Example sentences of "theory is that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stock market theory is that the Goldsmith contingent needs a new challenge now its bid for BAT Industries has effectively evaporated . |
| 2 | One theory is that the US was at a loss to know how to deal with the rebels becuase it had , indeed , been plotting a Panamanian coup , but not this coup . |
| 3 | The first theory is that the move is a safety valve , to defuse popular resentment and a sense of alienation . |
| 4 | ‘ His theory , Greg , is … how long you got ? … his theory is that the best music is the stuff which makes you go doolally , lose yourself . |
| 5 | Their visits break many of the established patterns of human/dolphin encounter : they accept gifts of dead fish ( one theory is that the dolphins receive the fish as a signal from humans that they have come to play and interact ) , and they maintain their own social grouping while at the same time allowing close human contact . |
| 6 | One theory is that the bomb was detonated by remote control , a method used to kill Ranjan Wijeratne , Sri Lanka 's defence minister , earlier this year . |
| 7 | The theory is that the only thing that has ever been wrong with the health service is a lack of resources . |
| 8 | But one theory is that the Mujahideen are seeking to use the election to demonstrate that opposition to the mullahs is alive and strong . |
| 9 | Time magazine , as always reflecting the indoctrines of the Luce family and assuming the mantle of the responsible voice of America , recorded that : ‘ it was a scene as grisly as anything depicted in Polanski 's film explorations of the dark and melancholy corners of human character … and the most likely theory is that the slayings were related to narcotics . ’ |
| 10 | One possibility that follows from Wagner 's ( 1981 ) theory is that the magnitude of the CR might actually be enhanced . |
| 11 | The theory is that the user , not knowing the ‘ technical ’ description of the product , refers to it by its artificial title which becomes built into the administrative and ordering system , emerging as repeat orders for the supplier . |
| 12 | A more recent theory is that the Celtic or pre-Celtic White Park type originated on the Iberian peninsula , along the immigration route of the Hamitic longhorns which travelled from the Middle East into North Africa and West Africa , with some branching off to cross into southern Spain by way of the Straits of Gibraltar . |
| 13 | A popular theory is that the body 's genetic material ‘ wears out ’ , accumulating more and more errors until the body 's cells cease to function altogether . |
| 14 | One theory is that the oil has sunk , and is drifting in globules a few metres below the surface of the water . |
| 15 | The more established theory is that the rise and fall of water levels , the advance and retreat of lakes and the resultant slimy muds , were also catalysts , or concentrators , bringing new chemicals within sediments into contact with other organic chemicals . |
| 16 | A variant of this general theory is that the balance of class forces was different and less confrontational in Britain than elsewhere , hence there was less of the resentment that produced extreme-right reactions . |
| 17 | Her theory is that the more that control is personalised , the more likely it is that there will be friction between management and the workforce , but that continuous-process plants , because they are so highly automated , have unified impersonal control systems which minimise conflict and lead to more satisfying working conditions . |
| 18 | One theory is that the town was once part of a vast cosmic Zodiac which radiated from Stonehenge . |
| 19 | In the end , of course , the theory is that the bird gets used to the food being there and comes back at the wag of a finger . |
| 20 | ‘ An alternative theory is that the killer knocked him out first , then went into the washroom to strip and came back for the final throat-cutting before Berowne had a chance to come round . |
| 21 | The generally accepted theory is that the ancestors of the tiger originated in the cold and barren lands of Siberia and northern Asia . |
| 22 | A recurrent working hypothesis of gene-culture coevolutionary theory is that the epigenetic rules are shaped by natural selection over many generations . |
| 23 | One of the major points to emerge from computational theory is that the best way of achieving a representation of the environment is via a modular system that represents different properties of the environment in different parts of the system . |
| 24 | A more devious theory is that the whole red-mercury affair is simply a fantasy dreamt up to make Mr Rutskoi look foolish . |
| 25 | In administrative law the theory is that the courts are simply implementing the will of the legislature by subjecting the exercise of discretionary power to these standards of review . |
| 26 | The theory is that the range of decisions open to managers and administrative agencies is limited because a set of criteria derived from their expert background and training governs their decisions . |
| 27 | The theory is that the greater the difference between polished and scuffed sides the more the ball will swing . |
| 28 | His theory is that the two men were either freelance or else they decided to try and kill the President by themselves without telling the others . ’ |
| 29 | The theory is that the results or factual conclusions of police investigations have no special standing but have to be proved by admissible evidence just like any other relevant fact . |
| 30 | A possible alternative theory is that the committee , the responsible government department and the parliamentary draftsmen all thought that section 15 ( clause 12 ) was needed , which turns out to be a mistaken view when section 1 is properly understood . |