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

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1 The difference is that a protected tenant has security by virtue of his contract with the landlord ; a statutory tenant has security by virtue of the protection given by the Rent Acts .
2 It had been the custom from early times to name children after their godparents ; precisely because the paternal grandfather was an obvious choice to fulfil such an office for the eldest-born son , the impression we often receive — wrongly , perhaps — is that a specific Christian name was perpetuated just because it was that borne by the male-line grandparent .
3 The special significance of this number is that a similar long-term cyclic pattern shows up in the record of the changing number of sunspots , modulating the stronger 11 year rhythm .
4 The result is that a complete flowchart of both wings of the Chemical Products business — which manufactures up to 800 different specific chemicals — strongly resembles a bowl of spaghetti .
5 The frequent argument of the left is that a greater clarity on the National Curriculum would provide a lever with which to prise out more resources for the schools .
6 A second lesson is that a greater effort should be made to cushion the poor ( who are often women ) from the hardships that go with adjustment .
7 What might , however , be the case is that a greater proportion of people in temporary jobs are " involuntary " rather than " voluntary " temporary workers than a decade or so ago , in other words that the structure of the temporary worker population has changed over time .
8 If our analysis is valid , one consequence is that a greater proportion of observed health differences in childhood would be associated with socioeconomic variations in circumstances than can be accounted for by conventional social class groupings .
9 is that a four to eight , O drive as well , does it say four to eight games ?
10 And the feeling in Washington is that a great pile of it is lying around ( under the name of Noriega M. ) at banks in London .
11 The problem is that a great many of such units are needed , far more than are being built , if the numbers of larger hospitals are to be reduced .
12 As I think Mr Gillett already suspects , the truth is that a great part of the Willesden Green library stock was sacrificed on the altar of Community Librarianship .
13 The major disadvantage with audio recorders is that a great deal of contextual information is not recorded and therefore , unless some other method of recording the context , such as note-taking , is employed , it may not be possible to recover a ‘ rich interpretation ’ of the child 's language .
14 But the point is that a great variety of inputs and outputs are employed and interact with each other .
15 What must be clear in a transcript of this kind is that a great deal of interpretation by the analyst has gone on before the reader encounters this ‘ data ’ .
16 My problem is that a great deal of business needs to be done , and I have to try to accommodate that business as well .
17 The reason is that a great many " inventions " would not be obvious to a layman but would be to someone who knew something of the technology involved .
18 The theory is that a strong culture , good two-way communication , cooperation and motivational leadership will ‘ eliminate ’ conflict .
19 Another advantage is that a hooked bream can be persuaded — with a little not-too-gentle pulling and guidance — to fight it out in the shallower water and therefore not disturb the remainder of the feeding shoal .
20 One of the inherent weaknesses of the modern squad system is that a close-knit clique becomes impervious to failure and criticism .
21 What happens , I believe , is that a Federal institution like the FRCN tends to report Federal Government news more often and thus leans towards support for the NPN 's view of things .
22 However or is that a damn crying shame however or is that a damn crying shame terrible you know what you need to do for now then , now I 've won all
23 However or is that a damn crying shame however or is that a damn crying shame terrible you know what you need to do for now then , now I 've won all
24 The main conclusion to be drawn from this discussion is that a software-based System gives detailed control of the velocity profile up to medium stepping rates ( 1000 steps per second ) , but may limit high-speed performance , and is therefore well-suited to applications in which acceleration/deceleration operations predominate .
25 The reason behind all of the red tape even under normal circumstances is that a legal process is being implemented .
26 An objection to this argument is that a legal obligation is not a necessary condition for a liability .
27 The likelihood is that a modern Prime Minister would depart from the recommendations of the Lord Chancellor only in the most exceptional case .
28 And so the point I 'm making is that , is that a modern insight into Darwinian evolution is based on a wholly scientific basis and social Darwinism may have got Darwinism a bad name by associating it with slogans like survival of the fittest , but modern Darwinism er is n't like that .
29 The assumption made in empirical studies is that a selective excise is passed on fully , and that there is no change in factor incomes , which in the present context means , and .
30 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 .
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