Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [vb pp] [conj] 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 | So we find , for example , that men are like grass renewed in the morning but withered by the time of evening ( I 's 90.5 ) ; their days are like grass which is gone when the wind ( as here ) passes over it ( 103.15–16 ) ; the " son of man who is made like grass " is parallel to " man who dies " ( Isa 51.12 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Fitting the water softener is a matter of breaking into the rising main and ‘ teeing ’ one pipe off to the softener and another from it ; a third pipe connecting the two tees contains a by-pass valve which is shut when the water softener is in use and open when it is not . |
| 5 | A reset button is also provided , which is pressed if the charging light fails to illuminate . |
| 6 | The price paid is that the air in the lung is saturated with water vapour , which is lost when the animal breathes out ( although some will be retained in the nasal passages if the air is cooled down before it leaves ) . |
| 7 | To test the possibility that the axons normally display a glial mitogen on their surface ( as has been suggested for axons in the peripheral nervous system ( PNS ) ) , which is lost when the axons degenerate and are phagocytosed after transection , we studied the effect of transection on mitosis in postnatal optic nerves of C57B1/6 and C57B1/6-WLD mice . |
| 8 | A term used in psychology , meaning the form which is lost when the parts are examined in detail without reference to their relationship to the whole . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The traveller in Philips 's poem delights in a magical illusion , a pleasing unreality , which is mourned when the ice falls away . |
| 11 | This permanently uncompresses a hidden or system file that is unmovable under normal usage ( like Compaq 's HIBRN8.DAT , which is produced when the Compaq LTE goes into sleep mode , to restore the machine to life exactly where it was when it shut down ) . |
| 12 | Example 1 shows the incident log file which is produced when the procedure GENERATE_ROOT_PACKAGE is called by user USER 1 with invalid data . |
| 13 | Modules under development have an appended letter ( development code ) which is removed when the modules are approved ; e.g. development module 2.1A is approved as 2.1 . |
| 14 | Before grapes are allowed the full AOC status of Champagne , the vines from which they come , whether situated in a virgin vineyard or an old one just replanted , must attain their ‘ third leaf ’ , by which is meant that the plants , having produced foliage for the third time , will be three years old . |
| 15 | When prototypes have satisfied the OR Staff , production is carried out by the Procurement Executive of the Ministry of Defence , using commercial contracts of a number of different types such as ‘ fixed price ’ , ‘ single tender ’ , and the much criticised ‘ cost-plus ’ , which is used when the technical risks are too high , the contractors able to tender too few , or the time too short for normal competitive tendering . |
| 16 | The Solution is equipped with an audible alarm which is emitted when the ascent speed exceeds 10 metres per minute , when the dive becomes a decompression dive and when the decompression ceiling is reached . |
| 17 | The amount of preparation which is required before the program can be used is important . |
| 18 | Not because of the new-found fame , the cash she 's pocketed or the car she stands to win in the national finals . |
| 19 | No , the bicycles went years ago , she looks grandmotherly — she 's divorced and the children have left home — this is a different house . |
| 20 | You 're not the only person who 's noticed that the world 's complicated and everyone 's different , Caro . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ What is the housewife going to do when she is told that the price of her electricity has now reached 10 pence per unit . |
| 23 | Only giant lock John Eales who is rested and the injured David Campese will be missing . |
| 24 | And Lincoln was criticized , attacked for this , that er and he said in response to this the attention of the country has been called to the proposition that one who is sworn as the constitution says to take care that the laws be faithfully executed should himself not violate those laws a fairly reasonable proposition you might think , if your oath says to uphold the law then you start going round breaking the law er something wrong here somewhere methinks . |
| 25 | But when all the please and thank you is unsaid and the little courtesy is undone , it does make a difference to society . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | From one 's earliest years one is taught that the showing of emotion publicly is ‘ bad form ’ . |
| 28 | When the work of loading the vans and trucks commences , one is persuaded that the chaotic array will never be reduced to order . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's accepted that the towing tractor will stand idle for some of the time , but at least you are n't taking tankers into the field , ’ he adds . |