Example sentences of "is [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The danger in exclusively privileging the socio-cultural context in the interpretation of human institutions and behaviour is that every social phenomenon becomes so context-dependent that it can not be translated across cultures . |
| 32 | The trouble with All Fools ' Day is that every newspaper story suddenly looks suspect , but we assure subscribers that IBM Corp really is paying Louis Gerstner all that money it ca n't afford , that the sports shop that sells guns in Kingston really did close early and the UK government is considering a Congestion Charge , but we confess that we have no evidence that the next computer industry consortium will be a catch-all called Computer Industry . |
| 33 | Asked how he rates himself as a novelist , he replies : ‘ All I can say is that every single book has sold more than the last . |
| 34 | The idea is that every person has another person ( or sometimes a group or committee ) to whom he or she has to account for the proper discharge of responsibilities . |
| 35 | No such luck : what makes sex much more complicated but also much more interesting and rewarding is that every single one of us has to learn what it 's all about for ourselves — as unique individuals . |
| 36 | ‘ The starting point of our domestic law is that every citizen has a right to do what he likes , unless restrained by the common law , including the law of contract , or by statute . |
| 37 | The most important general piece of advice on examinations is that every question in the paper that the student is expected to and can answer should be answered . |
| 38 | The most important thing to remember is that every idea , comment or observation must be supported by facts or reasons . |
| 39 | In its simplest form , the idea is that every particle has every possible path , or history , in space-time . |
| 40 | In general , what the theory of dialectic materialism states is that every society is structured around its material basis of production . |
| 41 | My biggest problem , though is that every time I hit the flag , John charges me £450 . |
| 42 | My big fear , as with so many daughters , is that every year I am becoming more like my mother . |
| 43 | The proof of this theorem is that every such program can be transformed to x — IF/ALT using the said laws . |
| 44 | And the theory is that every individual has an innate inborn preference for behaving at one end or the other . |
| 45 | What you will not find , however , is that every individual Broca 's patient is lower on all six measures ( see , e.g. Berndt , 1985 ) . |
| 46 | One of the gruesome factors about this particular stitch in the Arran is that every family had its own pattern and the reason for that was often the menfolk were lost at sea and the only way they could identify them was through the pattern . |
| 47 | The result is that every sperm produced and every egg produced is unique in terms of the contents of their locations , although their addressing system is identical in all members of one species ( with minor exceptions that need not concern us ) . |
| 48 | The only belief I 'll never recant is that every single undamaged baby is born with fabulous , infinite intellectual potential . |
| 49 | In brief , what this means is that every individual comprising the population of interest should have an equal chance of being selected for the sample . |
| 50 | The last major problem potentially caused by changes in Labour rules in 1980 is that every Labour MP must undergo a reselection process . |
| 51 | The theology of SPRED is that every human experience contains a hidden truth about God , His plan , His world and our lives . |
| 52 | All I know is that every Friday at a set hour he comes and puts the money into my hands . |
| 53 | The short explanation , if you want to know why elephant seals keep er an even sex ratio and not a one to ten sex ratio , even though only one male in every ten mates , is that every male that does mate has ten times more reproductive success than those that do n't . |
| 54 | The fact is that every other gentleman there I can tell it 's a hairpiece , yours I could n't . |
| 55 | One more important aspect of using LIFESPAN which should be explained at the outset is that every module must have a charge code associated with it . |
| 56 | Informally , the idea is that every path in a graph which passes through a node n can be thought of as having a score f(n) consisting of the cost from the start of the search to that node g(n) , and the cost from the node to the terminal state , h(n) . |
| 57 | What is envisaged is that every client will be informed at the outset that a procedure exists for dealing with " problems " : it is not necessary to mention the word " complaint " at this stage . |
| 58 | And the only thing that seems to stand in the way of doing anything commercially sensible with County Farms is that every time we deal with it , somebody says , ah , but it can only exist as an entity , let's keep it as that , let's pass it on to a trust , let's safeguard it , let's do this and that . |
| 59 | So I 'm not a for a moment suggesting that some rules and regulations are n't needed and I think that er the trouble is that every rule and regulation that is passed in this house , there 's always an excuse for it and there 's usually a very good reason for it , but that is the problem that the government faces and it 's quite fairly er a problem the treasury face when they introduce these statutory instruments because er no one can disagree that fraud must be stamped out , all I 'm actually saying is that unfortunately upstairs we have a deregulation bill going ahead at all pace with hundreds of clauses and hundreds of new rules to try and red hundreds of new clauses to reduce the number of rules and here we are downstairs on the floor we have passing for very good reason perhaps , more rules and regulations and there are four more tonight and I believe that every government department Madam deputy speaker , has a minister specially appointed to keep an eye on deregulation and I just wondered although er my honourable friend on the front bench mentioned that er the even the D T I minister responsible for deregulation has looked at these , I wonder if there is a minister in the treasury , they 've actually put a minister in the treasury responsible for deregulation or is the ministry actually above deregulation because I think that er I got the impression that the that every ministry would have a deregulation minister and I think it would be rather useful to know who the deregulation minister is in the treasury . |
| 60 | What I really wish is that every evening could be like tonight . |