Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] is the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is that just cos you 've got your leg like that or is the other one shaking ? |
| 2 | These courses would be much more cross-disciplinary than is the case now . |
| 3 | Consequently , it may be used more easily and fine tuning in earlier stages of design is much easier than is the case with an optimization technique . |
| 4 | " I appreciate your position , Mr Grout , but I 'm afraid that is the way things are set up . |
| 5 | " in a school such as ours where the teaching has distinct literary and mathematical pretensions and in which school hours are shorter than is the case in some parts of the country there is not , under present conditions , sufficient time for the proper development of both subjects : and experts are nearly unanimous in the opinion that Physics affords a better intellectual training than Chemistry , and the expense and risk in maintaining a Physical Laboratory is also distinctly less . " |
| 6 | The wording here ( ‘ is treated as having a separate deposit ’ ) is different from subsection ( 3 ) ( ‘ treated as entitled to the deposit ’ ) , but in my view the intended effect is clear and is the same in both cases . |
| 7 | The presence of symptomatic gall stones in eight patients is interesting and is the subject of a more thorough investigation . |
| 8 | This last alloy is the cheapest and is the material that most vexes suppliers . |
| 9 | The Londonderry club is 71 years old and is the third oldest Rotary Club in Ireland . |
| 10 | The Woodland Trust was founded in 1972 and is the only charity in Britain which aims to safeguard native trees such as oak , lime , beech and ash . |
| 11 | from one address to another if is the important thing . |
| 12 | If primaries are ruled out , lists must be drawn up by delegates of the parties , best chosen by a postal ballot and assembled as is the usual West German practice in a nominating convention . |
| 13 | Fancye and fresh as is the emrawde grene , |
| 14 | Erm his name James Buchanan James Buchanan was asked to do something about the violations of the Fugitive Slave Law , this is the one that returned slaves back to their owners , erm and Buchanan said , I quote wisely limited and restrained as is the president 's power under our constitution , he alone can accomplish but little for good or for evil on such a momentous question . |
| 15 | Under these circumstances , it is scarcely surprising that walking in Britain is of diminishing importance , with total distance walked decreasing as is the percentage of all journeys that are made on foot . |
| 16 | This sense of ‘ apartness ’ reinforces the internal reliance of the mining community — or ‘ cohesive mass segregation ’ ( p. 69 ) — and also promotes a greater level of strike-proneness than is the case in more heterogeneous industrial settlements . |
| 17 | Sorry that is the county council 's view . |
| 18 | The financial upset is about six thousand pounds , but it' ; s the emotional upset that is the most disturbing thing |
| 19 | The Ipswich Junior Chamber was founded in 1929 and is the fourth oldest in the country . |
| 20 | Note , however , that this should not be as explicit as is the name of the murderer . |
| 21 | The latter has much in common with both pavements from Leicester , but the kaleidoscopic patterns are not identical to those of the Blackfriars mosaic , while the floral device of the lozenge arrangement ( based on four halves of an eight-lozenge star , around a central square ) in the St. Nicholas Street pavement is tilted , not perpendicular as is the floral device in the Great Witcombe mosaic . |
| 22 | The well developed buccal capsule of the adult parasite is prominent as is the bursa of the male . |
| 23 | The reform of our outdated and undemocratic voting system in particular is the change which will make other reforms possible and is the key to a successful future . |
| 24 | David Barnes , who joined the board in 1986 and is the only obvious successor to Sir Denys , has also argued for a different approach . |
| 25 | It is multicultural and is the largest active organisation of women artists in the world . |
| 26 | Nicknamed Zhorik , Litichevsky is very tall , very shy and is the premier cartoon/comics artist in the USSR . |
| 27 | The bell tower dates from the eleventh-century and is the oldest in the Lombardy Romanesque style that still exists . |
| 28 | He 's quick and strong and is the type who will get on the end of things rather than play a big part in the build-up . |
| 29 | Put another way , the overload , or hyperpluralist , perspective is more keenly attuned to the realities of aspects of politics in the seventies than is the pluralist perspective which was very much a product of the cosy consensus politics of the fifties and sixties . |
| 30 | The shift from evidence of accuracy in performance under certain conditions to general conclusions about internalization of competence is in principle no more justified than is the extrapolation from pigeon pecking to human verbal behaviour . |