Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] is that [art] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The most striking feature is that the agriculture sector has by far the biggest proportion of workers over 55 years old .
2 The less simple translation is that the battle continues between economic reformists and those hardliners , led politically by the prime minister , Li Peng , and ideologically by the 86-year-old Chen Yun , who believe that quick reform leads only too quickly to bourgeois liberalisation and peaceful evolution — witness the student democrats in 1989 in Beijing 's Tiananmen Square and the collapse of communism in the countries of Eastern Europe .
3 A less hopeful view is that the United States will now be able to use force , if necessary , to apply its national interests throughout the world without fear of challenge , and to tow the United Nations obediently behind it .
4 Glenny 's most amazing suggestion is that the recognition of Croatia and Slovenia deepened the problem .
5 An intriguing , though not widely accepted notion is that the first large organic molecules arose in very special circumstances , such as the hot springs ( hydrothermal vents ) that well up from volcanoes at the bottom of the sea .
6 One widely accepted explanation is that the ordering of information is determined by the sender 's hypotheses about what the receiver does and does not know .
7 What this means in the most simple terms is that the order of onset of the stages in the individual is determined by what occasions them as gratifications — the oral stage by suckling , the anal by evacuating solid matter , the phallic by experiencing genital , Oedipal excitement .
8 In the end , it was revealed in a brief letter to A Quarterly that in the view of the Society — and I will try and quote accurately from memory — ‘ the most crucial criterion is that the applicant be possessed of a dignity in keeping with his position .
9 The generally accepted theory is that the ancestors of the tiger originated in the cold and barren lands of Siberia and northern Asia .
10 The generally accepted view is that the people of Lewis opposed Lord Leverhulme 's schemes .
11 Temperatures The generally accepted estimate is that the world warmed by 0.3–0.6 ° C during the last 100 years .
12 The most likely possibility is that a number ( of uncertain size but probably Reynolds number dependent ) of the hairpin vortices occur within an eruption and maybe also within an inrush — an interpretation suggested primarily by numerical simulation .
13 The most likely surmise is that the hardliners are now more powerful than the reformers , but are unable to press home their advantage .
14 ‘ The most likely scenario is that the Russian embassy asks for extradition and the Swedish government would then take a decision on the request , ’ said an immigration official , Erik Lempert .
15 Time magazine , as always reflecting the indoctrines of the Luce family and assuming the mantle of the responsible voice of America , recorded that : ‘ it was a scene as grisly as anything depicted in Polanski 's film explorations of the dark and melancholy corners of human character … and the most likely theory is that the slayings were related to narcotics . ’
16 The most likely explanation is that the patterning results from the difference in the position of the cells and hence their different environment .
17 It would seem that the most likely explanation is that the Evangelists believed the purpose of the parables was to hide the truth from those whose hearts were already set against Christianity .
18 The most likely explanation is that the factors determining breeding success in males and females tend to be most similar in monogamous species and most different in highly polygynous ones .
19 Various reasons have been offered for this decline , but the most likely explanation is that the general conditions of recession in Britain have been exacerbated by other factors peculiar to the recording industry .
20 The most likely explanation is that the illness which took his life within ten days of his baptism in Rome on 10 April 689 was of long standing and that Caedwalla abdicated in the knowledge that his health was failing .
21 The most likely answer is that the Candida lowers the blood sugar , by constantly using up the sugar supplied in food , producing a type of hypoglycaemia ( see p 130 ) .
22 The most obvious change is that the product sports a clutch of graphical tools , all running under Microsoft Corp Windows .
23 The most obvious change is that the product sports a clutch of graphical tools , all running under Microsoft Corp Windows .
24 The most obvious possibility is that the waning of the overt unconditioned response ( UR ) produced by pre-exposure to the to-be-CS might be directly responsible , in whole or in part , for some instances of latent inhibition .
25 The first and most obvious difficulty is that a three-dimensional object can not fit satisfactorily on to a flat page .
26 Secondly , the most obvious suggestion is that the cases are caused by the direct effects of environmental radiation on the child or fetus .
27 The first and most obvious reason is that the public differences between the major parties have indeed got less : there seems little point in attacking on areas of large agreement .
28 The most obvious reason is that the author only arrived on the scene at the end of the process , and has had to reconstruct the design and development phases from inevitably superficial interviews .
29 The second observation is that learning is a " total " event in that is involves the entire person. , The third and most characteristic observation is that a person is constantly responding to innumerable influences , a few of which are conscious and rational , but most of which are either non-conscious or non-rational , or both .
30 The more usual outcome is that the house is simply re-advertised for sale with the benefit of the planning permission .
  Next page