Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] is that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the major tenets of the mental models theory of text comprehension is that the model of the text so far provides ( part of ) the context for understanding the current sentence . |
| 2 | The main part of Residents ' Association case is that the amount of relief afforded by any western relief road , does not justify the environmental damage which that road will cause . |
| 3 | One of the most remarkable things about the Peniel story is that the larger narrative proceeds almost entirely as if it was not there . |
| 4 | Once jurisdiction can properly be established on this basis then the effect of article 5(1) in the light of the Effer v. Kantner decision is that the court has jurisdiction finally to determine the issues between the parties . |
| 5 | The unfortunate side effect is that the Act appears not to require as assessment of the utterance as a whole elsewhere in the Act , especially in relation to sections 21 and 22 . |
| 6 | Once the test pilot comes out of the chamber , a nasty side effect is that the ageing process becomes speeded up . |
| 7 | The idea behind the Partnership Act is that the internal affairs of the partnership are for the partners to decide . |
| 8 | The golden rule on snow terrain is that the rope should be kept taut between all members of the party , with no loose coils carried in the hand . |
| 9 | But the main reason in favour of the bounty test is that the word " settlement " … seems to me to be used … with a flavour of donation or bounty . |
| 10 | What the data show is that the issue of sign universality can not be easily described as confirmed or disproved . |
| 11 | The position taken by the accounting profession is that the function of the accounts is to provide verifiable information : what users of that information choose to do with it is a matter for them . |
| 12 | In the leading case of Lawrence ( 1981 ) it was held that reckless driving consists of driving which creates an obvious and serious risk of causing physical injury to some other person who might be happening to use the road or of doing substantial damage to property , and that the fault element is that the driver either failed to give any thought to the possibility of such a risk or , having recognized the existence of a risk , went on to take it . |
| 13 | ( 1 ) Where a licensing board considers that licensed premises are no longer suitable or convenient for the sale of alcoholic liquor , having regard to their character and condition , and the nature and extent of the use of the premises , the board may decide to hold a hearing with a view to making a closure order under this section , and the effect of a closure order is that the licence held in respect of the premises shall cease to have effect while the closure order is in force . |
| 14 | Thus one social argument which might be mobilised in favour of the rule in the Attorney-General 's Reference case is that the savings of medical expenses resulting from conformity with the law are more important than the liberty of individual citizens to engage in fights . |
| 15 | One slight Twilight Zone coincidence is that the serial number on this particular guitar is 01335 , which , when you take into account who it was designed by , is most spooky … |
| 16 | An interesting point to note in real Spanish folk dance is that the boy and girl rarely touch each other . |
| 17 | The point to make here is that the logic of adversary adjudication is that the decision of the court should be based on the case put to it by the parties in dispute and not on material or information supplied by third parties ; and rules of evidence are designed to achieve this result . |
| 18 | One of the oddities of child development is that the word meaning ‘ mother ’ is so similar in so many languages . |
| 19 | Apart from the features just mentioned , the important characteristic of a hall church is that the vaults of nave , choir and aisles are of the same height . |
| 20 | An implicit tenet of museum life is that the original object is the ultimate historical source . |
| 21 | As for Unix , as we said way back in 1984 when we forecast that it would come to dominate the mainstream market , it is fundamentally quite inappropriate as the basis of a robust commercial operating system because it is designed for free sharing of resources and code between users , where one of the most important requirements of a mission-critical operating system is that the crass behaviour of some idiot wo n't bring the system down . |
| 22 | The first point to be made about recent rural population change is that the broad spatial processes of the 1970s and early 1980s can be traced back into not only the 1960s , but even the 1950s ( Compton , 1983 ) . |
| 23 | The most disturbing fact about business intelligence is that the information obtained is rarely used for actual decision making … . |
| 24 | One implication of revisionist work is that the root cause both of the fall of tsarism and of the failure of the liberals and moderate socialists lies much deeper than the liberal interpretation would have it . |
| 25 | The general safety requirement is that the goods be reasonably safe and the definition of ‘ unsafe ’ is very similar to that of ‘ defect ’ in Part I of the Act ( see paragraph 9–08 above ) . |
| 26 | What is remarkable about the present sterling crisis is that the Government — and for all practical purposes , that means the Prime Minister — has declined to tackle any of them . |
| 27 | As Lavandera ( 1978b ) has remarked , one paradoxical consequence of the ‘ sea-change ’ in the concept of the sociolinguistic variable evident in the Weiner and Labov paper is that the authors seem to be attempting to argue for a function of variation almost converse to that which emerged from Labov 's earlier work . |
| 28 | The first symptom of a frozen waste pipe is that the contents of a bath or basin will not flow out . |
| 29 | The basic taking without consent offence is that the taker and any passenger may be punished equally . |
| 30 | I would say to you that the history of North Yorkshire County is that the house house builders have built , more or less the building rate of planning policy , whatever that has been , and that is a matter of fact , and if and if and if we are in a situation where the market is being fettered , as is the policy , and it 's not a policy which we are seeking to go away from specifically , and it is inevitable that the house builders will build to whatever the policy building rate is , and comparisons of one building rate with another are simply telling you what 's happened in the past , not what needs to happen in the future er in terms of meeting the housing requirement , and quite clearly in any area where you are introducing a new settlement , if indeed that 's the conclusion we come to , er late later on , erm and I hope we do , but if we are introducing a new settlement you are bound to skew the building rates , and the more and more you reduce the area in which you consider what the building rate effect is the more and more that it actually gets skewed , er and erm you know , quite frankly , when the developers built a new estate at the end of my particular street the building rate went up alarmingly in my area , er and er you know , we can go on forever like that , I just think it 's very misleading to just deal with the judgement of building rates . |