Example sentences of "[is] [conj] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's mentioned frequently but he never gives any clue as to who she is or the nature of their relationship . ’ |
| 2 | Amiss had by now become so accustomed to the horrors of ffeatherstonehaugh 's that the appearance of their bedroom came as no surprise . |
| 3 | The result is that the townscape of houses has been spreading further outwards and now , in places , the rurban fringe of one town meets that of another . |
| 4 | What Odd-Knut has not told him is that the water under the ice is pressurized , and it wells up out of the hole . |
| 5 | Hoyle 's major assumption is that the school as a social system can be creative . |
| 6 | The short answer to this contention on behalf of the appellant is that the money in the wallet which he appropriated belonged to another , to Mr. Occhi . |
| 7 | Erm the gist of it is that the money from the A B C er i you 're not allowed to go over your forty eightieths of your pension with it . |
| 8 | The result of this option is that the state of the DC is changed to ACTIVE , thus fulfilling LIFESPANs requirement for a DC to be active through only one package . |
| 9 | The conclusion from all this is that the state of the economy will have a crucial effect on the demand for and supply of money . |
| 10 | " My conviction , " says Gorbachev , " is that the state of the environment should have absolute priority above all the other problems facing us today . |
| 11 | What we then see is that the hierarchy of use and need is itself directly related to the character of the organizing productive relations . |
| 12 | The advantage of whole learning is that the connections between the parts are also learned simultaneously . |
| 13 | One of the main reasons is that the connections between terminals and host computers are telecommunication links , usually simple coaxial cables , with what is technically known as low band width . |
| 14 | What the data show is that the issue of sign universality can not be easily described as confirmed or disproved . |
| 15 | He observed : ‘ For the profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battles is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders , not in the bodies of their men . ’ |
| 16 | This question is made somewhat difficult to answer because one of the effects of the emphasis on the facts and merits of the particular case in Fleet Street Casuals is that the issue of standing now often receives little or no attention from the courts and is sometimes the subject of concessions by the respondent . |
| 17 | What I should like to suggest is that the issue of subject specialization can not be tackled without examining our taken-for-granted assumptions about academic subjects , and their place in society . |
| 18 | The general principle is that the cost of those referrals will be met by each district 's contingency reserve , the guidance says . |
| 19 | The main problem is that the cost of most new resistors and capacitors is now so low that it is barely worthwhile going to the trouble of removing and testing them . |
| 20 | Simply stated , the argument is that the cost of capital of a corporation with management that trades on inside information will be higher than a corporation with management that does not engage in such trading . |
| 21 | First is that the cost of a megabyte of memory fell below the $1,000 mark during 1983 and you need a megabyte to hold the bitmap of an 11″ by 8.5″ page at 300dpi . |
| 22 | Specifically , the problems of unaggregated ( or unconsolidated ) fund accounts is that the cost of a particular service will not be shown as a single item . |
| 23 | Yet the truth is that the board of directors will only very rarely be involved in the day-to-day running of the company which is instead usually entrusted to the officers and executives of the company . |
| 24 | The Canadian position is that the board of directors , provided it is acting in what it considers to be the best interests of the company , must have the discretion to take defensive measures against an imminent take-over . |
| 25 | A further refinement is that the Secretary of State ( through a panel of inspectors ) conducts an examination in public into the proposals , rather than adjudicates on objections in an appeal system . |
| 26 | The problem is that the Secretary of State second-guesses the advice that he receives from his advisers . |
| 27 | The second reason is that the ending of the war , like the starting of it , will require the intermediation of the UN ; and the Europeans , who progressively voted for all the Security Council resolutions which opened the door to war , will naturally seek another series of resolutions to close it again . |
| 28 | A major assumption of the Cox Report is that the curriculum for all pupils should include informed discussion of the multi-cultural nature of British society , whether or not the school is culturally mixed . |
| 29 | Another problem is that the chains in polyacetylene are not neatly ordered , but convoluted and higgledy-piggledy . |
| 30 | The difficulty is that the Earl of Orford , who did not die until 5 December 1791 , was named George , while his uncle who succeeded him as fourth Earl was named Horatio , although he disliked this name , and called himself Horace Walpole instead . |