Example sentences of "is [conj] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If you can get hold of the rarer tritium you may liberate nearly 18 MeV through the reaction : A problem the problem in the attempts to fuse nuclei together and release their internal energy — is that all nuclei carry positive electrical charge . |
| 32 | The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA . |
| 33 | The result is that all Home Secretaries are grossly over-worked , although most will have found their own ways of keeping their heads above water . |
| 34 | The idea is that all computers must conform to Russian standards , and the Committee has already singled out Summit Systems ( a Chips & Technologies Inc joint venture ) , the French-Italian-Russian joint venture Interquadro ; and Intermicro , a Russian-Austrian joint venture . |
| 35 | Another point to keep firmly in mind about the Guinness Flight Global Strategy Fund is that all fund dividends are paid gross rather than net of tax . |
| 36 | Our principle in the civil service is that all jobs should be available to everyone — irrespective of sex , race , creed or religion . |
| 37 | The normal expectation of the officer in very wet weather , then , is that all watercourses will be swollen , turbid , and discoloured ; any further pollution is less likely to be noticeable or do any particular damage . |
| 38 | ( The seller will generally try to restrict this to a warranty of specifically identified information : the acquirer will want a warranty of all information but not if the consequence is that all information is to be treated as a disclosure ) . |
| 39 | For a German observer who had been interned in Britain 1914-18 , ‘ the great secret of masculine psychology is that all men of all ages act and behave like schoolboys as soon as their individualities are merged in a crowd . ’ |
| 40 | The idea is that all results are published and schools are then placed in league tables , so the main purpose of the tests is as much about the stimulation of competition as it is about diagnosing individual children 's strengths and weaknesses . |
| 41 | All we ask is that all fees are finally paid by the end of January . |
| 42 | It should be obvious , from the discussion of dual-route reading models in Chapter 6 , that the answer is that all words ( exception or regular ) would be read well , but non-words would not . |
| 43 | The typical company — one limited by shares — must issue some shares , and the initial presumption of the law is that all shares confer the same rights and impose the same liabilities . |
| 44 | 1.13 Our fundamental assumption is that all pupils are entitled to an education that will provide the opportunity for them to develop to the best of their abilities a competence in and appreciation of English . |
| 45 | One result of being open to children 's ideas in science is that all pupils in a class are taken seriously as learners and thinkers . |
| 46 | On the face of it this seems to be a good idea : one frequently voiced criticism of comprehensive education is that all pupils have been forced to follow a grammar-school curriculum . |
| 47 | My only quibble is that all measurements are given in metric form only . |
| 48 | Does he appreciate that the great advantage of the scheme in the Somerset Levels , which I represent and where I live , is that all parties interested in the conservation of the wildlife and landscape of the area are sitting down and talking together ? |
| 49 | The problem is that all energy deals must be approved by Congress . |
| 50 | The main difficulty of this interpretation is that all traces of the actual cella have been lost ( his p. 18 ) . |
| 51 | The Minister ( Sir Edward Boyle ) announced that this would take place in 1970/1 and wrote a remarkable preface to the published text in which he stated that ‘ the essential point is that all children should have an equal opportunity of acquiring intelligence , and developing their talents and abilities to the full ’ . |
| 52 | The second outcome is that all children would be aware of what 's involved in the record of achievement . |
| 53 | An alternative theory is that all crime rises in the initial stages of industrialization and urbanization , but that thereafter violence falls while property offences continue to increase . |
| 54 | The sentence is itself ‘ redundant ’ with respect to the opening sentence of Beckett 's Malone Dies which it self-consciously imitates , and the implication is that all discourse is but a re-hashing of another 's words . |
| 55 | The message is that all staff of an institution have more than an ‘ academic ’ interest in the activities of staff in other departments . |
| 56 | A further concern is that all competitors in a particular market should be treated equally , to avoid a green version of Gresham 's law where bad environmental practices are allowed to chase out good . |
| 57 | ‘ The result of the action improvement team 's work is that all items are now identified and detailed for line weight , rung bungs , pieces in a bung , bungs per board , height and tilt . |
| 58 | ( It should be noted here that the groom himself is of necessity a classifactory cross-cousin of the bride , for the rule is that all marriages must be between kinsmen of the same caste . |
| 59 | Another possibility is that all quasars and BL Lac objects are beamed roughly towards us , and that something else distinguishes them — something that so far remains hidden in the enigmatic central powerhouse . |
| 60 | Basically his argument is that all aspects of musical form — Adorno instances overall structure ( the thirty-two-bar chorus ) , melodic range , song-types and harmonic progressions — depend on pre-existing formulae and norms , which have the status virtually of rules , are familiar to listeners and hence are entirely predictable . |