Example sentences of "is that a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The difference is that a protected tenant has security by virtue of his contract with the landlord ; a statutory tenant has security by virtue of the protection given by the Rent Acts .
2 The result is that a complete flowchart of both wings of the Chemical Products business — which manufactures up to 800 different specific chemicals — strongly resembles a bowl of spaghetti .
3 The frequent argument of the left is that a greater clarity on the National Curriculum would provide a lever with which to prise out more resources for the schools .
4 What might , however , be the case is that a greater proportion of people in temporary jobs are " involuntary " rather than " voluntary " temporary workers than a decade or so ago , in other words that the structure of the temporary worker population has changed over time .
5 If our analysis is valid , one consequence is that a greater proportion of observed health differences in childhood would be associated with socioeconomic variations in circumstances than can be accounted for by conventional social class groupings .
6 A second lesson is that a greater effort should be made to cushion the poor ( who are often women ) from the hardships that go with adjustment .
7 And the feeling in Washington is that a great pile of it is lying around ( under the name of Noriega M. ) at banks in London .
8 But the point is that a great variety of inputs and outputs are employed and interact with each other .
9 As I think Mr Gillett already suspects , the truth is that a great part of the Willesden Green library stock was sacrificed on the altar of Community Librarianship .
10 The major disadvantage with audio recorders is that a great deal of contextual information is not recorded and therefore , unless some other method of recording the context , such as note-taking , is employed , it may not be possible to recover a ‘ rich interpretation ’ of the child 's language .
11 What must be clear in a transcript of this kind is that a great deal of interpretation by the analyst has gone on before the reader encounters this ‘ data ’ .
12 My problem is that a great deal of business needs to be done , and I have to try to accommodate that business as well .
13 The theory is that a strong culture , good two-way communication , cooperation and motivational leadership will ‘ eliminate ’ conflict .
14 One of the inherent weaknesses of the modern squad system is that a close-knit clique becomes impervious to failure and criticism .
15 What happens , I believe , is that a Federal institution like the FRCN tends to report Federal Government news more often and thus leans towards support for the NPN 's view of things .
16 The main conclusion to be drawn from this discussion is that a software-based System gives detailed control of the velocity profile up to medium stepping rates ( 1000 steps per second ) , but may limit high-speed performance , and is therefore well-suited to applications in which acceleration/deceleration operations predominate .
17 An objection to this argument is that a legal obligation is not a necessary condition for a liability .
18 The reason behind all of the red tape even under normal circumstances is that a legal process is being implemented .
19 And so the point I 'm making is that , is that a modern insight into Darwinian evolution is based on a wholly scientific basis and social Darwinism may have got Darwinism a bad name by associating it with slogans like survival of the fittest , but modern Darwinism er is n't like that .
20 The assumption made in empirical studies is that a selective excise is passed on fully , and that there is no change in factor incomes , which in the present context means , and .
21 The reason they were picked ( aside from those who are here by right of birth ) is that a small portion of their total brain power was visibly alight at the right time and in the right place .
22 Thus the new reality is that a small group of people substitute themselves for the class as a whole and decide what is best for all .
23 My understanding is that a small group need not prepare a consolidated cash flow statement , even if the holding company of that group prepared group accounts .
24 The problem with recruitment is that a small amount of initial effort produces a great deal of work , and this work proceeds in waves which produce severe fluctuations in activity for the personnel staff involved .
25 The second point is that a small energy input into the thermostat can release a large quantity of energy from the boiler .
26 The ‘ flocculus hypothesis ’ is that a small area of the cerebellum , the flocculus , adaptively controls VOR by regulating signal flow from labyrinths to the flocculus to the relay cells of VOR , and has been challenged on several grounds .
27 One is that a long tail indicates an extremely fit male : to grow such a tail and carry it around will take extra energy .
28 The recommendation before , therefore is that a second phase of the county experiment be implemented for a period of three months to six months , whichever is felt necessary , to allow the effects of
29 In the end the government was forced to make a minor concession , and the present position is that a second ballot will be held if fewer than 50 per cent of those eligible record a vote on the first occasion .
30 The general consensus of opinion is that a successful action under s.62 for insider dealing will be hard to sustain .
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