Example sentences of "[noun] [is] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gall bladder is the last place to produce bile that is likely to nucleate in the patients with cholesterol gall stones . |
| 2 | The Golden Mean is the division of a line such that the smaller part is the same proportion of the larger part that the larger part is of the whole . |
| 3 | ( The same threespoked wheel is the heraldic emblem of the Isle of Man . ) |
| 4 | The steering wheel is the size of a soup dish . |
| 5 | The heart of Crabbe 's presentation of The Borough is the fisherman Peter Grimes , attaining in the midst of Crabbe 's Parliamentary Blue Book couplets , a strangely " poete maudit " character . |
| 6 | Helios is the mid-price label published by Hyperion . |
| 7 | Punning is the occult logic of language best left aside by those concerned to grasp its evolution . |
| 8 | The Three Musketeers is the best book I 've ever read … ‘ |
| 9 | The theme of The Prelude is the growth of the individual mind under the guidance of the Mind of external Nature . |
| 10 | Deeply woven into a number of academic approaches to the Christian religion is the psychological terror of doubt . |
| 11 | This may have held great promise in its early years but it soon became divided and then fragmented , due largely , if not wholly to the same age-old misconception whereby the basis of the religion is the assumption of the existence of a completely undefined ‘ god ’ , in this case the ancient ‘ god ’ of the Jews . |
| 12 | ‘ Faith Drop ’ ( opposite , top ) : religion is the opiate of the masses ( or something ) |
| 13 | I doubt if Communism will ever have any chance in Burma , unless by intimidation and violence , for the Burmans have no class distinctions to be inflamed , and they resent , as a slur against their national religion , the stereotyped Communist doctrine that religion is the opiate of the people . |
| 14 | Is n't Paul himself , more than any other , responsible for the scornful words of Karl Marx , that religion is the opium of the people ? |
| 15 | Your religion is the mightiest in the world . |
| 16 | Human beings are religious creatures and religion is the foundation of civil society . |
| 17 | ‘ Implicit in the way journalism deals with religion is the more basic issue of the relationship between the press and other major social institutions . |
| 18 | It is , however , because religion is about the archaic heritage of humanity , and involves relations with parent figures , particularly the father , that one would expect emotional reactions to the subject ; either religion is the most important part of life , and immune to scientific investigation for that reason , or it is too trivial to be worth a working scientist 's time . |
| 19 | Religion is the ‘ universal obsessional neurosis of humanity ’ which has been an essential stage for humanity to pass through , in the same way as every child must have a neurotic phase . |
| 20 | As religion is the whole way of life so it affects individual social relationships across the ethnic boundaries thereby leading to Pakistanis ’ encapsulation' ( pp. 168–9 ) . |
| 21 | In this , he articulated the theme of all his subsequent writings , that religion is the dynamic of all social culture . |
| 22 | ‘ Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature , the sentiment of a heathen world ; it is the very soul of soulless conditions , ’ he harangued his erstwhile comrades in the streets , the vestries . |
| 23 | Equally important for understanding of religion is the ability to distinguish between what is peripheral and what is central . |
| 24 | Religion is the belief in a higher unseen controlling power or powers . |
| 25 | Nonetheless the reduction of health risks is the prime benefit once the nicotine addiction is in recovery . |
| 26 | Outside of dangerous sports the only purpose behind the taking of risks is the hope of benefit . |
| 27 | The cycloid is the locus of a point on the circumference of a circle rolling on a straight line . |
| 28 | This collection of hallucinogenic hypno-grooves from the likes of Herbal Infusion , Boomshanka , Mind Over Rhythm and Acorn Arts is the sound of the UK club scene in late 1992 . |
| 29 | A question related to that of perceptions of science and arts is the extent to which relationships in departments are formalized . |
| 30 | A vast and ordinarily unnoticed area of the history of the arts is the development of systems of social signals that what is now to be made available is to be regarded as art . |