Example sentences of "is that [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact is that every ten minutes somebody in Great Britain is seriously injured in an accident . |
| 2 | Grey breath in the air , snowmen on the heath , pub bores droning on about how typical it is that a few inches of snow throws the whole country into chaos when the Swiss handle metres of the stuff without missing a beat . |
| 3 | The basic idea is that a few parameters are turned into a smooth curve by a standardised computation . |
| 4 | The great advantage is that no external stimuli are applied to the subjects of the observation — all their actions and the situations they are in are absolutely normal . |
| 5 | The pleasure of long rivers is that no two trips along them are ever even similar . |
| 6 | The results are quite good , but a flaw is that no middle-aged subjects were measured ( Figures – ) . |
| 7 | All that we are concerned to ensure is that the present applicants have a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they seek so that the grave allegations which they make — the very same allegations that troubled this court sufficiently to allow the appellant 's appeal — can be properly tested in the courts . |
| 8 | The second reason for taking the ‘ non-party ’ claim seriously is that the various Leagues — and not just the three studied by Coetzee — were frequently critical of the Conservative party and expressed strong reservations about the effectiveness of the Conservatives as a political force . |
| 9 | The implicit but unstated assumption is that the various forms of provision , ranging from residential to long-stay geriatric care , are entirely substitutable . |
| 10 | The overall conclusion to be drawn from this discussion is that the various lags can complicate the business of macroeconomic management , and may even make it counter-productive . |
| 11 | The problem for the Free Presbyterians is that the fraternal orders have always seen themselves as linking the broad Protestant religious tradition with the main unionist party , hence the common arrangement of Orange Lodges holding their annual church parades at each of the Church of Ireland , Presbyterian , and Methodist churches in turn . |
| 12 | A stronger indication still of the difference between sense-qualifiers and referent-qualifiers is that the former examples will remain odd even when the relevant noun is indicated by the context ( yet there will be no problem with the referent-qualifiers ) : ( 15 ) that stranger is a total one the kid was a mere one ( 16 ) his hut is a rudimentary one the tree felled was a deciduous one Again we may note that the other pair of sense-qualifying adjectives from example ( 1 ) do not sound odd when used with an indefinite head : ( 17 ) a lawful one the distant one but this is not surprising because they are adjectives with more than one meaning ; in one of these they are ordinary referent-qualifiers and hence they may quite freely occur in ( 17 ) with a presumption that the referent-qualifying meaning is the one desired . |
| 13 | The distinction between the Use Classes Order and the GDO is that the former lists changes of use which do not constitute development , while the latter lists activities which , though constituting development , do not require ad hoc permission . |
| 14 | As regards the appropriation of funds for the purposes of planned provision , a first point is that the financial institutions could be short-circuited to some extent by increasing taxation of the wealthy . |
| 15 | As these factors are examined it is important to bear in mind that a major advantage to the builder is that the financial risks of employing labour direct are transferred to the sub-contractor . |
| 16 | The idea behind the Partnership Act is that the internal affairs of the partnership are for the partners to decide . |
| 17 | The second major difference between RENFE 's unions and those in BR is that the Spanish unions are not grade-based but compete across the board for membership . |
| 18 | The working hypothesis I end with , however , is that the subjective experiences of work , engendered by the application of particular rational-scientific principles of work organization , can have the psychic consequence that the worker is asked to manage himself at less than a mature level . |
| 19 | The reason is that the Mentawi islands have been isolated from Sumatra for between 50,000 and one million years . |
| 20 | One possibility is that the complex wobbles of the Earth 's axis as it orbits the sun contrived to produce a peak of solar insolation — stronger than usual phases of heating by the sun — during the two times of accelerated meltwater runoff . |
| 21 | From a health policy perspective the scenario depicted is that the increasing numbers of older people described earlier will lead to the population of the western industrial nations being infirm , demented and disease ridden with an insatiable demand for health and social care . |
| 22 | An implication of the preceding analysis is that the monetary authorities can only alter the level of output by engineering unanticipated variations in the money supply which , in turn , implies that they are continually altering their policy rule . |
| 23 | The other qualification is that the manifold capabilities which fall under the umbrella term ‘ learning ’ are not sufficiently understood . |
| 24 | What I hear , which was straight off the phone last night , is that the Dutch fans will team up with the English fans , and back the English fans on to the beach and they will try and drown a few of the English people and they will throw bombs at them . |
| 25 | ONE CURIOUS explanation for the mega-success of Spielberg 's adaptation of Peter Benchley 's blockbuster novel is that the mechanical sharks graphically depicted the syndrome psychiatrists call vagina dentata . |
| 26 | One of my arguments is that the mechanical relations of work can bring about this withdrawal . |
| 27 | Piaget 's claim is that the cognitive difficulties which infants come to resolve ‘ on the plane of action ’ in infancy reappear , in childhood , ‘ on the plane of [ verbal ] concepts ’ and have to receive the same kind of solution — by way of the direction , inhibition and co-ordination of cognitive acts . |
| 28 | A major difficulty is that the inert gases account for only a small fraction of the volatiles known at the surfaces and in the atmospheres of the three planets , where the volatiles almost entirely consist of CO 2 , H 2 O , N 2 and O 2 , or of compounds derived from them such as carbonates , hydroxy-silicates and nitrates . |
| 29 | What makes it manageable is that the carbon-based compounds of which living things are made mainly belong to one of four classes : carbohydrates , fats , proteins , and nucleic acids . |
| 30 | One complicating factor concerned with the nutrient deficiency hypothesis is that the negative effects of nutrient deficiency may be offset initially in established forests by the fertilizing effect of nitrate deposition . |