Example sentences of "[adv] is that [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A better answer perhaps is that in some inherited way they carry the ‘ tune ’ of an ancient grief , lulled by earthly beauty but capable of being woken in Frodo in the end , as in Legolas by the cry of the gulls .
2 Just as the line between semantics and pragmatics is fuzzy , so is that between the indexical and symbolic meanings of deictic terms .
3 A more exciting spin-off still is that by feeding the digitised information into a computer-guided lathe it is possible to carve reproductions of sculptures in a variety of materials , such as wood , plaster , glass or stone .
4 One reason why you should try to develop the direction in which you think the company should go from both ends of the company at once is that in the process you gain the commitment of those who will have to follow the direction — and ‘ make it happen ’ and in a free society you are unlikely to get this commitment without a high degree of involvement and understanding of both where the ultimate goal is , and the process by which the decisions regarding that goal have been reached .
5 Certainly , one theory as to why crime appears to be going up is that as a society we are more intolerant of certain types of violence than we were in the past .
6 I mean can I just return to what Queenie Warley said about the rents , because basically what she said was the conservative view on council house rents was that yes they had to go up because the Government decreed they had to go up , that they would have put them up earlier so people would have been paying more for longer , and the phasing that they 're suggesting now what she did n't point out is that under the Conservative proposal people would finish up paying even higher rents than they will have to pay this year .
7 The condemnation of the figures that the hon. Gentleman has read out is that in those boroughs we need never have had so many liability orders or so many people taken to the courts or threatened with prison if they had not been misled by Labour Members of Parliament and councillors into running up enormous debts .
8 An irony the AEEU points out is that in Japan , employers HAVE to recognise unions by law .
9 But every sign now is that to shortages , inflation and a runaway budget deficit must be added serious shortfalls in output of coal , oil and nuclear energy .
10 The position now is that in any proceedings , ‘ the court may refuse to allow evidence … if it appears to the court that , having regard to all the circumstances , including the circumstances in which the evidence was obtained , the admission of the evidence would have such an adverse effect on the fairness of the proceedings that the court ought not to admit it ’ ( section 78 ) .
11 Emma is always asking when we will go back , and our only worry now is that in a few years she will probably be waking us up at dawn on icy mornings , saying : ‘ Shall we go down the black run first ? ’
12 The bitter injustice which is afflicting him so deeply now is that in spite of the fact that he has been perfectly all right ever since , no-one will believe it .
13 Evidence so far is that for providers , the care programme approach does not assist in clarifying the roles of different staff in different agencies , but it may offer a global package of mental health care , comprising both social and health care services .
14 The sad thing about all the comments I have made so far is that in even the best organizations you can recognize one or more of these undesirable characteristics .
15 Tempting , but the truth so far is that in equities the machines are n't quite making the required grade .
16 The important point to note here is that for Bukharin this state of equilibrium contained deviations and fluctuations , thus what he was postulating is not a static equilibrium nor even a dynamic one — dynamic in the sense of an orderly balanced growth .
17 The catch here is that on the new aircraft it costs more than £20,000 .
18 The problem here is that at the shoulders ‘ A ’ will be seamed to ‘ B ’ creating an interruption of the pattern at the shoulder .
19 What is most noteworthy here is that at every stage after the first the exhaustive ballot enables voters to vote knowledgeably .
20 Answer guide : The point here is that at the date of the balance sheet the business did not own the asset nor had it any right to its use as all that had happened at that date was an order had been placed which could easily be cancelled .
21 The point on which I want to concentrate here is that during the last two centuries changes in the law and in employment policies progressively have excluded both the youngest and the oldest generations from the labour market , and therefore from the means to support themselves through earning wages .
22 Consequently , for She may own a Porsche , the following diagram can be proposed : The relation is the same for She may leave tomorrow except that the actualization of the infinitive 's event would be future ( if it is realized at all ) : The role of the modal auxiliaries is thus to specify the kind of potentiality which the potential event expressed by the infinitive has — possibility , probability , necessity , etc. — and the type of coincidence involved here is that between an event conceived as a potentiality and the form of potentiality which it is conceived as having , i.e. between two potentialities .
23 However , when looking at speech at the level of the tone-unit we are not usually interested in this ; a much more important difference here is that between tonic stress ( marked by underlining the tonic syllable and placing before it one of the five tone-marks ) and non-tonic stressed syllables ( marked or in the head or in the tail ) .
24 The problem here is that as a $4,300 box it 's fitted with only 207Mb external disk and 16Mb internal memory , barely enough to handle the Solaris 2.1 operating system that eats up 200Mb of disk space and prefers 24Mb minimum .
25 ‘ The problem here is that in West Germany we have an increasingly split labour market , ’ Mr Brauninger explained .
26 A really good thing about working over here is that in Australia the stars are a pretty tight-knit , small group and so you basically know almost everyone already .
27 What we have tried to show here is that in this respect linguistic behaviour conforms to the same principles as the other patterns of social behaviour that have been studied by anthropologists .
28 The argument presented here is that in the latter part of the twentieth century more and more capitalists have come to believe that their objective interests are best served through transnational practices , as evidenced by the phenomenal growth of the presence and influence of the TNCs outside the hegemon countries , and what I am describing as transnational capitalist classes .
29 The point here is that unlike myself , who am after all , in a fairly privileged position of being able to examine texts in detail from a single point of view , i.e. gender , teachers are in the business of bringing together children and books in the busy context of the school classroom , and with a multiplicity of aims .
30 I mean it sometimes is that for instance we we have a daughter in York and I have parents in London
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