Example sentences of "is [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corinthian philistinism , more real though less notorious than Theban , is part of something deeper and more disturbing : she had no ideology to offer , nothing that is like Athenian paideia or Spartan agoge , ‘ culture ’ and ‘ discipline ’ respectively . |
| 2 | Er it was known by archaeologists and the Royal Commission of Ancient and Historical Monuments had done a survey , but it had only done a very brief survey , and they said this is part of something left of a medieval building here . |
| 3 | is part of which I think is just ridiculous and will be a nice well meaning democratic tolerant guy in but considering the history of those two countries I rather doubt it erm and I , I think the best way of securing er the safety of that population is actually to change the border before the borders are are fixed and settled and before these countries actually become independent . |
| 4 | The value of privacy is central here : the body is part of one 's private identity , and , apart from any physical hurt inflicted by violence , a violent assault constitutes a challenge to one 's personal identity , peace , and wellbeing . |
| 5 | Subsequently , children distinguish between what is part of themselves and what is not , and internal and external worlds develop . |
| 6 | Others take the view that marketing is part of everyone 's job and that R&D , in particular , is expected to supplement other inputs by making direct contact with users of company products and with competitive activities . |
| 7 | Letting go is part of everyone 's life and there have certainly been times when I have let go . |
| 8 | ’ Letting go is part of everyone 's life and there have certainly been times when I have let go ’ … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It is part of me — ‘ |
| 10 | 11 I lift it gently to give her a ride and a feeling the perch is part of me and not the cage . |
| 11 | But that , he wrote , is part of what the big glass itself will try to explore , with its notion of delay . |
| 12 | This qualitativeness — the ‘ manifest image of the world ’ — is irreducibly connected with what experience is subjectively like , and it is part of what is lost if consciousness is analysed away or otherwise abandoned . |
| 13 | For this is part of what ‘ democracy ’ means , or has come to mean . |
| 14 | Much of the alleged wisdom that inheres in institutions and practice is part of what she has regarded as the flabby consensus that dragged the country down . |
| 15 | With many relationships the case for self-creation is even stronger , since in them the fact that one chose to have a relationship of a certain kind and chose one 's partner is part of what makes the relationship valuable . |
| 16 | We would need their agreement to build houses outside the city boundary and you know that this is part of what the Steering Committee will propose … |
| 17 | The endurance of rivers , which is part of what makes them such a potent symbol in our culture , is also precisely the reason why they matter so much to ecologists and scientists . |
| 18 | The extreme ultraviolet is part of what physicists call the vacuum ultraviolet , wavelengths shorter than about 200 nanometres which are absorbed by air so strongly that experiments have to be performed in a vacuum . |
| 19 | This is part of what makes his eventual faith in God ( which he reaches for other reasons ) a radical reliance on God alone . |
| 20 | That stage is part of what is involved in social care planning . |
| 21 | The condition of what one says being meaningful is part of what one means . |
| 22 | In Zettel , he explicitly denies that the agreement between colour-word-users is part of what is communicated . |
| 23 | Although capping salaries is part of what they all want , many owners are convinced that only television can provide a long-term solution to the game 's financial problems . |
| 24 | ‘ And picking up things arseways is part of what it 's all about , ’ he continues . |
| 25 | ( A ) is part of what is stated by stating that rain is making the balcony wet , or causing the balcony to be wet . |
| 26 | ( B ) is part of what is stated by stating that rain would make the balcony wet . |
| 27 | This is because classically they have a well-defined location at a particular instant whose specification is part of what is involved in saying that they are in the same state of motion . |
| 28 | Putting an element in rheme position means that it is part of what the speaker has to say , and that is the very core of any message . |
| 29 | This is part of what is meant by an ontological existent ( qua item existing in the modus " per se " ) . |
| 30 | My registering its presence is part of what might be termed an " evidential event " . |