Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not a condition that the third State be specified by name provided it is clear from the context or surrounding circumstances what State is intended , or that a group or class of States is intended of which the claiming State is a member . |
| 2 | Taboo is distinguished from what the Polynesians call noa , that is , the common , or the generally accessible . |
| 3 | We may indeed find the great house still standing tidily in a timbered park : but it is occupied by what the villagers describe detachedly as ‘ the atom men ’ , something remote from the rest of us , though not remote in the sense they themselves like to think . |
| 4 | A NEW company has been set up to exploit an automatic bicycle transmission system , which is claimed to he the biggest breakthrough in bicycle gears since Derailleur invented his system in the 1920s ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 23 ) . |
| 5 | Exposure — Bodily injury includes exposure resulting from misfortune by any aircraft or other conveyance where travel is permitted in which the Insured Person is travelling . |
| 6 | A line is drawn under which the base category of the explanatory variable is noted ; the fact that some working class children attend selective secondary schools ( path a ) reminds us that there are some factors influencing attendance at such schools that this particular model does not set out to explain . |
| 7 | 34.1 ; see also 32.49 ) , and with God 's supernatural eyesight is shown by him the whole extent of the Promised Land from Dan in the north to Zoar in the south , and right across to the Mediterranean sea in the west . |
| 8 | Instead , a particular style of dance is used through which the performers play strongly defined characters who express not only social status in a particular community but also moods , emotions and actions , which are alien to the calm spaciousness of classical dance . |
| 9 | Every mental phenomenon is characterized by what the Scholastics of the Middle Ages called the intentional ( or mental ) inexistence of an object , and what we might call , though not wholly unambiguously , reference to a content , direction toward an object ( which is not to be understood here as meaning a thing ) , or immanent objectivity . |
| 10 | The discussion is based on what the author calls the ‘ Boltzmann-Gibbs ’ entropy , but in the terminology used above it is just the Gibbs entropy . |
| 11 | It is based on what the speaker wants to announce as his/her starting point and what s/he goes on to say about it . |
| 12 | As the forces of production change and develop , as men acquire new skills , fashion new implements , discover new raw materials , a point is reached at which the existing structure of society becomes an obstacle to further development . |
| 13 | In terms of the flexible lattice model , one can imagine the polymer and liquid lattices expanding at different rates until a temperature is reached at which the highly expanded liquid lattice can no longer be distorted sufficiently to accommodate the less expanded polymer lattice and form a solution , i.e. the loss in entropy during the distortion becomes so large and unfavourable that phase separation ( LCST ) takes place . |
| 14 | If mixtures of certain types of rocks including carbonates are held in a sealed evacuated chamber at a temperature equal to the surface temperature of Venus then CO 2 is given off and the pressure builds up until an equilibrium is reached in which the pressure of the CO 2 in the chamber equals the pressure of CO 2 at the surface of Venus . |
| 15 | If the board is sailed too close to the wind , the so called ‘ no-go ’ zone is entered within which the board will stop or even blow backwards . |
| 16 | He 's forgotten to mention , by some slip of the memory , the one fact about the pits which is known to everyone the impurity of the air breathed by the pitmen ! |
| 17 | … and no place , or limit of space , is defined within which the establishment of such an asylum is made lawful . |
| 18 | Thus , for example , an account of some episode of social conflict is constructed in which the discrete personalities of the protagonists are regarded as irrelevant to the outcome , and they are treated simply as the bearers or supports of certain political ideologies or economic forces . |
| 19 | If there are two guns they should stand side by side on the edge of the burrow , one shooting to the right and the other to the left , so that neither is endangered by whatever the other fellow does . |
| 20 | The essential point is that responsibility is assigned and , therefore , authority is delegated for which the individual is accountable in his role . |
| 21 | The air flow is then stopped and the second stage of the cycle is begun in which the hot coke is blasted with steam . |
| 22 | Here , an anaerobic ( oxygen-free ) environment is created through which the aquarium water is slowly trickled ( not to be confused with aerobic trickle filters ) . |
| 23 | Once the two continents have been welded together and active volcanism and tectonic uplift have ceased , a new plate is created in which the orogenic belt formed becomes an intra-plate feature no longer associated with an active convergent plate boundary . |
| 24 | Rather , the young child 's response is determined by what the child thinks the adult 's question must mean . |
| 25 | Scottish football is pockmarked with what the Everton and Scotland winger Pat Nevin once described as ‘ the ego in the boardroom , ’ that irrepressible businessman in the size 48 club blazer who ca n't keep his fingers out of football . |
| 26 | In either case , another chapter is added to a ‘ founding text ’ , a text which both authorizes its own dissemination , and gives everything which is recounted in it the imprimatur of a special truth : this is the word of a chosen people . |