Example sentences of "is [that] these [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most likely explanation is that these constipated patients are a heterogeneous group including patients without autonomic nervous system dysfunction , whose loss of peristaltic activity might instead be the result of intrinsic nerve damage or other motility disorder . |
| 2 | This statement was made in the context of the planning and design of hotels for new constructionn , but an obvious corollary is that these major systems should be properly serviced to ensure that the hotel continues to operate successfully every day . |
| 3 | The advantage of the method of analysis suggested here is that these international influences are not treated as isolated and exogenous instances , as if operated by deus ex machina , but are explicable and connected within the context of the workings of the world economic system . |
| 4 | It is that these additional deposits can only come from some other bank . |
| 5 | My hypothesis is that these varying conceptions in the mind have real psychic and political consequences which ought to be taken into account when considering change strategies in organizations and , more fundamentally , when considering what we mean by the term ‘ quality of working life ’ . |
| 6 | A third requirement is that these general rules be complemented by the equality of all before the law . |
| 7 | A standard objection to such views is that these general principles often clash one with one another as necessary truths could not . |
| 8 | One supposed justification is that these extra offences are needed to cope with ‘ group offending ’ , which causes fear in ordinary citizens , and extra difficulties for the police and for prosecutors ( in obtaining persuasive evidence ) . |
| 9 | The fear that is often expressed is that these new forms of cultivation will result in soil conditions analogous to the Oklahoma ‘ Dust Bowl ’ of the 1930s . |
| 10 | The trouble is that these new trees tend to be specially developed strains which are often alien to the areas in which they are planted . |
| 11 | The implication here is that these prehistoric trackways wandered across open land . |
| 12 | As a physical description , we expect the passage to contain a large number of physical , concrete nouns ( stakes , bamboo , fences , fishermen , ruins , etc ) but what is more striking is that these concrete nouns are matched by nouns which are more abstract in one way or another . |
| 13 | The problem is that these internal processes are bound to be influenced by the person 's experiences ; it would be unreasonable to think of them as being entirely autonomous . |
| 14 | Whilst the evident unpopularity of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe may be thought to make such forces reliable in wartime for garrison and rear duties only , fact is that these military forces are trained and equipped for a war with NATO , according to an offensive doctrine of ‘ coalition warfare ’ , designed to place them from the start of hostilities onto an ‘ external front ’ . |
| 15 | One hypothesis is that these angry feelings are projected into shop stewards . |
| 16 | Yet crucial to Van den Berghe 's work , and indeed central to our argument , is that these instinctive drives involved in establishing personal and social identity are only latent . |
| 17 | The point here is that these surrealist signifiers in ‘ allegory ’ are real , already referents . |
| 18 | One reason is that these high rates are suitable only for near targets . |