Example sentences of "that [noun] is [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that criminality is linked with respectability and power is central to Marxist-based studies , such as those of Chambliss ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 2 | So why , then , are we so eager to inform every other driver on the road that Surfboarders Do It Standing Up , or that Rugby Is Played By Men With Odd-shaped Balls ? |
| 3 | It should be noted that liability is confined to " consumer goods " intended for private use in the course of a business . |
| 4 | Our researches confirm that intoxication is implicated in many call outs . |
| 5 | Aerospace officials say that support is growing for a national strategic plan in which increased government spending would be matched by the industry 's own resources . |
| 6 | But first tonight , news that support is growing for the notion of having Joe Jordan as the next Scotland manager . |
| 7 | Here again , the traditional priority of reality over literature is reversed ; where it is an axiomatic principle that literature is derived from other literature and not from any non-literary source , reality becomes irrelevant to the writing and analysis of literature . |
| 8 | Behind both the economics and politics of Fabianism lay an organic theory of society and the view that progress is tied to advances in technical knowledge . |
| 9 | To maintain the row 's high pitch of energy , you need to make sure that sympathy is withheld by all parties . |
| 10 | But we have surely now generated an infinite regress , which will mean that internalism is doomed to scepticism . |
| 11 | There is certainly no suggestion that 5-ASA is formed from the administered Ac-ASA , as no 5-ASA is detected in the urine or faeces after administrationof Ac-ASA , and in two volunteers , when deuterated Ac-ASA was administered rectally , there was no de-acetylation and re-acetylation noted . |
| 12 | All too often attention is directed away from the present encounter to the next so that response is reduced to a minimum . |
| 13 | It is true that ruach is used of man 's spirit in a number of ways . |
| 14 | One example of this is on page 156 when Scout and Jem have discovered that Atticus is sitting outside the county Jail on one of his office chairs and as they cross the square to get nearer to him , four dusty cars come in from the Meridian highway , moving slowly in a line eventually stopping outside the Jail . |
| 15 | We must also ensure that teaching is seen to be important , and a simple way to start is to insist that all doctors must document their experience when applying for jobs and that all appointments committees should ask about it . |
| 16 | I think for the male student who is subject to sexual harassment , or who gets the sort of inappropriate approaches that Marianne is talking about , that is unusual , it 's out of step with the way in which he perceives himself , and his sense of what he is and who he is in the world . |
| 17 | In The Independent of 23 July 1987 Baroness Cox argues that black parents are motivated to demand their own separate schools not by dissatisfaction or frustration with the way that racism is institutionalized in state education , but because they want ‘ a good old-fashioned British education ’ for their children . |
| 18 | Choice theories verge upon a serious contradiction with liberal philosophy to the extent that reliance is placed upon the principle that promises ought to be kept . |
| 19 | It is when the claim to neutrality is seen , as it must be , as a sham that damage is done to the judicial system . |
| 20 | Scott thinks that landowners no longer form a distinctive group within the upper classes : the growth of ‘ agribusiness ’ has meant that agriculture is run in much the same manner as any other business . |
| 21 | There is no doubt that agriculture is going through a difficult transition period , continually hampered by a serious lack of direction and strategy from Brussels . |
| 22 | Accordingly , the aims of this study were ( 1 ) to confirm our previous preliminary finding that chemiluminescence is increased in colonic tissue from humans with active colitis , ( 2 ) to determine the cellular and biochemical sources of this chemiluminescence , ( 3 ) to identify the particular reactive oxygen species species involved , and ( 4 ) to find out if mucosal chemiluminescence is a reliable index of disease activity . |
| 23 | Although it is true that Grimes is seen by Crabbe and by Slater and Britten as an outsider figure , he is no typical tragic hero . |
| 24 | Is the Minister aware that Sheffield is plunging into its deepest recession since the war , that according to new research by the city council 's department of employment the true figure for unemployment is 17 per cent . |
| 25 | On the other hand , the mere fact that money is paid under protest will not give rise of itself to the inference of such an agreement ; though it may form part of the evidence from which it may be inferred that the payee did not intend to close the transaction : see Maskell v. Horner [ 1915 ] 3 K.B . |
| 26 | In my judgment , as a matter of principle the colore officii cases are merely examples of a wider principle , viz. that where the parties are on an unequal footing so that money is paid by way of tax or other impost in pursuance of a demand by some public officer , these moneys are recoverable since the citizen is , in practice , unable to resist the payment save at the risk of breaking the law or exposing himself to penalties or other disadvantages . |
| 27 | There is no doubt that smoking is damaging to your health and impairs long term ability to cope with stress . |
| 28 | Lothian Region Transport plc has done much to ensure that smoking is banned from public transport in the Lothian area . |
| 29 | Theories of gender and education have , to some extent , mirrored those on class and education : there are those who believe that inequality is caused by the differential socialization of girls and boys ( in a sense , that girls are ‘ culturally deprived ’ ) and that this can be overcome through removing prejudice ; there are also those ( e.g. Spender 1982 ; Mahony 1985 ) who believe that schools both reflect and reproduce patriarchal relations . |
| 30 | It has already been argued that physics is constructed through a series of dualities in which physics is rated positively , and other disciplines , chiefly the arts , are rated negatively . |