Example sentences of "[is] that a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference is that a protected tenant has security by virtue of his contract with the landlord ; a statutory tenant has security by virtue of the protection given by the Rent Acts . |
| 2 | It had been the custom from early times to name children after their godparents ; precisely because the paternal grandfather was an obvious choice to fulfil such an office for the eldest-born son , the impression we often receive — wrongly , perhaps — is that a specific Christian name was perpetuated just because it was that borne by the male-line grandparent . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | The problem is that a great many of such units are needed , far more than are being built , if the numbers of larger hospitals are to be reduced . |
| 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 | But the point is that a great variety of inputs and outputs are employed and interact with each other . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | My problem is that a great deal of business needs to be done , and I have to try to accommodate that business as well . |
| 12 | The reason is that a great many " inventions " would not be obvious to a layman but would be to someone who knew something of the technology involved . |
| 13 | The theory is that a strong culture , good two-way communication , cooperation and motivational leadership will ‘ eliminate ’ conflict . |
| 14 | Another advantage is that a hooked bream can be persuaded — with a little not-too-gentle pulling and guidance — to fight it out in the shallower water and therefore not disturb the remainder of the feeding shoal . |
| 15 | One of the inherent weaknesses of the modern squad system is that a close-knit clique becomes impervious to failure and criticism . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | However or is that a damn crying shame however or is that a damn crying shame terrible you know what you need to do for now then , now I 've won all |
| 18 | However or is that a damn crying shame however or is that a damn crying shame terrible you know what you need to do for now then , now I 've won all |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The reason behind all of the red tape even under normal circumstances is that a legal process is being implemented . |
| 21 | An objection to this argument is that a legal obligation is not a necessary condition for a liability . |
| 22 | The likelihood is that a modern Prime Minister would depart from the recommendations of the Lord Chancellor only in the most exceptional case . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The assumption made in empirical studies is that a selective excise is passed on fully , and that there is no change in factor incomes , which in the present context means , and . |
| 25 | Naturally , the greater part of the volume of this room is within the roof space and a consequence of this is that a small pre-existing ventilation opening , which was sited high up below the eaves of the barn and is now glazed to form a window , has its sill at floor level . |
| 26 | The second point is that a small energy input into the thermostat can release a large quantity of energy from the boiler . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , the paradox is that a small , cheapish amp still has to sound like a beast , whilst remaining tame and housetrained in all other respects . |
| 29 | My understanding is that a small group need not prepare a consolidated cash flow statement , even if the holding company of that group prepared group accounts . |
| 30 | 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 . |