Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [is] 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 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Strawson 's claim is that abnormal behaviour , as its name implies , is defined negatively as behaviour towards which our normal responses are not fitting . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |