Example sentences of "is [adj] [subord] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most ethical intuitionists came to think that what the doctrine of the naturalistic fallacy established was not so much that good is indefinable as that ethical expressions are either indefinable or only satisfactorily definable in terms which involve some other distinctively ethical expression . |
| 2 | If this assumption is valid , then the results imply that the expression of STP is presynaptic whereas that of LTP is , at least in part , postsynaptic . |
| 3 | But it is simpler than that , and less romantic . |
| 4 | ADD argue that their method of dealing with the relationship between fiscal and monetary policy is simpler than that used by Barro ( 1977a ) , in which the equivalent fiscal variable is government expenditure relative to its normal level . |
| 5 | Percentage loss of prey from tawny owl pellets was found to be greater in summer than in winter ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and this could relate both to the greater numbers of immature rodents taken as prey , the bones of which are less mineralized and therefore easier to digest ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and to the likelihood of the birds producing the pellets being themselves immature In the case of the great horned owl it has been found that the stomach pH in immature birds is lower than that of adults ( Grimm & Whitehouse , 1963 ) and there is therefore greater destruction of bone and loss of prey . |
| 6 | On the other hand despite the increase in funding during the last forty years , the UK spending on health as a proportion of national income is lower than that in most West European countries and considerably lower than in the USA ( see Figure 7.1 ) . |
| 7 | After absorption a drug will re-enter the gut by passive diffusion provided that the concentration there is lower than that in the blood . |
| 8 | Whatever the validity of these arguments , Table 14.4 clearly shows that the share of gross investment in total output and expenditure ( GDP ) in the UK is lower than that of most other major economies . |
| 9 | This proportion is lower than that in chemistry , and reflects a slightly larger spread of values about the mode in geology . |
| 10 | This proportion is lower than that in chemistry , and reflects a slightly larger spread of values about the mode in geology . |
| 11 | Initially , the chemical potential µ 1 , of the solvent in the solution , is lower than that of the pure solvent , µ 1 ° and solvent molecules tend to pass through the membrane into the solution in order to attain equilibrium . |
| 12 | Water is an exception since the density of ice is lower than that of liquid water . |
| 13 | Since the total vapour pressure is higher than that of either component , the temperature at which the mixture boils is lower than that of either component . |
| 14 | If it is not sharp and is lower than that of the two separate samples , then the samples are not identical . |
| 15 | It is known that the prevalence increases with age and that while the incidence in children is lower than that in adults , intrafamilial clustering has been shown . |
| 16 | In many developing countries , the immunogenicity of three doses of live , attenuated , oral poliovirus vaccine ( OPV ) is lower than that in industrialised countries . |
| 17 | When the file concerned was an ED ( Enumeration District ) level file , it was too large for our screen editor to be used , and a FORTRAN program had to be written to change it As a result of these corrections , the data held at Manchester is cleaner than that at OPCS ( the Census Office for England and Wales ) itself ! |
| 18 | In other words , this approach uses a concept of industrial change which is broader than that used in long-wave theory . |
| 19 | The definition of " associate " is broader than that of " acting in concert " and is relevant primarily to the obligation to disclose dealings and arrangements during the offer period . |
| 20 | The nucleation time of gall bladder bile in cholesterol gall stone patients is quicker than that in gall stone free or pigment gall stone patients , which was confirmed by this study . |
| 21 | It is clear though that familiarity with such an approach was thought to make it less effective in 1806 than in 1972 . |
| 22 | First , it is sufficient that he obtains possession with the seller 's consent and it is immaterial whether that consent is later withdrawn . |
| 23 | You do n't have to complete bar nine even though bar nine is empty because that 's the subject of question four what happens there . |
| 24 | The Danish lesson is tougher than that : Europe 's union-building machine has run out of control . |
| 25 | i ) It is congruent with the traditional fungal taxonomy and with phylogenetic trees of fungi based on nuclear SSUrRNA data : the two pyrenomycetes ( P.anserina and N.crassa ) branch very closely together and their distance to A.nidulans , a representative of the plectomycetes , is shorter than that to S.cerevisiae , belonging to the endomycetes. ii ) The position of P.wickerhamii is unexpectedly closer to S.cerevisiae than to all other ascomycetes , whereas the distance between S.cerevisiae and P.wickerhamii lies in the same range as that between the two ascomycetes , S.cerevisiae and A.nidulans . |
| 26 | Focusing exclusively on the positions of P.wickerhamii ri1 , ri2 and So ri2 in a phylogenetic tree , the distance between the two homologous introns So ri2 and Pw ri2 is shorter than that between ri1 and ri2 of P.wickerhamii ( data not shown ) . |
| 27 | The path length a an X-ray ( path A in figure 3.17 ) which strikes the top layer of atoms in a crystal is shorter than that of an X-ray which strikes the second layer ( path B ) . |
| 28 | In order that it should be possible to assert correctly " This tree is taller than that tree " it must be possible to assert correctly " This is a tree " and " That is a tree " . |
| 29 | But our ambition is bigger than that . |
| 30 | Except for the fourth and fifth which is easy cos that 's just one semitone less . |