Example sentences of "is that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point , however , is that Toennies based his analysis not on the difference between peasant community and urbanised society , but between the old-fashioned town and the capitalist city , ‘ essentially a commercial town and , insofar as commerce dominates its productive labour , a factory town ’ . |
| 2 | It is thought that high-mass X-ray binaries accrete primarily from a stellar wind escaping from the companion star whereas LMXBs accrete by means of Roche-lobe overflow into a disc ; a viable hypothesis is that QPOs are a generic feature of disc accretion , regardless of the precise nature of the compact object . |
| 3 | The advantage of this scheme over RFS is that ions are detected rather than photons and there are no background problems from scattered photons . |
| 4 | The main thing to remember when looking for your first gigs is that promoters , bookers and pub landlords are n't bothered whether you are going to be the next U2 . |
| 5 | The reason the Labradoodle caught my eye is that Bubbles is the result of a liaison between a Miniature Poodle and — wait for it — a Labrador/Boxer cross . |
| 6 | The point is that birds themselves are warm-blooded , like mammals , and if birds and dinosaurs are as closely related as now seems likely , then it obviously increases the likelihood that the dinosaurs themselves may have been warm-blooded . |
| 7 | What has not yet been conclusively demonstrated is that birds learn to avoid brightly coloured sickening prey more quickly than equivalent but duller coloured prey . |
| 8 | The only thing that everybody seems to be sure about is that abortions will continue to be performed despite the new law . |
| 9 | Here the argument is that correctionalists are helping to divert attention away from the ‘ real ’ problems , rather than that they are necessarily helping to crush revolutionary potential . |
| 10 | Swindon author Dr Colin Francome , who co-wrote the book , explained at today 's launch that research shows that one reason for the increase in Caesarean operations is that consultants are afraid of a law suit if the baby 's born naturally and is n't healthy . |
| 11 | These may or may not have significance ; what needs to be certain is that descriptions are accurate , for if they are wrong , deductions from them will be valueless . |
| 12 | For our purposes , the important point is that variants of these intermediate or compromise schemes were propounded by both Protestant and Catholic scholars . |
| 13 | The underlying idea is that citizens are expected to keep control over their behaviour , but that in circumstances where even a person of normal self-control might be provoked , the offence may be reduced from murder to manslaughter . |
| 14 | The idea here is that citizens would be entitled to compensation for loss caused by the conduct of a particular activity regardless of whether that activity was conducted legally or illegally , in a faulty way or absolutely blamelessly . |
| 15 | In Britain the assumption is that citizens have no right to official information , and receive only what the government chooses to tell them . |
| 16 | For the one characteristic organization theorists ( Blau and Scott 1962 ; Etzioni 1961 ; Parsons 1963 ) agree on is that corporations , like all organizations , are primarily orientated towards the achievement of a particular goal — profit — at least in the long run . |
| 17 | The second statutory safeguard is that copies of any intercepted material must be destroyed as soon as they are no longer required . |
| 18 | The situation in Romania , as described by Baleanu and Bugnariu , is that copies of all Romanian theses are deposited with the ( single ) Central University Library , which then publishes an abstracting bulletin giving summaries of the contents . |
| 19 | His argument is that newspapers may be inhibited about discussing the commercial interests of their proprietors but otherwise they exercise independent judgement . |
| 20 | The Pope 's theory is that priests should be specially educated to arm themselves with ‘ more than supernatural means ’ against possible temptation . |
| 21 | If the Vance-Owen plan is to survive , its one chance is that sanctions will bring about a change of mind among the Bosnian Serbs . |
| 22 | My own belief , which is shared , oddly enough , by the head of the CIA , William Webster , is that sanctions would have eroded his military capacity so much that , given another nine months or so — assuming we has used that period for more flexible diplomacy , which we notably failed to do — then we could either have got him out by negotiation , or we could have promoted a situation inside Iraq in which he could n't fight . |
| 23 | One difference between the two views is that Keynesians believe money is a close substitute for financial assets , whereas the monetarists argue that money is not a particularly close substitute for any specific range of assets . |
| 24 | The great contrast , however , is that debentures secured by charges on the company 's property throw up problems regarding the priority between conflicting charges . |
| 25 | The other is that efforts to forge a European foreign and security policy ( loudly backed in principle by the Germans ) may be doomed . |
| 26 | He added : ‘ The bottom line is that efforts are continuing . |
| 27 | The fact is that projects in Japan are profitable , both for firms and investors . |
| 28 | What Engels stresses is that women were not inferior . |
| 29 | The reason for this is that women are forced to carry on the main productive activity by themselves because of their subjection . |
| 30 | The implication in all the sexually discriminatory immigration laws ( continued long after the introduction of the Sex Discrimination Act in 1975 ) is that women are slaves and chattels in their communities , and the government sees no reason why it should treat them as anything else . |