Example sentences of "is [that] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pattern is that an innovative company , after spending much time and money on a technically successful development embodying new technology , puts a first generation product on the market . |
| 2 | The pattern is that an innovative company , after spending much time and money on a technically successful development embodying new technology , puts a first generation product on the market . |
| 3 | When dealing with requests such as this we treat each on its merits , but the presumption is that an existing position is retained unless a more satisfactory alternative location is identified . |
| 4 | The second qualification is that an innocent party who accepts an anticipatory breach becomes under a duty to mitigate ( minimise ) his loss . |
| 5 | A pragmatic view is that an aesthetic experience is what is described as such , and as there are varieties of religious experience , so there may be varieties of aesthetic experience . |
| 6 | And if the Training Agency ( 1989 ) thinks it necessary to introduce an ‘ enterprise element ’ into degree courses , is that an implicit recognition that such courses tend to inculcate some other set of values ? |
| 7 | How far , though , is that an appropriate model to apply to the more aggressive racism of relative deprivation exampled in the ‘ fighting talk ’ transcript ? |
| 8 | The point is that an orderly community can exist only if it shares many practices , and that in all modern pluralistic societies a great measure of toleration of vastly differing outlooks is made possible by the fact that many of them enable the vast majority of the population to accept common standards of conduct . |
| 9 | The most obvious distinguishing feature of the experiment by Hall and Honey is that an appetitive reinforcer was used rather than the electric shock of the conditioned suppression procedure . |
| 10 | The fact is that an externalized conflict with a psychopathic origin can be confused all too easily with a genuinely external one . |
| 11 | The danger is that an increased demand for imported goods could be created , so local facilities must exist and be really comprehensive when a new tax policy is instigated . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A counter to that argument is that an effective competition policy will seek to deal with related market price distortions at the same time . ) |
| 14 | The basic premise of the project is that an economic variable 's seasonal pattern arises from a corresponding pattern in the behaviour of the economic agents . |
| 15 | The explanation for this is that an automatic car is not always immediately available and they are more expensive to produce . |
| 16 | It said , the key finding of the survey is that an overwhelming majority of the Trusts are reporting an improved performance . |
| 17 | The stated reason for doing so is that an increasing number of cardholders are paying their bill at the end of each month , pay nothing for the card , and are therefore being subsidised by those who do use the credit facility . |
| 18 | The significant point is that an initial capital is a form of emphasis or highlighting in writing , and therefore can be used as a visual correlative of emphasis in speech ( see further 5.4.2 ) . |
| 19 | This book is not the place to undertake such a task ; but one comment that might be made is that an initial distinction between class and status is likely to be important ; for it is the evaluative rather than the economic dimension of stratification which seems to be relevant to linguistic variation . |
| 20 | The reason for such lack of jurisdiction to review in the court is that an eleemosynary corporation is governed by a system of private law which is not of ‘ the common known laws of the kingdom ’ but the particular laws and constitutions assigned by the founder . |
| 21 | One good point is that an original direction , but not a supplementary direction , can not be retrospective as it only has ‘ effect from the date of the direction ’ ( para 1A(1) and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 22 | The answer is that an isolated skull can not always be so classified . |
| 23 | The snag about recording is that an enormous amount of material is produced which is very tedious to analyse . |
| 24 | Another possibility that we can not categorically rule out is that an accelerating wind would have a higher column density than the constant velocity winds modelled here . |
| 25 | The reason for this is that an express covenant as to one branch of the covenant implied by the word " demise " excludes the other branch on the principle that expressio unius est exclusio alterius ( the expression of one thing is the exclusion of another ) ( Miller v Emcer Products Ltd [ 1956 ] Ch 304 ) . |
| 26 | What has actually happened effectively as a result of the massive exchange movements of 1984 and early 1985 is that an American citizen can now go anywhere in the world and purchase goods for the same price abroad as he can at home . |
| 27 | When people first encounter it their normal assumption is that an alternate universe is nothing more than a ‘ what might have been ’ ; science-fiction writers have toyed with that idea for decades . |
| 28 | The trouble by this stage , however , is that an adequate account of the effects of admonishments , threats and exhortations would enmesh one further in the semantic question posed by the original problem . |