Example sentences of "[is] [that] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It is n't that one writer did something bad and somehow called punishment down upon himself ; it 's that writers in Iran , Saudi , Egypt are being persecuted by the forces of fundamentalism .
2 Buzz 's Mark Neale and Grant Fee put together the bulk of the visuals ( a series of routines structured round archetypal themes such as love , speed , fear and the like , and according to Gee ‘ all supposed to reflect this idea of Montxo Algora 's that emotions are what will save us in virtual reality ’ .
3 These convictions had become sufficiently general amongst antislavery reformers by the mid-1820s that local associations in , for example , Norwich , Beverley , Hull and Whitby all dismissed comprehensively the argument in Cobbett 's Register and Blackwood 's that labourers in Britain suffered worse material conditions than West Indian slaves .
4 So it 's that Vibes question again .
5 Scots protesting at rail privatisation went to London today to tell MP 's that jobs and services are in danger .
6 Scots protesting at rail privatisation went to London today to tell MP 's that jobs and services are in danger .
7 The point , however , is that Toennies based his analysis not on the difference between peasant community and urbanised society , but between the old-fashioned town and the capitalist city , ‘ essentially a commercial town and , insofar as commerce dominates its productive labour , a factory town ’ .
8 It is thought that high-mass X-ray binaries accrete primarily from a stellar wind escaping from the companion star whereas LMXBs accrete by means of Roche-lobe overflow into a disc ; a viable hypothesis is that QPOs are a generic feature of disc accretion , regardless of the precise nature of the compact object .
9 The advantage of this scheme over RFS is that ions are detected rather than photons and there are no background problems from scattered photons .
10 The main thing to remember when looking for your first gigs is that promoters , bookers and pub landlords are n't bothered whether you are going to be the next U2 .
11 The reason the Labradoodle caught my eye is that Bubbles is the result of a liaison between a Miniature Poodle and — wait for it — a Labrador/Boxer cross .
12 The point is that birds themselves are warm-blooded , like mammals , and if birds and dinosaurs are as closely related as now seems likely , then it obviously increases the likelihood that the dinosaurs themselves may have been warm-blooded .
13 What has not yet been conclusively demonstrated is that birds learn to avoid brightly coloured sickening prey more quickly than equivalent but duller coloured prey .
14 The only thing that everybody seems to be sure about is that abortions will continue to be performed despite the new law .
15 Here the argument is that correctionalists are helping to divert attention away from the ‘ real ’ problems , rather than that they are necessarily helping to crush revolutionary potential .
16 Swindon author Dr Colin Francome , who co-wrote the book , explained at today 's launch that research shows that one reason for the increase in Caesarean operations is that consultants are afraid of a law suit if the baby 's born naturally and is n't healthy .
17 These may or may not have significance ; what needs to be certain is that descriptions are accurate , for if they are wrong , deductions from them will be valueless .
18 For our purposes , the important point is that variants of these intermediate or compromise schemes were propounded by both Protestant and Catholic scholars .
19 The underlying idea is that citizens are expected to keep control over their behaviour , but that in circumstances where even a person of normal self-control might be provoked , the offence may be reduced from murder to manslaughter .
20 The idea here is that citizens would be entitled to compensation for loss caused by the conduct of a particular activity regardless of whether that activity was conducted legally or illegally , in a faulty way or absolutely blamelessly .
21 In Britain the assumption is that citizens have no right to official information , and receive only what the government chooses to tell them .
22 For the one characteristic organization theorists ( Blau and Scott 1962 ; Etzioni 1961 ; Parsons 1963 ) agree on is that corporations , like all organizations , are primarily orientated towards the achievement of a particular goal — profit — at least in the long run .
23 The second statutory safeguard is that copies of any intercepted material must be destroyed as soon as they are no longer required .
24 The situation in Romania , as described by Baleanu and Bugnariu , is that copies of all Romanian theses are deposited with the ( single ) Central University Library , which then publishes an abstracting bulletin giving summaries of the contents .
25 His argument is that newspapers may be inhibited about discussing the commercial interests of their proprietors but otherwise they exercise independent judgement .
26 The Pope 's theory is that priests should be specially educated to arm themselves with ‘ more than supernatural means ’ against possible temptation .
27 If the Vance-Owen plan is to survive , its one chance is that sanctions will bring about a change of mind among the Bosnian Serbs .
28 My own belief , which is shared , oddly enough , by the head of the CIA , William Webster , is that sanctions would have eroded his military capacity so much that , given another nine months or so — assuming we has used that period for more flexible diplomacy , which we notably failed to do — then we could either have got him out by negotiation , or we could have promoted a situation inside Iraq in which he could n't fight .
29 One difference between the two views is that Keynesians believe money is a close substitute for financial assets , whereas the monetarists argue that money is not a particularly close substitute for any specific range of assets .
30 The great contrast , however , is that debentures secured by charges on the company 's property throw up problems regarding the priority between conflicting charges .
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