Example sentences of "is [that] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other story I recall to mind about this time is that Cranwell in those days must have been the coldest spot south of the Arctic Circle and the ration of coal to fire the single stove in a billet of 22 erks took little account of the temporary hutment , Some genius had laid down that the ration of coal would he 1lb of coal every other day was sufficient to ward off armies of brass monkeys that descended on Cranwell in winter . |
| 2 | For our purposes , the important point is that variants of these intermediate or compromise schemes were propounded by both Protestant and Catholic scholars . |
| 3 | The second statutory safeguard is that copies of any intercepted material must be destroyed as soon as they are no longer required . |
| 4 | The situation in Romania , as described by Baleanu and Bugnariu , is that copies of all Romanian theses are deposited with the ( single ) Central University Library , which then publishes an abstracting bulletin giving summaries of the contents . |
| 5 | Our view is that knowledge of BSL is a key to the curriculum and to the teacher 's function but that unless it is supported by appropriate methods the teacher 's role will be limited . |
| 6 | A more wide-ranging reason is that love of things , especially artificial things , could be seen as the besetting sin of modern civilisation , and in a way a new one , not quite Avarice and not quite pride , but somehow attached to both ( see pp. 68 , 128 above ) . |
| 7 | The fact is that projects in Japan are profitable , both for firms and investors . |
| 8 | A consequence of this is that women with undiagnosed non-insulin dependent diabetes , which is potentially as risky for the pregnancy as insulin dependent diabetes , are lumped together with women who have abnormalities of glucose tolerance that are trivial so far as the index pregnancy is concerned . |
| 9 | To some extent , but one of the problems is that women of an earlier generation have had to claw their way through the art world in order that a younger generation of women artists today — a generation which is almost gender blind — should have an easier time . |
| 10 | So , what probably happens is that women at the bottom of the social heap in the United States , having poor health care , high stressed lives , crime , drugs and all these kind of problems , probably have more spontaneous abortions , therefore the sex ratio away from males towards females , whereas women at the top of the social scale , low stress lives , good health care , better maternity erm medicine , stuff like that , retain more foetuses , therefore you 'd expect them to have more males , and this is what seems to happen . |
| 11 | The reason , Time explained , is that women under the age of 30 picture a feminist , to quote one college senior , as ‘ someone who does n't shave her legs and is doing everything she can to deny that she is feminine ’ . |
| 12 | [ … ] One is that firms with market power will maximize their profits by charging prices in excess of marginal costs . |
| 13 | Birdland 's manager Wayne Morris told NME : ‘ All I can say is that reports of the band leaving Lazy are totally untrue . |
| 14 | A point of special interest to women is that annuities by law have now become unisex and so must provide the same rates for men and women alike . |
| 15 | The second feature of this modest success is that differences of opinion about tactics and ecology have , generally , been submerged in working towards clearly identified goals which have always been attached to a limited and defined time frame . |
| 16 | One is that differences in accounting methods between countries mean that p/es are misleading , because earnings are measured in different ways . |
| 17 | However , the upshot of his research is that differences in motor skills do exist between black and white kids . |
| 18 | The fact is that elements like cran — and bil — do not carry any meaning at all , in the normal sense — they merely distinguish ; they are equivalent to numbered or lettered labels : ‘ ( berry ) type A/type B/type C … ’ . |
| 19 | One solution to the problem is that monopoles within the Sun catalyse certain nuclear fusion reactions , but not those that produce the neutrinos detected here on Earth . |
| 20 | The advantage of the method is that records on the prime data track do not have to be moved ; a link field has to be inserted in record 111 , however . |
| 21 | The advantage to the institutions providing the money — assuming enough countries follow the UNIDO format — is that proposals from many nations all contain the same essential data . |
| 22 | The point of the new section is that acts of hooliganism may cause harassment , alarm or distress to those who witness it . |
| 23 | Laws without strong enforcement are words without deeds , and the tragic truth is that courts in both England and the United States have displayed a general unwillingness to mete out harsh punishment to those found guilty of cruelty to animals and an even greater reluctance to render guilty verdicts in the first place . |
| 24 | The second hypothesis of this paper is that patterns of regularity in the semantic net can be exploited so as to generate meaningful , linear documents . |
| 25 | That 's actually a times , multiply , so what you do is that N times that bracket times N times that bracket and then the whole lot is square rooted I 'll come on to that shortly Another way of thinking about erm the product moment correlation is that what it 's doing , it 's putting the line of best bet through the data . |
| 26 | A further advantage of COMMUNlTEL is that pages of information can be downloaded from Prestel and saved for further use with , for example , business studies or economics classes or the Prestel pages can be edited for school use . |
| 27 | A well-known rationale for regional policy interventions is that countries with extensive regional imbalances in economic activity appear more prone to suffer inflationary pressures , and to suffer them sooner , than more spatially balanced nations . |
| 28 | A more important point is that passages of this sort , spliced as they are with images like the lizard from the immediate foreground of Pound 's tent inside the wire-mesh cage of the prison camp , do not come into being out of the free associations of idle reverie , though in these Pisan cantos Pound exploits the illusion of that , as Joyce did in Ulysses when he pretended to transport himself and us into the mind of Leopold Bloom . |
| 29 | The principle I work on is that passages of colour are more rewarding than the dot effect . |
| 30 | A great advantage of these tests — one that was not found in ‘ real ’ tasks — is that sets of them can be made of equal difficulty . |