Example sentences of "theory [is] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble with all panspermic theories is that they look to outer space , yet we have no particular reason to believe that life could not have emerged right here on our own world . |
| 2 | The other aspect of theories is that they enable us to make generalizations . |
| 3 | A common criticism of both these theories is that they simply look at the end result of education ; they are examples of an ‘ input/output ’ model . |
| 4 | One implication of the neutral theory is that we can use molecular changes as a kind of clock to measure evolutionary events . |
| 5 | The theory is that its internal air pocket will ‘ bounce ’ back the dolphin 's sonar signal , regardless of the direction of approach . |
| 6 | They are mentioned by name on eighteenth-century maps and referred to in Sir Walter Scott 's The Bridal of Triermain ; they are often supposed to mark the county boundary , which they do not , and the most popular theory is that they were erected at the time of the Border raids to delude Scots advancing up the Eden valley , from which they are conspicuously in view , into the belief that an English army was encamped there . |
| 7 | One theory is that they were carried by ice sheets . |
| 8 | One theory is that they were stolen by experts with an order already in mind . |
| 9 | Okay if the theory is , if you dropped a feather and a penny at the same time from the same height the theory is that they both should reach the ground |
| 10 | A second problem with the idea that everything is determined by a grand unified theory is that anything we say is also determined by the theory . |
| 11 | One theory is that you should dominate the dog who is lowest in the pecking order to make him realize that he is the lowest and to prevent problems from occurring . |
| 12 | In fact , the theory is that you should be inundated with praise , gifts , hugs and kisses . |
| 13 | And I 'll show you basically The the theory is that you go inside In fact I can show you with this this kind of window here . |
| 14 | Well the theory is that you do n't , in metal type if you have a line of caps you ca n't just jamb another line right under the baseline because there has to be room for the ascenders , descenders . |
| 15 | My theory is that I have to unmartyr him . |
| 16 | A parallel attraction of the theory is that it seems to constrain perception to be true — to be only about things that impinge on the nervous system ; that are , in other words , ‘ really there ’ . |
| 17 | Donald Davie has suggested that one reason for the explosion of theory is that it provides ‘ a stamping ground for the innumerable people in departments of English ( also of French , of German , of Classics ) who have energy and intelligence but no literary sensibility . ’ |
| 18 | Another theory is that it was an engineering disaster ; several other Paris recordings from the period are thin and distorted . |
| 19 | A second problem with compensation theory is that it ignores the period during which any changes are taking place — the transitional period . |
| 20 | The problem with disengagement theory is that it fails to ask whether such observable characteristics of older people are attributable , at least in part , to cultural expectations . |
| 21 | One theory is that it awakens distant memories of floating in the comfort of the womb . |
| 22 | The importance of skill theory is that it relates human performance to systems concepts and to individual differences . |
| 23 | One attractive aspect of this theory is that it highlights the way in which formal instruction can inhibit learning by not allowing sufficient scope for self-expression and self-development — alienation following submission to being taught rather than learning how to learn . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Consequently , one lesson to criminal law from legal theory is that it should not aim at a comprehensiveness inconsistent with its subject-matter . |
| 26 | ( One theory is that it arose from scribes ' attempts to make the word more legible . |
| 27 | The one thing that everyone knows about quantum theory is that it contains Heisenberg 's uncertainty principle acting as a limit upon our powers of exact knowledge . |
| 28 | ( c ) Another point which I take to be in favour of the theory is that it begins to make some theoretical sense of the intuitive feeling that what was wrong in the Gettier cases was that there was too much luck around . |
| 29 | Another theory is that it prevents the leaves from mistaking strong moonlight for the dawn of another day . |
| 30 | The importance of the concession theory is that it establishes a theoretical framework sympathetic to state intervention ; the company is a creature of the state , existing to promote the public welfare , and as such the state has the right to interfere in its internal affairs and need not confine itself to external , general-law regulation . |