Example sentences of "[be] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | My Lords , I hope that I can er erm allay the disquiet of the Noble Lord , Lord erm the , th th the fact is that British Transport Police at the moment have control and jurisdiction over all the the railway system in and on and in the vicinity of the , the railway the railway organisation . |
| 32 | The assumption is that natural behaviour is honest and planned behaviour is dishonest . |
| 33 | THE one cold consolation for English football after such a wretched week is that English cricket is even more ineptly led . |
| 34 | Strawson 's claim is that abnormal behaviour , as its name implies , is defined negatively as behaviour towards which our normal responses are not fitting . |
| 35 | Again , the argument is that social life , particularly in the advanced societies such as the USA , is led at the increasingly superficial level of appearances and utterances . |
| 36 | Speaking personally , my own view is that reputable City institutions are far too ready to temper the wind to slick operators like Ingard . |
| 37 | Because the brutal fact is that big business no longer needs brute force ( except perhaps as Exocet fodder ) . |
| 38 | A positive aspect of such a map is that careful scrutiny of the data provides a more direct indication of the nature of a response than does the sequential presentation of information in verbal description . |
| 39 | The result is that short field performance has been addressed , the propeller pitch has been made finer , reducing the take-off roll to some 804 feet ( hard surface ) , and cutting the cruise performance by a few knots to around 100 . |
| 40 | For as closer inspection shows , the significant thing is that common sense and the mystical are invoked by the Zande at different levels of interpretation . |
| 41 | The implication of this conclusion is that full employment could be maintained if the government operated an elaborate system of job subsidy schemes . |
| 42 | A related argument is that public expenditure must be restricted , not only to limit the supply of money , but also its ‘ price ’ — the rate of interest . |
| 43 | Another reason is that pseudo-documentary specificity I mentioned earlier in connection with the opening of George Eliot 's Adam Bede . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | A consequence of the existence of such a link is that excitatory conditioning will be retarded when an inhibitory CS is used to signal the occurrence of the US . |
| 46 | One argument is that excessive government expenditure adversely affects individual freedom and choice . |
| 47 | Now he does n't actually make the concession I think it 's consistent of what he says , that he ought to concede that direct democracy might be better at improving the citizens , because after all the citizens have much more to do on in service of the state but his view is that direct democracy has the opposite failure to guardianship , that while it might be better at improving citizens it 's absolutely hopeless in managing the affairs of the state and his reasons for that is that we need experts with experience in order to carry out the affairs of government and although these people ought ultimately to be held responsible to the people , people should n't sit in judgment them in every one of their decisions . |
| 48 | One view is that climatic geomorphology assumes that climate governs the character and distribution of landforms and although this view appears to be assumed by some of the critics of climatic geomorphology they do not cite many specific cases where the viewpoint is clearly advanced . |
| 49 | The overall effect was that total spending and hence taxation tended to rise faster than the Cabinet really wanted in the long term . |
| 50 | His argument was that aggregate demand could best be stimulated through fiscal expansion , and that in the prevailing conditions most of the increase in national income would feed through into output and therefore employment rather than inflation . |
| 51 | Its true reasoning was that doubled car consumption would be good for General Motors and what was good for General Motors , as its president , Charles E. Wilson , memorably announced as his political philosophy , was good for the country . |
| 52 | The result was that Roman Dmowski , one of the two Polish leaders in Paris , was reduced to despair and frustration by Wilson s attitude over Danzig . |
| 53 | The Conservative view was that economic development should not be fashioned by the state but should rise from the natural operation of a free market economy . |
| 54 | The basic argument was that traditional conservatism should re-establish itself by an uncompromising opposition to liberalism and socialism and by combating the supposed international Jewish conspiracy whose sole purpose was the undermining of the British Empire . |
| 55 | The fact was that Wagnerian music drama claimed a relationship with Greek tragedy and that the new status of music drama in Nietzsche 's thoughts sufficed to activate and inform an interest he had taken in the Greek tragedians years before : witness his Pforta dissertation on the Oedipus Rex ( which , prophetically enough , actually alluded at one point to the analogy between Wagner and the Greeks ) . |
| 56 | The reason was that public confidence in the quality of the coinage depended on the retention of an ‘ immobilised ’ , i.e. unchanging , design ( see also p. 14 and fig. 9 ) . |
| 57 | The result was that public perception of My Lai was crucially altered and Americans came to believe that Calley and his men had inadvertently killed some Vietnamese civilians in the heat of battle . |
| 58 | Hare wondered aloud on television why it was that English culture had lost the ability to state clearly that Keats was a better poet , for example , than Bob Dylan . |
| 59 | His conclusion was that four-point alignment was strong evidence of design rather than accident . |
| 60 | 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 . |