Example sentences of "is [prep] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only building of note is All Saints ' church , standing on what is for Holderness an eminence . |
| 2 | It is for instance a continuous and powerfully effective factor in the change of lexical meaning ; and as it happens , we have touched on a syntactic case in this very chapter , in the development of fixed relative order for classes of adjectives in prenominal position ( cf. , too , the emergence of " characteristic " and " occasion " values for prenominals and postnominals , respectively ) . |
| 3 | There is for instance the theory that inflation is spontaneously generated by trade unions . |
| 4 | Immortality is for Tithonus a punishment , it is cold and silent whereas death is warm and inviting for the old man . |
| 5 | O is for OnTime the Calendar/Scheduler from Campbell Systems |
| 6 | But nothing has has really changed it 's surely implicit that green field sites will have to be released to meet the justifiable needs for development erm that there are ways clearly to minimize the impact by by first redeveloping the existing sites by by releasing sites in less sensitive locations , or developing sites that have minimal impact on on existing settle settlements or patterns of development un unless in exceptional circumstances there is for example the need for a new settlement . |
| 7 | If a FIATA freight forwarder is held liable because of delay for consequential loss or damages ( other than loss of or damage to the goods ) its liability is for double the freight covered by the bill of lading , or the value of the goods--whichever is less . |
| 8 | The eminent Kleinian psychoanalyst , Hanna Segal , has recently declared the adult homosexual structure to be inherently pathological , disturbed , and perverse , and this because of an inbuilt , narcissistic desire for the same : ‘ homosexuality is of necessity a narcissistic condition , as the name itself betrays . |
| 9 | Although the petitioner was , for the reasons indicated , entitled to appeal as of right , the present petition by the petitioner is of necessity a petition for the grant of special leave to appeal and the grant of such leave remains discretionary : see Lopes v. Valliappa Chettiar [ 1968 ] A.C. 887 . |
| 10 | Biography is of necessity a false narrative . |
| 11 | ( It should be noted here that the groom himself is of necessity a classifactory cross-cousin of the bride , for the rule is that all marriages must be between kinsmen of the same caste . |
| 12 | For the purposes of exposition , though it is of necessity an oversimplification , we can say that objects of feeling , particularly other people , encountered in the outer world are mapped subjectively in some way on to the inner world . |
| 13 | There is of course no logical reason why things should be different this time , wrote Harsnet , why this too should not be an illusion , the illusion of imagining that I know not only what step to take first but also what step to take second and even what step to take third . |
| 14 | The administration itself is of course no monolith and does not act as a single bloc , pursuing its interests whatever they may be . |
| 15 | There is of course no reason why he should propose solutions to the questions he implies about the use of land and its ownership . |
| 16 | There is of course no reason why individual lenders should not make insurance compulsory for their clients : its cost would have to be revealed to the customer , and it would have to be added into the calculated APR . |
| 17 | There is of course no formal contradiction in combining austerity of devotion with ebullience of architectural and internal decoration , but the combination illustrates the contrasts which we find in almost every area of Anselm 's life . |
| 18 | Moral principle is of course no guarantee of practicality . |
| 19 | The behavioural repertoire of newborn infants is somewhat limited , and there is of course no question of their reporting on whether they are awake or asleep . |
| 20 | There is of course no reason why this should be the way in which library skills are taught , even in library periods ; but the use of resource-based learning as an important strategy in a school gives an excellent opportunity to build in the acquisition and practice of library research skills as part of a " natural situation " . |
| 21 | There is of course no reason why the patterns revealed in one pioneering study should be taken as definitive and exhaustive for all communities : it is an empirical matter to determine what kinds of pattern can be revealed in speech communities and hence to determine what the norms of particular speech communities may be . |
| 22 | This is of course no coincidence . |
| 23 | ‘ There is of course no question of retaining the services of this man . |
| 24 | There is of course no reason to expect the same person to be the median voter as policy changes ; the identity of the median voter may alter . |
| 25 | There is of course no need to be unduly alarmed at these discrepancies ; we should reflect that any normal language presents numerous instances where certain recalcitrant items refuse to fit into a generally acceptable pattern ( e.g. for no very obvious reason the " expected " adverbs difficultly and longly are not accepted in English and have to be replaced by the phrases with difficulty and for a long time . ) |
| 26 | There is of course no single correct way ; everyone writes differently . |
| 27 | The ‘ lukewarm ’ state is of course a biblical and transcendental and authoritative anchoring of ‘ indifference ’ . |
| 28 | That English tradition of the amateur is of course a long one , and by no means ignoble , reaching back as it does through John Morley to Walter Bagehot , to Burke , to Addison , and so all the way to Philip Sidney and the Renaissance all-round man . |
| 29 | The answer is of course a political answer . |
| 30 | There is of course a much heard debate about the fees and the services of the church , with people holding different views about whether or not there should be a charge for functions like funerals , but for the moment we are more concerned with how the ‘ consumers ’ experience the way the church 's representative reaches out to them at their time of crisis . |