Example sentences of "is [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Clive James , whose Observer column had made him the doyen of television critics in the Seventies , wrote ; ‘ One has been kept from previous series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em by its awful title , but it is time to say what everybody is saying-that the show is a must .
2 . This is where the posh chaps sat .
3 Now where that centre of that V is where the black ball will go .
4 because they do n't give a specific definition as to what a landlord is or a rich peasant or a middle peasant meant that how that there was a lot of flexibility within that and it 's only later that they have to reissue those two documents on how to analyze the classes which erm which had been published in nineteen thirty which they felt that you know the Party 's moving too far away , but why did n't they do it at the time ?
5 thirty P off cans of beer that is or a bottle of wine
6 I du n no who , who do I m I do n't know , I d do that to s er see there is somebody that I do that quite a bit to but I ca n't remember who it is or a few people maybe .
7 She 's mentioned frequently but he never gives any clue as to who she is or the nature of their relationship . ’
8 Consequently its Laplace transform is or The unit impulse function is infinite for an infinitesimal time as indicated in figure 11.5(d) and its integral over all time is unity .
9 Hence the Laplace transform of unit impulse is or The Laplace transform of a delayed unit impulse is of course
10 The University of Leeds briefly experimented with computer-assisted instruction , is although the emphasis was on more advanced subject instruction .
11 The list is endless-but every activity you may have undertaken whilst at home will offer an employer some benefit .
12 Lower that is than the County Council .
13 Copsey is nor a dirty player and it would have been tragic had he been sent off in his first international ’ — IEUAN EVANS ( Wales captain ) on the Tony Copsey incident in Dublin against Ireland .
14 One of the difficulties is that every person 's situation is different .
15 The difficulty is that every handful of weed that 's pulled out is likely to contain its fair share of aquatic creatures too .
16 The only real clue to spotting them is that every homestead has electricity and if you see the buildings , you must find the wires going to them before making an approach .
17 The result is that every ledge , from those that would take a small tent to those that a modern rock climber would blanch to see , is packed with birds .
18 The reason we receive massive newspaper publicity for reports like Empty Quarters and Nobody 's Home is that every property is illustrated .
19 She wrote : ‘ The reason China is in the state it is today after four decades of ‘ peacetime construction ’ is that every time a situation arises when people should shout ‘ No ’ to avert a serious policy error , there is nothing but silence . ’
20 The fact is that every ten minutes somebody in Great Britain is seriously injured in an accident .
21 The nub of informed consent , they say , is that every human of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what will be done with his body , and they trace the history of informed consent citing the Nuremberg Code ( 1949 ) and the Declaration of Helsinki ( 1964 , amended 1983 ) , which in the aftermath of war atrocities , attempted to ensure the principle of informed consent .
22 The underlying idea here is that every corporation , willy-nilly , acquires large amounts of information that is potentially useful in a competitive sense ; but that this information is scattered throughout the firm in its various divisions , units , departments and so on .
23 A key point to note is that every stage of processing was able to affect the score of a reading ; thus , for example , a reading that scored more highly during the first ( semantic conflation ) phrase could later be overtaken by another which allowed easier reference resolution .
24 The thing about Kennedy is that every time I hear he has done something outrageous I think ‘ Oh God ! ’ , but then I spend a few hours working with him and leave thinking what a good heart he has and how serious he is as a musician .
25 The most significant difference is that every unit of the poly-HEMA chain contains a hydroxyl group .
26 But the most shocking thing about this new black-humour novel is that every life-or-death horror story is true , says its author , consultant anaesthetist Dr Philip Keep .
27 But we do have to face the paradox implicit in our contributing to the discourse , which is that every word we say on the subject of difference just underlines the salience and the importance of a division we are ultimately striving to end .
28 The only rule in componential analysis is that every opposition must be classified by plus or minus values on a single dimension ; [ +/; — female ] would be equally valid , and the fact that the analysts chose the other alternative doubtless reflects their ( predictable ) perception that men are the norm of humanity .
29 Following Pierce , Eco recognizes the problem of ‘ unlimited semiosis ’ , that is that every ‘ meaning ’ proposed for a representation is itself a representation that has a meaning , etc. , in infinite regression .
30 If there is one certainty in a crisis , it is that every Tory MP will put party before country .
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