Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] is that [art] " in BNC.

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1 One of the disconcerting features of New Historicist accounts is that a recognition of critical partially and a mapping out of the historicity of texts through the textuality of history does not produce a critical manner which is careful and self-scrutinising .
2 One reason for the previous misrepresentation of the logical abilities of such social groups is that the tests carried out to assess such abilities were unreliable both in method and in conception .
3 A spokesman said : ‘ The problem with heavy rainfall and flash floods is that a lot of it runs away before it can soak through to the underground aquifers . ’
4 The danger with accepting that cats have a hundred different sounds is that the whole subject becomes too complicated to make much sense .
5 The concept 's importance in theoretical terms is that the epic poet catches himself dreaming , and tries to communicate his dream to the rest of the group , through a mythic poem , or a ritual drama .
6 Its detailed arrangements varied , in the many thousands of cases , but what is generally true about its form of social relations is that the artist was typically retained or commissioned as an individual professional worker .
7 The problem for the Free Presbyterians is that the fraternal orders have always seen themselves as linking the broad Protestant religious tradition with the main unionist party , hence the common arrangement of Orange Lodges holding their annual church parades at each of the Church of Ireland , Presbyterian , and Methodist churches in turn .
8 Another feature of electronic transitions is that the selection rule for pure vibrational transitions no longer applies .
9 One of the significant benefits of using the medium of the free newspapers is that the information will get to those special needs groups ( women , ethnic , disabled ) who , for a variety of reasons , may not have access to other newspapers .
10 The clear view of both miners and my hon. Friends is that the proposed abolition of the 1908 Act is to pave the way for privatisation by deregulating vital safety provisions and allowing the employer to introduce an extended normal working day in the guise of a flexible shift .
11 What upsets and angers my hon. Friends is that the Department of Energy is praying in aid the proposed European Community directive on working time as a justification for that change .
12 One fear of many English teachers is that a terminology for language forms takes attention away from the meaning of language .
13 An important conclusion that can be drawn from the fiscal records is that the immediate effect of the Black Death in 1348–49 was slight in destroying communities , because most of the villages which eventually disappeared are still recorded as contributing to subsidies levied in the fifteenth century .
14 The reason behind all of the red tape even under normal circumstances is that a legal process is being implemented .
15 An important feature of owner-occupancy in rural areas is that the stock of housing is relatively limited in any given location and hence choice is restricted .
16 Perhaps the clearest indication of the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of Quaternary investigations is that a book written by a geographer , D.Q. Bowen , and published in 1978 is entitled Quaternary Geology and is subtitled A Stratigraphic Framework for Multidisciplinary Work .
17 The general opinion amongst Central Authorities is that a request should not be rejected on this ground ; and this appears to accord with the views expressed in the House of Lords in the Westinghouse case .
18 One benefit of this over similar units is that the groove retains the semi-circular wedge , so it is hard to separate this moveable part from the nut .
19 Mr Kester points out that the difference in Japanese firms is that the stakeholders that matter most — customers and suppliers — are also shareholders .
20 The inherent danger of conceiving of art in purely personal terms is that the commonality of experience is robbed of its political value .
21 What this means in the most simple terms is that the order of onset of the stages in the individual is determined by what occasions them as gratifications — the oral stage by suckling , the anal by evacuating solid matter , the phallic by experiencing genital , Oedipal excitement .
22 The consequence of their separate decisions is that the interest group will not form , will fail to recruit sufficient members , or will fail to enlist support for its activities .
23 For immediate purposes what is important about this and similar procedures is that the theoretical generalisation is induced from systematically gathered data .
24 One of his intriguing findings is that a larger proportion of uncited articles are published in the higher priced journals .
25 The result of these human tendencies is that the organization can build up workable interpretations from scraps that consolidate and inform other bits and pieces of data .
26 A consequence of the assumption of constant costs is that the monopolist 's marginal costs are equal to average costs ( ACm ) as shown .
27 The paradox at the heart of Party-military relations is that the Soviet Armed Forces are simultaneously the most privileged organisation in society and the most assiduously controlled .
28 One of the problems for those entrepreneurs , and other corporate managers , who do seek to act as professional industrialists is that the context in which they operate is dominated by the values described in earlier chapters .
29 Moreover it has been suggested earlier that one important issue for social policy that arises in relationship between public authorities and private agencies is that the latter may be the instruments by which government executes policy .
30 The fundamental difference between themselves and their supposed shoe-gazy contemporaries is that the Kitchens do n't hide behind a wall of noise : they cherish it , ride it , f—k it up .
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