Example sentences of "the [det] is [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the this is thing we should be |
| 2 | The latter is frontman for ‘ The Pogues ’ , a New York outfit who play mostly Pogues ' covers to a packed house every Sunday at Paddy Reilly 's . |
| 3 | ( The latter is Tsoy 's biggest hero . ) |
| 4 | An example of the latter is instructions 18 and 19 on the Von Neumann computer ( Figure 1.5 ) . |
| 5 | The amount by which the latter is over-length is the length of time that you should allow the source recording to run before you begin the transfer onto the cued tape ; the music will then end exactly on cue . |
| 6 | An example of the latter is Anderson 's condemnation of McKendrick 's drunken and hypocritical criticism of the footballers ( " May I remind you that you profess to be something of a pragmatist yourself in matters of ethics . " |
| 7 | A good example of the latter is Heim ( 1970 ) in which intelligence and personality testing is discussed in the context of the meaning of intelligence , creativity , personality , test taking as a skill and the different but inseparable limitations of speed and accuracy based measures . |
| 8 | The former shoe retails for £79.99 while the latter is £69.99 . |
| 9 | The former is the voice of sound , sensible England , the latter is Spenser who had been granted land in county Cork in 1588 . |
| 10 | Restated in this way , the two aspirations are clearly familiar : the latter is Winckelmann 's , the former is Wolf 's . |
| 11 | An example of the latter is Husén 's International study of achievement in mathematics , where the aim was to evaluate differences in achievement in mathematics in twelve different countries , with regard to such variables as school expenditure , teacher training , type of school organization and degree of urbanization . |
| 12 | The latter is Sunley 's position . |
| 13 | A good example of the latter is Signal toothpaste which was called Shield toothpaste . |
| 14 | An example of the former is Karl Dallas 's contribution to The Electric Muse ( Dallas 1975 ) . |
| 15 | Restated in this way , the two aspirations are clearly familiar : the latter is Winckelmann 's , the former is Wolf 's . |
| 16 | The former is loam , that is top-soil taken from a meadow and then sterilised ; the other is the semi-decayed remains of sedges or mosses that are preserved from total decomposition in peat bogs by a blanket of water and acidity . |
| 17 | The amount is identical but the former is tax free and the latter is not . |
| 18 | Without going into the minutiae of the terms of these and other benefits , it is important to appreciate that the former is means tested , so depending on the financial circumstances of your spouse , marriage could result in your benefit being stopped . |
| 19 | More of the same is King 's Rovers demand |
| 20 | The same is time for visits to schools and for the school quiz , where Catholic schools are always paired on the same side as Protestant ones in order to facilitate , again momentarily , some intercommunal co-operation . |
| 21 | What remains the same is Rickenbacker 's liking for parallel neck depth , and this one measures more or less ″ from the first fret to the 17th . |