Example sentences of "is the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Walton 's view , there is a need to consider factors to be taken into account if the phrase is to be infused with greater meaning , and to clarify whether what is meant is the best interests of all children in a particular community , or of deprived , maladjusted or delinquent children , or of one particular child . |
| 2 | Nightingale rejected Mill 's criticism that her Notes on Nursing restricted women 's opportunities in the medical world by saying that feminism urged ‘ women to do all men do including the medical and other professions , merely because men do it , and without regard to whether this is the best women can do ’ . |
| 3 | Stan Hey explains why Hugh McIvanney is the best sports writer in Britain |
| 4 | IT IS the early hours of Friday morning . |
| 5 | ‘ The most fascinating part of any business is the early days , because that 's when every experience is a new experience . ’ |
| 6 | But it is the Japanese manufacturers who have made a poor showing in the DSP arena — probably due in part to a lack of commitment and feeble marketing . |
| 7 | The second type of late Saxon town , which overlaps in some cases with the first , is the fortified burghs . |
| 8 | The highlight is the week-old calves — they 're encouraged to let the calves lick their fingers , and shown how the farmer reproduces their mother 's teats , because the milk the calves would otherwise have ends up in the supermarket . |
| 9 | If we recognise that professionals do not have ownership of problems and that it is the primary managers ( parents ) who sort out problems , there is nothing to be gained by giving a contrary impression to parents . |
| 10 | Nonsense , said the Fundamentalists , it is the Civil Liberties people who are being illiberal and intolerant by presenting evolution as fact when it is only a theory . |
| 11 | He is perfectly right that in recent years we have been eating into that principle , but if we continue to do so , the principle will go , and that is the civil liberties issue which the system of justice has always been anxious to maintain . |
| 12 | One well-known instance is the civil rights movement of black Americans in the 1960s ; and similar movements , involving various ethnic and cultural groups , continue to be active in many countries , as do women 's movements . |
| 13 | The scale length is the Gibson-like 24¾″ , which actually feels a lot shorter than it is , introducing an almost short scale element into the Carlton story . |
| 14 | As my honourable friend said from the front bench , the Labour party is absolutely firmly committed now both by the voices of the leadership and the votes and the resolutions at our party conference that we are in favour of a proportional representation system for the European parliament and I hope that when the elections come Mr Deputy Speaker , and people will be arguing about why they 're voting for Europe on June the ninth in one boundary as opposed to another and why they 've got erm erm different rules for this election of course as indeed for the last European election because the registration will be different , allowing all kinds of erm how can I put it foreigners in inverted commas , to vote in our elections in this country because it is the European elections that we will actually put the point across that er for the future there will be different arrangements made indeed . |
| 15 | It is the democratic Commons which has denied Britons what three-quarters of them want , according to the polls — a referendum . |
| 16 | It is the Eastern religions repackaged and made presentable for consumption by Western minds . |
| 17 | First , there is the equal opportunities strand , which has its roots in the social democratic ‘ race ’ interventions of the 1960s . |
| 18 | It is the curved arrows and printed numbers at the left-hand side that give the numbers of rows knitted with the main carriage . |
| 19 | I I have always been worried about the personalization of er what I believe is the great traditions in the Tory party . |
| 20 | The lasting image many have of the city is the concrete cows , a tongue-in-cheek parting gift from a local artist . |
| 21 | The party 's in Milton Keynes and to us the only thing worth mentioning for Milton Keynes is the concrete cows . |
| 22 | b , Contours of line emission from molecules of CO in the ( l , v ) plane ; the longitude extent is the inner degrees of panel a . |
| 23 | Urry argues that it is the varying inter-relationships among these various spheres of capitalist society which determine its local form — or , in the terminology of this book , create the nature of each place . |
| 24 | ‘ In a team event like this , the difficulty from my point of view is the varying personalities of the girls as they go into the consecutive matches . |
| 25 | ‘ In a team event like this , the difficulty from my point of view is the varying personalities of the girls as they go into the consecutive matches . |
| 26 | What convinces me that this child is deluded is the conflicting reports of the so-called apparition . |
| 27 | The most striking feature is the clasped hands . |
| 28 | In terms of the other eastern bloc countries , what you have to say is what is the long terms aspiration and goal of the E C ? |
| 29 | Perhaps the most impressive beast of all , is the Current Trends Lion with a heavy duty bicycle chain for its mane . |
| 30 | All I have seen is the occasional references , monies given ‘ pro secretis expensis in negotio regis ’ . ’ |