Example sentences of "is that a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result is that a complete flowchart of both wings of the Chemical Products business — which manufactures up to 800 different specific chemicals — strongly resembles a bowl of spaghetti . |
| 2 | The frequent argument of the left is that a greater clarity on the National Curriculum would provide a lever with which to prise out more resources for the schools . |
| 3 | What might , however , be the case is that a greater proportion of people in temporary jobs are " involuntary " rather than " voluntary " temporary workers than a decade or so ago , in other words that the structure of the temporary worker population has changed over time . |
| 4 | If our analysis is valid , one consequence is that a greater proportion of observed health differences in childhood would be associated with socioeconomic variations in circumstances than can be accounted for by conventional social class groupings . |
| 5 | And the feeling in Washington is that a great pile of it is lying around ( under the name of Noriega M. ) at banks in London . |
| 6 | But the point is that a great variety of inputs and outputs are employed and interact with each other . |
| 7 | As I think Mr Gillett already suspects , the truth is that a great part of the Willesden Green library stock was sacrificed on the altar of Community Librarianship . |
| 8 | The major disadvantage with audio recorders is that a great deal of contextual information is not recorded and therefore , unless some other method of recording the context , such as note-taking , is employed , it may not be possible to recover a ‘ rich interpretation ’ of the child 's language . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | My problem is that a great deal of business needs to be done , and I have to try to accommodate that business as well . |
| 11 | What happens , I believe , is that a Federal institution like the FRCN tends to report Federal Government news more often and thus leans towards support for the NPN 's view of things . |
| 12 | And so the point I 'm making is that , is that a modern insight into Darwinian evolution is based on a wholly scientific basis and social Darwinism may have got Darwinism a bad name by associating it with slogans like survival of the fittest , but modern Darwinism er is n't like that . |
| 13 | The reason they were picked ( aside from those who are here by right of birth ) is that a small portion of their total brain power was visibly alight at the right time and in the right place . |
| 14 | Thus the new reality is that a small group of people substitute themselves for the class as a whole and decide what is best for all . |
| 15 | The problem with recruitment is that a small amount of initial effort produces a great deal of work , and this work proceeds in waves which produce severe fluctuations in activity for the personnel staff involved . |
| 16 | The ‘ flocculus hypothesis ’ is that a small area of the cerebellum , the flocculus , adaptively controls VOR by regulating signal flow from labyrinths to the flocculus to the relay cells of VOR , and has been challenged on several grounds . |
| 17 | The recommendation before , therefore is that a second phase of the county experiment be implemented for a period of three months to six months , whichever is felt necessary , to allow the effects of |
| 18 | The general consensus of opinion is that a successful action under s.62 for insider dealing will be hard to sustain . |
| 19 | One pertinent observation is that a pronominal reference to an inanimate object will have the gender of the noun that would be used to describe the object in that context . |
| 20 | The answer , obviously enough , is that a major goal of The Lord of the Rings was to dramatise that ‘ theory of courage ’ which Tolkien had said in his British Academy lecture was the ‘ great contribution ’ to humanity of the old literature of the North . |
| 21 | Perhaps a telling comment on this is that a major reason for the recruitment of top , superannuated civil servants into business is that they know their way round the political labyrinth of Whitehall . |
| 22 | The intended benefit is that a standard form of report enables auditors to understand more clearly , and report on , the regulators ' generic and specific requirements . |
| 23 | A second is that a rare conjunction of certain bright planets created the image of a very bright star . |
| 24 | But the point to notice is that a key part of humanist thought , from the early Greeks down to the twentieth century , is the attempt to justify man 's knowledge by his reason alone , denying the necessity of faith in general and God 's revelation in particular . |
| 25 | What seems to have happened over the last twenty years or so is that a higher proportion of juveniles are being dealt with officially by the police rather than being dealt with unofficially or warned . |
| 26 | The corollary of that is that a higher proportion of their income is spent on tobacco products . |
| 27 | The unfortunate thing is that a good part of it came from an unexpected direction . |
| 28 | You love him , he 's kind to animals , and is never more than half an hour late , but is that a good basis on which to plan your lives together ? |
| 29 | What I wish to indicate here is that a new emphasis on a text 's negotiation with history does not allow us to reduce literary texts to the status of documents , writing which only exemplifies the preoccupations of certain periods past and present . |
| 30 | ( An ironic postscript is that a new generation of physicists is growing up right now that entertains certain reservations about orthodox quantum mechanics , themselves brooding darkly about their elders and muttering blasphemies about ‘ hidden variables ’ , a term held in unmitigated horror by this older generation of quantum theorists . |