Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] is the " in BNC.

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1 The prohibitions set out in paragraph 4 above shall take effect as from the date herein and shall be binding upon Norwich Union until such time as this notice is rescinded or varied by the board or is the subject of an order made by the Appeal Tribunal of Lautro .
2 I think one point that seems to have bis been missed by the H B F or is the fact that the population is growing .
3 Is the absence of a left-wing press therefore related to the structure of the industry or is the public , for whatever reasons , not receptive to such ideas ?
4 The answer to this question lies in the complex problem of whether there is ever a role for retaining the gall bladder in the presence of stones , and whether it is the gall bladder that is the cause of the stones such that recurrence of stones is inevitable .
5 And it is the Yorkshire and Humberside Development Association that is the one that in this locality , the county , takes the lead in attracting inward investment .
6 They have not yet accepted the defeat that is the essential component of the first of the 12 steps .
7 New products are not giving the return on investment that is the company norm .
8 This makes me wonder if it is the creative thought that guides the discoverer or whether it is the emotion that is the creative force that impels him to the solution .
9 The statute based side of the law is equally tangled and displays the sort of confusion that is the inevitable consequence of shifts in policy and the national failure to decide upon , and adhere to , an agreed housing repairs , maintenance and rehabilitation policy …
10 Measures of central tendency need to be interpreted along with measures of within-group variability that is the clustering of individual scores around a typical value .
11 ‘ As long as we are ready , the ebb will leave behind fertile ground to sustain us to the future that is the true value of the visit of the festival to this area .
12 Banking policy , both in Germany and in France , is far more geared to industry than is the case in the United Kingdom and there is considerable pressure on the German government to maintain grossly inefficient production in East Germany , which it can do by enlisting the aid of the banks .
13 The man told me on the telly that is the best so
14 Accordingly , the sentence " I am cutting the meat for mother " can be said in these three different ways : This leads to three different types of clauses according to whether it is the Subject , Object or Benefactor that is the topic .
15 Pople himself captured the mood of self-assurance and optimism that is the mark of these theoreticians at the end of the book he coauthored on the subject .
16 Although cerebral organisation in adolescence may be characterised by greater functional plasticity than is the case among adults , the picture after left hemispherectomy is essentially one of gross linguistic impoverishment in which comprehension is better preserved than expressive speech .
17 Thanks to major tax-concessions and government investment , France has a film industry that is the envy of Europe .
18 The requirement that the victim might suffer harassment , alarm or distress is a much lower threshold than the violence or possibility of violence that is the touchstone of the other offences under Part I of the Act .
19 Inevitably , the two species interbred , and now , in the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago and on New Guinea there is a new kind of wild pig that is the descendant of two species that were not only domesticated , but were domesticated independently of each other .
20 All the systems considered above contain a cross-term , in which the rate of change of one variable is directly decreased by a term that is the product of two other variables .
21 The figures are broadly similar although a slightly greater number of students is involved in each practice than is the case among Schofield 's group .
22 It is less easily defensible that the practitioners appear to think less deeply about the meaning of the present abundance of data than is the case in many other fields of science .
23 That date is especially important for those Japanese cars built on what Levy described as ‘ the Japanese aircraft carrier that is the UK , and which is pointed towards continental Europe ’ .
24 Although losses may be equal , the side that is the better able to sustain them will derive most benefit from any encounter .
25 In Rulfo 's Pedro Páramo , likewise , the frustration that embitters the eponymous protagonist 's life and the dashing of illusions that is the pattern of existence as depicted in the novel , are symbolized by an episode in which young Pedro and his lover climb a hill and fly a kite in the shape of a bird , only to see the string break and the kite fall back to earth , and the novel as a whole is punctuated by recurrent images of rising and falling which reiterate the central theme of the thwarting of human hopes and aspirations .
26 Scotland were under the greater pressure in the scrummage while their threatened superiority at the lineout evaporated as Yann Lemeur at the front and , to a lesser degree , Olivier Merle in the middle began to time their jump across the great divide that is the mandatory gap .
27 Mind you , I still think that now on the way back from a long hill-walk when I can just make out a dot that is the car .
28 So the lump that you take the lum the the part of the enhancement that is the lump sum
29 The indicators of success and failure may well not be apparent except at a very late stage indeed to the administrators in the institution that is the location of the course and on which it is entirely dependent .
30 The bible forms the basis of the Christian religion and is the source of its concretion .
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