Example sentences of "is [that] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is remarkable is that a consensus is achieved by natural selection , and the neologism is usually accepted by most people fairly quickly . |
| 2 | The result of this relatively narrow income distribution is that a company can be truly multinational , doing business with a spread of nations with high levels of income , whilst confining its activities to a very small number of countries . |
| 3 | The problem in today 's computer industry is that a company needs to be not just adequately well run but superbly well run to turn in acceptable numbers : Hewlett-Packard Co , now doing over $16,000m of business has 20,000 fewer employees than Digital Equipment Corp , which is still stuck at around $14,500m . |
| 4 | What it provides is that a company proposing to allot equity securities shall not allot them to any person unless it has first offered , on the same or more favourable terms , to each person who holds relevant shares or relevant employee shares , a proportion of those equity securities which is as nearly as practicable equal to his existing proportion in nominal value of his aggregate holdings of relevant shares and relevant employee shares . |
| 5 | The second reason is that a company 's auditors are expected , because of their statutory duties and position under the Companies Acts , to be independent of the shareholders in the company . |
| 6 | A consistent underlying theme is that a reliance on market forces can not be the answer : in every area , public action is urgently needed . |
| 7 | Politically perhaps the biggest change is that a century ago the world economy was dominated by established European and imperial powers and their new rivals ( such as the USA and Germany ) . |
| 8 | The first is that a word is typically the smallest element of a sentence which has positional mobility — that is , the smallest that can be moved around without destroying the grammaticality of the sentence ( ignoring any semantic effects ) : |
| 9 | One problem is that a word may be loaded in a special way for some part of the sample , e.g. ‘ disabled ’ is a much more acceptable term than ‘ crippled ’ for those in such categories . |
| 10 | Suppliers The general approach is that a supplier is not liable under Pt I of the CPA 1987 for defective goods , but he may be liable in contract or negligence , or perhaps be criminally liable under Pt II ( discussed below ) . |
| 11 | The solution being put forward is that a member of the RICS may only carry on practice as a surveyor through the medium of a company ( limited by shares or unlimited ) provided that he complies with the new conditionally approved regulations . |
| 12 | But the rumour in Germany is that a member of the public shopped Stuttgart by making a call to UEFA . |
| 13 | And the latest news on the travellers movements is that a convoy is still moving along the A-forty-six between Cheltenham and Stroud . |
| 14 | But what I have tried to show is that a theist could actually claim to be abiding by the Verification Principle when making statements about God . |
| 15 | The weakness in the argument is that a herd of wild horses , totally lacking in the striped pattern , also has accurate individual identification and every member of every equine herd , including all domestic horses , is known individually to every other member . |
| 16 | ‘ Your opinion , then , as a medical man , is that a girl of eleven years old might be kept at work constantly , day after day , year after year , with the intermission of Sunday , without injury to her health ? ’ |
| 17 | The main disadvantage is that a computer with a hard disk is more expensive . |
| 18 | This rather sad quote illustrates very sharply a point made in the previous chapter , which is that a field of learning such as physics , which has great power to change our lives , is usually divorced from a consideration of moral issues . |
| 19 | One observation which illustrates this principle is that a Foucault pendulum at the North Pole swings in a plane fixed relative to the frame of the distant galaxies ; however , an earthbound observer sees the plane of swing rotate through 360° every 24 hours . |
| 20 | The argument for saying that there should be liability in such circumstances is that a constable does not cease to have certain general duties because he happens to be ‘ off duty ’ for the time being . |
| 21 | An important point to remember is that a widow may be able to use her late husband 's NI contributions to boost the amount she receives . |
| 22 | The only qualification is that a widow 's late husband must have been entitled to the married couple 's allowance at the time of his death . |
| 23 | The reason for the inclusion of ‘ to its knowledge ’ in ( a ) and ( b ) and its exclusion from ( c ) is that a subsidiary could well be ignorant , through no fault of its own , that it is a subsidiary , whereas a parent company ought to know what subsidiaries it has . |
| 24 | ‘ What surprises us is that a man of his means should have such superb false ones . ’ |
| 25 | What seems miraculous , when all is said , is that a man driven by so many acts of perversity should have been embraced so widely . |
| 26 | Put in another way the proposal is that a man should seek to know and fully understand the criteria which determine his thoughts and actions . |
| 27 | All it tells us is that a man walked through the wood and threw a white stick down . |
| 28 | The problem this creates for Christianity is that a part of the turning to faith in our generation may be only a reflection of the psychological and sociological undercurrents of our time . |
| 29 | The ideal of land registration is that a government office , after investigating the title , enters the applicant upon the register as owner , and furnishes him with a certificate in accordance with the entry ; the entry is conclusive as to his right , and no further investigation of the previous title can subsequently be necessary . |
| 30 | What is interesting , however , is that a Government Social Survey entitled Labour Mobility in Great Britain 1955–1963 , published in 1966 , found that married men were more likely to move than single men . |