Example sentences of "is that the " in BNC.

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31 The second and more important point is that the general argument against behaviouristic theories does take in functionalism and is not merely directed against traditional behaviourism : it works against any theory that analyses one 's conception of the world simply in terms of the way one functions — that is , behaves — in the world .
32 So the basic assumption is that the developmental process is failure-driven : actions are continually failing to fulfil the assimilatory intention ( recall the term Functionlust that I used earlier ) and must therefore be modified .
33 Piaget 's claim is that the cognitive difficulties which infants come to resolve ‘ on the plane of action ’ in infancy reappear , in childhood , ‘ on the plane of [ verbal ] concepts ’ and have to receive the same kind of solution — by way of the direction , inhibition and co-ordination of cognitive acts .
34 What I can say , however , is that the constructivist position allows a distinctive analysis of the ‘ mental ’ when we speak of a ‘ mental representation of a green patch ’ : it helps us to understand the difference between mental representations and the non-mental variety ( a photograph for example ) .
35 If women fully develop the lower pec muscles , the result is that the bust is pushed out by large underlying muscles , thus seeming larger .
36 When planning if the problem is that the vice jaws foul the plane fence , the answer is simple .
37 A further advantage is that the amateur can also save 20 years practice .
38 The most pointed criticism is that the angle of the bevel is not rounded off or taken back far enough , so producing an elbow that hinders the smooth entry and flow of cut .
39 ‘ The first impression is that the flora is vastly over-modelled .
40 An interesting point to note in real Spanish folk dance is that the boy and girl rarely touch each other .
41 The answer is that the City gents are surprisingly fond of their beer .
42 While the majority view among climbers and many of those within the BMC is that the competition , organised by Jerry Peel and Mick Johnstone , was a largely social affair , the BMC will find it difficult to overlook the matter .
43 Equally worrying to the BMC is that the centre negotiated its own private access agreement without consulting or even informing the council or its access officer Bill Wright .
44 The only flaw I can find with the Alpamayo is that the hipbelt wo n't fit small waists ( those much below 80cm ) .
45 One benefit of this over similar units is that the groove retains the semi-circular wedge , so it is hard to separate this moveable part from the nut .
46 The result is that the children learn how to control dogs and the dogs learn that obeying children is simply part of life .
47 The first is that the needles act to stimulate the nerves , causing the brain to produce endomorphins .
48 ‘ I want to want ’ , the underground man 's lonely cry , is also his though he does n't utter it , and biting the governor 's car , like sticking the tongue out , is a one-against-all drumming of the heels of consciousness — but again with a difference which is that the biting extends beyond the notional ; it happens and it hurts , though it 's a minor foray compared with Raskolnikov 's spectacular eruption into actuality with the murder .
49 Indeed the overall triumph of art in this case is that the novel walks out into our fact rather than ourselves entering its fiction : a very primitive and absolute form of consumer capitulation .
50 The fact is that The Possessed , which can be circumstantial to a calculated fault when it chooses , in this case chooses to say nothing .
51 Another advantage is that the file is printable , and can be checked by eye if necessary .
52 The interesting part is that the measuring fibre does not need to be part of the current carrying circuit , giving a high degree of electrical isolation .
53 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 .
54 The real problem is that the writers of such texts may make political difficulties within a department , or teach in ways difficult for students to understand .
55 My only comment is that the Quarterly has done it again .
56 All one can say with any certainty is that the Pounds ( and probably the Yeatses also ) paid at least two visits to Sicily in these years , and that on at least one occasion — probably on more than one — they stayed there for some weeks , if not months .
57 What all of them contend is that the auditory effect of all English-language verse can only in a schematic and starveling fashion be pin-pointed by applying the only two measurements that traditional scansion recognizes : on the one hand the number of syllables , on the other the number of occurrences of ictus or ‘ stress ’ .
58 Its other mark is that the rich words have gone : i .
59 What he has learned from Goldsmith ( ‘ the only genius I have ever come across ’ ) is that the holding company is not the most important unit of corporate organisation .
60 GENERAL TIPS A general rule for pub rock patrons is that the quality of music will be in inverse proportion to the quality of the beer ( except at Finsbury Park 's Sir George Robey where an excellent music policy comes complete with a decent pint of Guinness ) .
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