Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prevailing ethos today is that the state not the individual is responsible for his welfare , that the erosion of private property rights and the control by the state of many areas of our lives is legitimate and welcome and that the distribution of wealth must take precedence over its creation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The reason why the Opposition do not like Question Time and try to drown my right hon. Friend out is that they know that we are right in everything that we say and that the country will not support them on their policies . |
| 4 | The take-home message here is that both Th1- and Th2-stimulating vaccines have the potential to be protective . |
| 5 | The clear lesson here is that the IT archive , whatever form it should take , is not only the carrier of information which the future historian would want to use , but that the very form , structure and dynamic of that archive as it is created and used will make a vital contribution to an understanding of the social relationships , the culture and the power structures of the late twentieth century . |
| 6 | The theoretical assumption here is that the family is the unit of social stratification , and the crucial factor is the occupation of its ‘ Head ’ . |
| 7 | The chief advantage here was that the door was never locked . |
| 8 | … the real difficulty here is that she was not asked about her own feeling with regard to the scar and that is a much more serious matter in this sort of case . |
| 9 | The crucial point now is that the evidence of one 's senses is not just what we appeal to in justification and verification . |
| 10 | The dangers of excessive alcohol are perhaps more obvious and the real problem here is that the effect is cumulative rather than merely temporary . |
| 11 | The central idea here is that a proper name qua proper name not only picks out one object only , but unlike a descriptive phrase designates that same object in " every possible world " ; a " possible world " being understood as representing a possible but unactualised situation , or a series of situations , of which the given object might be a feature . |
| 12 | Thus , the most general consequence of concentrating on standard English here is that a multidimensional history of phonology is made to appear as unidimensional — it becomes ‘ a single-minded march ’ towards RP and standard English ( Lass , 1976 , xi ) . |
| 13 | Certainly the reputation of the outer office then was that it conspired the way other offices make tea . |
| 14 | None the less , the striking point here is that they have this central feature in common : not just that they both see the life of reason as important , but also that there is a distinctiveness about the quality , character and significance of reason when it is taken up seriously , which marks it out from conventional human experience . |
| 15 | One obvious constraint here is that the questions must be cast in a form understandable to the vast majority of respondents . |
| 16 | One reason for the widespread torture today is that many victims are killed , while others are afraid to speak out . |
| 17 | The basic message however is that farmers with below average yields will be over compensated while specialist arable units will suffer — but only marginally . ’ |
| 18 | The basic principle here is that since judicial review remedies are discretionary , they will not be awarded if an equally or more ‘ convenient , beneficial and effectual ’ alternative remedy is available . |
| 19 | Dicey described how , when ‘ Voltaire came to England — and Voltaire represented the feeling of his age — his predominant sentiment clearly was that he had passed out of the realm of despotism to a land where the laws might be harsh , but where men were ruled by law and not by caprice ’ ( Dicey , 1959 : 189–90 ) . |
| 20 | Her great fear now was that Miss Clinton might have sped past before her . |
| 21 | So the invariable requirement now is that a market member trading on the market floor or its equivalent ( eg an automated trading system ) is required by market rules either to be a clearing member or to have a clearing agreement with a clearing member . |
| 22 | The key point here is that it only attempts to link the islands into a loosely coupled way , and avoids the expensive development work needed to synchronise the two systems together exactly . |
| 23 | A major factor here is that the pupils who have useful sight should be able to work in a position that enables them to use it more easily and effectively . |
| 24 | A major factor here is that pupils enjoy finding information . |
| 25 | The good news here is that because the suppliers have to sell large numbers of a low-cost product to recover development costs and so fund the next round of products — despite what Atex claim when they make their conference pitches — these companies have a distinct interest in making the products better , cheaper and faster . |
| 26 | THE good news yesterday was that the public sector borrowing requirement may not be growing as fast as the pessimists feared , and the need for tax increases in the Budget may not be as insistent as some analysts believe . |
| 27 | He has ‘ not been inclined ’ to return to company work since : ‘ The great thing here is that you can do anything film , radio , theatre , television . |
| 28 | The major problem here is that their image of what this community consists of tends to be markedly different from that of the local population . |
| 29 | The central , distinctive idea here is that the rational expectations hypothesis can be seen as imposing restrictions on what we should observe in the world , and so the validity of rational expectations can be tested by testing for the validity of those restrictions . |
| 30 | Indeed , an original idea suggested informally by several people a long time ago was that there could be a two-day preliminary meeting , and then a two-day summit of the European Council . |