Example sentences of "[adj] is that a " in BNC.

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1 What is clear is that a significant cultural artifact has become soft and ephemeral .
2 What is clear is that a business can not claim that its terms were accepted by a trading partner if they were accepted by an employee whom it knows has no authority to accept them .
3 What becomes clear is that a parent must listen to the individual school 's advice on what they see as the best sort of homework to give and in what amounts .
4 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 .
5 The consequence of this is that a population of individuals with sex can evolve faster to meet changing circumstances than one without it .
6 The reason for this is that a large daggerboard helps with stability in lighter winds .
7 In the field of equal opportunities , the notion of contract compliance has been borrowed from the USA by some councils : the idea behind this is that a condition of local authority purchase from its suppliers may be expressed in terms of key employment practices , including the recruitment of ethnic minorities and women , and reasonable access for them to promotion within the enterprise .
8 However , the problem with this is that a group of children see the same entertainer time after time .
9 The clear implication of this is that a fully autonomous civilian economy may not exist .
10 Perhaps a telling comment on this is that a major reason for the recruitment of top , superannuated civil servants into business is that they know their way round the political labyrinth of Whitehall .
11 This is that a homeland with secure borders , however small , is better than nothing at all .
12 The major reason for this is that a rather small proportion of the population makes a will-only about 20 per cent on the most authoritative figures available ( Todd and Jones , 1972 ; Manners and Rauta , 1979 ) .
13 It is worth noticing , however , a consequence of this justification of clause 3 ; this is that a belief is not generally considered to be justified by the mere fact that it is true , for otherwise clause 3 would be unnecessary .
14 The result of this is that a spelling like with can realize three separate classes : OE wiht ( 'wight , person' ) , OE wip ( 'with' ) , and OE hwit ( 'white' ) , and this of course applies to other items of these types .
15 One reason put forward for this is that a person is more likely to lose their job in an area of high unemployment , and this lack of job opportunities must apply equally to wives .
16 The reason for this is that a window provides light only on one side ; the other three sides and the top consist of the walls of the room and its ceiling , and the loss of available light is considerable .
17 The net result of all this is that a 740Kb disk could supply you with perhaps 3Mb of programs .
18 The broad effect of this is that a defect will normally be cured as against the administrator and liquidator ( since unsecured creditors will not normally rely on the register of charges ) but not against persons who acquire an interest ( who will normally rely on the register of charges ) .
19 In many parts of the country there has clearly been a shift of settlement in Saxon times and the implication of this is that a number of Saxon settlements remain to be found , away from the medieval villages , in what are former open field areas .
20 One reason given for this is that a distinction is created within the Treaty between those matters ( under Titles II , III and IV ) which , as amendments to the Treaty of Rome , are changes to the law of the land , and those aspects ( Titles I , V , VI and VII ) which concern the new entity of the European Union and are the subject of intergovernmental agreement and which do not therefore in a strict sense affect British law ( the stated reason why only Titles II , III and IV are subject to parliamentary ratification ) .
21 The result of this is that a direct comparison with the other regional data is not possible .
22 A contributing factor to this is that a dictionary aims to provide for every usage of a word with little indication of how common that usage is .
23 Of course , the implication of this is that a different measure is also a different concept .
24 This is that a breach of a statutory requirement constitutes negligence where the statute was passed to prevent a mischief in respect of which the defendant was already under a duty at common law .
25 The upshot of all this is that a Court Scheme may not be a viable proposition if there are likely to be competitive bids .
26 The reason for this is that an express covenant as to one branch of the covenant implied by the word " demise " excludes the other branch on the principle that expressio unius est exclusio alterius ( the expression of one thing is the exclusion of another ) ( Miller v Emcer Products Ltd [ 1956 ] Ch 304 ) .
27 The explanation for this is that an automatic car is not always immediately available and they are more expensive to produce .
28 which will be I do n't know about ten o'clock-ish is that a problem the er a copy of a buyer 's guide in for you Before we move into the role play for cycle , what I have to do is show you erm a training video that is produced by the department , you may have seen it before I do n't know
29 Yet one of the alterations effected in English law by the European Communities Act 1972 is that a person in good faith will not be prejudiced by any ultra vires transactions of a company , provided that the transaction was authorized by the company 's directors .
30 A third property which may be universal is that a change of a single molecule can , regularly and predictably , cause large-scale changes in the body .
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