Example sentences of "is [verb] is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's perfectly true , it is a system of the end of the world and my only consc my only complaint is that I do n't think that what my Right Honourable Friend is suggesting is in fact a destruction of the tripartite system . |
| 2 | The only place where this rule is broken is in the cycle of drink/drive adverts by the Central Office of Information . |
| 3 | One of the main ways in which Creativity is treated is in the form of Poetic Inspiration . |
| 4 | The usual way in which his power is circumscribed is by limiting it to a right to break for certain specified purposes . |
| 5 | A special context in which the pain signal is given is at the end of the mating act , when the tom-cat is withdrawing his barbed penis from the female . |
| 6 | In some patients ( e.g. Coltheart et al. , 1983 ) , only the first pattern is seen , so that the way a printed word is comprehended is via pronunciation ; in others ( e.g. Kay and Patterson , 1983 ) one does see examples where a word is read aloud wrongly but comprehended correctly . |
| 7 | His analysis of doctrines as expressions of the religious consciousness leaves a fair measure of uncertainty whether what is said is in any sense true about God , or only about our understanding of God . |
| 8 | The white Makrana marble of which the Taj is built is of a different structure from the Carrara marble of Italy with which we are more familiar . |
| 9 | But immediately Hilton makes it clear that such a life-style involves an active life of its own if the peace that is sought is to be found , for it may not be had : This has been defined earlier as : Such an active component of spiritual endeavour is a concomitant of man 's temporal nature . |
| 10 | It will be seen that this explanation does not touch the question of whether what is sought is in any sense ‘ evidence ’ . |
| 11 | The means by which this is done is through the ‘ schemes of experience ’ , such as typifications , recipes , and other idealizations which members build up over time and into which are allotted new experiences and encounters , rendering the unknown into the known , the unfamiliar into the familiar . |
| 12 | ( Since then I have learned that the way it is done is in a body bag , which is much easier to handle , and then transferred to a coffin either in the pick-up vehicle or at the undertakers . ) |
| 13 | Sometimes all that is needed is for the smear to be repeated in 6 months or a year . |
| 14 | Sometimes all that is needed is for the smear to be repeated in 6 months or a year . |
| 15 | All that is needed is for the philosopher 's stone of artistic intention to be applied to them . |
| 16 | What is needed is for Parliament to amend the Act so that it explains exactly how far the rule-making powers go . |
| 17 | This is because all that is needed is for Newco to be a close company and satisfy the relevant purpose test at the time when the managers subscribe their shares . |
| 18 | What is needed is at least 100 MPs present to support the Bill . |
| 19 | While the law as to imputing to a principal the knowledge acquired by his agent in the course of the business about which the agent is employed is at points confused ( see Bowstead , Agency , 13th edn , Article 112 and pp 356–7 ) , it would have been difficult in the circumstances of the case to withhold the concession . |
| 20 | The usual way in which this duty is breached is for the employee to mention to customers that he is leaving and either directly or indirectly suggest to them that he is available to meet their needs once he has left . |
| 21 | Erm all those because subjects come under the general umbrella of faith and life , and I think er , moderator , probably the correct thing is to do is to be formal and to begin by er , proposing that these three reports be received for discussion . |
| 22 | v. Kantner ( Case 38/81 ) [ 1982 ] E.C.R. 825 the Court of Justice held that a plaintiff may invoke the jurisdiction of the courts of the place of performance of a contract in accordance with article 5(1) even where the existence of the contract on which the claim is based is in dispute between the parties . |
| 23 | The rule of recognition providing the criteria by which the validity of other rules of the system is assessed is in an important sense , which we shall try to clarify , an ultimate rule : and where , as is usual , there are several criteria ranked in order of relative subordination and primacy one of them is supreme … |
| 24 | This state of affairs causes no surprise when it is recognised that ‘ what is understood is at least as dependent on how the receptor perceives the message as on how the communicator presents it ’ ( Kraft 1979:148 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And they do for 5–10 minutes , then he speaks out of the silence , ‘ and I know what he is saying is of the Holy Spirit — it resonates so clearly in me and rings true ’ . |
| 27 | What it is saying is in fact very simple . |
| 28 | This divergence between collective and individual rationality is not encountered when the means by which the real wage is reduced is via an increase in the absolute price level . |
| 29 | IT will be open house at the White House when Bill Clinton is sworn is as the new American President . |
| 30 | When this happens — and it happens constantly — the classical subject is eclipsed , it undergoes the effects of ‘ fading ’ , and what is spoken is in fact ‘ l'intra-dit d'un entre-deux-sujets ’ ( 800 ) , a discontinuous , intersubjective voice ( 801 ) . |