Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [that] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Anyone listening to or reading about the debate will know that the nub of the Government 's thinking is that they want the Bill to be passed . |
| 32 | A further reason why such dichotomies as are embodied in the quantitative–qualitative distinction should not be allowed to dominate our thinking is that they tend to obscure the sheer and sometimes bewildering variety of materials that can qualify as data . |
| 33 | The thinking is that if one intends GBH , one must foresee GBH as a probable or possible outcome . |
| 34 | ‘ It seems that the establishment thinking is that if it 's been done for 175 years , it must be all right . |
| 35 | The theory behind Sir Bryan 's thinking is that the more efficient tied agents — such as the building societies — will offer the products to consumers at lower prices than smaller and less efficient tied agents . |
| 36 | What 's funny about Frank Spencer is that he 's a fella . |
| 37 | What moves me very deeply about primitive peoples is that they still attach an enormous importance to a certain kind of communication which we have lost ; and that is that they allow the being of the person they are with to communicate with more than words . |
| 38 | Their importance to the history of the Yugoslav peoples is that they kept alive the spirit and culture of a downtrodden nation during the centuries of foreign occupation . |
| 39 | One explanation of the progressive advance of the temperature rhythm is that it is being driven by a body clock that is running too fast . |
| 40 | An objection which has been raised by Jürgen Moltmann ( see chapter 7 ) and by others who have been concerned to set our present time in the light of the eschatological emphasis of the New Testament is that Barth and his allies in the 1920s who aimed to recover that emphasis in fact misinterpreted it by twisting it into the ‘ eternal moment ’ of the encounter between time and eternity , ; and that his mature theology distorted it in a-different but equally damaging fashion by swallowing up the whole of time and history in the central history of Jesus Christ , and by dissolving that away in turn in the eternal self-determination of God within the council of the Trinity to be ‘ God for man ’ . |
| 41 | The emphasis of the New Testament is that Christ resisted the temptations thrown at him and it was this that qualified him for dying on the cross . |
| 42 | My one real consolation in the face of almost any betrayal or grief is that I am without doubt an extremely talented writer , come danger or candle stump . |
| 43 | The problem with making deep segmented turnings from flat stock is that the joints are at compound angles . |
| 44 | ( g ) one disadvantage with convertible loan stock is that there can be a tendency for stockholders to convert when profits and share prices are rising ( thus diluting the equity profit of existing ordinary shareholders and depriving them of the advantage of the cheaper gearing which such stock provides ) and to retain the stock when profits and share prices are falling , thus maintaining the debt burden of the company at a time when it may be least able to service it ; and |
| 45 | ‘ It was my idea as much as Jeff 's that I went with him . ’ |
| 46 | The delusion is that their means can achieve their ends . |
| 47 | The key to yesterday 's deal is that a problem of this magnitude is now unlikely to happen again . |
| 48 | An essential part of such a major deal is that the album from an established artist is launched into the market place with a strong impact . |
| 49 | The wood is alder and the deal is that I scaled down the body a little bit . |
| 50 | This is a most un-1990s ' move — but the spice to the deal is that this is a largely recession-proof business . |
| 51 | But the point of the TWE deal is that US West and its other owners could share stakes in a multimedia venture and build up competitive telephone services across America . |
| 52 | A friend of Rosemary 's has been teaching us a few basic ballroom dances — the deal is that we both go to his aerobics classes ! |
| 53 | In this respect an important lesson from Allende 's experiment is that the decision to abolish private property inevitably results in the erosion of economic and political freedom also . |
| 54 | One problem with this experiment is that it presented subjects with a very artificial task and , not surprisingly , various criticisms have been made by authors such as Hupet and Le Boudec ( 1977 ) and Schultz and Kamil ( 1979 ) . |
| 55 | And the cause is manifest in every sordid glimpse we gain of their parents and their homes … the enduring lesson to be learned from this painful wartime experiment is that the primary aim of education must be to produce not merely cleverer children , but in the next generation wiser parents |
| 56 | All that has changed over the centuries is that the monarch used to be the substantial head of the government and it is , indeed , still the case that , legally , much central government executive authority continues to reside in the monarch . |
| 57 | But they 're different , the thing about the fully-fashioned is that it is shaped . |
| 58 | The reason the coding metaphor has such currency in contemporary talk about perception is that it seems to suggest a way in which very simple and apparently homogenous elements such as nerve impulses can generate the richness and variety of consciousness . |
| 59 | ‘ A common public perception is that the Aquino government is doing something that goes against the time-honoured Filipino tradition and cultural values , ’ said Alvin Capino , a newspaper columnist . |
| 60 | sometimes artists have been working for two or three years , releasing records unsuccessfully , although the public 's perception is that their first hit must be their first record . |