Example sentences of "is [conj] [art] [noun sg] is " 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 | In general , what the theory of dialectic materialism states is that every society is structured around its material basis of production . |
| 3 | The reason we receive massive newspaper publicity for reports like Empty Quarters and Nobody 's Home is that every property is illustrated . |
| 4 | What is remarkable is that a consensus is achieved by natural selection , and the neologism is usually accepted by most people fairly quickly . |
| 5 | The first is that a word is typically the smallest element of a sentence which has positional mobility — that is , the smallest that can be moved around without destroying the grammaticality of the sentence ( ignoring any semantic effects ) : |
| 6 | Suppliers The general approach is that a supplier is not liable under Pt I of the CPA 1987 for defective goods , but he may be liable in contract or negligence , or perhaps be criminally liable under Pt II ( discussed below ) . |
| 7 | And the latest news on the travellers movements is that a convoy is still moving along the A-forty-six between Cheltenham and Stroud . |
| 8 | The difference is that a raga is improvised , Glass 's music is not . |
| 9 | One very obvious but important observation is that a pub is first and foremost an interior . |
| 10 | Wimsatt and Beardsley 's view is that a poem is not just a vehicle for conveying feelings , but an independent object with distinctive features of its own . |
| 11 | The reality is that a child is a time-consuming , all-engulfing creature who disrupts any semblance of pleasurable home life . |
| 12 | This belief , expressed in the legal doctrine of novus actus interruptus , is that a person is responsible for his own actions , and others are not responsible even if they induced his action by suggesting that there are reasons for it , or by behaving in ways which led him to form such a belief . |
| 13 | James 's aim is the psychological one of explaining how it is that a person is able to locate a stimulus on the surface of his body . |
| 14 | One reason put forward for this is that a person is more likely to lose their job in an area of high unemployment , and this lack of job opportunities must apply equally to wives . |
| 15 | The second observation is that learning is a " total " event in that is involves the entire person. , The third and most characteristic observation is that a person is constantly responding to innumerable influences , a few of which are conscious and rational , but most of which are either non-conscious or non-rational , or both . |
| 16 | An obvious problem is that a text is not made up of collections of sentences , but of sentences organised into a coherent whole . |
| 17 | What is unusual about " reading language itself " is that a text is self-consciously perceived , interpreted , explained as a tokening of a theory of language . |
| 18 | The most important point to understand is that a tutorial is an opportunity to share in the learning process : to share your ideas , experience , understanding and perplexities . |
| 19 | But the important thing to remember is that a map is a flat plan of an area — a sort of bird 's eye view made into a diagram . |
| 20 | The first is that a curriculum is not a plan but an experience , not a script but a play . |
| 21 | What you should try to remember is that a helicopter is essentially a frictionless device and , once moving , will tend to continue moving until an opposite command is given to stop it . |
| 22 | The fundamental difference between the two routes , then , is that a pronunciation is either built up from sublexical components ( ‘ assembled ’ phonology ) or looked up as a whole ( ‘ addressed ’ phonology ) . |
| 23 | If we just go back to , to what we 've just said and read the first paragraph , wh what he 's really saying here is that a revolution is taking place |
| 24 | What , what , what he 's saying is that a revolution is taking place here and it is , within a very short time it 's gon na spread on into other provinces . |
| 25 | The general opinion is that a bridge is necessary , though not a toll bridge . ’ |
| 26 | Erm , the agency has considered a paper on this as is referred to in the final paragraph , what it 's basically suggesting to the Department of the Environment and the Home Office is , is that a formula is based upon the supply factors er , such as the , the number of fire stations and standard crew levels etcetera . |
| 27 | It is worth noticing , however , a consequence of this justification of clause 3 ; this is that a belief is not generally considered to be justified by the mere fact that it is true , for otherwise clause 3 would be unnecessary . |
| 28 | The view is that a consent is not valid unless the patient has enough information to make an informed choice . |
| 29 | The rule of thumb is that a model is a potential target if at least half of its base area if covered by the template . |
| 30 | One is that a predator is less likely to detect fish prey if they form a school than if they spread out . |