Example sentences of "is that an " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pragmatic view is that an aesthetic experience is what is described as such , and as there are varieties of religious experience , so there may be varieties of aesthetic experience . |
| 2 | ‘ My position is that an embryo should only be created for insertion into a specified woman and should receive the maximum protection from the moment of its creation and no non-therapeutic research should be allowed , ’ he said . |
| 3 | What is meant is that an organism does something which reduces its own chances of survival and reproduction , and increases the chances of other members of the species . |
| 4 | But his own position , which is that an entity can simply be defined in terms of ‘ the totality of its appearances ’ , is similarly questionable . |
| 5 | The point is that an orderly community can exist only if it shares many practices , and that in all modern pluralistic societies a great measure of toleration of vastly differing outlooks is made possible by the fact that many of them enable the vast majority of the population to accept common standards of conduct . |
| 6 | The most obvious distinguishing feature of the experiment by Hall and Honey is that an appetitive reinforcer was used rather than the electric shock of the conditioned suppression procedure . |
| 7 | The key principle of the Act is that an employer should not make a deduction from the wages of a worker without that worker 's written consent . |
| 8 | The idea is that an area consisting largely of derelict and/or vacant land should be landscaped and used for a variety of horticultural , leisure and recreational purposes , normally for a six-months period . |
| 9 | One point which has been decided is that an odour need not be prejudicial to health to amount to a nuisance , rather in deciding the question the court will consider all the circumstances including the character of the locality in which the plaintiff is living , the nature , intensity and frequency of the odour , the time and effects of its commission . |
| 10 | The basic principle in operant learning is that an item or sequence of behaviour is strengthened or weakened by its consequences . |
| 11 | What is not rubbish is that an attempt to operate modern cars on low octane fuel for any extended period of time is likely to have very severe consequences for the engine . |
| 12 | Therefore the condition of equilibrium between the two departments is that an exchange should take place , and that IIc = Iv + Is . |
| 13 | ‘ The principle of our business is that an asset can be financed and paid for , including interest and capital , in the first half of its working life , ’ he says . |
| 14 | The concept is that an onboard device captures operating and maintenance data under specified in-flight conditions . |
| 15 | ‘ A rough estimate is that an OFR as proposed might require 10 or more printed pages of information … |
| 16 | One good point is that an original direction , but not a supplementary direction , can not be retrospective as it only has ‘ effect from the date of the direction ’ ( para 1A(1) and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 17 | Rather , all items should be recognised where a sufficiently reliable measure can be obtained , although the more likely it is that an item will have an outcome of zero , the lower its recognised amount will be . |
| 18 | ‘ What is most interesting is that an analysis of the first 3,500 enquiries showed that 60% were from industrial and commercial companies . |
| 19 | It read : The position is that an investigation file relating to the occurrence referred to in your letter has been submitted by the Chief Constable to the Director of public prosecutions . |
| 20 | What generally happens in practice is that an applicant whose total score is above a certain level would normally get credit automatically . |
| 21 | The basic idea of electrolysis is that an electric current passes through some liquid , in Tanberg 's case this was water , and the liquid breaks down into its constituent elements ( in this case , hydrogen and oxygen ) . |
| 22 | When people first encounter it their normal assumption is that an alternate universe is nothing more than a ‘ what might have been ’ ; science-fiction writers have toyed with that idea for decades . |
| 23 | The alternative view is that an understanding of how normally developing children learn language is essential , first , in order to understand why a child is experiencing difficulty and , second , to provide insights into the best and most effective strategies for remedial intervention . |
| 24 | The limitation of this method is that an input word may not be included in the look-up vocabulary ) , however this is unavoidable . |
| 25 | The limitation of this method is that an input word may not be included in the look-up vocabulary , however this is unavoidable ( see discussion section 6.2 ) . |
| 26 | The outcome is that an industry which has skilfully managed to convert a chemical with meagre medical justification and considerable potential for harm ( Grinspoon and Hedblom 1975 ) into a legitimate drug , remained free from federal control to go on manufacturing , distributing , and advertising it . |
| 27 | What is common to all , however , is that an emphasis is placed on peaceful interaction among the members of the society , and this emphasis is cosmologically constructed and morally embedded in a cosmological universe of meaning . |
| 28 | The snag about recording is that an enormous amount of material is produced which is very tedious to analyse . |
| 29 | What seems to happen is that an individual , given his arrival in a situation , reviews it in the context of his own objectives and decides that if he takes certain actions , the situation will change in the direction of his objectives . |
| 30 | A third possibility is that an animal might be able to recognise its own genetic relatives . |