Example sentences of "[noun sg] is that a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only that , the word from the Other Side is that a new man will soon be looming in Diana 's life . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Then , the basic result is that a new solution of the source-free equations , depending on an arbitrary real parameter x , is given by ( 12.23 ) where ( 12.24 ) It can be seen that f and g are respectively the norm and twist potential of the Killing field . |
| 4 | The result is that a large proportion of the elderly are solely dependent on the basic state pension , with supplementary benefit . |
| 5 | ‘ The only result is that a large heron discovered that when it activated the floodlight it enabled him/her to decimate my expensive collection of koi carp , brazenly standing in the middle of the pool at 10.30pm . ’ |
| 6 | Advice from the BMAA is that a high positive incidence on the right tip , in relation to the left , is likely to precipitate a right wing-drop at the stall from which recovery would be difficult at low level . |
| 7 | The stonking irony is that a disappointing Fall gig remains worthy of two of most other bands . |
| 8 | The stonking irony is that a disappointing Fall gig remains worthy of two of most other bands . |
| 9 | But the irony is that a human being , with all his potential capacity for understanding , is actually so cut off from his fellow humans that a plant sometimes has better perceptions at the subtle level than he has ! |
| 10 | The irony is that an effective scheme , which resulted in the rebuilding of Russian and eastern European industry with western expertise and equipment could help the West out of its recession as well . |
| 11 | The prospect for the future is that a modernising Soviet economy might even prefer to buy better quality equipment from elsewhere . |
| 12 | Indeed one of the major conclusions to be drawn from the historical and sociological discussion in this chapter is that a proper analysis of the operation of ‘ race ’ as an element in British society and education requires an understanding of its interrelationship with the structured and cultural divisions which derive from class and gender relations , in the context of an understanding of Britain 's past imperial domination and its continuing legacies . |
| 13 | Morton 's rule is that a double bond is advantageous and that a double barrier must never be permitted . |
| 14 | Morton 's rule is that a double bond is advantageous and that a double barrier must never be permitted . |
| 15 | The fear is that a nationwide network of police computers could swap unsubstantiated gossip and suspicion about individuals . |
| 16 | The principal disadvantage is that a limited company invariably incurs some additional costs . |
| 17 | The disadvantage is that a large number of animals feeding in a small area will exhaust the food supply much more rapidly than would a small number . |
| 18 | ( 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 . |
| 19 | The significant point to emerge from Zeki 's work is that a perceptual phenomenon once believed to be the result of high level cognitive processing now turns out to have a single cell correlate at an early stage in the visual pathways . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A second is that a rare conjunction of certain bright planets created the image of a very bright star . |
| 22 | The plan is that a new company , soon to be renamed LWT ( Holdings ) , will buy in all of LWT 's shares , paying one new preferred share plus a package worth 130p made up of a special dividend of 60p , an associated tax credit of 20p and either loan notes or cash worth 50p . |
| 23 | A common theme in faster turning is that a low body position with bent legs keeps the centre of gravity low and makes you more stable throughout the manoeuvres . |
| 24 | What appears to have happened in the last week of the campaign is that a large proportion of the ‘ Do n't Knows ’ plumped for the Conservatives , possibly in fear of rumoured Labour tax rises . |
| 25 | My contention is that a national government should treat a sum of one Ppound in the same manner that an individual treats an ordinary pound . |
| 26 | The likelihood is that a 1 January 1996 phase-out date will be agreed by the European nations . |
| 27 | The likelihood is that a modern Prime Minister would depart from the recommendations of the Lord Chancellor only in the most exceptional case . |
| 28 | The single most important reason given by temporary workers for working on that basis is that a permanent job could not be found . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The intuitive explanation for the negative slope of the aggregate demand curve is that a higher price implies , ceteris paribus , a lower real quantity of money in the economy since the real quantity of money is defined to be the nominal quantity of money , M , divided by the general level of prices , P 1 that is M÷P , One way in which people may respond to finding themselves with less real money than they had before is by selling off holdings of bonds to rebuild their holdings of money . |