Example sentences of "[pron] [is] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The necessary inference from such a principle as his is that the interpreters of law should be the.ones to define the rights of individuals and to trace the bounds of legitimate government over them . |
| 2 | The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure . |
| 3 | Although it is obviously accurate to call an incipient spin a stall with a wing-drop , I think that this is trying to avoid the issue , which is that it is really the beginning of a spin and at least a potential spin . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is at the conferences of Labour , the party that killed the grammar schools , that you see one fruit of that enlightened policy , which is that many of the younger delegates are incoherently illiterate . |
| 7 | To speculate about possible good communists in the GDR is also to ignore the central fact about the country , which is that it is not one . |
| 8 | To dismiss this comment simply as Bridgeman being a poacher turned gamekeeper would be to miss the point , which is that the war had allowed the Conservatives to become gamekeepers again , whereas from 1902 to 1914 there had been genuine concern that they might be permanently banished from the estates of power . |
| 9 | There is an inherent danger in all this for our clothing industry which is that , unless manufacturers wake up , there will continue to be far more opportunity for European merchandise to come here , and little for ours to get elsewhere . |
| 10 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 11 | Indeed , we make an effort not to use the phrase for a number of reasons , one of which is that we have been unable to figure out what it means ’ . |
| 12 | Job preferment stigmatises those who do not need help , starts a backlash from whites and reinforces the myth of racial inferiority , the most pernicious effect of which is that blacks have believed it as much as whites . |
| 13 | To permit this method of mortgaging land to continue would have been quite contrary to the policy of the Property Acts , which is that the owner of property shall be able to convey to a purchaser a good legal title free from all equities affecting that property . |
| 14 | When DUP spokesmen give their view of the conflict , which is that the rioters were clearly in the wrong but their actions were understandable , and that the fault really lay with the leadership of the RUC , the loyalists seem to hear only those parts which marked the DUP as being more supportive of their acts than was the OUP . |
| 15 | Now they have brought forward a plan which is that they should lend me sufficient money to rent another house in which Mr Landor is to have the first floor , comprising three rooms , a book closet , and a terrace , and I am to reside on the ground floor and care for him receiving £30 a year for my trouble . |
| 16 | There are also changes to COSHH Regulation 4 and Schedule 2 , the main effect of which is that the use of benzene is prohibited except in industrial processes or for the purposes of research , development and analysis . |
| 17 | Their work also confirmed what had long been suspected : which is that the majority of creatures on Earth are insects , and most of them are beetles . |
| 18 | But his own position , which is that an entity can simply be defined in terms of ‘ the totality of its appearances ’ , is similarly questionable . |
| 19 | The subterranean passage view offers a plausible account of how the monsters could feed , but unfortunately in doing so it destroys another theory about ‘ Nessie ’ , which is that the animal is a relic of the dinosaur age , possibly a plesiosaur . |
| 20 | The minuet is thought possibly to have originated as a dance movement ( one indication of which is that the violas double the bass line rather than having independent parts as was customary in Mozart 's symphonic works ) . |
| 21 | Then what have you to say to my argument , which is that by not going off the rails , man is destined to live meanly and dully , and in that way corrupts the true purpose of his being on earth ? |
| 22 | You then put another layer of filters on , which is that if you have got to choose , you choose content areas which are very important to Britain , or you choose content areas which the camera can communicate best . |
| 23 | Despite their many differences , deep ecology , animal welfare , and anti-cruelty have some fundamental similarities , the most important of which is that individuals are morally expendable — expendable for the deep ecologist as long as the good of the biotic community is sustained or promoted , expendable for the animal welfarist as long as the welfare of others is protected or advanced , and expendable for those who accept the anti-cruelty position , as long as worthy ends are not obtained by means that cause excessive suffering . |
| 24 | Ever since the RSPCA established a Working Party to look at the implications of fishing , we have been concerned about one of its conclusions , which is that fish should be given the benefit of the doubt with regard to their ability to experience pain . |
| 25 | Several advantages can be identified , perhaps the most important of which is that it would remove the financial disincentive which currently exists for doctors , hospitals and Health Authorities to treat more patients . |
| 26 | Rather , it adds a new element , which is that the testator 's son alone is to undertake liability . |
| 27 | So far as far as water sports are concerned I would make one reservation which is that there has to be some form of rationalization between competed sports which may conflict with each other and I am sure this can be achieved through the Sports Council machinery . |
| 28 | The self-evident gap between fantasy and reality — which is that no government , anywhere , of any political complexion has got the first clue about how to organise society in the post-Cold War world — has led to an aimless disgruntlement , a poisonous mixture of envy and ennui . |
| 29 | Quicker thinking readers will probably have noticed what I did n't , which is that the first appearance of ‘ adverb ’ is a mistaken correction by a typesetter or proofreader of the correctly wrong ‘ abverb ’ . |
| 30 | The section of the Manifesto entitled The Institute and Professional Success does list a number of detailed objectives that might be expected to help firms increase their profitability , the most important of which is that ‘ unless required by public interest , the Institute should not seek to impose regulations which have the effect of restricting the freedom of members to succeed professionally and commercially ’ . |