Example sentences of "is that [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The explicit or implicit argument is that elderly people have experienced a constriction of economic liberty in modern Britain because of the sometimes deliberate and sometimes unconscious course of development of social welfare and employment policies . |
| 2 | Speed humps can do this , whereas the evidence is that present methods do not . |
| 3 | Among the claims is that five men accused in a rent boys scandal walked free after fears that gay judges would be named in court . |
| 4 | Whatever the cause , the immediate consequence is that personal sector lending to the public sector has fallen . |
| 5 | Ultimately , there might have been differences between them in what enlargement meant , but the point is that higher education stood for an overriding and widening development of the mind . |
| 6 | One of the most popular myths in weight training is that higher reps produce bigger abdominals . |
| 7 | Another assumption made by Marx throughout his work is that higher technology increases the total leisure time available . |
| 8 | In any case , if enterprise zones are the model , the overwhelming evidence is that financial incentives have proved the driving force , and that liberalized planning regimes have been of limited significance . |
| 9 | The fact is that cognitive neuropsychologists have significantly increased our understanding of the effects of brain injury on behaviour by conceptualizing mental processes in purely functional terms without regard to their subjective qualities or to physiology . |
| 10 | The upshot is that incumbent governments tend to remain incumbent even when they have not got things arranged as conveniently as they would like . |
| 11 | What they may not have realised is that that message conveyed itself to the American public ! |
| 12 | You you see the important thing is that that contract has to be done in front of the and so does the copy , so does the cheque so they 're all done on the spot . |
| 13 | I would go so far as to say that one of the main reasons why there are fewer casualties among pedestrians and particularly children in countries such as West Germany is that that country has more flexibility in the use of speed limits . |
| 14 | The initial investment outlay is deducted from the sum of these present value cash flows to produce the NPV of a project ; the decision rule is that all projects yielding a positive NPV should be accepted and all projects yielding a negative NPV should be rejected . |
| 15 | And the first thing you learn is that all women make the same mistakes . |
| 16 | The consequences , as pointed out in Schroeder ( A ) Music Publishing Co v Macaulay [ 1974 ] 1 WLR 1308 in the Court of Appeal , is that all acts taken under the clause prior to judgment remain undisturbed but that future ones will , assuming the successful party chooses to rely on the judgment , be unenforceable. 8 Consideration In any contract there has to be consideration but the question which has frequently arisen in restraint of trade cases is whether the court is at all concerned as to the adequacy of the particular consideration in the instant case . |
| 17 | The trouble here is that all enthusiasm tends to be lost and the interview can sound very flat . |
| 18 | The starting point dictated by the foregoing assumptions is that all investors envisage the same opportunity set , efficient frontier , capital market line and market portfolio ( the Tobin position described in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 19 | One of the rules of gardening is that all rules have an exception ! |
| 20 | The primary problem that all infrared astronomers face , whether using instruments on Earth or on a satellite , is that all objects emit infrared or ‘ heat ’ radiation . |
| 21 | If you can get hold of the rarer tritium you may liberate nearly 18 MeV through the reaction : A problem the problem in the attempts to fuse nuclei together and release their internal energy — is that all nuclei carry positive electrical charge . |
| 22 | The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA . |
| 23 | The typical company — one limited by shares — must issue some shares , and the initial presumption of the law is that all shares confer the same rights and impose the same liabilities . |
| 24 | On the face of it this seems to be a good idea : one frequently voiced criticism of comprehensive education is that all pupils have been forced to follow a grammar-school curriculum . |
| 25 | An alternative theory is that all crime rises in the initial stages of industrialization and urbanization , but that thereafter violence falls while property offences continue to increase . |
| 26 | One minor criticism is that all COI/MoD made films seem to be grainy and slightly over-exposed and these four are no exception . |
| 27 | There are certain routine practices , customs and procedures in our society whose consequence is that black people have poorer jobs , health , housing , education and life chances than do the white majority . |
| 28 | The reason is that hot water causes the pipes to expand to a greater extent than copper and at higher temperatures it can soften slightly and consequently ‘ sag ’ between supports . |
| 29 | The net result is that rural areas have gained an increasing share of manufacturing and service employment as both Table 5.8 and Figure 5.7 show . |
| 30 | What the rhetorical approach points out is that such dialogue expresses the contrary themes of cultural and ideological life . |