Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] is [adv] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The explanation for this effect is presumably that the very early events in the cascade of memory formation involve electrical activity within the neurons and that the immediate shock disrupts this process ; by the time the delayed shock is given , however , the cascade is already past this phase , and is no longer vulnerable . |
| 2 | The reason for this difference is probably that the one wishes to justify cuts in welfare expenditure whereas the other is aiming for more direct state control of industry . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend is right that the Labour party would be prepared to overrule parental ballots and to take grant-maintained schools back into the throes of LEA control , which is exactly what parents have voted to escape . |
| 4 | But the empirical evidence for this claim is only that the facts can be read consistently with it . |
| 5 | One reason why women are under-represented in this area is undoubtedly that the sociology of deviance has , until recently , concentrated specifically on criminal behaviour . |
| 6 | However , those who operate the law are well aware that it will only be respected to the extent that it conforms with public opinion : the reason why journalists and broadcasters are not prosecuted much more often for undoubted infringements of the letter of the laws of contempt and official secrecy is simply that the authorities are well aware that up-to-the-hilt enforcement of these vague laws would bring the law into further disrepute , and precipitate precisely the sort of clash between government and the press that it has been the British genius to avoid , whenever possible , by cosy arrangements . |
| 7 | The corporate concern is therefore that the profit implications of a particular measure are widely understood , and that the legislators are not going to saddle companies struggling for survival with disproportionate costs — or at least , not without the public being made aware of the consequences . |
| 8 | The most obvious diagnosis is simply that the initial belief that p , from which the true justified belief that q is inferred , is false . |
| 9 | The first reason is obviously that the performance of , say , the syntactic component depends on the performance of other , lower-level components . |
| 10 | One reason is simply that the futures industry has never been precise in its thinking on the question ; indeed , it has never found a definition necessary for commercial purposes . |
| 11 | One problem is simply that the most interesting recognition measures in these studies were based on ROC curves calculated from only 18 points . |
| 12 | I am bound to say My Lords that my own view is still that the size within the limits laid down by statute with a minimum of sixteen or eighteen and maximum of twenty-four would best be determined locally and if we 're not going in for a national police force , I still ca n't see what it has to do with the Secretary of State and why the Home Office should be settling the size of forty-three or so police authorities . |
| 13 | It is also worth noting that dealing need not actually take place ; the minimum requirement is merely that the insider had reasonable cause to believe that dealing in the relevant shares would take place . |
| 14 | The correct position is thus that the corporate entity is a vehicle for benefiting the interests of a specified group or groups . |
| 15 | What has changed is that a convention has developed as to how and when this power is exercised and the modern position is thus that the monarch has , except in the most unusual circumstances and even then only doubtfully so , no discretion as to when Parliament shall be called and disbanded . |
| 16 | This is partly due to the relative costs of production and the public 's growing recognition that other countries can make good rugs ; but perhaps the main reason is simply that the output of workshops has increased dramatically in recent years . |
| 17 | The resulting impression is consequently that the occurrence was unexpected , happened fortuitously . |