Example sentences of "[num ord] [be] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second is that a term representing the obvious , necessary , but unexpressed intention of both parties will be implied : Trollope & Colls Ltd v North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board [ 1973 ] 1 WLR 60l at 609 . |
| 2 | The second is that the CBD stricture is always distal allowing for the use of comparatively short ( 34 mm ) mesh stents . |
| 3 | The second is that the complexity of many production and commercial processes can make it particularly difficult to weave the coaching role into the normal run of affairs . |
| 4 | The second is that the multiplicity of authorities increases the number of administrators and clerical workers , so imposing a heavy cost on an economy that can ill afford to use its resources in this way . |
| 5 | The second is that the obligation to make discovery is limited to those who are parties to the action . |
| 6 | The second is that the person named in it was registered as the holder of the stated number of shares . |
| 7 | The second is that the name of the person who has been so generous to you must remain a secret , until that person chooses to tell you . |
| 8 | The second is that the pain or distress which we could probably relieve by crying , is so powerful , so overwhelming , that it becomes too deep for tears . |
| 9 | The second is that the research is part of the total scientific oeuvre , and thus has a wider value . |
| 10 | The second is that the plaintiff is unlikely to recover substantial damages . |
| 11 | The second is that the cash flow is constant over the whole period and that C represents both dividend payments and capital gains ( losses ) where necessary . |
| 12 | The second is whether a trust for a similar purpose might be enforced in specie . |
| 13 | The second is if the child goes off to sleep . |
| 14 | The first was that the Iran of Ayatollah Khomeini could , in some sort , be reasonably dealt with ; the second was that a band of rag-tag guerrillas , the Nicaraguan contras , could save the West from Communism . |
| 15 | The second was that the son ‘ could be expected to have some influence over his elderly parents , and that is something of which the plaintiffs … should have been aware . ’ |
| 16 | The first is whether the union will be almost exclusively monetary , with the EC central banking system being closely modelled on the narrow counter-inflationary objectives of the largely non-accountable Bundesbank , and with other economic objectives left exclusively in national hands . |
| 17 | The first is whether the barrage should be given funds , and the second is whether , if someone else 's money and ideas were involved , the development should be given permission to proceed . |
| 18 | The first is that a curriculum is not a plan but an experience , not a script but a play . |
| 19 | The first is that a clause will be implied if it is necessary for the " business efficacy " of the contract , and would have been accepted at once by both parties when making the contract : The Moorcock ( 1889 ) 14 PD 64 at 68 . |
| 20 | The first is that a word is typically the smallest element of a sentence which has positional mobility — that is , the smallest that can be moved around without destroying the grammaticality of the sentence ( ignoring any semantic effects ) : |
| 21 | ‘ I would make two points : the first is that a lot of very small-scale activity does achieve results . |
| 22 | The first is that the act of self-poisoning may have been rewarding in so far as any subsequent positive changes could be seen as resulting from the act itself . |
| 23 | I mean I think the first is that the kind of evidence one picks up , none of it on its own can be considered , I think , to be totally objective or totally valid , but what it does is it builds up a part of a picture and gradually different sorts of evidence build up a rather more complicated , rather more perhaps accurate picture of a situation , and it 's really the cross-checking of different kinds of evidence that in the end gives the thing some kind of validity . |
| 24 | The first is that the brain is organized with a considerable amount of parallel wiring , so that information about the same event may be encoded in the activity of a number of cells , not necessarily adjacent to each other . |
| 25 | The first is that the recession they have caused and which so nearly ditched them will not go away automatically . |
| 26 | The first is that the direction of research within a department is under the control of the supervisors in that Department , for whom the Ph D student does the donkey work . |
| 27 | The first is that the history of the Kalahari Bushmen is just as long as those of technologically more advanced people of today , and so they are not representative of an ‘ earlier period ’ in the history of mankind . |
| 28 | The first is that the land around the Arnish site was owned by the Stornoway Trust , an elected body who received an undertaking from the subsidiary of Olsen Shipping when they took over the site , that only essential maintenance would be carried out on Sundays . |
| 29 | The first is that the stockmarket does not collapse again , causing banks ' equity capital and their unrealised share gains ( which are their main cushion against bad loans ) to dwindle . |
| 30 | First is that the parent should have a reasonably good idea of what 's going on . |