Example sentences of "[det] is [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jargon word for this is synergy . |
| 2 | This is relativity with a vengeance , and many of us have felt than in a case like this the scales that Eliot measures by are not so much sliding as slithering . |
| 3 | If this is relativity it is like Einstein 's , by which it is not that you can make any measurement come out as you please , but that from any spatio-temporal viewpoint you can estimate what will be the right measurement from any other . |
| 4 | THIS IS SOMERSET |
| 5 | And this is G of the same number . |
| 6 | This is piecework and it pays next to nothing . |
| 7 | — this is solitude |
| 8 | ‘ This is Jan Hardy 's secretary calling from London . |
| 9 | I start off with a Bloody Mary as this is breakfast in a sense , then cleanse the palate with a bottle of Pils . |
| 10 | Perhaps the most striking case of this is J. A. Thugut , Austrian representative at Constantinople in 1769–75 , who was throughout these years an agent in French pay regularly transmitting confidential information to his French colleague , the Comte de Saint-Priest ( though it is true that French and Austria were at that time allies , at least in name ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I saw Val in Willow , and I said , ‘ This is Jim Morrison . ’ |
| 12 | This is Jim |
| 13 | This is Jim Mackenzie . |
| 14 | ‘ This is Jim 's usual hideout . ’ |
| 15 | This is n form of working memory , as the cue is meaningful only if the animal remembers where it has just come from . |
| 16 | ‘ This is Simon Butcher . ’ |
| 17 | Maybe so , but this is bollocks . |
| 18 | Maybe so , but this is bollocks . |
| 19 | I think ( and hope ) this is bollocks . |
| 20 | Well this is conductance , the inverse , one over resistance is conductance . |
| 21 | Yeah this is Lieutenant may I help you ? |
| 22 | This is bliss indeed . |
| 23 | This is Kingsley Black and again he looks to use Collimore 's pace and he moved into a great position there Collimore . |
| 24 | This is Vulcano , the ancestor of all volcanoes . |
| 25 | All this is speculation . |
| 26 | There is yet another area of intellectual activity that is supported by reading , and this is speculation of the ‘ what if … ? ’ kind , found in science fiction ( SF ) . |
| 27 | His idea wo n't work , says Beowulf , for the pressure on heroes to take blood-revenge is too strong — it seems , though this is speculation from other sources , that Ingeld 's father Fróda was killed by the Danish king who now wants to make alliance with his son . |
| 28 | This is bond paying a regular ( usually semi-annual ) , fixed coupon over a fixed period to maturity or redemption , with the return of principal ( i.e. the par or nominal value of the bond ) on the maturity date . |
| 29 | And this is P . |
| 30 | Yeah , this is P C Quick 's dish disk cache |