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

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1 The reason for not accepting what people call the social chapter , which is in reality the imposition of labour laws that would damage our competitiveness , is that we intend to keep our competitiveness and we are not prepared to lose our competitiveness against Japan and the United States , even though that is the express policy of the Labour party .
2 Among the design features are a self-emptying rubbish bin with an intricate hinge mechanism ; a two-level three-stage fan-assisted microwave on a chest-high swivel , which can be concealed in a malachite unit ; and the figure of a negro slave , carved out of ironwood , which is in fact the cold tap on the kitchen sink .
3 When this happens , the iteration has gone far enough , and we can take p = cs , when q is determined from the second of equations ( 6 ) , which is in fact the same as ( 4 ) .
4 Which is in fact the new newest thing in fourteen eighty .
5 Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park .
6 Next door to the chip shop is a sports shop , which is in effect the ground floor of the building we occupy .
7 Now we now come to resolution two , which is in effect the appointment of the , er Honorary Officers .
8 They do not want to disturb their child by commenting on how good he or she is in case the child starts to demand attention again .
9 Carlotta de Leyva belongs to one of the liberal families opposed to the dictator Lopez and as the betrothed of the leader of that opposition , Don Manuel of Encinitas , she is to some extent a figurehead , a political symbol : moreover , to the youth of eighteen , Highworth Ridden , who is introduced to her soon after his arrival in Santa Barbara , she is an ideal because she is in effect the first woman who has ever touched his love , as someone to be served , not someone to aspire to .
10 ( Most of those lie off the minute sheikdom of Brunei and are the personal property of the Sultan , who is in consequence the world 's richest man .
11 My husband , who is in fact the grandson of Alfred Osborn Tace , is really quite an authority on Vangmoor …
12 y y i it can happen and apparently sometimes does that the young man will receive a recycled wife who is in fact the mother of a daughter who has married his father and so he calls her the daughter-mother , her actual mother is his wife .
13 a nonsense to me for this reason , that there is in society the payers of wages and the receivers of wages .
14 It 's in fact the most difficult question of the group .
15 It is in fact the privilege of dramatic poetry to be able to show us several planes of reality at once . ’
16 It is in fact the first flowering of fiscal revolt against the high taxes of the 1990s .
17 It is in fact the commercially provided infrastructure that is most lacking , and many people live a long way from a shop , although this is to some extent made up for by mobile shops .
18 It can not totally replace exercise , but it is in fact the same in body stimulation terms as a good massage or twenty minutes of jogging !
19 It is in fact the French Simmental but larger than the Swiss Simmental , averaging perhaps 149cm in the bull ( 140cm in the cow ) and weighing
20 In many instances it is in fact the dominant building in a particular area or location .
21 It is in fact the duty of the disposal authority not to reject the application unless planning permission is still required for the use of the site , for the purpose of preventing pollution of water or danger to public health .
22 It is in fact the White Rose School of Beauty in Huddersfield .
23 It is in fact the only notice I cherish .
24 During winter evenings Capella is almost at the zenith or overhead point , and stands out at once because of its brilliance ; it is in fact the sixth brightest star in the sky , with a magnitude of only just below zero .
25 It is in fact the case that whereas not all the early investigators even tried to validate their reasoning , several , including Cauchy , Servois and Boole , certainly did .
26 Rather than dreaming primarily being psychologically necessary — a response dealing with occasional neurotic erotic impulses during sleep — they argued that it is in fact the outcome of an automatic , pre-programmed neural process .
27 It is in fact the first of the great many spas you meet with in the Pyrenees , when coming from the Atlantic coast , good , so one aged guidebook has it , for ‘ nervous people , the neurasthenic , the scrofulous , the lymphatic , the dyspeptic , the rheumatic , the enfeebled , the asthmatic …
28 This may sound rather woolly , but it is in fact the instrumental arguments which tend to be woolly in failing to show the relationship between instrumental means ( more business studies graduates ) and desirable ends ( more happiness , justice , freedom ) .
29 It is in fact the reading contract , the explicit relationship between writer and reader that is at the heart of the technical problems experienced by Nizan as a revolutionary novelist .
30 The tables have turned , rather than the face having a fixed identity outside the image , it is in fact the image which originally gives us a face , to be perceived .
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