vocabulary of size L , there exist Li-1 different histories . |
| 26 | The usual formula is that for a period of time ending on the expiry of the initial period the parties will attempt to renegotiate the prices to apply for a further fixed period . |
| 27 | The practical effect of this wording is that for a claim to be covered the casualty must be reasonably attributable to an identifiable accident the source of which is external to the craft — thus the craft filling with water on its moorings over a period of weeks and then foundering would not be covered . |
| 28 | They all suffer from a major weakness , which is that for every instance in which a word form possesses different synonyms , opposites , morphological derivatives , or whatever , in different contexts , there are several possible explanations , only one of which involves ambiguity of the word form ; hence , further evidence of a different sort is required to determine which explanation is correct in any given instance . |
| 29 | Looking ahead the likelihood is that for every percentage point of economic growth , energy demand will grow by half a percentage point . |
| 30 | This may be true but presupposes that the law in question is the one which will govern the contract , whereas the reality is that for every contract governed by that law there will be another contract governed by a foreign law with which the party concerned may be unfamiliar , which is in a foreign language he does not understand , and which , when put to the test , may prove demonstrably inferior not only to his own law but to the proposed uniform law . |