Example sentences of "is [that] the [noun] " in BNC.

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31 The alternative view is that the state comes into being and is maintained as an instrument of domination , as a result either of the internal differentiation of society into dominant and subordinate classes ( according to the Marxist theory ) , or of the imposition of the rule of one group of people upon another by conquest ( as Oppenheimer argued ) .
32 The obvious reason for that is that the state pension is low .
33 The assumption , which the project sets out to test , is that the State is increasingly withdrawing from the business of providing services but strengthening and widening its role as the regulator of services produced by others in the private and voluntary sectors .
34 The result of this option is that the state of the DC is changed to ACTIVE , thus fulfilling LIFESPANs requirement for a DC to be active through only one package .
35 Although such possessory rights are capable of being disposed inter vivos and can devolve to one 's heirs upon death , the cardinal rule in Islam is that the State can at any time repossess the land if such land is required for the public good .
36 The conclusion from all this is that the state of the economy will have a crucial effect on the demand for and supply of money .
37 " My conviction , " says Gorbachev , " is that the state of the environment should have absolute priority above all the other problems facing us today .
38 A further possibility is that the guillotine motion has been tabled because massive opposition to the Bill is anticipated .
39 Again they ask of what significance it is that the metaphors used for God in the Hebrew and Christian scriptures are overwhelmingly male ? )
40 What we then see is that the hierarchy of use and need is itself directly related to the character of the organizing productive relations .
41 What Karlsson proposes essentially is that the genes responsible for the disposition to schizophrenia ( he confines himself to this form of psychosis ) also code for creative ability .
42 The advantage of whole learning is that the connections between the parts are also learned simultaneously .
43 One of the main reasons is that the connections between terminals and host computers are telecommunication links , usually simple coaxial cables , with what is technically known as low band width .
44 The problem is that the bar code only provides detailed information in an indirect fashion , and it is not readable straight from the code .
45 A problem pointed out by several guests is that the bar facilities are not conducive to confidential discussions with colleagues .
46 A neat feature is that the bar always moves out of the way when you get near it , hopping from the top to the bottom of the screen and vice versa .
47 The good news is that the bar will be open today from twelve forty-five at lunchtime , and from six forty-five this evening .
48 The first is that the views expressed here are the author 's and not necessarily those of the Law Commission .
49 It seems that the best explanation for the survival of this kind of insider knowledge is that the knowledge is reinforced by frequent close contact with other speakers , and this is best accessed by a theory of network ties , which when they are strong function as norm-enforcement mechanisms .
50 What the data show is that the issue of sign universality can not be easily described as confirmed or disproved .
51 He observed : ‘ For the profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battles is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders , not in the bodies of their men . ’
52 This question is made somewhat difficult to answer because one of the effects of the emphasis on the facts and merits of the particular case in Fleet Street Casuals is that the issue of standing now often receives little or no attention from the courts and is sometimes the subject of concessions by the respondent .
53 What I should like to suggest is that the issue of subject specialization can not be tackled without examining our taken-for-granted assumptions about academic subjects , and their place in society .
54 What I am trying to argue , however , is that the issue is not merely one of numbers , but one of culture .
55 The general principle is that the cost of those referrals will be met by each district 's contingency reserve , the guidance says .
56 The main problem is that the cost of most new resistors and capacitors is now so low that it is barely worthwhile going to the trouble of removing and testing them .
57 Simply stated , the argument is that the cost of capital of a corporation with management that trades on inside information will be higher than a corporation with management that does not engage in such trading .
58 First is that the cost of a megabyte of memory fell below the $1,000 mark during 1983 and you need a megabyte to hold the bitmap of an 11″ by 8.5″ page at 300dpi .
59 Specifically , the problems of unaggregated ( or unconsolidated ) fund accounts is that the cost of a particular service will not be shown as a single item .
60 In fact my honourable friend , the parliamentary under secretary of state for the department of trade and industry who 's responsible for deregulation is also the sponsoring minister for one of these orders , namely the one on the insurance companies , and secondly our intention is that the cost here should be negligible , or nil er in that they do n't go beyond er what is already required or or possible by way of a right to report , here we 're imposing a duty to report .
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