Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this is the argument it neglects the fact that statutory bodies are given very specific powers . |
| 2 | LIFESPAN records the fact that this assertion has been made by changing any development versions of modules in a package ( including the package module itself ) to approved versions and giving them a non-development issue number , such as 2.3 from 2.3C . |
| 3 | The third and final stage involves the claim that relational properties are merely a special class of qualitative properties of a single substance . |
| 4 | The ontological version of the argument involves the claim that existential propositions , in the final analysis , can all be shown to be about certain concrete ontological items and attributes of such items . |
| 5 | Although this method fulfils the requirement that all animals are equally likely to be part of the study , we have no control over sample size ; if herd A is chosen then there will be 36 cattle in the study whereas for herd C there will be only 6 . |
| 6 | But he sees this foundationalist as a weak-kneed sceptic , who ought in consistency to go further ; who ought , in fact , to doubt whether he understands the proposition that other minds exist , and so ought to be a solipsist . |
| 7 | However , this analysis is important in showing that it is not rational expectations itself which produces the result that monetary policy can not be used to stabilize real variables in the economy ; rather , it is the combination of rational expectations and a particular class of model . |
| 8 | There is no English equivalent to the French basis of this concept , but broadly it denotes the fact that institutional church religion has been pushed by modernity out of the centre of social and cultural life and into its own peripheral and private sphere . |
| 9 | With this goes the argument that small enterprises tend to be more efficient than larger ones , both in their use of scarce resources and the flexibility of their response to market processes . |
| 10 | Flow cytometry of archival tumour material offers the advantage that long term follow up is available . |
| 11 | This practice encourages the belief that old age is a condition similar to disability . |
| 12 | Lewontin describes how the genetic world-view — deterministic and reductionist — encourages the view that human life is what it has to be . |
| 13 | The balance sheet for the hypothetical country of Utopia emphasises the fact that physical assets , e.g. land , buildings , roads and machinery , represent the real wealth of a nation . |
| 14 | Furthermore , it has been suggested in favour of the present law that ‘ it emphasises the reality that sexual violence is predominantly committed by men against women ; it underlines the protection of the sexual autonomy of women . ’ |
| 15 | Consequently such apparently irrational attribution of responsibility exhibited by criminal law strengthens rather than weakens the claim that criminal law may be understood as positive morality . |
| 16 | Indeed , the continued dominance of Oxford , Cambridge and the top public schools severely weakens the claim that educational reform has opened up British society . |
| 17 | He challenges the notion that local government is anything more than local administration , whose claim to be government is merely another reflection of the high self-regard in which officials hold themselves rather than any expression of locally based decision-making . |
| 18 | This challenges the assumption that such programmes are of interest only to a specialist few : |
| 19 | Armed with the powerful empirical evidence of the Islington Crime Survey ( Jones , Mac Lean and Young , 1986 ) , socialist realism challenges the view that working-class crime is a non-problem which does not deserve the attention of left-thinking criminologists . |
| 20 | She subtly contests the assumption that narrative fiction is ‘ redundant ’ with respect to ‘ reality ’ by grammatically inverting the relation of her stories to those she hears on the radio . |
| 21 | She contests the view that these practices are ‘ either degrading to women , in the case of drag and cross-dressing , or an uncritical appropriation of sex-role stereotyping from within the practice of heterosexuality , especially in the case of butch/femme lesbian identities ’ ( p. 137 ) . |
| 22 | The quantum model in physics contains the possibility that individual quanta can be at different energy levels . |
| 23 | Finally , Tumin questions the view that social stratification functions to integrate the social system . |
| 24 | The inclusion of specified car parking spaces within each demise has the advantage that each tenant knows precisely how many cars he ( or his staff or visitors ) may park , and where . |
| 25 | One has the impression that many companies have money set aside for sponsorship , but do n't often get asked . ’ |
| 26 | This has the effect that such items as back can sound very similar to RP bike , and the outsider may easily miscomprehend ‘ I was on my back ’ as ‘ I was on my bike ’ . |
| 27 | This has the effect that high concentrations of carbonic acid can be attained in cold regions even though the rate of production of carbon dioxide by organic activity in such environments is relatively low . |
| 28 | HARPY 's use of a finite-state grammar permitted backwards pruning since a finite-state grammar has the property that any string of words leading to a given state is equivalent to any other string leading to that state as far as future states are concerned . |
| 29 | Use of PLATO has the disadvantage that special PLATO terminals have to be used for the instruction ; this means that users can not be taught in their own congressional offices and carry out the training as and when required . |
| 30 | The existence of both species illustrates the fact that human-machine relations are by no means free of emotional implications , |