Example sentences of "[is] [det] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Without them there is little to which to relate .
2 Banbury Lane , now in part a main motor road , is the oldest of the roads on the map , though there is little about it today to indicate its great antiquity .
3 Now what they do is each of them takes a piece of fruit each time they go
4 a nap is that about what you wanted ?
5 To underline the point I thought I 'd show you this four year average one thing that the exercise shows is that between them our book , entertainment and fine china businesses normally account for about seven percent of Pearson 's annual profit in their first half and for about thirty three percent of our profit in the full year .
6 But now there is that between us .
7 ‘ My lord , ’ he replies , still with the utmost courtesy , ‘ listen to me ; a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver , what is that between you and me ?
8 When predicated of any individual feeling , the information they convey is that of its likeness to the other feelings which we have been accustomed to call by the same name .
9 The most obvious level of psychology 's ambiguous significations is that of its writing .
10 The third area in which major improvements have been made to PageMaker is that of its ability to handle graphics .
11 Of course , Freud 's own writings take both the ontogenetic and phylogenetic perspectives fully into account , and in this sense he is the true father of social psychoanalysis just as he is that of its clinical sibling .
12 One rather exciting will home made will I hasten to add I dealt with last year , the lady of some who was not getting on with her husband and I think although I 'm not absolutely sure that the handwriting is that of her sister and we have this form filled in and it mentioned the bank or special savings account and it mentioned the premium bonds and it mentioned everything in the back bedroom and the linen in the linen and the linen cupboard because she 'd brought all this lot and it failed to appoint an executor and it failed to deal with the residuary estate it meant that technically there was a partial intestacy , as there was a partial intestacy the rules applied to that , first person to inherit ?
13 Celie 's loss is that of her illegitimate children .
14 One of Leonard 's few memories of his father ( in addition to his monocle , his spats and his hair smelling of Vitalis ) is that of his reading , both privately and aloud , to him and his sister — precious moments that fired the young boy 's imagination and set him , although no one realised it at the time , in the direction of his life 's work .
15 The full name and address of this 74-year-old woman is supplied , as is that of his brother , an invalid , who stated that ‘ We 're all ashamed of what he has done .
16 The names of his parents are not known , nor is that of his wife , but he had brothers Baldwin and Eustace , and sons Eustace and Ernulf .
17 ‘ What business is that of yours ? ’
18 ‘ What business is that of yours ? ’ he grated .
19 Your life expectancy is another consideration , as is that of your partner and any dependants .
20 The narrow view is that of our individual human mind .
21 The essential question , of course , is that of who is to determine ‘ what is necessary to achieve the objectives of the Treaty ’ .
22 The awareness on which valuation depends is that on which we act in ordinary life , seldom treatable by the strict methods of proof of the sciences .
23 The important point is that on which the hon. Gentleman put his finger — the quality of housing in Northern Ireland .
24 If only an ordinary copy ( not an office copy ) has been delivered to you , then the date to search from is that on which the land certificate was last checked with the entries on the Register , this being the date given in the land certificate which will be supplied by the seller on appropriate requisition — " What is the date on which the land certificate was last compared with the entries on the register ? "
25 A precise use of imagination with regard to religion is that without it a person can quite easily not even consider the possibility of there being truth in religion .
26 The alternative view is that the reason for the present rule regarding skill and knowledge is that without it the employee might well be prevented from earning his living in the area in which he has the greatest experience .
27 erm the technical word for this is that for them universals are self-predicating — that sounds very and intelligible .
28 erm The technical word for this is that for them , universals are self-predicating .
29 So is that for What about the week after that ?
30 But the point is is that for everybody else there was , there is some assumption that we 'd be working off of post driven erm response , okay ?
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