Example sentences of "is the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The counsellor may often find that this period also coincides with the onset of a depressed or confused state of mind , suggesting that it is the problems and difficulties which occurred around this time that require counselling attention . |
| 2 | As Shaw and Stockford ( 1979 , p. 122 ) state , ‘ it is the problems of implementing ‘ socially-based ’ policies for rural areas through the medium of the statutory planning system which accounts for much of the gap between society 's expectations of planning , and the results in practice' . |
| 3 | It is the problems of the inner cities to which we now turn . |
| 4 | The central problem for the government is to determine the value of the subsidy to the ‘ social ’ railway , that is the services that would not exist or would be extremely highly priced without state support , and to set appropriate targets for the ‘ commercial ’ railway . |
| 5 | There is The Times front page of 16 November 1976 , on which I announce that ‘ the Lebanese civil war — or at least that stage of the conflict that cost … almost 40,000 lives — came to an end this morning when a Syrian army , 6,000 strong and accompanied by hundreds of tanks and heavy armoured vehicles , occupied the entire city of Beirut . ’ |
| 6 | Its only rival is the Times lending library . |
| 7 | Just as bewildering is the Times ' depiction as ‘ curious ’ |
| 8 | The worst paper is The Times |
| 9 | It is the developments from the 1970s onwards that have provided the greatest impetus to transform industries by linking activities ever more tightly across borders . |
| 10 | The unique fauna of the Galapagos islands includes marine iguanas and giant tortoises , but it is the birds — especially ‘ Darwin 's finches ’ — that allow the naturalist an unrivalled opportunity to study the effects of geographical isolation in the production of new species . |
| 11 | As with many myths there 's not a lot of truth in it , to make your own cable all you need is the connectors , a length of cable , scissors and a small bench vice . |
| 12 | ‘ Obviously the thing I have is the looks , which will help , but hopefully people will like the music too ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Obviously the thing I have is the looks , which will help , but hopefully people will like the music too . ’ |
| 14 | My only knowledge is the pubs that still remain but are boarded up . |
| 15 | Re-reading the paper which formed the background to this presentation , I am struck most of all by the difficulties there are in moving from a statement in critique — containing arguments about the weaknesses in our current models of design understanding , such as our failure to be able to define satisfactorily either design phenomena or design activity or to assert powerfully enough , and at the right levels , design 's wider social significance — to positive statements ; to being able to say this is the phenomena with which design is concerned , this is the nature of design activity , this , therefore , is the significance of design — epistemologically , socially , and practically . |
| 16 | All I 'm saying is the forms that are mentioned in the procedure that have to go in those wallets ought to be in those colours , so red , so pink . |
| 17 | ‘ In the west it is the prices which are hard to accept and in the east people are unhappy about unemployment . |
| 18 | It is the floods and the fires , the battles and the bombardments , the eruptions and the earthquakes which have preserved so much of the human story . |
| 19 | It is the evaluators ' belief that the impressive rhetoric contained in this part of the proposal describes an ideal which the school could not realistically be expected to achieve , without an across-the-board change amounting to a curriculum revolution . |
| 20 | It is worth describing in some detail the evolution of the Inservice Panel , since it is the evaluators ' judgement that a number of lessons might be learnt from its somewhat chequered career . |
| 21 | It is the evaluators ' impression that the responsibility for producing agendas , convening and chairing meetings , and producing and circulating minutes has most often fallen to the Principal Adviser for Educational Resources and the ACL:E&SS but has remained throughout an area of uncertainty and indecision . |
| 22 | It is the evaluators ' conclusion that the creation of such a framework may well be imminent , but through the period of the evaluation itself the existing arrangements can not be said to have been adequate . |
| 23 | Clearly , there were points at which the link person or the DCSL could exercise considerable power over a school 's proposal , but it is the evaluators ' impression that this power was not abused . |
| 24 | It is the evaluators ' opinion that a greater flexibility in the number and size of grants would be desirable and that this might be achieved if the standard awards were replaced by a sliding scale with lower and upper limits . |
| 25 | Without denigrating the work of the Coordinating Team , it is the evaluators ' belief that decisions will be made on better grounds than they have been if something like this proposal becomes a reality . |
| 26 | He knows it is the hostages , the old witch , her precious daughter , and her whelp , and he 's scared to the marrow of his bones . |
| 27 | The truth is the hostages were cynically exploited by both sides for political and tactical purposes . |
| 28 | Showing Out and Pass The Mic yield some surprisingly good dancers and singers , but the choice of Pass The Mic winner suggests that breast size is the judges ' main criterion . |
| 29 | The company can pick up penalties is the ships are not loaded on time . |
| 30 | The smartness of Camilla 's luggage astonished me [ I wrote ] — and how modest not to write up UOMINI over what , I am sure , is the Gents . |