Example sentences of "namely [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But both Salters 's and Russell 's work in Northern Ireland schools have been used by catholic schools supporters to aid a general principle , also derived from the work of some sociologists of education : namely that schools have little impact on children in terms of their basic values anyway , and one should recognize parents and community environment for the real source of these . |
| 2 | And the novel which got written breathes life into this sentence 's very unpromising warrant for the ‘ truth ’ of what is being told , namely that there are hard facts or perhaps it is just being made up . |
| 3 | Ferranti said the Coopers report confirmed what its own directors and accountants had already established — namely that ‘ phantom ’ assets and profits had been created in ISC 's accounts worth some £215m . |
| 4 | He used the same language as that employed by the Chinese government to explain away the unrest that the democracy movement unleashed in May and June — namely that it was the work of a ‘ handful of evil-doers ’ . |
| 5 | And the reverse is also true : namely that all events are created ( only ) by thought . |
| 6 | The main Conservative claim to national support , therefore , namely that they had worked an economic miracle , seemed increasingly shallow . |
| 7 | My suggestion to you is that the only connection between them is basic human nature itself , namely that the heart of man is incurably evil . |
| 8 | I am coming later to the ‘ none-atall ’ which is one of the more emphatic observations that I have to make , namely that one must not assume there is necessarily a rational purpose , or even a felonious purpose , in the breach of law and order and the commission of crime . |
| 9 | Having said all that , the Freudian model stands as an indispensable starting-point for identifying a certain kind of homophobia , namely that conjunction of hatred , paranoia , and desire ( repressed , ambivalent , or overt ) which characterizes some of those same heterosexually identified men in their relationships with lesbian and gay people . |
| 10 | So , whereas in the psychoanalytic account , homophobia might well signal the precariousness and instability of identity , even of sexual difference itself , in the materialist socio-political account it typically signals the reverse , namely that sexual difference is being secured , homophobia being ‘ a mechanism for regulating the behaviour of the many by the specific oppression of a few ’ ( Sedgwick , Between Men , 88 ) . |
| 11 | In a bizarre and disavowed way this antiquated pseudo-scientific theory of male and female sexuality might usefully recall something remarked more recently by Gayle Rubin , namely that modern sexual difference theory , far from being an expression of natural differences , actually involves the suppression of natural similarities ( ‘ Traffic in Women ’ , 179 — 80 ) . |
| 12 | What Butler says of this account — namely that it ‘ tells us more about the fantasies that a fearful heterosexual culture produces to defend against its own homosexual possibilities , than about lesbian experience itself ’ ( Gender Trouble , 86 — 7 ) — might also be said more generally of the way homosexuality is conceptualized in sexual difference theory . |
| 13 | The King therefore saw Samuel before Baldwin ; and Samuel gave the advice which the Sovereign wanted to hear , namely that if MacDonald proved unable to carry his Cabinet , the best solution to the crisis would be a National Government , led by MacDonald , ‘ unless he found that he could not carry with him a sufficient number of his colleagues ’ . |
| 14 | We hope another point is made by these questions and comments , namely that the problem is very complex , requires large amounts of meticulous study , and the results are most difficult to interpret unambiguously . |
| 15 | He and Colin Thubron have devised a new scenario which remains true to the basic premise of Cranko 's original story and Britten 's score — namely that redemption comes through compassion — while giving a more cohesive dramatic shape to the work . |
| 16 | Another stipendiary magistrate , heard argument about abuse of the process and came to the opposite conclusion from Mr Bartle , namely that delay in Mr Cherry 's case did not constitute an abuse of the process . |
| 17 | One of the reasons Mr Houghton and his managers cite for staying in the pots-and-pans business sounds pretty lame : namely that the business was handicapped in the 1980s first by a recession at the start of the decade and then later by a strong dollar and so could now recover . |
| 18 | The great characteristic of equitable estates , namely that they will be destroyed if the legal estate gets into the hands of a purchaser for value without notice , still holds good . |
| 19 | The committee carried out a range of fascinating research and confirmed what the public knew already , namely that the ham sandwiches available in motorway cafeterias had a tendency to be ‘ thin , tasteless ham in soggy bread ’ . |
| 20 | Quantum analysis is a branch of statistics designed to test a very specific hypothesis , namely that a set of measurements is ‘ quantised ’ , and thus occurs in multiples of some basic measurement unit . |
| 21 | This was Herbert Spencer 's view , namely that an upward evolutionary process was inherent in the human condition . |
| 22 | ' However eager sceptical Victorians might be to replace the superstitious world of their forefathers with a structure that seemed to them more solid and more rational , the alternative , namely that they lived in a meaningless world of chance , was repellent to many of them . |
| 23 | In the end it will need the writer of Jonah to recall the great truth which his people found , and which the Church still finds so hard to grasp , namely that God does indeed throw his largesse to all and sundry . |
| 24 | In terms of principle , the rule requires justification because it departs from the principle of correspondence ( see Chapter 5.2(a) ) , namely that the fault element in a crime should relate to the consequences prohibited by that crime . |
| 25 | On 1 March he published his intention of inviolably observing the Charter of the Forest in all its articles : he appointed four commissioners to supervise the making in each forest county of ‘ a true perambulation , namely that which was made in the time of the lord King Henry our father , which has not yet been challenged ’ . |
| 26 | This incident is bound to re-activate the old controversy about sex education , namely that one person 's information is another 's propaganda . |
| 27 | However , this fails to acknowledge a fundamental axiom of social work practice ; namely that language not only reflects but also shapes social reality . |
| 28 | Hamilton had the brilliance to see the simple point that had not been elaborated before ; namely that overall fitness is the sum of fitness owing to selfish behaviour plus fitness owing to altruistic behaviour to relatives . |
| 29 | If there are structural weaknesses in the German constitution and German political life , they perhaps lie halfway between these two remarks , namely that there is an excessive domination of the parties in the political process who fail to bring political discussion sufficiently into the open and consequently do not always offer the electorate a real choice . |
| 30 | But Ayer represents what is probably more often the position of the atheist , namely that it simply makes no sense to talk of God . |