Example sentences of "[pron] [is] that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is just one problem , which is that the way in which we conceptualize the processes we are studying influences the way we study the brain . |
| 2 | But it must stand alongside other factors , the principal one of which is that the date of his first review should , in my view , relate strictly to the judicial view of the tariff . |
| 3 | The subterranean passage view offers a plausible account of how the monsters could feed , but unfortunately in doing so it destroys another theory about ‘ Nessie ’ , which is that the animal is a relic of the dinosaur age , possibly a plesiosaur . |
| 4 | In other animals there is behaviour which benefits another individual , and moreover there is behaviour the end of which is to benefit another individual , in a sense of ‘ end ’ which requires a lot of work to make clear , but which is uncontentiously illustrated by behaviour the end of which is that the animal should take in food . |
| 5 | There is a further factor that feminists have drawn attention to , which is that the majority of students of English are women , whereas the majority of academics teaching it are male , and that the female students have a built-in deference to male teachers and to the minority of male students . |
| 6 | Their work also confirmed what had long been suspected : which is that the majority of creatures on Earth are insects , and most of them are beetles . |
| 7 | One recoils from the obvious answer , which is that the Home Secretary wants yet again to produce a cheap headline in the popular press such as ’ Crackdown on crime ’ , by producing , as the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook said , a modest and short Bill . |
| 8 | The rejoinder to this is to accept that the counter is pointing to a real feature of academic thought , which is that the consensus of the relevant disciplinary community does indeed offer some measure of reliability and raises knowledge claims above mere whim ; but that does not in itself amount to a demonstration of the ‘ progress ’ of knowledge . |
| 9 | The principle remains the same , however , which is that the trial judge must itemise the award of damages and the appropriate rates and periods for interest . |
| 10 | Even so , there is one essential difference which is that the determinant factor is specified in advance of testing by economic theory . |
| 11 | To dismiss this comment simply as Bridgeman being a poacher turned gamekeeper would be to miss the point , which is that the war had allowed the Conservatives to become gamekeepers again , whereas from 1902 to 1914 there had been genuine concern that they might be permanently banished from the estates of power . |
| 12 | There are also changes to COSHH Regulation 4 and Schedule 2 , the main effect of which is that the use of benzene is prohibited except in industrial processes or for the purposes of research , development and analysis . |
| 13 | There is one exception to the security rules , which is that the LIFESPAN Manager can always view any LIFESPAN information in the relational database . |
| 14 | It amounts , in short , to a rejection of the unmediated , dogmatic view of literature as preached by Stalin , Zhdanov , Radek and Stetsky in 1934 , the implication of which is that the task of literature is primarily to serve immediate propagandist ends , and the adoption of a more sensitive cultural perspective which distances literature from ideology , grants greater specificity to literary production , and in the process provides a richer , more complex and refracted view of social reality . |
| 15 | Rather , it adds a new element , which is that the testator 's son alone is to undertake liability . |
| 16 | Such contacts can reinforce the effectiveness of our views on the point made by the hon. Gentleman , which is that the death sentence on Salman Rushdie is an unacceptable infringement of his rights as a British citizen . |
| 17 | Er , from the sound business point of view , we can only recycle glass , because we get what are called recycling credits , which is that the County Council gives us fifteen pounds a ton at the moment . |
| 18 | There are a number of reasons for this , not the least of which is that the statement is protected by professional privilege . ’ |
| 19 | To permit this method of mortgaging land to continue would have been quite contrary to the policy of the Property Acts , which is that the owner of property shall be able to convey to a purchaser a good legal title free from all equities affecting that property . |
| 20 | So we come to the second implication , which is that the student has to understand the practical aspects of the life of reason . |
| 21 | What they do n't tell you is that the price of those meals may be artificially inflated . |
| 22 | What I really wrote to tell you is that the Ballet Club Committee says that the Scarlet Woman must be changed — so please do two new designs for me to choose from — and help me ! |
| 23 | All I want to obtain from you is that the information the , that it will not be excluded around about the end , as soon as they take place . |
| 24 | Er what is necessary for me to also convey to you is that the theme that I was given today was one of forgiveness . |
| 25 | One is that the defence applies in torts other than negligence . |
| 26 | One is that the history of evolution shows it to be a process of radiation rather than of progression . |
| 27 | The major one is that the Act 's accountancy regulations will not relate to charities that are limited companies . |
| 28 | Erm we have taken various steps immediately , one is that the vandalism that taking place over the erm we have immediately re-secured , I have to say there 's been about fifty erm tickets out to re-secure those those , that site over the summer but they have been re-secured and tomorrow morning there will be the commencement of bricking up of the doors and windows of the ground floor of block D , block . |
| 29 | The big difference between it and option one is that the government would not be us ing social-security receipts to reduce its outstanding debt but would instead be making multi-trillion-dollar investment decisions in the private economy . |
| 30 | One is that the writer chooses — as far as he can — the extent of what you call his involvement in life : despite his reputation , Flaubert occupied a half-and-half position . |