Example sentences of "[noun] is that [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Yet even here there are minefields , for the report of a group of Commonwealth experts is likely to be the basis for the discussion on the environment , and its main recommendation is that the developed countries should foot the bill for the under-developed to adopt environment-friendly means of production .
2 But what must astonish us , I think , more than the details of violence is that the only charges brought as a result of this death were against three men who were charged with assault and punished with a 20 shillings ' fine , with the additional requirement that they should pay the doctor 's bill on the dead man .
3 The result is that the key leaders of worship fail to relate properly and their dealings with one another are inhibited by suspicion and threat .
4 The result is that the growing ferrets show no shyness to human contact .
5 The result is that the main characters in À la Recherche are not by any means all of a piece .
6 One result is that the old parties face a growing challenge from new groups led by energetic men who have been excluded from the ruling class because of their race or their class .
7 The irony is that the costly approval-procedures which drug firms so regularly complain about can be their best shield against liability claims .
8 The new feature for curved space–time is that the permitted transformations are quite general and not simply linear , as in the case with Lorentz transformations .
9 The CDP 's fear is that the local authorities will be so hard pressed , because of government policy , that they will be unable or unwilling to help in the future .
10 What the high-speed camera does n't show as it freezes the action is that the top pros have the skill to make the clubhead catch up with their hands and arrive at the same time at impact … as when at address .
11 The other feature of these keys is that the actual characters which separate the species can easily be assessed ; helping both to improve the key and assess the real difference between species .
12 The idea behind the Partnership Act is that the internal affairs of the partnership are for the partners to decide .
13 Monica Shorten : ‘ My only regret is that the rival claims of the science departments and university clubs and social life distracted me from taking full advantage of my time in such an interesting community . ’
14 Given this , it is impossible to avoid the idea that another part of the difference between the causal items and their effects is that the causal items exist at a time when their effects do not .
15 ( 2 ) The principal advantage of a cash underwritten alternative over a rights issue is that the new shares in the bidder are allotted to the target 's shareholders , in which case merger relief and , possibly , merger accounting may be available ( see para 23.1 below ) .
16 Todd 's contention is that the psychological tensions and traumas generated by the process of selection into winners and losers in " brutally individualist , egoist , competitive and aggressive societies " such as France , where the working class has assimilated the ambitious , success-seeking ideology of the petty bourgeoisie , are so intense that the creation of a communist party , a form of asylum and counter-culture , becomes imperative .
17 The only difference is that the actual futures price is £62 000 .
18 My suspicion is that the male committees which control the majority of British golf clubs deliberately keep ladies ' subscriptions lower than men 's in order to have the excuse to maintain the inequality .
19 As my right hon. Friend said in his statement on 10 December , our aim is that the naval reserves should be ’ streamlined but more closely integrated with the Royal Navy . ’
20 The aim is that the open services standards should help service providers to deliver the same types of remote services cost-effectively for systems in a network as are available for centralised systems .
21 Its importance is that the other parts depend on its results for their complete explanations .
22 My general conclusion is that the pro-classical themes are the more important : they have opened up the opportunity for an extensive development of the unnecessarily narrow focus of Beccaria 's original formulation of classical criminology , and this opportunity will be taken up in Part Two .
23 The broader inference is that the MARID rocks , related metasomites , megacrysts and polymict xenoliths found at Kimberley all formed in the upper mantle beneath the Kaapvaal craton over a short interval coincident with kimberlite generation and eruption .
24 The main premise is that the corporatist strategies developed almost universally by authoritarian regimes in order to organize and control civil society , serve simultaneously to create the political context for popular responses ; and special attention will therefore be paid to the ways in which unions , community groups and parties find the political space to organize within the institutions of these regimes .
25 The better opinion is that the pre-1926 priorities of the legal over the equitable estate , and of the earlier in time over the later , still apply , except in so far as they are abrogated by the provisions of the 1925 legislation .
26 The truth is that the social sciences reflected the pre-conceptions and problems of bourgeois liberalism in its classic form , which was not found in Germany , where bourgeois society inserted itself into the Bismarckian framework of aristocrats and bureaucrats .
27 As regards the appropriation of funds for the purposes of planned provision , a first point is that the financial institutions could be short-circuited to some extent by increasing taxation of the wealthy .
28 The point is that the traditional concepts of intention and recklessness do not , of themselves , appear to be sufficiently well focused to mark out those killings which are the most heinous .
29 But Dear and Wolch 's main point is that the daily lives of those dependent on welfare are suffused in largely intangible and invisible ways by the institutions on which they are dependent .
30 The point is that the trivial names and acronyms are easy to remember and immediately evoke fond memories .
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