Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [vb pp] [that] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence there must be a facility for storing the cross- reference until it is required , and a system by which the editor is reminded that that cross- reference needs to be written in at the other point ( earlier or later in the text ) . |
| 2 | The terms of reference of Sir Geoffrey 's committee indicate that the Exchange is determined that all aspects of the creation of a clearing house are fully explored . |
| 3 | A simpler interpretation is that the experimenters have rediscovered what Lashley ( 1950 ) showed many years ago , that partial removal of the cortical area to which the dorsal lateral geniculate body projects , has remarkably little effect on simple form discrimination tasks and that it is only when the entire cortical projection zone is removed that severe deficits , detectable in the simple behavioural paradigms we use , emerge . |
| 4 | ( ii ) Next , a check is made that all referenced files are present . |
| 5 | Here , the argument is presented that conceptual levels of understanding are necessary precursors to the emergence of spoken language , since language is , in effect , the linguistic realisation of those conceptual distinctions already established at a non-verbal level . |
| 6 | Arithmetical skills are often considered to be ‘ basic skills ’ , and the implication is drawn that such skills are relevant to everyday life . |
| 7 | Concern is expressed that agricultural methods and the widespread introductions of honey bees are reducing the populations of bumble bees . |
| 8 | The assumption is made that dissatisfied workers are more likely to leave the one job for another , take time off , or go on strike , but there has been considerable debate about all three measures , and there are cogent reasons for doubting that any of them serve as adequate indicators of job satisfaction . |
| 9 | The issue of the legitimacy of corporate enterprise can , however , be saved from being swallowed up in this wider debate if the assumption is made that alternative patterns of distribution can be secured through state action should the prevailing one be considered morally unappealing . |
| 10 | Such analytic paraphrases are usually conducted from the position of a specific ( even though not always openly or clearly stated ) ontological bias ; and often the assumption is made that all purportive references to " non-meanings " in factual statements , in the final analysis , can be translated into references to ontological existents of the preferred sort . |
| 11 | Then there is a section which deals with the citation of authority by the parties , whether a welfare report has been considered , and the pro forma is dealing with cases where specifically the welfare check list has to be considered and the suggestion is made that each of the considerations under section 1(3) ( a ) to ( g ) are set out individually and the judgment or the findings of fact set out under each paragraph . |
| 12 | The fiction is maintained that these lists of the worthy , the deserving and the hitherto unrecognized are supervised , if not by the Queen herself , then at least by her staff . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the principle is established that all students can participate in the decision-making process , and it is not a principle which has proved to be unworkable or which has produced manifestly absurd results . |
| 14 | In both the Brundtland and Pearce reports the principle is established that present development must not jeopardize the future . |
| 15 | No pretence is made that this is an ideal code : indeed its paucity ( subs ( 8 ) for example has well nigh limitless potential for disputes as to what matters might be considered " ordinary " in the circumstances of a particular firm ) , and the reliance on dissolution as the means to resolve disputes , is the very reason why a properly drafted partnership agreement should be regarded as commercially indispensable . |
| 16 | Whatever the truth of this , the proposition is repeated that homosexual unions should be recognized as marriages with all the rights and duties this may imply . |
| 17 | ( vi ) If the date for the first review is fixed 17 years after sentence , the prisoner is told that this does not necessarily mean that the period for retribution and deterrence has been set at 20 years . |
| 18 | Along the Benioff zone so much heat is generated that some of the rocks of the oceanic plate and the lower part of the continental plate melt , and the molten material then moves upwards and away . |
| 19 | The reader is reminded that all that has been written so far has been dealing with the First and Second Periods into which the development of the Created God has been divided . |