Example sentences of "is that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advice offered here is that a reader should ignore what category of writing a book or article may come under , since helpful art criticism may be found in all sorts of sources . |
| 2 | The imperative for a writer of a chronological survey is that a defined period of time is covered ; this may be linked with a theme , such as the history of styles in Gombrich 's case , but it is unlikely to be linked solely with a spotlight on quality . |
| 3 | The first and most obvious difficulty is that a three-dimensional object can not fit satisfactorily on to a flat page . |
| 4 | One story about his teaching is that a new student would be told to observe a fish in a tank . |
| 5 | One very obvious but important observation is that a pub is first and foremost an interior . |
| 6 | The advantage of rope and parafil for car launching is that a drogue or parachute are not absolutely necessary . |
| 7 | The fundamental difference between the two routes , then , is that a pronunciation is either built up from sublexical components ( ‘ assembled ’ phonology ) or looked up as a whole ( ‘ addressed ’ phonology ) . |
| 8 | The key recommendation is that a workforce should be recruited and trained to bring five million energy-inefficient homes to current building standards at a cost of £2–3,000 each or a total of £40–45 billion . |
| 9 | The basic idea is that a few parameters are turned into a smooth curve by a standardised computation . |
| 10 | What I am saying is that a lot of the common English objections to Ezra Pound have substance , and would be worth taking seriously , if only we could be sure that they were advanced in good faith , in humility , and with compassion . |
| 11 | The general opinion is that a bridge is necessary , though not a toll bridge . ’ |
| 12 | The key to yesterday 's deal is that a problem of this magnitude is now unlikely to happen again . |
| 13 | The contrary view is that a huge capital investment will have to be made soon to maintain buildings and provide equipment . |
| 14 | The final qualification is that a print-maker , to reach the very top of the tree , must be known and appreciated by the Japanese . |
| 15 | A further problem is that a BAe takeover would strengthen German objections to Ferranti winning the radar contract for the European Fighter Aircraft since it would mean BAe gaining a disproportionately large share of the total project . |
| 16 | The truth is that a whiff of counter-revolution is hard to find — dismaying though that may be for party propagandists . |
| 17 | The official excuse for a sudden wave sweeping every column inch of coverage is that a genuine revelation has occurred . |
| 18 | The plan is that a new company , soon to be renamed LWT ( Holdings ) , will buy in all of LWT 's shares , paying one new preferred share plus a package worth 130p made up of a special dividend of 60p , an associated tax credit of 20p and either loan notes or cash worth 50p . |
| 19 | One assertion which has been made in support of student loans is that a student should be prepared to take a loan in respect of his or her enhanced earning capacity as a graduate . |
| 20 | The result of this relatively narrow income distribution is that a company can be truly multinational , doing business with a spread of nations with high levels of income , whilst confining its activities to a very small number of countries . |
| 21 | The overt expression of that passivity and self-condemnation is that a whole range of the voices of public opinion are on the side of what you and I call the criminals . |
| 22 | The most obvious is that a larger amount of time is required from the writer . |
| 23 | The principal disadvantage is that a limited company invariably incurs some additional costs . |
| 24 | What is especially fascinating about this text is that a rehabilitation of masculinity coexists with an ironic repudiation of it , and a critique of what might be called masculinity 's cultural unconscious . |
| 25 | What we learn from Wilde , Gide , Barthes , and others is that a conventionally understood politics which ignores sexual desire will quite possibly be as disastrous as one which makes that desire the prime mover — even , or especially , in the age of so-called post-liberation . |
| 26 | ‘ What surprises us is that a man of his means should have such superb false ones . ’ |
| 27 | Naturally , the greater part of the volume of this room is within the roof space and a consequence of this is that a small pre-existing ventilation opening , which was sited high up below the eaves of the barn and is now glazed to form a window , has its sill at floor level . |
| 28 | The prospect for the future is that a modernising Soviet economy might even prefer to buy better quality equipment from elsewhere . |
| 29 | Keeler 's conclusion is that a weed must bear 10 or 11 of the tell-tale traits to be seriously weedy . |
| 30 | Ignoring the rights and wrongs of Lord Elton 's disagreements with some of his members , the fact is that a body meant to protect investors has been overshadowed by policy rows with the investment firms which make up its membership . |