Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [is] [conj] [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What this argument suggests in Gandhi 's case is that he does not abandon his commitment to the principle of non-violence or qualify it in any way when he approves the destruction of life . |
| 2 | The biggest danger of Mr MacGregor 's decision is that he perpetuates a system that fails to reward good classroom teaching . |
| 3 | This solution induces vertigo if one thinks in terms of a self-contained realm of observation and inference ; does it mean that the most you can say of Einstein 's physics is that it has not yet been refuted , which can be said equally of ‘ Unicorns exist ’ ? |
| 4 | The relevance of Ullman 's study is that he provides a theoretical account of differential ( human ) phenomenology that can be empirically investigated , and which if correct would explain how and why these distinct experiences arise when they do . |
| 5 | The advantage of the pen system in Eo 's machine is that it does away with the keyboard , so enabling applications to be written for all language forms — non-Roman script like Japanese or Arabic for instance . |
| 6 | The significance of Simmel 's work is that he breaks away from one of the most predominant tendencies in the grounding of Hegel in social analysis : that is , the suggestion that we can separate off the positive side of sublation from the negative side of externalization as rupture . |
| 7 | Another feature of Houghton 's work is that he develops a very complex model for collecting logistic information , based upon sampling of the issue records of individual books in various categories — shelf stock , returned books , withdrawn books . |
| 8 | The first major problem with Fforde 's work is that it equates collectivism with socialism , which is as historically wrong as it is jejune . |
| 9 | One of the oddities of Foucault 's work is that it seems riven by an internal tension — for example , as peter Dews notes , while on the one hand Foucault lays claims to a form of objectivity in his archaeology , and eschews interpretation in favour of ‘ intelligibility ’ , on the other hand throughout his life he was also prone to endorse a Nietzschean insistence on the interminability of interpretation . |
| 10 | The outstanding feature of black parents ' relationship with their children 's sport is that it does not exist . |
| 11 | Sudjic 's point is that it exists , and any attempt to plan , ameliorate or build in it has to grasp this fact . |
| 12 | One of this book 's merits is that it shows how hard stone application was not confined to the Baroque , and includes unexpected nineteenth-century examples . |
| 13 | Finally , one major gap in Oakeshott 's theory is that it says nothing about the fundamental issue of how societas may be reconstituted in the modern age . |
| 14 | The biggest flaw in Mr Chandler 's argument is that it applies more readily to industries where fast changes in technology do not seem likely . |
| 15 | In Germany , the Bundespost Telekom 's argument is that it has to complete the reconstruction of eastern Germany 's telecommunications infrastructure before it can allow competition , Vallance said . |
| 16 | One of the implications of the interrelation of Truth and ahi sā in Gandhi 's thought is that it involves the welfare of all men . |
| 17 | The fourth merit of Johnson 's approach is that it allows for mobility of jobs between categories , although he does not attach as much significance as Hughes ( 1958 ) to the efforts of the ‘ professionals ’ themselves in this regard . |
| 18 | The second main point about Marsh et al. 's approach is that it recognises the expressive order : the theories which young people and others have about their circumstances . |
| 19 | An important feature of McGregor 's approach is that it shows how management assumptions are important in determining motivation and morale . |
| 20 | The value of Moscucci 's approach is that she has provided a detailed picture of the development of gynaecological practice . |
| 21 | A criticism of Fitzmaurice 's analysis is that it does not answer the crucial question of why such an objective regime should have any effect on third parties . |
| 22 | The reason for MI5 's inefficiency is that it wastes far too much time and resources chasing after the wrong sort of people who it believes to be subversive , while real enemies of the state are able to go on spying undetected for decades . |
| 23 | The important aspect of Johnson 's statement is that he dismisses the whole phenomenon of labouring poets as misapplied patronage . |
| 24 | The beauty of Charnov 's book is that it uses one simple theoretical technique , hat of the evolutionary stable strategy , to tackle apparently disparate problems in sex allocation theory . |
| 25 | The Convention 's strength is that it copes with their diversity and provides an effective mechanism acceptable to all . |
| 26 | The play 's strength is that it draws on Eliot 's earlier work and makes that earlier work transferable to the West End , a triumph in itself ; its weakness , like that of most of the plays , is that it offers us little we can not find more concisely and intensely expressed in the poetry . |
| 27 | And Freud 's answer is that it matters because human beings have inherited this guilt from the primal crime . |
| 28 | A more serious objection to Anderson 's account is that it assumes consistentalignment between left and right in politics , and ‘ progressive ’ and ‘ traditional ’ in intellectual life . |
| 29 | One of the more significant aspects of the panel 's report is that it makes a try at preventing repetitions of the affair . |
| 30 | As Schwab ( 1964 ) has pointed out , one of the features of Plato 's scheme is that it does not primarily classify knowledge in terms of what it is of or about but in terms of its quality — its degrees of reality . |