Example sentences of "is [that] the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Davey 's imperative as a publisher that so upset Mr Hitchin and his fellow booksellers was that ‘ my prime concern is that the school buys my books , and the only person the publisher can rely upon to actively sell his books to the school is himself ’ . |
| 2 | Jessop argues that what instrumental Marxist writers fail to grasp is that the state does not respond to the economic crises of capitalism . |
| 3 | The unexpected feature of the quantum world is that the state resulting from this combination does not correspond to the electron being somewhere in the middle between " here " and " there " but rather to its having a certain probability to be found " here " and a certain probability to be found " there " . |
| 4 | If a homosexual union is to be accepted as a marriage and yet denied the right to raise children , what is really being said is that the state has an interest in sheltering and protecting children from a homosexual environment . |
| 5 | The alternative view is that the state comes into being and is maintained as an instrument of domination , as a result either of the internal differentiation of society into dominant and subordinate classes ( according to the Marxist theory ) , or of the imposition of the rule of one group of people upon another by conquest ( as Oppenheimer argued ) . |
| 6 | Thus , leaving the graduated scheme out of account for a moment , the position we have reached today is that the state pays to all retired persons , without regard to means , a pension roughly of subsistence value . |
| 7 | Again they ask of what significance it is that the metaphors used for God in the Hebrew and Christian scriptures are overwhelmingly male ? ) |
| 8 | The first is that the views expressed here are the author 's and not necessarily those of the Law Commission . |
| 9 | A common problem when starting in stronger winds is that the board seems constantly to turn into the wind . |
| 10 | The crooked pay-off is that the secretary feels blameless and discounts the innocent manager . |
| 11 | The only oddity is that the debt does not yet exist , and will only arise if the beneficiary enters Gaius Seius ' estate and thus becomes liable to pay the testator a sum of money . |
| 12 | The first is that the wind tends to lift the upwind wing-tip and the second is that the glider tends to weathercock into the wind . |
| 13 | The amplifier that you 're using on this tour , is that the Ray Butts amp that you used on Elvis 's ‘ Comeback Special ’ ? |
| 14 | But what few people realise is that the SAS has two Territorial Army regiments . |
| 15 | The difficulty is that the wife has died intestate , and her intestate heir is precisely the person she was asked to ward off from her property . |
| 16 | The poem represents the interests of the poet/jongleur 's party : the denouement is that the Devil bars all jongleurs from Hell . |
| 17 | Erm And the other factor that that 's introduced as well is that the powers got into the habit of meeting in congresses . |
| 18 | Quite clearly the most important thing about final presentations is that the play suits the talent available in the group . |
| 19 | Here is an extract from a letter written by an indignant rentier to his bailiff ( Driver , no. x ) : When in the next century Alexander the Great , after winning the battle of Issos in Cilicia , turned south against Egypt rather than going immediately east towards the Iranian centre of the Persian Empire , his decision , as we shall see , was strategically sensible ; what is surprising is that the Persians surrendered so quickly , not trying to defend Egypt at all , although economically Egypt probably mattered more to the Persian upper class than any other satrapy . |
| 20 | Well my Lord the issue is that the defendants deny they were under any duty to offer any advice about financial . |
| 21 | ‘ What appears to have happened is that the resident mixed two household substances , which should not have been mixed , ’ said the council spokesman . |
| 22 | Part of the left 's problem , admits Mr Geremek , is that the communists have sullied the term ‘ socialist ’ beyond redemption , even though people respond favourably in opinion polls to such left-wing causes as social justice and equality . |
| 23 | The irony is that the others sense this but they too cover up that they sense it , and they too cover up their cover up . |
| 24 | What is clear , however , is that the problems facing the water industry are their most difficult yet and that unless some action is taken , the problems can only get worse . |
| 25 | Presumably the reason why the bank has an equitable proprietary interest is that the law imposes a constructive trust . |
| 26 | Their Lordships ' conclusion , in agreement with Lord Upjohn , is that the law did take the wrong turning in Rex v. Sheridan [ 1937 ] 1 K.B . |
| 27 | The problem is that the law makes its intelligent decision as to what it thinks should happen which may accord with your wishes . |
| 28 | The result of this is that the law relating to fraud and commercial affairs in general is strictly limited in its scope . |
| 29 | The point is that the law demands the right to define the permissible exceptions . |
| 30 | The idea is that the person turns homosexual as a way of avoiding competition , conflict , or tension with a significant other . |