Example sentences of "is that they " in BNC.
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| 1 | A final caution about using monographs about painters is that they can seldom be read alone . |
| 2 | And one of the main advantages of these very compressed and arduous courses is that they give students approaching drama school entry an opportunity of seeing what will be required of them should they gain a place at drama school . |
| 3 | The point is that they are all vital young men with love on their minds , full of colourful words to express their feelings , and all are within the range of the eighteen to twenty-five year old student actor . |
| 4 | The distinctive feature of the beliefs is that they assert or imply the honour or prestige due to the group over and against another or other groups , and consequently motivate the group to achieve such honour on the field of social conflict . |
| 5 | One key problem with the more domestically-scaled Georgian pubs is that they were often originally conceived as , or converted from , modest homes . |
| 6 | Dorset Fire Safety Committee senior fire prevention officer Ian Clark said : ‘ One of the biggest problems with hotels is that they do not maintain the requirements of the Fire Certificate . ’ |
| 7 | The point about these last two demonstrations is that they emphasise that spinning depends on stalling and keeping the aircraft stalled . |
| 8 | One possible theory about why some people are much more affected than others is that they may have had traumatic experiences of falling as a baby or a young child , and that this has further re-inforced their instinctive behaviour . |
| 9 | All we know about As , for example , is that they have relation to R to Bs , relation R' to Cs , relation R'' to Ds , etc ; and similarly for our understanding of Bs , Cs and Ds , and the variety of Rs . |
| 10 | From the standpoint of constructivism , the reason why associationist-representational theories so spectacularly fail to capture the essence of thought is that they ignore the fact that every thought , like every action , has , at some level , a purpose . |
| 11 | The problem with the conclusions in both sets of experiments is that they are based on the assumption that we can infer when an experience occurs from a subject 's verbal report . |
| 12 | All we can reasonably conclude is that they happened at the same time . |
| 13 | The ingredient that champions have is that they practice what they need to learn . ’ |
| 14 | He can create overall rhythms and within them short phrase rhythms , but the basis of them all is that they exist in groups and by being efficient in action and appropriate to the context give pleasure to both the performer and the onlooker . ’ |
| 15 | The disadvantage is that they require a transformer to step down the voltage , which either means fairly expensive fittings ( incorporating the transformer so they can replace existing fittings ) , or expensive wiring from a central transformer to the light fittings — low voltage means high current , so the wires have to be much bigger than normal lighting wiring . |
| 16 | Another major advantage over the thinner types of cladding is that they provide additional insulation to exterior walls ( which can be augmented by fixing them over an extra layer of insulation ) . |
| 17 | What makes the commentators on man-godhood and related themes misleading , why they fail to evoke the real thing , is that they suggest an object which is stable and personal ( as opposed to volatile and transpersonal ) . |
| 18 | It is not that academic critics make a conscious effort to imitate their colleagues in the sciences , it is that they have come to adopt their concept of knowledge , and its professional servicing and supportive structures . |
| 19 | ‘ The fundamental problem with state-owned industries is that they are rationed of capital . |
| 20 | What all three things have in common is that they were caused by autumn . |
| 21 | THE most curious thing about the transport and incineration of PCB wastes is that they are , amongst professionals , the least controversial of all the problems they deal with . |
| 22 | ‘ The general result of such discussion is that they are exploited by the ANC and others to conceal the true nature of revolutionary organisations , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Part of the attraction of alternative cancer treatments such as the Gerson therapy is that they allow a patient to feel more in control of the treatment . |
| 24 | ‘ What they will be hoping for is that they can get to a few months before before the next election , take the brakes off and try to deceive the people once again things are back on course . |
| 25 | The suspicion is that they are too similar in style and are both playing the same game . |
| 26 | The most damaging feature of the August figures , however , is that they showed no sign , after a year and a half of severe monetary tightening , that the worst was over . |
| 27 | The thread which runs through these sorry tales is that they are all examples of irrational over-reaction by a government which is , by the standards of the region , honest , able and secure . |
| 28 | Many of these children are prepared and placed for adoption with strangers , and part of the package is that they will no longer see or be in contact with relatives who have remained in touch during their stay in care . |
| 29 | One of their advantages is that they are an early potato which comes to maturity in autumn . |
| 30 | The secret — which I now divulge — is that they are dead easy to grow . |