Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [noun] is [verb] is " in BNC.

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1 The cly growing tall is an obvious biblical reference to Adam and therefore man being made from the clay and the question Owen is asking is really simply if man is merely born to die why was he ever born at all .
2 I should like to be sure that the child Barbara is carrying is my grandchild , not your bastard . ’
3 The experience has , however , shown that the format in which the tax computation is prepared is the key to successful and speedy CT 200 completion .
4 This remark has an enticing obscurity to it , a flavour of ‘ Confucius , he says … ’ ; actually , as with many Chinese proverbs , the point Tarrow is making is a straightforward and simple one , that regionalism as policy resists categorisation and control within a particular administrative subject-area and has tended to develop branch-lines covering a wide range of policy intervention .
5 Since the fraction of faults that are unfamiliar , ie the novelty rate , is high , especially in the early years of repair , the rate at which the knowledge base is changing is also high .
6 Thus , given the way the word " I " is used , there is no startlingly new information to be derived from a person 's statement " I actually exist " If " Socrates is eating an apple " is true , then clearly there is nothing that can usefully be added to this statement by saying that the apple Socrates is eating is not fictional .
7 But I want you to observe that the church family is growing is n't it ?
8 As a guide , the performance that the Project Team is expecting is :
9 Supporters of the third principle may claim that the reason rape is prohibited is that its perpetration deprives the raped of their chances to live according to their conception of the good .
10 The inclusion of such trading lags makes the arbitrage risky , as the mispricing at the time the arbitrage position is established is unknown when the decision to trade is taken .
11 Many in both parties now recognise this , and that unity to bring about change in the way Scotland is governed is the only way forward .
12 The trouble with talking about yourself the way Stuart is doing is that it makes people jump to conclusions .
13 Other examples show however that the person of which the infinitive event is predicated is not always the speaker : ( 4 ) … but he was differently designed , full of desires and aspirations , itching at the fingers , lusting with the eyes , whom the whole variegated world could not satisfy with aspects .
14 A special context in which the pain signal is given is at the end of the mating act , when the tom-cat is withdrawing his barbed penis from the female .
15 So far as I am aware , this was the first occasion on which it was made clear that the period which elapses before a prisoner serving a life sentence is released is determined by consideration of two factors , namely : ( i ) the period necessary to satisfy retribution and deterrence , which has come to be called ‘ the tariff ; ’ and ( ii ) a possible further period if it is thought by the Parole Board and/or the Secretary of State that the prisoner would pose an unacceptable risk of danger to the public were he to be released at the end of his tariff period .
16 Durham 's Assistant Chief Constable Eddy Marchant said : ‘ The decision as to whether a family member is used is always up to negotiators trained to judge the mood of the individual .
17 Thus a member of Lautro upon whom an intervention notice is served is in much the same position as a defendant to an action at law against whom an ex parte injunction is obtained .
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