Example sentences of "this [noun sg] is that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the process of negotiating conflict all the participants help to set the framework of ideas within which conflict is managed and a crucial dimension of this framework is that the Japanese people are characteristically said to defer to the national consensus . |
| 2 | What must be clear in a transcript of this kind is that a great deal of interpretation by the analyst has gone on before the reader encounters this ‘ data ’ . |
| 3 | The importance of this technique is that the young child experiences stimulation of the normal feeding and sucking patterns which prevents reluctance to eat once the operation is completed and the child has recovered . |
| 4 | For if one of the main results of this election is that the Labour Party ditches Mr Kinnock as leader in favour of Mr Smith , it could well be a case of reculer pour mieux sauter — a kind of Pyrrhic defeat . |
| 5 | The danger with trying to shoehorn the IRA into this category is that the criminal justice system has had to be stretched almost to breaking point to accommodate them — Diplock courts , the abolition of the right of silence , rigged inquests , detention without trial , and so on . |
| 6 | The main reason for this study is that the future economic development of the Soviet Republics depends very largely on trade in order to provide the currency for food provision and modernisation . |
| 7 | Apart from the use of quarterly data , the main difference in this study is that the current monetary shock is included in the output equation rather than being incorporated in the error term , in what — ADD demonstrate — is an asymptotically efficient estimation procedure . |
| 8 | The clear implication of this study is that the biggest response of northern hemisphere temperatures ‘ should ’ have been in June , two months after El Chichón 's eruption , and that is just what the temperature record shows . |
| 9 | The postulate put forward in this study is that the potential meaning of to before the infinitive is more abstract than that found in the spatial use of the preposition , and can be stated as follows : the possibility of a movement from a point in time conceived as a before-position to another point in time which marks the end-point of the movement and which represents an after-position with respect to the first . |
| 10 | The proof of this theorem is that every such program can be transformed to x — IF/ALT using the said laws . |
| 11 | The effect of this rule is that the fixed percentage or the amount of the notional pool is specified in the scheme , but the amount of the distributable pool can be determined only after a profit period has ended . |
| 12 | Indeed one of the major conclusions to be drawn from the historical and sociological discussion in this chapter is that a proper analysis of the operation of ‘ race ’ as an element in British society and education requires an understanding of its interrelationship with the structured and cultural divisions which derive from class and gender relations , in the context of an understanding of Britain 's past imperial domination and its continuing legacies . |
| 13 | ( a ) The principal difference between this offence and the others in this chapter is that the accused is guilty of making off whether or not he deceived anyone . |
| 14 | The worst things about this attitude is that the western method of development is ’ best ’ and the constant subtle racism . |
| 15 | However , one thing worth mentioning at this point is that the larger parts are not always a guarantee of an agent 's interest — quite often big roles will attract attention , but a student who has been very well cast in a smaller role may hit the mark just as effectively . |
| 16 | Perhaps the most audacious thing about this exhibition is that the British Museum should have countenanced it at all . |
| 17 | An objection to this argument is that a legal obligation is not a necessary condition for a liability . |
| 18 | One hypothesis of this paper is that a semantic net can be a useful representation in document reuse . |
| 19 | The important point in this respect is that the legislative rules introduced into industrial relations emphasised the establishment of bargaining relationships plant-by-plant and enterprise-by-enterprise rather than on any wider basis . |
| 20 | The risk of this policy is that a single product may be standardised prematurely . |
| 21 | The thing about this man is that the whole wind section seems to play better when he is there , not just the flutes . |
| 22 | A major difficulty of this approach is that no foolproof method of distinguishing between jurisdictional facts and facts within jurisdiction has been developed . |
| 23 | The other major assumption made from this approach is that the territorial cleavages formed by the centre-periphery divide are not superimposed exactly on other social and political cleavages ; on the contrary . |
| 24 | The critical assumption in this model is that the risk-free hedge can earn the risk-free rate of return . |
| 25 | The special significance of this number is that a similar long-term cyclic pattern shows up in the record of the changing number of sunspots , modulating the stronger 11 year rhythm . |
| 26 | One of the main assumptions underlying this book is that a sound understanding of public law generally and of legal control of government in particular , requires attention to be paid to the interaction between the different branches of government . |
| 27 | The importance of the shift for the purposes of this book is that the growing competition among states-as-suitors means that government has shed some powers , but taken on others . |
| 28 | The main conclusion to be drawn from this discussion is that a software-based System gives detailed control of the velocity profile up to medium stepping rates ( 1000 steps per second ) , but may limit high-speed performance , and is therefore well-suited to applications in which acceleration/deceleration operations predominate . |
| 29 | The overall conclusion to be drawn from this discussion is that the various lags can complicate the business of macroeconomic management , and may even make it counter-productive . |
| 30 | The tragedy in this country is that the critical establishment has found it impossible to embrace those talents . |