Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] is [that] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now at about the time that that letter was written on the twenty second of October er Mr had the meeting at the National Westminster Bank that had been arranged between himself and a Mrs and it is clear from er this meeting that the bank would no longer er , given that the Frinton property was not to be offered as security , prepared to offer the sum , the substantial sums that they had originally agreed to do and they were now only prepared to offer very much smaller sums and the plaintiff 's case is that the only way that they were going to be able to proceed to complete on this matter was er by selling their homes , their family home at and it is the plaintiff 's case , certainly in relation to er the losses that they have sustained as a result of the breach of contract , alleged in this case , that er if they had not been forced to go ahead to complete on this deal they would not have been required to sell their family home . |
| 2 | The thrust of The Enquirer 's story is that the final straw for Diana came when she was given a transcript of the alleged taped conversation between Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles . |
| 3 | The CDP 's fear is that the local authorities will be so hard pressed , because of government policy , that they will be unable or unwilling to help in the future . |
| 4 | Morton 's rule is that a double bond is advantageous and that a double barrier must never be permitted . |
| 5 | Morton 's rule is that a double bond is advantageous and that a double barrier must never be permitted . |
| 6 | Todd 's contention is that the psychological tensions and traumas generated by the process of selection into winners and losers in " brutally individualist , egoist , competitive and aggressive societies " such as France , where the working class has assimilated the ambitious , success-seeking ideology of the petty bourgeoisie , are so intense that the creation of a communist party , a form of asylum and counter-culture , becomes imperative . |
| 7 | The significant point to emerge from Zeki 's work is that a perceptual phenomenon once believed to be the result of high level cognitive processing now turns out to have a single cell correlate at an early stage in the visual pathways . |
| 8 | However , if the above criticism of the partial equilibrium model is put to one side , the implication of Roll 's work is that the only valid test is one in which the various market indices , which are used as proxies for the market portfolio , are examined to see if they are mean variance efficient . |
| 9 | My Lords , the influence behind the Noble Lord 's amendment is that the British Transport Police will not have the full jurisdiction on Rail Track property . |
| 10 | Brasel and Quigley 's conclusion is that the early language environment offered by the use of signing improves the child 's prospects in the learning of English . |
| 11 | The main thrust of Lukacs 's criticism is that the rich potentiality of socialist realism degenerated for the most part into what he terms the " anaemia of socialist naturalism " because its practitioners deliberately chose to substitute the profundity of Marx 's original dialectical understanding of reality for the banality and facility of Stalinist economic subjectivism " , the inevitable consequence of the Stalinist personality cult . |
| 12 | North 's belief is that the Joint Aviation Authorities will not adopt CAA Special Conditions requirements and that ‘ if they do n't enhance safety they should be dropped ’ . |
| 13 | Piaget 's claim is that the cognitive difficulties which infants come to resolve ‘ on the plane of action ’ in infancy reappear , in childhood , ‘ on the plane of [ verbal ] concepts ’ and have to receive the same kind of solution — by way of the direction , inhibition and co-ordination of cognitive acts . |
| 14 | Foucault 's claim is that the very idea of such homogeneity is a very recent notion generated in , and appropriate to , the special political climate of Europe in the late-eighteenth century . |
| 15 | Haksar 's argument is that a coercive threat implies either a violation of , or a readiness to violate , moral duty on the part of the proposer of the threat . |
| 16 | One of the main planks of the CCAUK 's argument is that the Annual Percentage rate is not so high as it looks , since though most transactions are contracted for ( say ) 26 weeks , in fact they end up being repaid — with no series problem — in about 30 or 33 weeks , with no penalty . |
| 17 | Cairns-Smith 's guess is that the original replicators were crystals of inorganic materials , such as those found in clays and muds . |
| 18 | The Government 's position is that a tax-raising power in the technical sense inevitably means that taxes will be raised . |
| 19 | The government 's position is that the major decisions on countering global warming will have to wait on international agreement at the 1992 UN conference on the environment , which would project them beyond the present government . |
| 20 | Gandhi 's injunction is that a married couple should act as if they are unmarried , and treat each other as brother and sister . |
| 21 | The HSE 's view is that the large-scale use of genetically manufactured organisms is inherently no more dangerous than the vaccine , antibiotic or enzyme industries , where work with vats of microbes or handling large amounts of purified proteins is a daily occurrence . |
| 22 | In fact the Central Statistical Office 's view is that the published deficit overstates the real level by no more than £2bn or £3bn . |
| 23 | Parsons ' view is that the modern industrial family is relatively isolated from society , certainly more so than its pre-industrial predecessor . |
| 24 | A point missed in last week 's story on DEC 's effort to design a single 1GHz chip is that the cooling agent is a mixture of water and alcohol ( UX No 394 ) . |