Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [vb pp] and the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point Herrnstein 's ‘ anti-hereditarians ’ are trying to make deals , not with the obvious genetic roots of an individual 's intelligence , but , first , the exact meaning of this thing we call ‘ intelligence ’ and , secondly , the impossibility of separating and then quantifying the amount of intelligence which is inherited and the amount which is subject to change . |
| 2 | A further source of variation is generational position , with some changes occurring in the type of support which is given and the direction in which it flows over each person 's life course . |
| 3 | So the fact that material things are ‘ senseless beings ’ , and hence that the heat which is perceived and the bodily sensation can not be alike , can not constitute a proof that we are not justified in attributing heat and cold to material things . |
| 4 | No , the bicycles went years ago , she looks grandmotherly — she 's divorced and the children have left home — this is a different house . |
| 5 | He is in his third year at sea when the misjudgment of Captain ‘ Battler ’ Cobb , reckless with drink and determined to win the grain race , runs the ship into a typhoon in the South Pacific , where she is dismasted and the Captain is seriously injured . |
| 6 | Only giant lock John Eales who is rested and the injured David Campese will be missing . |
| 7 | But when all the please and thank you is unsaid and the little courtesy is undone , it does make a difference to society . |
| 8 | Identity itself is damaged and the negative effects of stress in school begin to leak out and contaminate people 's confidence and competence in other , perhaps all , aspects of their lives . |
| 9 | But he could equally well have said one is enthusiasm and the other is cynicism , one is facility and the other is aridity , one is gregariousness and the other is solitude , one is the belief that no one has ever done anything of value before and the other is the belief that everything has already been done , one is spontaneity and the other is cerebration , one is joy and the other is despair , one is heart and the other is mind , one is the garret and the other is the penthouse , one is sincerity and the other is irony , one is Jung and the other is Freud , one is Rimbaud and the other is Mallarmé , one is wine and the other is coffee , one is rags and the other is riches , one is women and the other is celibacy , one is health and the other is disease , one is meat and the other is vegetables , one is life and the other is death , one is everything in upper case and the other is everything in lower case , one is everything in roman and the other is everything in italics . |
| 10 | Well , the best thing about the course is , I think , that you get an all-round view of how it 's arranged and the time aspect of the information flow — that it takes a long time for information to reach the books and compendia etc . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's not what it 's called and the message has nothing to do with — that . ’ |
| 12 | I am going to send it to Sarah when it 's finished and the final word on its fate will be hers . |
| 13 | The structure of the Pacific — its enormous , landless centre , its contorted and congested peripheries — is due entirely to the plates of which it is constructed and the manner in which they have moved in relation to each other . |
| 14 | He remembereth that we are but dust , the days of man are but grass for he flourishes as a flower of the field , for as soon as the wind goes over it , it is gone and the thereof shall know it no more . |
| 15 | In addition to giving the numbers mentioned above , for each scheme the catalogue names the award , the units of which it is composed and the centre validated to offer it . |
| 16 | Should the War Wagon take 5 wounds it is destroyed and the model removed from the battle . |
| 17 | One way of putting the record straight about school meals is to invite parents of new children for a free meal with their child so that they can not only taste the food but see the way in which it is presented and the way in which the children are supervised . |
| 18 | Within the Ophioplinthacinae the characters used to distinguish the genera are the shape and position of the radial shields , the shape of the disk whether or not it is indented and the form and number of both the apical and oral papillae , the arrangement of the adoral and oral shields and the degree of development of the dorsal arm plates . |
| 19 | Gradually add the oil stirring steadily until it is amalgamated and the sauce has the consistency of a creamed butter . |
| 20 | the effect of growing social expenditure depends on its type ( whether transfers , purchases or state produced services ) , its nature ( the department or production or , in the case of transfers , the class to which it is directed ) , the manner in which it is financed and the final incidence of taxes . |
| 21 | The FTC is also regarded as being reluctant to pursue high-tech companies because by the time it is brought and the issues resolved , the market has moved on . |
| 22 | The effect of any drug depends on the drug itself , how it is used and the person using it . |
| 23 | The new Ord 20 , r 10(3) provides for markings to show the party on whose behalf the affidavit is filed , the deponent 's initials and surname , the number of the affidavit in relation to the deponent , the date on which it is sworn and the date on which it is filed . |
| 24 | The basic cutting is a whole leaf , together with the short section of stem to which it is attached and the bud at its base . |
| 25 | The infamous Article 49.3 allows the government to declare a bill a matter of confidence , in which case no further debate on it is permitted and the bill is automatically adopted unless a motion of no confidence is tabled and passed within two days . |
| 26 | Any other error is unacceptable , so it is reported and the program aborted . |
| 27 | If two assets have the same risk but one of them has a lower return than the other , then it is sold and the proceeds are invested in the other . |
| 28 | Whether school RE reflects the obvious case for it depends upon the openness with which it is approached and the style of teaching adopted . |
| 29 | The tenant may have a remedy in contract based on the lease if he is injured and the landlord has broken a covenant to repair . |
| 30 | And Hywel will go without a word , and when he is gone and the house is silent Elizabeth will creep to the telephone and she will pick it up and it will ring in another empty house because Dr Wyn has gone to the Fair . |