Example sentences of "[det] is [art] [noun] [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if this is a mistake and animals are properly to be understood as primitive beings , at least as different from us as they are similar , then their modest entitlement to humane treatment , accorded them by common sense and enshrined in the law , might well be vindicated . |
| 2 | If there is a good general historical museum within the region , offering wide ranging collections , then this is a resource that pupils should return to many times over the years , to pursue different enquiries . |
| 3 | This is the thesis that women 's morality , which in certain vital respects , particularly in relation to sexual behaviour , often differs from men 's , has been imposed on them by centuries of conditioning by men . |
| 4 | Well absolutely I mean this is the way that things have always worked and the County Council makes a global assessment of requirements for a particular district and the district council then takes it forward with assumptions on small sites , windfall sites er and major allocations that they may be mad making . |
| 5 | This is the money that banks keep in their safes or tills for everyday use . |
| 6 | This is the position that Djilas eventually arrives at , arguing that because ‘ property ’ meant the use , enjoyment and disposition of material goods , and the communist political bureaucracy uses , enjoys and disposes of collectivized property through the organizational medium of state administrative institutions , it obtains its power and privileges from the collective ownership of state property and therefore constitutes a new class ( Djilas 1957 ) . |
| 7 | This is the idea that offenders are punished , not to deter the offenders themselves , but pour encourager les autres . |
| 8 | This is the argument that women 's domestic responsibilities get in the way of their paid work , and prevent them from taking the opportunities for higher-paid work . |
| 9 | Well this is the area that you 'll have to do something about is the if you 're gon na knock it into the Winter Gardens this is the area that knocks into the Winter Gardens . |
| 10 | This is the countryside that villagers in three hamlets just a few miles from Milton Keynes fear will be eaten up by concrete . |
| 11 | This is the amount that beams on average on to each square metre , even in cloudy , wintry Britain . |
| 12 | This is the process that programmers go through at the beginning of a job to understand existing code . |
| 13 | This is an underestimate and masks great regional differences . |
| 14 | This is an organization that listeners may not realize , which meets probably a couple of times a term , and which members of the university and people outside community meet , have some supper together , perhaps , and actually hear some talks , either from people inside the university or outside , about topics of current interest . |
| 15 | The old slate quarry here is one of the largest man-made holes in Britain , and such is the fascination that holes in the ground exercise on the mind of man that there are special viewing platforms where visitors may stand to gape at the awesome chasm . |
| 16 | The most potent of these is the idea that Britons are subjects , rather than proper citizens . |
| 17 | The most interesting of these is the prediction that protons , which make up much of the mass of ordinary matter , can spontaneously decay into lighter particles such as antielectrons . |
| 18 | The most amusing of these is the suggestion that pikemen worse short buff-coats made from imported buffalo leather from America , while in fact pikemen did not wear buff-coats , and the buff-coats which were worn by cavalry troopers were not made of American buffalo leather but local oxhide . |
| 19 | the scope of international enforcement , that is the rights and obligations of third States in respect of an internationally wrongful act . |
| 20 | For political and strategic purposes , that is the question that matters . |
| 21 | The corresponding component oscillations of the wave would be , as the physicists say , " in phase " , that is the crests and troughs would occur at the same instants for both components . |
| 22 | The commander of a ship , however , had additional perquisites which added to the value of his appointment , for it has been claimed that he could make as much as £1,500 in a single voyage from the fares paid by passengers , while he even had the right to sell for his own profit at the end of the voyage the dunnage , that is the bamboos and rattans employed to keep the cargo from shifting . |
| 23 | That is the belief that teachers and children ‘ do n't like getting their hands dirty ’ . |
| 24 | The descriptions begin with the analysis of skeletal element proportions , that is the numbers and percentages of the different parts of the skeleton of the prey animals eaten by the predators . |
| 25 | He himself gives the reason : that he had faith in the specialists , that is the director and curators , and allowed their objectives to be his objectives . |