Example sentences of "is that a " in BNC.

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31 And the feeling in Washington is that a great pile of it is lying around ( under the name of Noriega M. ) at banks in London .
32 ‘ I would make two points : the first is that a lot of very small-scale activity does achieve results .
33 However , some breeding takes place in thermal reactors , so the actual gain is that a fast reactor can generate about sixty times as much electricity as a thermal reactor from each tonne of uranium .
34 ‘ What we hope is that a writ will make them settle , Mike , at some level . ’
35 The snag is that a stronger economy might mean higher inflation and therefore higher interest rates .
36 What seems miraculous , when all is said , is that a man driven by so many acts of perversity should have been embraced so widely .
37 Another possibility is that a woman had a bomb wired to her , and that it went off as she gave flowers to Mr Gandhi .
38 The reason is that a different body , the Technischer Überwachungs Verein ( tüv ) , has to approve gas cylinders that are transported by road .
39 The snag is that a clause in the civil settlement allows Exxon to withdraw from the entire agreement if part of the plea bargain is rejected by the courts .
40 But the lesson from the Iraqi experience is that a regime that behaves badly to its own people is likely to behave badly to its neighbours too .
41 The truth is that a triumphant BMA is gloating .
42 The perverse result , in many poor neighbourhoods , is that a young man lives off his mother 's or pregnant girlfriend 's welfare cheques , or both .
43 Yet one of the alterations effected in English law by the European Communities Act 1972 is that a person in good faith will not be prejudiced by any ultra vires transactions of a company , provided that the transaction was authorized by the company 's directors .
44 The ideal of land registration is that a government office , after investigating the title , enters the applicant upon the register as owner , and furnishes him with a certificate in accordance with the entry ; the entry is conclusive as to his right , and no further investigation of the previous title can subsequently be necessary .
45 What has not been adequately appreciated , however , is that a whole constellation of social forces — high infant mortality rates , loss of mother 's income , the fluctuating utility of child labour — could equally well encourage fertility control .
46 A further paternalistic argument is that a law restricting consent helps to protect individual citizens from themselves by counteracting some of the social pressures and shame which might otherwise occur .
47 The problem is that a good gimmick is contagious — everyone in Hollywood gets it all at once , and then you get a rash of movies all suffering from the same big idea .
48 The risk is that a show 's technical and business farming content can be eroded in the process , and that must be avoided at all costs .
49 But quite a few samples are thought to have nitrogens of about 1.4% , and for that quality of sample the suggestion in the trade is that a premium of up to £20/t could be available , though this is compared with a spot feed market that has been weakening over the past week .
50 A second principle is that a difficult task ( and nobody doubts that dieting can be very difficult ) is far easier to accomplish if it is broken down into small , manageable pieces .
51 A happy thought is that a gain of 2–3 lb ( 1 kg ) in a day is extremely unlikely to be due to fat alone .
52 Neither of them was capable of searching out any fairy-tale kink in the more drab theories of evolution which might explain how it is that a frog taken ( however reluctantly ) into the soft bed of a princess can be changed overnight back into a prince .
53 The reason behind all of the red tape even under normal circumstances is that a legal process is being implemented .
54 A third property which may be universal is that a change of a single molecule can , regularly and predictably , cause large-scale changes in the body .
55 The consequence of this is that a population of individuals with sex can evolve faster to meet changing circumstances than one without it .
56 For our present purpose , however , the important point is that a hierarchical pattern is what we expect to see if the objects being classified have originated by a process of branching .
57 The answer is that a reaction will take place at an appreciable rate only if there is a specific enzyme that speeds it up .
58 The second point is that a small energy input into the thermostat can release a large quantity of energy from the boiler .
59 ‘ Your opinion , then , as a medical man , is that a girl of eleven years old might be kept at work constantly , day after day , year after year , with the intermission of Sunday , without injury to her health ? ’
60 ‘ The received wisdom is that a toff can not win a modern TV election . ’
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