Example sentences of "is [conj] [conj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point is that although book knowledge is in itself a good thing , it is useless and worse than useless if it deflects your attention from the question that you are being asked . |
| 2 | Another curious historical twist to the story is that whereas women teacher-trainers in P.E . |
| 3 | One such difference is that whereas thermometer readings are caused by the temperatures they signify ( that 's what correlates them ) , with bees and honey it 's the other way round : what correlates them is the fact , not that honey makes bees , but that bees make honey — the sign causes what it signifies . |
| 4 | The problem is that since West Germany also spies on its neighbour , a great deal of time is taken up with swopping convicted spies back and forth across the border . |
| 5 | Either therefore I am being non-cooperative or I intend to convey something rather different : ( 34 ) Queen Victoria was made of iron The straightforward interpretation is that since Queen Victoria in fact lacked the definitional properties of iron , she merely had some of the incidental properties like hardness , resilience , non-flexibility or durability . |
| 6 | A final problem is that unless breeding success is measured across the lifetime , a biased set of males may be sampled . |
| 7 | Our problem is that while Mrs Iverson appears to have ingested that from which she died at the dinner party there is no dish from which some or all the guests did not share . ’ |
| 8 | The second point at issue is that while Sir Bryan wants independent financial advisers to disclose their commissions in hard-cash terms at the point of sale , he rejects the case for similar hard disclosure by tied agents because ‘ the costs would probably outweigh the usefulness ’ . |
| 9 | The difference between their debts and those of Third World countries however , is that while loan institutions can seize an individual 's assets , they ca n't so easily reclaim a nuclear reactor or a dam . |
| 10 | The greater problem is that while Mr Franco 's plan is mathematically precise on spending , it is poetically vague on thrift . |
| 11 | The conclusion to be drawn from the above discussion is that while market forces undoubtedly constrain management behaviour , the disciplinary framework they impose is far from complete . |
| 12 | The problem here is that while purse nets will account for all the rabbits leaving the netted holes — or those attempting to return via those holes — some rabbits will undoubtedly return to the warren via the unnetted holes . |
| 13 | One reason for the sale is that when WH Smith bought the Canadian Classic bookshops chain in 1985 , doubling its outlets , it made an agreement with the Canadian government to reduce its holding in WH Smith Canada to 51 per cent by 1990 . |
| 14 | So it is that when Mr Major explains that he has , by devaluing the pound , given British industry an exceptional chance to improve its exports , he insists that ‘ this did not come about as a deliberate act of policy ’ . |
| 15 | Editor , — An important reason why paracetamol-methionine is rarely prescribed is that when Sterling Winthrop introduced it in 1986 under the brand name Pameton the Department of Health refused to add it to the list of medicines prescribable within the NHS because it saw ‘ no clinical need . ’ |
| 16 | An unhappy story to end up with , is that when passenger services ceased on the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway , all the remaining tickets were tipped into a ring of bricks and burnt . |
| 17 | According to Roddy McKee , in charge of telecommunications policy in the Agency 's Telecommunications Division , the reason for the privatisation is that as UK telecommunications charges have dropped , the Agency is no longer able to run the network economically . |
| 18 | Another is that as gooseberry growing is one of those traditions which are passed down from generation to generation , and fathers were still able to pass their bushes on to their sons . |
| 19 | The idea behind confirmation is that if hypothesis H implies prediction P , and if P succeeds , then H is confirmed . |
| 20 | Barro 's argument for the inclusion of this variable is that if government expenditure is equal to its normal level , it will tend to be financed by orthodox taxation , but if it is , say , abnormally high it is more likely to be financed by measures which increase the rate of monetary growth . |
| 21 | What we would point out is that if Ards Borough Council does decide to go ahead with this , it will be ratepayers who are going to bear the cost of such a move , ’ added the DoE spokesperson . |
| 22 | The implication is that if college graduates are relatively weak on inferred ability , they should ensure that they are strong on relevant competence . |
| 23 | All I can say is that if Mr Kinnock fancies a bankrupt 's vote , he can have mine , and be welcome to it . |
| 24 | The most cynical argument , of course , for the soft approach is that if Mr Mann takes part in the election and triumphantly declares Punjab 's independence , the federal government can sack him and resume rule from New Delhi . |
| 25 | One of the points you make in your er evidence erm Mr is that because topic area D thirty nine is shown as being within the conservation area , that it ought to be included within the greenbelt . |
| 26 | What we can say is that where pollution control has been attempted it has usually taken a crude and simple form . |
| 27 | But the political significance of this culture is that where opinion counts and where the catholic — nationalist remnant actually experiences the coercive power of protestant loyalists and the British army in the Northern statelet , there violence has all the more support . |
| 28 | In addition , registration does not create a priority point in the sense that the chargee is guaranteed priority from the date of registration ; this is because if A registers have charge on 21 January he has no guarantee that the company has not created a charge prior to this which may be registered within 21 days and thus have priority . |