Example sentences of "it is [vb pp] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Namely , it is argued that small enterprises tend to be less unionized and therefore characterised by competitively-set. flexible wages , while large enterprises are characterised by wage rigidity . |
| 62 | It is argued that disease-carrying insects and other small pests are reluctant to land on such a strange surface , with its intensely white and intensely black patches . |
| 63 | Following Sperber and Wilson 's ( 1986 ) suggestion that style arises out of the pursuit of optimal relevance , it is argued that deliberate reformulations are a stylistic device designed to achieve particular contextual effects . |
| 64 | assimilation : it is argued that initial information sets up expectancies about a person . |
| 65 | It denies the existence of a general obligation to obey the law even in a reasonably just society , though it is argued that just governments may exist , and that in certain circumstances their existence is preferable to any alternative method of social organization . |
| 66 | It is argued that lone parents have children taken away from them as a punishment for their failure to cope with society 's shortcomings and its failure to offer adequate support . |
| 67 | It is argued that pluralist accounts miss the fact that thought and action is structurally determined by the requirements of capitalism and that the scope for change through popular pressure in liberal democratic institutions is limited . |
| 68 | It is argued that cultural discontinuities between homes and schools do exist , are inevitable and are to be celebrated . |
| 69 | Assuming that the Commission makes recommendations acceptable to the Government , then there will not necessarily be a delay before the legislation is introduced as it is accepted that sentencing bargaining can be introduced in England and Wales simply by a Practice Direction from the Lord Chief Justice , or in Scotland by an Act of Adjournal in the High Court by the Lord Justice General . |
| 70 | It is accepted that individual positions are unequally rewarded , but the questions of access and opportunity now become central , and although Western capitalist societies do not claim to be equal , they do claim to offer equal opportunity to all in the competition for unequal positions . |
| 71 | If it is accepted that general management is still gathering momentum , more may yet be to come . |
| 72 | It is accepted that general reading of the financial press is important but should not constitute a major part of the CPE undertaken . |
| 73 | It is accepted that common Article 3 of the Geneva Red Cross Conventions of 1949 imposes minimum standards of behaviour in non-international armed conflict contained therein upon ‘ each party to the conflict ’ . |
| 74 | However , it is accepted that exceptional rainstorms and snowstorms can occur without violent winds and damage caused in these situations would be covered where such conditions are abnormal . |
| 75 | There are manifest dangers in the way a relative norm is chosen , but once it is accepted that relative validity is all we can aim at these need not worry us unduly . |
| 76 | It is felt that inter-university comparisons can not be made from the data obtained here , because of the different conditions of use in different libraries , and so the data will only be used here in aggregation . |
| 77 | It is felt that traditional keyboard skills are not required by learners before they embark on work-processing . |
| 78 | The EC Biotechnology Framework Programme recognises the importance of classical taxonomy to genetic and molecular studies , and it is felt that collaborative research offers the best way forward in combining different the approaches . |
| 79 | It is felt that sufficient services already exist for the mobile phone network . |
| 80 | This is particularly important when it is felt that ageing people can no longer look after themselves at home and some form of residential care is suggested . |
| 81 | It is assumed that technical progress is purely labour-augmenting . |
| 82 | It is assumed that overall coverage of new publications in the authority is achieved by these departments . |
| 83 | Answer guide : It is assumed that variable costs are the same per unit of activity ; therefore the variable costs will move in proportion to activity levels , i.e. in a linear fashion . |
| 84 | In economic models of bureaucratic behaviour it is assumed that economic incentives and constraints are what count , rather than the moral or intellectual qualities of public servants ( Niskanen 1973 ) . |
| 85 | It is assumed that homologous structures are there as a consequence of evolution from a common ancestor , so homologous structures common to all mammals would be presumed to have been present in our common ancestor . |
| 86 | Unless it is assumed that superior genes are permanently located in the Brahmin caste ( and there is no evidence that this is the case ) then there is probably no relationship between genetically based and socially created inequality in traditional Hindu society . |
| 87 | It is assumed that so-called reminder treatments act in some way to increase the likelihood that associations ( especially weak ones that will be most in need of such help ) will be effective in generating overt conditioned responding , then the pattern of results observed can be accommodated . |
| 88 | It is assumed that social values , which are also placed on a single linear dimension , might be assigned to each variant . |
| 89 | It is assumed that provisional agreement has been reached between prospective partners , all of whom are fully qualified solicitors ; that the firm name has been chosen and premises identified ; that certificates and licences have been obtained as necessary in relation to specialist aspects of the work of the practice and registration obtained for VAT ; that the Solicitors ' Indemnity Fund has been informed of the existence of the new practice ; and generally that there is no legal or professional obstacle to accepting instructions from clients . |
| 90 | ‘ It is assumed that scientific knowledge grows in a series of discrete steps , each corresponding with a specific advance which can be precisely located in time ’ . |