Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [be] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm Freud 's hypothesis is that this religion left Egypt because of the persecution , Moses was one of Akhenaten 's followers who went out into the desert , erm here as I 'll explain in the lectures er some of my own research opens up a new angle on this that Freud did n't know about and why they went out into the desert , why they picked up these er Hebrew erm er immigrants who were living on the fringes of the Egyptian Empire . |
| 2 | The Government 's intention was that these funds would be a way of helping with one-off exceptional circumstances affecting only a small minority of students , but the reality is that once again they have been shown to be completely wrong . |
| 3 | One of the most extraordinary things about the man 's mind was that any check , any set-back , to some sweet hypothesis , far from dismaying him , seemed immediately to prompt some second hypothesis that soon appeared even sweeter than the first . |
| 4 | Broadly , apart from the incorporation of East Germany following German unification [ see p. 37659 ] , the Commission 's attitude was that any expansion of the EC 's membership could not be considered until after the implementation of the single internal market , scheduled for the end of 1992 . |
| 5 | ‘ The result of the action improvement team 's work is that all items are now identified and detailed for line weight , rung bungs , pieces in a bung , bungs per board , height and tilt . |
| 6 | Reissland 's point is that any deterioration in the health of the soldiers , or any increase in the risk of their dying of cancer , will be missed if the survey compares their death rates with those in the general population , which is less healthy than soldiers . |
| 7 | The Reverend Musgrave 's opinion was that French douaniers behaved like gentlemen , while English customs officers were ruffians . |
| 8 | One of the many dangers for South Africa 's evolution is that each move which President de Klerk makes will be discounted in advance by the opposition . |
| 9 | WHAT HAPPENS in Foucault 's Pendulum is that three editors at a Milan publishing house , vetting manuscripts for a series of books on the occult , decide to amuse themselves by connecting up every conspiracy theory advanced by their half-baked authors and fabricating an elaborate master-plan which explains the whole of world history . |
| 10 | Strawson 's claim is that abnormal behaviour , as its name implies , is defined negatively as behaviour towards which our normal responses are not fitting . |
| 11 | There was a feeling in Parliament that the Bill would prevent the press from saying anything controversial — it would ‘ gag the press ’ — but Ngurumo 's feeling was that prevailing practices would continue whether the Bill was passed or not . |
| 12 | Deffenbacher 's argument is that those studies which show enhanced memory in arousing circumstances are operating on the ascending portion of the inverted-U function , while those which show impairment are operating on the descending portion of the curve associated with high arousal levels . |
| 13 | Because these are short-term and rather non-specific behavioural changes , they must be regarded as forms of non-associative learning , but important to Kandel 's argument is that classical conditioning is also possible ; in this the unconditioned stimulus is a shock to the tail , and the conditioned stimulus a mild tactile stimulus to the siphon . |
| 14 | The general implications of Lienhardt 's argument are that all languages have the potential to make abstract , relatively neutral statements , if called upon to do so . |
| 15 | The main direction of the editorial 's argument was that positive discrimination was ‘ dangerous muddling ’ . |
| 16 | The old reductionist 's vision was that one day when we knew enough about genes we would be able to predict every detail of every adult 's behaviour . |
| 17 | The basic concept of a Streamline Student 's Book is that each page is a complete unit and in most cases the unit has one central teaching point . |
| 18 | Merton himself was aware of the problem when he raised this question : Merton 's answer was that both processes were at work , but to an unknown extent . |
| 19 | Mr Annan 's idea is that these planners — civilians as well as military men — should not remain on their bottoms in New York but should be sent off to the field to implement the operations they planned . |
| 20 | Hareven 's view is that economic circumstances have eased in the twentieth century , for most people , so that the alignment of individual time and family time has increasingly become a voluntary matter , whereas the stark economic conditions of the nineteenth century made this an absolute necessity ( Hareven , 1978 ) . |
| 21 | Braverman 's view is that work-study engineers are not contributing knowledge by their analysis of others ' work : they are acting as eyes and ears of management to find out on their behalf how quickly a job can be done . |
| 22 | Mr Prais said the accused had been receiving treatment for depression at the State Hospital in Carstairs and the Crown 's view was that psychiatric help should be continued . |
| 23 | A fascinating feature of Castells 's legacy is that later authors have continued to examine the sphere of reproduction and consumption despite the facts that Castells 's original theories have emerged as far less universally applicable than he suggested and that many of his followers are not Marxists . |