Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] is [that] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defence is that the defendant took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence , section 39 . |
| 2 | The effect of the defence is that the plaintiff consents to exempt the defendant from a duty of care which would otherwise have been owed . |
| 3 | The essence of the change is that the intermediating function between social and economic forces is no longer one that a government can renounce or let go by default . |
| 4 | The basic problem with this aspect of the technique is that the movement occurs very quickly , so you could be excused for being unsure quite what has happened . |
| 5 | What might , however , be the case is that a greater proportion of people in temporary jobs are " involuntary " rather than " voluntary " temporary workers than a decade or so ago , in other words that the structure of the temporary worker population has changed over time . |
| 6 | The interesting feature of the case is that the corporation exacted the payments under a mistake of fact — they did not know that the limestone was to be burnt into lime , while the plaintiff made the payments under a mistake of law — he did not know of the exemption . |
| 7 | A feature of the case is that the trial judge held the bank liable to the wife in damages for its failure to explain the effect of the charge to her . |
| 8 | The implication at the beginning of the text is that the lord feels his worldly duty and his love for God to be pulling against each other and unbalancing him : The state to which Hilton hopes to point him is one of discretion in which self-knowledge and the love of God are the means of integrating what seem like opposites in equilibrium . |
| 9 | The advantage is that the cover can be pushed to one side with a net handle or broomstick , then slid back again , while the pondkeeper remains dry and in full possession of his sanity . |
| 10 | The advantage is that the kite itself is free of the high frequency vibrations which occur naturally in all kite flying lines ; but a fast shutter speed takes care of this problem in most instances . |
| 11 | Bagi concedes opting for Transvik software was a risk , given the company 's small size , but argues the advantage is that the firm is dependent on the success of the contract and is more willing to share its expertise than Logica might have been . |
| 12 | For civil servants , the advantage is that the doctrine leaves them utterly free of any repercussions arising from their advice and thus greatly adds to their freedom and power . |
| 13 | The advantage of using the computer is that the answers are confirmed immediately rather than after the whole passage has been completed . |
| 14 | ( Remember the hypothesis is that the treatment is successful because it adjusts the clock . ) |
| 15 | The decision is that the heir should , especially in the event that ( i ) the testator knew the land was pledged or ( ii ) he would have left something else had he known . |
| 16 | Even if the decision is that the partnership structure continues to be more appropriate , the management processes and incentives exercised by large companies are well worth examining . |
| 17 | The political consequence of the decision is that the EC Industry Commissioner and the EC Transport Commissioner have suggested to the Commission President that , in future , the Competition Directorate should obtain the approval of the relevant industrial policy department of the Commission before submitting a merger to the full five months ' scrutiny allowed under the Regulation . |
| 18 | Treitel ( 8th ed. ) , p. 87 says of Ward v. Byham : ‘ One basis of the decision is that the mother had provided consideration by showing that she had made the child happy , etc. : in this way she can be said to have conferred a factual benefit on the father , even though she may not have suffered any detriment . ’ |
| 19 | A recurrent theme in the literature is that the position of business in relation to government differs from that of other interest groups by virtue of the possession by companies of ‘ real ’ power — social decision-making power as it has been termed above . |
| 20 | The framework is that a demand concerning an economic matter is blackmail , but there is an exception that it was warranted . |
| 21 | The near feature of the Framework is that the decision on whether to devolve responsibility ( or not ) will be based on the outcome of a Quality Audit . |
| 22 | The important point for the present is that the above clauses leave no room for doubt that a breach of contract will justify the victim in terminating the contract . |
| 23 | The crux is that the amount of damages obtainable will , prima facie , be the total of the salary and fringe benefits to which you would have been entitled between the time of the job actually ending and the time at which the contract could lawfully have been ended by due notice . |
| 24 | The difficulty is that a like conditional ( derived from the independent conditional ( 6 ) also set out in 1.3 ) may well be true of b . |
| 25 | The difficulty is that a recruitment system has to be both a production system and an information system , and this is what makes it so much more complex than personnel records . |
| 26 | The difficulty is that every handful of weed that 's pulled out is likely to contain its fair share of aquatic creatures too . |
| 27 | Mr Coutts said : ‘ The difficulty is that an individual such as this is fuelled by publicity . ’ |
| 28 | The difficulty is that the wife has died intestate , and her intestate heir is precisely the person she was asked to ward off from her property . |
| 29 | The difficulty is that the grammar of the disposition suggests that it should be the curator , but the reference to ‘ his , nurses can surely be meant to refer only to the foster-child ; and the last sentence of the text confirms that it is the foster-child who is intended . |
| 30 | The difficulty is that the Earl of Orford , who did not die until 5 December 1791 , was named George , while his uncle who succeeded him as fourth Earl was named Horatio , although he disliked this name , and called himself Horace Walpole instead . |