Example sentences of "is that a " in BNC.
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| 61 | The main tenet of Sobchak 's philosophy is that a woman should never forget to be a woman . |
| 62 | The scandal is that a supine and cowardly press has allowed itself to be intimidated into censoring the truth even though it distorts our entire view of reality . |
| 63 | The word in the mess is that a review of the highly controversial changes is imminent and the 12-year-old malts are standing by for opening in early May . |
| 64 | But what I have tried to show is that a theist could actually claim to be abiding by the Verification Principle when making statements about God . |
| 65 | ‘ The essential affirmation in the poem is that a young woman should preserve her virginity , again nothing remarkable . |
| 66 | While it might be interesting to compare Mrs. Simper 's and Sophronia 's reactions to lower servants better educated than themselves , the essential point is that a violation of the ordinary division of labour could easily result in a domestic servant losing his or her place . |
| 67 | The general rule is that a battery is committed where a person touches or strikes another , grabs hold of their sleeve or lapels and so on , without implied or express permission . |
| 68 | The problem is that a great many of such units are needed , far more than are being built , if the numbers of larger hospitals are to be reduced . |
| 69 | One of the effects is that a survey of a range of prep school publicity material revealed nothing in the way of knocking copy aimed at other schools within or outside the private sector . |
| 70 | One point to remember ( it is consistent with Friedman 's account ) is that a person may have limited authority ( e.g. , in matters concerning football only , or in military affairs but not in the conduct of the economy ) . |
| 71 | This belief , expressed in the legal doctrine of novus actus interruptus , is that a person is responsible for his own actions , and others are not responsible even if they induced his action by suggesting that there are reasons for it , or by behaving in ways which led him to form such a belief . |
| 72 | The essential point is that a conception of justice fulfils its social role provided that citizens equally conscientious and sharing roughly the same beliefs find that , by affirming the framework of deliberation set up by it , they are normally led to a sufficient convergence of opinion . |
| 73 | All I can say is that a bloke in a top-hat spoke to me . |
| 74 | My contention is that a national government should treat a sum of one Ppound in the same manner that an individual treats an ordinary pound . |
| 75 | My argument is that a place may be a paradise only if humans can live there — the picture must sell not merely paradise , but the idea of the ‘ enjoyment ’ of paradise . |
| 76 | The probability is that a compromise will be reached by which any one of the current British , French , Dutch and German methods will be acceptable . |
| 77 | The unfortunate thing is that a good part of it came from an unexpected direction . |
| 78 | What is not in dispute is that a new method of attack was discovered that night . |
| 79 | An additional incentive is that a garden , in contrast to its associated historic building , does not always need substantial sums for major fabric repairs at the outset and can be revived over a longer period of time . |
| 80 | What happens there is that a ‘ really gay ’ reading of Coward is put into play , much as I have already done with Brief Encounter , but on the grounds that a homosexual writer can only write about homosexuality ( analogous cases would be the insistence that Edward Albee 's Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is ‘ really ’ about a gay couple , or that Tennessee Williams 's Blanche Dubois is nothing but a transposed drag queen ) . |
| 81 | What we have not previously considered is that a cultural trait may have evolved in the way that it has , simply because it is advantageous to itself . |
| 82 | The key point , to repeat it , is that a parasite whose genes aspire to the same destiny as the genes of its host shares all the interests of its host and will eventually cease to act parasitically . |
| 83 | The important thing is that a gene for a stage in pathway 1 will flourish in the presence of genes for other stages in pathway 1 , but not in the presence of pathway 2 genes . |
| 84 | As I think Mr Gillett already suspects , the truth is that a great part of the Willesden Green library stock was sacrificed on the altar of Community Librarianship . |
| 85 | A general approximation is that a 10°C rise in temperature doubles the rate of reaction , but in practice , the usefulness of this approximation is limited by the fact that at temperatures far removed from ‘ normal ’ , other changes often take place which never occur at normal temperatures . |
| 86 | A consistent underlying theme is that a reliance on market forces can not be the answer : in every area , public action is urgently needed . |
| 87 | Rather than propose ways in which representative democracy could be strengthened and improved , these authors concluded : ‘ the weight of the evidence is that a vote is much less effective than purchasing power … the market is potentially more democratic than the state ’ ( p. 65 ) . |
| 88 | The reason for this is that a large daggerboard helps with stability in lighter winds . |
| 89 | A common theme in faster turning is that a low body position with bent legs keeps the centre of gravity low and makes you more stable throughout the manoeuvres . |
| 90 | The MAFF view given to me is that a detailed assessment in England and Wales would be extremely time consuming and costly , probably taking eight years to complete . |