Example sentences of "is that [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The recommendation before , therefore is that a second phase of the county experiment be implemented for a period of three months to six months , whichever is felt necessary , to allow the effects of
2 In the end the government was forced to make a minor concession , and the present position is that a second ballot will be held if fewer than 50 per cent of those eligible record a vote on the first occasion .
3 The suggestion then is that a fourth clause be added requiring that there be no other truth such that Henry 's believing it would have destroyed his justification for believing that q .
4 The irony for him now is that a third success could relegate the club he supported as a boy .
5 The problem is that the second question can not be answered until Washington comes up with a consensus on the first .
6 The feature in question is that the second half of a parallelistic couplet ( line B ) is often more precise or specific than the first half ( line A ) .
7 And the other thing is that the second year 's payment is taken out a year 's later through the same banker 's order .
8 One important aspect of attributing differences to biology as opposed to attributing them to culture is that the second type of explanation leaves room for views to change , while the former appears to rule this out .
9 The point is that the second version contains superfluous and irrelevant information , though this would not necessarily be the case if we were explaining what we do in the morning to an ( English-speaking ! )
10 The reason for this is that the first layer atoms are shadowed by their neighbours along these principal axes and the projectile experiences a continuous potential that focuses it into a specular direction — ie θ = 2α .
11 What we do know is that the first Rottweiler to be registered with the New Zealand Club was Auslese Montrachet , who was imported from Australia .
12 My own position is that the first finding of the judge , that April Ashley was a male , was in the light of available information unfortunate and unnecessarily conservative .
13 The difference between them is that the first regress can only be stopped by certain ( = infallible ) beliefs , while the second insists merely on the existence of beliefs which are non-inferentially justified .
14 The obvious explanation is that the first reports of allied successes suggested that the war would be short .
15 This assumption of improved supervision is put forward as a great strength of the proposals , but in fact what is being suggested is that the first year house officers would receive supervision from second year staff who are not yet fully registered .
16 We 'll be saying is that the first appointment of investigative staff to be made is of a complaint examiner .
17 The point here is that the first purchaser can safeguard himself by taking immediate delivery and not leaving the goods or documents of title with the seller .
18 A possible explanation for this apparently delayed effect of the Black Death is that the first onset , despite its virulence , did not harm the economy as a whole as much as might have been expected , and that it was the continuing effect of later outbreaks which did the greater damage .
19 As the leading firms prepare to meet the challenge of the national lottery , the irony is that the first revamp of the format in 24 years will make the pools themselves more of a lottery .
20 One possibility is that the first team to fill their container is the winner .
21 And what they have told us is that the first body was too far decomposed to be very helpful .
22 The reason for this sudden rush of bees is that the first bee tells her hive mates about the syrup .
23 Quicker thinking readers will probably have noticed what I did n't , which is that the first appearance of ‘ adverb ’ is a mistaken correction by a typesetter or proofreader of the correctly wrong ‘ abverb ’ .
24 The only problem is that the first time you do it for each project if it 's a ne if it 's a an old project , then we are going to have to put something in the field which summarizes the total remit for the whole of the group to date .
25 Kevin , why did he give Michelle those glasses , I did n't wash them properly , is that the first time
26 Something which is important to say is that the first time you have a contact with somebody and you do a piece , you 're , you 're meeting for the first time , it 's slightly awkward and you 're getting to know each other slightly , the second time you do it easier , it 's easier , and if you establish relationships with the local press , local radio and so forth , it gets easier and easier all the time , because by the time you get to know people , it 's not sort of ‘ Can I speak to somebody who does a programme about the morning whatever it is ?
27 The argument is that the First World will contribute the high-value technology and components for the production process , while the Third World will contribute the low-value low skill labour .
28 The one consolation is that the fourth team are Egypt rather than the Soviet Union .
29 I think one of the reasons ‘ Fitcher 's Bird ’ is at once so fascinating and so satisfying is that the third sister is not protected from the enchantment .
30 What is clear under both Article 35 and 36 is that the third party remains just that : it does not become a party to the entire treaty .
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