Example sentences of "is [det] feature " in BNC.

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1 For it will set aside a conviction whenever it appears unjust or unsafe to allow the verdict to stand because some failure has occurred in observing the conditions which , in the court 's view , are essential to a satisfactory trial , or because there is some feature of the case raising a substantial possibility that , either in the conclusion itself , or in the manner in which it has been reached , the jury may have been mistaken or misled .
2 It is this feature , shared by cases where there are co-ordination problems , which enables authorities to make a difference while acting on dependent reasons .
3 It is this feature which , more than anything else , makes the Aircoupe safe , being impossible to stall , nor can it be spun : you simply can not get the angle of attack to a high enough value .
4 It might appear , from the arguments and prejudices just considered , that the nature of the commitment dividing holists from individualists has already emerged : holists , it seems , are in effect determinists , and it is this feature of their theories that individualists are anxious to reject .
5 It is this feature of Beccaria 's programme that has caused more problems than probably anything else , as we shall see later .
6 In our judgment it is this feature of the later history that has led to understandable confusion .
7 They go on to note that it is this feature of the market that necessitates detailed regulation to protect the interests of the shareholders , a principal objective of the City Code on Take-overs and Mergers being , for instance , to ensure a fair distribution of the take-over premium among the members .
8 It is this feature that makes the identification of a ‘ collective strategy ’ largely shaped by two strong-minded headteachers possible .
9 A further attraction of the approach is its discussion of the role of such resources in deciding how to respond to changes unanticipated at the start of a contract : it is this feature that adds a fundamentally dynamic element to the theory .
10 It is this feature which lends plausibility to the suggestion that the pictures , fitted into the recesses left for them , were not to be enjoyed as objects for themselves but as part of the grand architectural design of the two rooms .
11 It is this feature of price/yield relationships that ensures that the nearer an instrument approaches maturity , the more liquid it becomes .
12 Finally , there is an over-prediction of the population of central Leicester itself ( The Castle ward ) , which is another feature shown by all the models .
13 Closely related to the question of syntax is another feature of difference that has only recently become clear , as linguists have studied " real " as opposed to idealised language data .
14 It is these features which have enabled the R.N.L.I .
15 It is these features that are explored in this chapter .
16 Describing a map with words and symbols , such as appear on this page , is not very easy ; but you can imagine that each entry on the map is recorded as a fact of the form here-found ( x , y , thing ) where x and y are coordinates , longitude and latitude , and thing is any feature such as a mountain or river or city .
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