Example sentences of "is that [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The simplest scheme of inheritance is that for one pair of genes , controlling one pair of traits ; the traits will then segregate in a 3:1 ratio in the second generation . |
| 2 | A further important point is that on two scores — the overall symptom score and the resistance score — there was a difference between the normal women and a group of normal men who were also given the inventory . |
| 3 | The reinvestment return is 55.74 but the reinvestment risk is that on 15 February the 1-month rate will have fallen from the 9.25 per cent expected to , say , 8.75 per cent . |
| 4 | All we need to say about count 4 is that on 23 March 1988 the appellant 's wife collected £104,356.55 in cash , part of the building society advance , from the bank , and took it in a bin liner to India . |
| 5 | All I remember is that at one point he walked along with one foot on the kerb and the other in the gutter and was told off for limping . |
| 6 | The unusual thing is that at 50 she is still stunning , wrinkles or no . |
| 7 | The truth is that since 1959 , Labour thinkers like Jenkins , Anthony Crosland , Hattersley and others have put equality at the heart of the modern Labour Party 's philosophy . |
| 8 | The distinction in question is that between two representations of person which appear to be involved in all of the uses of the infinitive : the virtual , generalized intra-verbal person of the infinitive , on the one hand , and the actual , often rank-specified extra-verbal person evoked by the context , on the other . |
| 9 | The irony is that within five years , investigations started with a view to relaying part of the canal route to Kilmacolm as far as Paisley for a new passenger service ! |
| 10 | What these anomalies mean is that within one and the same constituency the price paid in first-preference votes for the election of a TD varies greatly . |
| 11 | The basic requirement is that within 21 days after setting down , notice is to be given in a form which varies according to which section applies to the statement sought to be admitted ; more often than not this will be s 2 , seeking the admissability of a statement otherwise than in a document , when the notice must give particulars of the time , place and circumstances , at or in which the statement was made , the person by whom , and the person to whom , it was made and the substance of the statement or , if material , the words used . |
| 12 | First day or Last Day , Rest Day or Resurrection Day , the abiding Christian belief is that within three days the worst that humans could do to a man was transformed by the power of divine love into the greatest news story of history : ‘ Jesus lives ! ’ |
| 13 | The first is that until 1983 all exports and imports were valued in so-called ‘ statistical ’ dollars , by converting the original valuations into dollars at the rate of exchange ruling at the beginning of the year . |
| 14 | A further quirk in the Notts approach to gathering statistics is that until 1982 they counted as TIC those offences offered to the court but denied by the offenders ! |
| 15 | The trouble is that in 1982–90 the yield was not high enough . |
| 16 | The tradition , as related by Butcher , is that in 1209 ( the date popularly associated with the introduction of bull-baiting into England ) , William de Warrenne , Lord of Stamford , on looking out from his castle walls , saw two bulls fighting for a cow in the castle meadows . |
| 17 | An easy way to remember this for making calculations is that in two colours each square is one BIT . |
| 18 | The result is that in 1981 the cores and rings together accounted for nearly 9 out of 10 of the British population . |
| 19 | One of his regrets is that in four series against West Indies his record is very ordinary — one innings in which he took eight wickets , but little else of note — and he is aware that not having proved himself against the best team in the world will be held against him when reputations come to be assessed . |
| 20 | Townsend 's thesis is that in four main areas , ‘ the dependency of the elderly in the twentieth century is being manufactured socially ’ . |
| 21 | And the upshot is that in eighteen twenty six Britain suggests in essence holding a congress to discuss the er er Greek revolt . |
| 22 | The result of the above is that in one case costs are so high as to detract from its use , whereas the other positively attracts business . |
| 23 | For convenience , one can be called ‘ market ’ society , and one ‘ status ’ society ; the crucial distinction between them is that in one privileges and obligations were increasingly distributed through competition in the market , and in the other by the operation of an acknowledged and traditional hierarchy of status . |
| 24 | Another point to bear in mind is that in 1988 only 35 per cent of the 400,000 new jobs created were full time : 34 per cent were part time and 31 per cent were in self employment . |
| 25 | My understanding is that in 1977 Willy De Roos achieved this under sail in one season , and for this he received a Krug Award for Excellence . |
| 26 | The proposal is that from 1 August , self-drive hire firms etc should account for tax on a tax-inclusive basis on disposal , so allowing the margin scheme to operate as now . |
| 27 | The only certainty is that by 1201 he was attached to the household of Hubert Walter at Canterbury , being credited at least once with the title of archbishop 's steward . |
| 28 | The best guess prediction is that by 2030 the concentration of greenhouse gases of all kinds will be equivalent to a doubling of carbon dioxide ( if CO 2 was the only gas , the doubling would not take place until 2080 ) . |
| 29 | Even allowing for the fact that Orphism , as the most recent artistic novelty , was attracting the attention of a press and public made restless and sensation-hungry by the numerous artistic upheavals which the twentieth century had already witnessed , the fact is that by 1914 the abstract tendencies in European painting were already assuming an importance second only to that of Cubism from which they had largely sprung . |
| 30 | The fact is that after 1936 the tide had turned to the right in British Labour politics . |