Example sentences of "[is] the [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the law that all life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities . |
| 2 | This is the bit that some people find extremely exciting . |
| 3 | Balanced against this is the problem that these procedures are likely to involve the child in unusual activities with strange people ; they may not , therefore , provide an accurate picture of what children are able to do under more natural and relaxed conditions . |
| 4 | In its most obvious form , this is the problem that silent majorities pose for democracy , but the same pressures operate in groups and whole subcultures at many lower and less obvious levels . |
| 5 | Though it is the only staircase in the house , so hard is the wood that 450 years of treading have worn no hollows in the steps … |
| 6 | And supposing we identify particular features we judge as exemplifying these things , what is the evidence that those features do n't mean something else entirely ? |
| 7 | This is the idea that all words have meaning by being names of things referred to by them , and that learning the meaning of a word is a matter of finding out what thing it refers to , what thing bears the name in question . |
| 8 | What is common to all these conceptions is the idea that economic development , based upon the growth of science — and even some kind of ‘ technological imperative ’ — has a pervasive and fundamental influence upon the whole of social and cultural life , and hence determines to a large extent the nature of political struggles , bringing into prominence new social groups , changing the balance of power between nations , and promoting an ever-growing intervention of the state in the economy . |
| 9 | First , at its core is the idea that critical thinking is a particular kind of intellectual activity in its own right . |
| 10 | One of the assumptions that underlies a traditional approach to the role of the tutor is the idea that more effort , direction , control , leadership , motivation and so on by the tutor is better . |
| 11 | Central to any definition of apraxia is the idea that any paralysis or weakness of limbs is insufficient to account for the movement disorder . |
| 12 | Closely connected with this is the idea that sexual activity and love are concerned with youth , and that it is somehow undesirable , or even an object of mild amusement , for ageing people to indulge . |
| 13 | What worries people is the idea that these differences , however valuable , are in any way naturally determined and therefore out of the control of the individual . |
| 14 | So great is the change that common sense , with these new anchored elements , is no longer , properly speaking , common sense : it is a social representation . |
| 15 | This is the way that major orchestras get their conductors — a young conductor earns his or her spurs in a small orchestra or opera house , only to be hired away by a larger one . |
| 16 | But that is the way that many people are living , says Paul , and that is the way that we were before we decided to follow Christ . |
| 17 | The sociological question here , then , is the way that black people are integrated into white society and the effect that their separate cultural identity has on the rate of integration . |
| 18 | This is the way that wild animals do die in times of hardship , and perhaps we need sometimes to see , on our doorsteps , the consequences of our past plunderings of nature . |
| 19 | One consequence of these extension schemes that may have a serious effect upon arts education is the way that some authorities are pushing for arts subjects to be taught as part of modular courses , which could lead to a reduction of the number of two-year examination courses in separate arts subjects . |
| 20 | A good example of this is the way that some Christians have all but taken over , or perhaps been taken in by , the complete relativism in the modern concept of truth . |
| 21 | Learning ‘ on the job ’ is the way that most people acquire their skills with desktop publishing but even though they are producing relevant material they often miss out on a lot of the essential background . |
| 22 | So that 's , that is the way that most people find is easiest to remember Ohm 's Law . |
| 23 | That 's it you have to put it in the simplest of terms and that is the way that most people would understand it , you know , you come to sixty five or whatever and instead of having three hundred pounds a week you 've got eighty five pounds a week and what are you going to do about it . |
| 24 | Asserting the universality of ideas is the way that dominant class interests are maintained — ideology is about power and the continuation of particular class relations . |
| 25 | Perhaps more significant is the accusation that domestic producers are able to limit the penetration of overseas goods by binding Japanese retailers to Japanese products through a range of restrictive practices . |
| 26 | Less comforting , though , is the realization that this concept implies that there is no such thing as a fixed reality — which is exactly what we observe on the subatomic scale . |
| 27 | Does she agree that one unfortunate thing about the United Nations effort to seek peace between the factions in the south is the implication that those factions , together , represent a Government ? |
| 28 | That 's why Sangenic is the invention that disposable nappies have been waiting for . |
| 29 | Underlying the analogy is the thought that natural selection can itself be understood as a process whereby information is selected and transmitted , it applies a simple logical model to a natural phenomenon . |
| 30 | There is the thought that this story might fulfil me as nothing ever has done in all my life previous to this . |