Example sentences of "is that [subord] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basic assumption of geometric perspective is that although parallel lines never meet , they appear to do so at a vanishing point , on a distant backcloth . |
| 2 | One consequence of the British housing system is that although young Britons leave home relatively late by European standards , they have some of the highest rates of owner-occupation in the world . |
| 3 | What I do mean is that although most women do hope for a happy and loving relationship with their husbands , the attainment of this is not the purpose of marriage . |
| 4 | This will not imply that a false belief will never be justified , since the suggestion is that although some beliefs are defeasibly justified , we require indefeasible justification for knowledge . |
| 5 | What Marx wants to stress here is that although Germanic tribes form quite large groups of people they do not form any kind of community with communal property , as was the case in the ancient city states ; they are merely ad hoc agglomerates . |
| 6 | Thus his argument is that although both effects exist , the important effect as far as eyewitness testimony is concerned is that high levels of arousal in actual crimes are likely to lead to impaired memory performance . |
| 7 | One reason for its universal acceptance is that whereas noble metals and precious stones first rose to prominence in the context of civilized societies ivory had been recognized for much longer . |
| 8 | Unfortunately some regulatory authorities believe that smaller dosages will increase the possibility of selecting for resistant pests ; the idea is that whereas large doses should kill everything stone dead , small doses allow marginally resistant individuals to survive and breed . |
| 9 | What Marx and Engels show is that since these ideas are examples of ideology , attributing to them causal primacy amounts to making them unquestionable , and to making the social order which they legitimate and organize — capitalism — free from possible challenge . |
| 10 | He has been challenged many times on the weak link in his case , which is that since American firms are free to relocate to Mexico , a trade agreement is the best way to make sure that American interests are protected . |
| 11 | But the tragedy is that while essential aspects of the project , such as the denuded hillsides and the transport problem , could have been seen at the start , in 1978 , they were largely ignored . |
| 12 | The effect of this is that while financial intermediaries have been given greater freedom to broaden the range of financial services they may offer , this relaxation has been compensated for by regulating each individual sector more thoroughly . |
| 13 | The big difference here is that while successive orogenies have operated along roughly parallel lines in North America , in Europe there have been two distinct trends , one parallel to the Atlantic , the other to the Mediterranean . |
| 14 | The authors are Rudolph and Margot Wittkower , and their theme is that while some artists succeed in financial and social circumstances without strain , other artists tend to Saturnine temperaments . |
| 15 | Perhaps the best one can say is that when such heroes die they go , in Tolkien 's opinion , neither to Hell nor Heaven , but to Limbo : ‘ to my fathers ’ , as Théoden says , ‘ to sit beside my fathers , until the world is renewed ’ , to quote Thorin Oakenshield from The Hobbit , perhaps at worst to wait with the barrow-wight ‘ Where gates stand for ever shut , till the world is mended ’ . |
| 16 | A potential result of such strong attitudes against credit is that when financial pressures mount to the point where they override a reluctance to borrow , the reluctant borrower may want to borrow covertly — that is , borrow from an informal-seeming local lender rather than from a recognised lending institution such as a bank . |
| 17 | ‘ The result is that when these children grow up they can not cope with a relationship which demands that they show emotion or feeling . |
| 18 | Another point to remember is that when weak-form words whose spelling begins with ‘ h ’ ( e.g. ‘ her ’ , ‘ have ’ ) occur at the beginning of a sentence , the pronunciation is with initial h , even though this is usually omitted in other contexts . |
| 19 | Another potentially distorting factor is that whilst average incomes can be compared between one country and another , they do not of themselves reveal the true comparable standard of living , nor the comparable potential markets for all products . |
| 20 | This is that whilst nuclear plants may be more expensive than other types to construct in the first place , they are potentially very cheap to run . |
| 21 | The relevance of this analysis for out present purposes is that if contextual cues are helpful in retrieving associative information quite generally , then both of the associations formed during conditioned suppression training can be expected to suffer a loss when the context is changed . |
| 22 | What concerns us is that if those things are done outside the IASC 's control , it threatens to undermine our credibility . |
| 23 | The point is that if these things have to be revealed so that I can find my sister then I 'm afraid that 's the way it 's going to be . |
| 24 | But the paradox is that if both sides were to disarm , they would both do better than by both arming , because each prefers mutual disarmament ( 3 , 3 ) to the arms race ( 2 , 2 ) . |
| 25 | My own experience when devising a controller for use with computer control is that if low-enough frequencies are employed the motors respond like ‘ stepper-motors ’ advancing a small amount for each pulse . |
| 26 | The principle here is that if particular changes in activity bear a constant relationship to the reference event they will show up against fluctuations of the ongoing EEG which , being " random " , should cancel out to zero when averaged over successive trials by the computer . |
| 27 | Another is that if resident farmers are to undertake the planting , management and felling of forests , surpluses accrue and are more likely to be reinvested locally . |
| 28 | One of the problems with this measure is that because different journals may have different average numbers of references per paper , a count of citations may not reflect the impact of that paper . |
| 29 | An alternative view ( 13 ) is that because these areas contribute only 7% of the gross agricultural output their contribution is of little importance and is sustained at an unacceptable cost to the nation . |
| 30 | The alternative is that because risky details are more important in a driving task they will always be the aspects which are described , other aspects may be noticed but are simply not regarded as important . |