Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] is [verb] is " in BNC.

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1 Correspondingly , the authority by which research expertise is acknowledged is that of the academic peer group , the relevant epistemic community ; in contrast , teaching authority comes at least in part from the students .
2 One of the tasks that the Employment Research Centre is undertaking is to publicise these findings in language accessible to ordinary members of the public .
3 The cly growing tall is an obvious biblical reference to Adam and therefore man being made from the clay and the question Owen is asking is really simply if man is merely born to die why was he ever born at all .
4 I should like to be sure that the child Barbara is carrying is my grandchild , not your bastard . ’
5 The basic tenet upon which a common law system is founded is known as the doctrine of precedent .
6 The experience has , however , shown that the format in which the tax computation is prepared is the key to successful and speedy CT 200 completion .
7 This remark has an enticing obscurity to it , a flavour of ‘ Confucius , he says … ’ ; actually , as with many Chinese proverbs , the point Tarrow is making is a straightforward and simple one , that regionalism as policy resists categorisation and control within a particular administrative subject-area and has tended to develop branch-lines covering a wide range of policy intervention .
8 For what the Virgin Atlantic boss is offering is the ultimate video game .
9 Thus a member of Lautro upon whom an intervention notice is served is in much the same position as a defendant to an action at law against whom an ex parte injunction is obtained .
10 While it may be virtually abolished on the first night by as few as four or five wakenings , on subsequent nights REM " pressure " increases , and successively more wakenings are required , as the number of times REM sleep is initiated is increased .
11 Physical access to the building where Leisure Choice is based is difficult ; other buildings have had to be used for our meetings .
12 What Mr Laycock is suggesting is that a proposal will significantly improve or
13 The colorimetric test in which sodium diethyldithio-carbamate is used is extensively employed and gives satisfactory results when tartaric acid is added to remove interference from iron , calcium , and magnesium .
14 we can infer that that coefficient to which the T ratio is attached is not significantly zero .
15 Since the fraction of faults that are unfamiliar , ie the novelty rate , is high , especially in the early years of repair , the rate at which the knowledge base is changing is also high .
16 One of the two motorists Mrs Branch is sueing is Justin Biddle , whose van was the first vehicle to crash .
17 One of those Mrs Branch is sueing is Justin Biddle , whose van was the first vehicle to crash .
18 Another prominent member of the Conservative party in Parliament who has related the European issue to the economic problems Britain is facing is the former minister and current UK Chairman of Texas Instruments , John Butcher , Member for Coventry South-West .
19 What Mrs Gamp is saying is that Mrs Harris was told , to reassure her , that the howls she could hear ( which were , in fact , being emitted by her husband ‘ bein' took with fits ’ ) were the noise of barrel-organs in the street .
20 The extent to which children are thought about while housework is done is not only a reflection on housework 's fragmented quality ; it also signifies the basic difficulties which inhere in the combination of housewife and mother roles .
21 The low-cost 7100LC version of the Precision Architecture RISC that Hewlett-Packard Co is developing is generating growing excitement , and could give the company a significant edge in winning space on the desktop of the future .
22 Thus , given the way the word " I " is used , there is no startlingly new information to be derived from a person 's statement " I actually exist " If " Socrates is eating an apple " is true , then clearly there is nothing that can usefully be added to this statement by saying that the apple Socrates is eating is not fictional .
23 And a , one beat note is called is a
24 So far as I am aware , this was the first occasion on which it was made clear that the period which elapses before a prisoner serving a life sentence is released is determined by consideration of two factors , namely : ( i ) the period necessary to satisfy retribution and deterrence , which has come to be called ‘ the tariff ; ’ and ( ii ) a possible further period if it is thought by the Parole Board and/or the Secretary of State that the prisoner would pose an unacceptable risk of danger to the public were he to be released at the end of his tariff period .
25 Most of your working life , one and half years of the average employee 's working life is lost is stress related .
26 IT will be open house at the White House when Bill Clinton is sworn is as the new American President .
27 But I want you to observe that the church family is growing is n't it ?
28 It was heartening in fact to hear that W H Smith is to celebrate is bi-centenary next year , by providing the Samaritans with a special telephone link line .
29 By now , however , the biggest pressure Kylie is facing is for her to move towards live appearances and a major world tour to capitalise on the success of ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ and all that has followed it .
30 Supporters of the third principle may claim that the reason rape is prohibited is that its perpetration deprives the raped of their chances to live according to their conception of the good .
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