Example sentences of "is [conj] [pron] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So one is forced to conclude that the reason hundreds of dismayed tourists and walkers are stranded on stations up and down the length of the West Highland line at the height of the season , unable to squeeze into an already packed ‘ Sprinter ’ , if it arrives at all , is that somebody is doing this on purpose . |
| 2 | One consequence of this immobility is that everyone is surrounded by people very like himself , most of whom he has always known . |
| 3 | My complaint about reviews so far is that everyone is reviewing the man Larkin and not the biography of him . |
| 4 | What must be remembered though is that whatever is asked and answered in a survey has to be inputted in some way and once it has been processed the output has to be read by someone . |
| 5 | The general maxim of the law is that what is annexed to the land becomes part of the land . |
| 6 | The trouble is that what is measured differs from medium to medium , and , therefore , cost measurements differ almost completely between , say , TV and posters in what they are costs of . |
| 7 | The point at issue is that what is happening is not only a tragedy of today but a portent of tomorrow . |
| 8 | The rationalization is that everything is done in the interests of the patient , but it is also designed to protect professionals from feelings that are , for them , genuinely intolerable . |
| 9 | The main thing is that everything is going to be all right ! ’ |
| 10 | Its particular advantage is that everything is contained into a smaller central area . |
| 11 | The significance of fantasizing about a new house or a new flat is that one is visualizing a change in one 's work environment . |
| 12 | ‘ You see , one of the advantages of being dead is that one is released as it were from the bonds of time and therefore I can see everything that has happened or will happen , all at the same time except that of course I now know that Time does not , for all practical purposes , exist . ’ |
| 13 | Another difference between the characterization of Alison and that of the three men is that she is seen totally from the outside — one sees her appearance in her face and her clothes ; we see what actions she does . |
| 14 | Chrissie is relatively young and inexperienced , and while she may be a hardened liar and criminal , we feel the balance of the probabilities is that she is telling the truth . |
| 15 | The gossip is that she is thinking of resigning from the practice and going back to her home town . |
| 16 | Studies in which rats have been fed ethanol have suggested that there is reduced ability of hepatocytes to bind to laminin , type I collagen , and fibronectin ; a possible explanation for which is that there is reduced expression or activation of specific receptors for these matrix components . |
| 17 | The probable significance of all this is that it is mistaken to attempt to generalize about employers ' attitudes to young workers . |
| 18 | The government 's official line is that it is aiming for an agreement with East Germany on monetary matters by the end of next month ; it does not deny reports that D-Day for GEMU could be July 1st . |
| 19 | What is extraordinary is that it is taking off in England — the land of the Stiff Upper Lip , where the primary emotion often seems to be fear of embarrassment . |
| 20 | The downside of the book is that it is written in a terribly deadpan style : ‘ At forty-five Picasso had become a successful man . |
| 21 | One view of the overall employment implications of new technology is that it is bringing about the collapse of work . |
| 22 | The reason is that it is based , not on discernible facts , but on stories and writings that have been created by man himself in an era of his history obtaining long before he had learned that , if he were so minded , he could use his intellectual power to establish facts on which to build the structure , not only of his religion , but of the whole of his society . |
| 23 | The particular value of task-centred work is that it is based on an intention to form an agreement or contract between the client and the worker , thus freeing the client from the burden of always being a grateful recipient . |
| 24 | The real merit in this suggestion is that it is based upon ( in principle ) easily observed magnitudes those calculating the bonus need know only about price , output and cost levels in each period ; they do not need to estimate either demand or cost functions . |
| 25 | There is moreover a further difficulty with the thesis which is that it is based upon a dichotomy between fact and value which is hard to sustain . |
| 26 | The problem with this approach however is that it is based on opportunism rather than commitment . |
| 27 | But let us be clear about just what it is that it is seeing . |
| 28 | A final reason for the possible failure of an appraisal system is that it is conducted as a top down , rather than a bottom up approach . |
| 29 | The reality of the process of change is that it is conducted in context . |
| 30 | Its other main claim to fame is that it is credited with inventing the word tweed to describe the famous cloth first made in the area . |