Example sentences of "[pron] is that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are not we entitled to be told the whole truth , as revealed by Greenpeace , which is that the total lifetime cost of Trident will be more than £23 billion ? |
| 2 | There is something more important , which is that the essential idea of the background view does not in itself conflict with our necessitation view . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to want ’ , the underground man 's lonely cry , is also his though he does n't utter it , and biting the governor 's car , like sticking the tongue out , is a one-against-all drumming of the heels of consciousness — but again with a difference which is that the biting extends beyond the notional ; it happens and it hurts , though it 's a minor foray compared with Raskolnikov 's spectacular eruption into actuality with the murder . |
| 4 | Such interrogatories shall bear a note at the end setting out the effect of RSC Ord 26 , r 3(2) , which is that the opposing party may within 14 days apply to vary , or have withdrawn , the interrogatories . |
| 5 | This is due to many factors , one of the more obvious of which is that the cumulative physical demands of manual work may well affect the worker 's health . |
| 6 | Hence fair play , one of the rules of which is that the eventual murderer shall be one of a small group , delimited in some way . |
| 7 | My suggestion to you is that the only connection between them is basic human nature itself , namely that the heart of man is incurably evil . |
| 8 | One is that the small river or stream was low one night as it was a particularly dry period , the innkeeper deposited the body as per usual , but by the morning it had not drifted away . |
| 9 | An important one is that the possible substitutes for man ( preserving grammaticality , but not necessarily semantic normality ) are virtually identical in the two positions . |
| 10 | Psychological research on human thinking suggests two alternative views of the machinery of the mind ; one is that the mental representations and cognitive processes are abstract , language-like forms manipulated by rules , and an alternative is that they are mental models whose structure corresponds not to language but to states of affairs in the world . |
| 11 | One is that the present level of unemployment must concern the health service ( and 1 have said nothing about other social problems ! ) . |
| 12 | One is that the light-sensitive pigments of the eye could also act as magnetic sense organs . |
| 13 | One is that the statutory services are not uniformly ideal and beyond reproach and those of us who have worked in and with them would acknowledge that . |
| 14 | It is that the appropriate design of policy and policy institutions is crucial to a successful competition policy . |
| 15 | In addition , they help to explain why it is that the average length of custody imposed by the higher courts is a historically proven index of prison population generally , once allowance has been made for changes in the level of recorded crime ( Home Office , 1956 ; but cf. |
| 16 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |
| 17 | It is not a new idea , and it is the only demand around which all women can unite , the demand which makes explicit how it is that the working class is divided between the waged and the unwaged . |
| 18 | How strange it is that the Danish ‘ No ’ vote does not count , while the narrow French ‘ Yes ’ vote does . |
| 19 | If one can hazard one generalization from the responses to this question , it is that the early enthusiasm for undergraduate interdisciplinary ventures which was evident in the 1970s has now given way to a more ambivalent attitude , perhaps because the practical institutional and professional problems have become more evident , a view found also in the OECD ‘ Interdisciplinarity Revisited ’ report ( Levin and Lind 1985 ) . |
| 20 | The pity of it is that the Prime Minister , who said that he wanted to be at the heart of the process , has instead condemned this country to be semi-detached from it . |
| 21 | Thus it is that the evolutionary process itself has provided mankind with the means to produce that first vital element in the search for a ‘ god ’ — a first definition of ‘ goodness ’ . |
| 22 | Thus it is that the new 3-series gets a modest extra inch of legroom and stays conspicuously smaller than the far from roomy 5-series . |
| 23 | So it is that the new churches are bound to be and look different to the old . |
| 24 | So the really important thing that has happened is not that the official forecasts have been wrong , it is that the New Consensus , having been tried in the balance since we joined the ERM and , indeed , during the past 12 years as a whole , has been found wanting . |
| 25 | If there is a change in attitude , then I think it is that the young of Britain are now more outward looking not only towards Europe , but the wider world too . |
| 26 | How true it is that the Labour Party has owed more to Methodism than to Marx . |
| 27 | To go back to ‘ Beowulf : the Monsters and the Critics ’ : if this makes one thing clear it is that the literary quality Tolkien valued above all was the ‘ impression of depth … effect of antiquity … illusion of historical truth and perspective ’ which he found in Beowulf , in the Aeneid , or for that matter in Macbeth , Sir Orfeo , or the Grimms ' Fairy Tales . |
| 28 | Since these writers retain a belief that the capitalist economic system throws up a responsive liberal-democratic and pluralistic political system , these theorists must always first explain why it is that the military-industrial complex has come about . |
| 29 | It is that the probabilistic idea is in accord with a kind of empiricism . |
| 30 | ‘ If there is one worry about it , it is that the national curriculum and the attainment targets will only partly tell you about a child . |