Example sentences of "[pron] is that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This rather sad quote illustrates very sharply a point made in the previous chapter , which is that a field of learning such as physics , which has great power to change our lives , is usually divorced from a consideration of moral issues . |
| 2 | I respectfully agree with the judge that that would be an inappropriate way of achieving the result which clearly ought to be achieved , which is that a child abducted in the way this little boy was should be able to return home pending a decision as to whether he lives with his father or with his mother . |
| 3 | Because wha we 're talking about a very age old attitude which is that a mother and a father and their children ar , is the correct unit , should stay together , at least until the children are grown up and probably well beyond ? |
| 4 | Now that flies in the face of erm I think the er the real position on the ground , which is that a development could take place within that district , even where areas have not yet been mined , without any adverse impact on the either the coalfield or the new settlement . |
| 5 | But his own position , which is that an entity can simply be defined in terms of ‘ the totality of its appearances ’ , is similarly questionable . |
| 6 | Here we do not make the common assumption mentioned but not specified in connection with the first three examples , which is that an effect had a single cause . |
| 7 | The books tell you that badgers love peanuts , but what they do n't tell you is that a plastic peanut packet is likely to go off in your pocket with a high-decibel rustle that will send any self-respecting badger right back underground . |
| 8 | I think , the best analogy I can produce for you is that a a balance in which various factors act on the side of the host and various factors act on the side of the organism , and the outcome is disease and death if the organism wins out and outcome is resistance or recovery if the the host wins out . |
| 9 | When it comes to flavour , the difference between a TFTA turkey and a standard one is that a traditional bird is hung for at least seven days . |
| 10 | One is that a comparatively nearby star in our Galaxy exploded as a supernova , shining millions of times more brightly than usual . |
| 11 | One is that a long tail indicates an extremely fit male : to grow such a tail and carry it around will take extra energy . |
| 12 | One is that a loading dose is required in patients with apparently normal renal function , and the other is that the ‘ standard ’ dose is 80 mg intravenously eight hourly . |
| 13 | One is that a power of the House of Lords to remit an appeal to the Court of Appeal to resolve any remaining uncertified points be provided by statute . |
| 14 | One is that a person has contravened one or other of the statutory provisions referred to in subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) . |
| 15 | One is that a predator is less likely to detect fish prey if they form a school than if they spread out . |
| 16 | The first and obvious one is that a leaf can grow across the reference area . |
| 17 | What happens there is that a ‘ really gay ’ reading of Coward is put into play , much as I have already done with Brief Encounter , but on the grounds that a homosexual writer can only write about homosexuality ( analogous cases would be the insistence that Edward Albee 's Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is ‘ really ’ about a gay couple , or that Tennessee Williams 's Blanche Dubois is nothing but a transposed drag queen ) . |
| 18 | The main problem there is that a visitor centre was erected which , far from solving the access and erosion problems , has created even greater ones . |
| 19 | Neither of them was capable of searching out any fairy-tale kink in the more drab theories of evolution which might explain how it is that a frog taken ( however reluctantly ) into the soft bed of a princess can be changed overnight back into a prince . |
| 20 | These two tasks are inextricably interwoven : if advisers fail to establish what it is that a client wants to know because of poor interviewing , then they will not be able to supply the correct information even if it is available . |
| 21 | By his intimate connection with the greatest men of the day in the medical profession , he obtained for his pupils the privilege of their teaching free of expense , and thus it is that a considerable number in the ranks of our profession are pupils of Abernethy , Astley Cooper , Charles Bell , Brodie , Faraday and Brand . |
| 22 | It is that a pupil decides what he will , or will not , consent to do . |
| 23 | The control which the withholding of love gives to a parent emphasises how tremendously important it is that a child should be genuinely loved in the first place . |
| 24 | Jennie explained how crucial it is that a rider can use his aids independently of each other . |
| 25 | Could somebody please explain to me why it is that a project that was always highly speculative and which now looks like a near disaster should have been so profitable for investors ? |
| 26 | Repetition of the same or similar ground can be stopped by a gentle reminder , followed by asking why it is that a particular story or incident is so important . |
| 27 | Bumble-bees do not have advanced knowledge of aeronautical science , yet some extremely complicated maths is required to explain why it is that a bumble-bee can fly . |
| 28 | What dreadful news it is that a lethal , new form of algae pollution has been found in one of Scotland 's best known lochs , lovely Loch Awe in Argyll . |
| 29 | James 's aim is the psychological one of explaining how it is that a person is able to locate a stimulus on the surface of his body . |
| 30 | A duty is something black and white : once we know what it is that a body has a duty to do and what it actually did , we can say either that the authority has performed its duty or that it has not . |