Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [conj] [is] " in BNC.
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| 31 | James Shelley Hamilton thought Black Legion was an exceptional film precisely because it was ‘ one of the best expositions of what genuine Americanism is and is not what the screen has produced ’ . |
| 32 | Since such a review stands rather apart from the rest of the material , it is presented separately , in Appendix A , where we consider what syntax is and is not , and the difficulties that have beset previous attempts to explain it , of which the principal result has been an implicit acceptance of what may be called the " perspicuity of grammar " . |
| 33 | At the equilibrium point the real wage is and is the quantity of labour employed generating , of real output . |
| 34 | Often , it will be obvious if the information is or is not confidential . |
| 35 | S&N 's executive committee has recently approved an initiative to find out what the situation is and is preparing an attitude survey to identify what managers are really thinking and what the problems are perceived to be . |
| 36 | Jewellery was and is Ratner 's game and he has never sought to diversify . |
| 37 | The city was and is home to many great painters , sculptors , poets and composers … a city of romance . |
| 38 | The principal qualification , other than membership of the ISE , imposed by the Bank was and is ‘ capital adequacy ’ . |
| 39 | But remember the words of Glidwell LJ in Rex Stewart Jeffries Parker Ginsberg Ltd v Parker [ 1988 ] IRLR 483 : " in the end , whether a particular provision is or is not reasonable to protect the employer 's legitimate interest is a matter of impression " . |
| 40 | my Lord , er , er , in , in my submission the , the , the highest really could put their case is that if the matter were referred your Lordship simply did n't stay proceedings or permitted them for example to apply for interim payment or permitted them to take some procedural steps to pursue their action so that they were n't unduly delayed should they succeed at the end of the day and that would be a major concession because it would run against a normal rule cos on a reference the entire proceedings are stayed , that 's not a case just saying even if that is done , er that anybody is saying that particular measure is or is good is not good or may not be forced in the interim |
| 41 | It is unnecessary for the purpose of this case to determine whether that decision is or is not correct : I will assume ( without expressing any view on the point ) that it is . |
| 42 | What makes the issue of the legitimacy of our constitutional arrangements so problematic is the general open ended-ness of those arrangements ; that is , the difficulty of knowing whether a practice or non-practice is or is not constitutional . |
| 43 | ‘ That the Company be and is hereby generally and unconditionally authorised in accordance with Section 166 of the Companies Act 1985 to make market purchases ( within the meaning of Section 163 of the said Act ) of Ordinary Shares of 25p each in the capital of the Company ( ‘ shares ’ ) provided that : |
| 44 | In order to ascertain whether or not a particular trust is or is not charitable you must look at the preamble to the statute of Elizabeth I , the Charitable Uses Act 1601 and the classification by Lord Macnaghten in Commissioners for the Special Purposes of Income Tax v. Pemsel and the reported cases generally . |
| 45 | A general conceptual boundary-fixing approach would seem to be indicated for charity , because the concept is organic , reflecting contemporary public views of public interest , and because the principal if not the sole issue is usually whether the trust is or is not charitable . |
| 46 | Whether any particular conduct is or is not threatening , abusive or insulting is , of course , a matter of objective judgment for the tribunal of fact . |
| 47 | it is satisfied that the company is or is likely to become unable to pay its debts ; and |
| 48 | Irrespective of how much order is or is not present in organizations , Cohen , March and Olsen recognized that people have experience and formulate standard responses to situations . |
| 49 | Cumberland Lodge was and is a remarkable foundation : a grace and favour house belonging to the sovereign which , in the years after the War , had been set aside to serve as a meeting-place for university teachers and students . |
| 50 | His ego was and is such that the outside world can neither add to nor subtract from it . |
| 51 | Mhoira was and is a symbol to WPCs throughout the country that the ladder can be scaled . |
| 52 | Just as men 's muscularity was and is celebrated in the histories , so was another man fascinated by the muscularity of women who worked at the pitheads . |
| 53 | Though matte painting was and is favoured largely for economy — it reduces travel or set building or both — handcrafted painting is at times capable of effects that are beyond photography in terms of atmosphere , imagination and invention . |
| 54 | It should also state whether time is or is not of the essence at any of the procedural stages . |
| 55 | This only serves to emphasise the desirability of stating expressly whether time is or is not to be of the essence . |
| 56 | However the situation found in Kano was not typical of west Africa or even of Nigeria , and the one-man-band was and is the predominant theme . |