Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [pron] is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition there has been considerable cultural experimentation , with the result that what is considered desirable in some places is not in others , where its consumption may indeed be taboo . |
| 2 | But perhaps we have grown over-concerned about the conscious levels of rationality and suppressed for too long the reservoirs of subconscious feeling which the Spirit seems to touch and use when a man prays in tongues , with the result that he is built up , even though he can not understand what he is saying ( I Cor. 14:4 ) . |
| 3 | In spite of high interest rates , price inflation at the factory gate has varied from 4.8-5.2 per cent during the past seven months with little indication that it is set to slip below the range . |
| 4 | Pyridinoline ( also known as hydroxylysyl pyridinoline ) and deoxypyrolidine ( also known as lysyl-proline ) are not further metabolised , thus providing a better index of resorption than hydroxyproline , which also has the disadvantage that it is found in skin as well as bone . |
| 5 | Similarly , the recognition that what is said about Jesus in the New Testament is the expression of faith in him , and that this side of the matter , though not the only one , can not be left out of account , has also become a basic axiom of much modern New Testament study . |
| 6 | The essential processes of Step 1 is surrender : the recognition that one is beaten , that one 's own perceptions of reality are inappropriate and that one 's life has become unmanageable and that one 's own attempts to control one 's emotions and use of addictive substances or behaviour have totally failed and always will fail . |
| 7 | It is not the case that the legitimate power of authorities is generally limited by the condition that it is defeated by significant mistakes which are not clear . |
| 8 | Aid , given on condition that it is spent on genuine development , can till the soil for home-grown growth . |
| 9 | The protection that she is offered is so grossly inadequate that the Minister should be ashamed that he has done nothing about it . |
| 10 | Second , it is commonly the case that what is highlighted or backgrounded is an attribute , or range of attributes , of the entity referred to . |
| 11 | It is usually the case that what is specified , against a certain background assumption , is a part of the nomic correlate of something else . |
| 12 | An argument against such flexibility is that the House of Lords itself , in respect of any case that it is seised of , lacks authority to remit the case to the court below directing it to re-open and re-hear the case . |
| 13 | If , for instance , he is on the common law side , the case that he is asked to consider may turn on the Landlord and Tenant Acts , the Rent Acts , the Consumer Protection Act , the Food and Drugs Act , the Town and Country Planning Acts , the Arbitration Act , tax law , separation , bankruptcy , conflict of laws , carriage of goods , insurance , and many other topics that he may never have studied at the University or for his Bar examinations He will not be expected , and will not need , to have every detail of all these subjects in his mind . |
| 14 | Yet it is she whom Abraham hands over to Sarah to do with as she pleases , and who is treated so cruelly by her mistress that she is forced to escape into the sands . |
| 15 | The reduced concentrations of γ-interferon were surprising in view of its involvement in other forms of immunopathology and of the recent finding that there is increased spontaneous production of γ-interferon by lamina propria cells in Crohn 's disease . |
| 16 | Its slave units can answer back ; they allow a shop of office manager to check at one look that everything is switched on before leaving at night . |
| 17 | Some form of pupil assessment , intelligible to everyone and as far as possible uniform throughout the country , is held to be essential since it is through such public assessment that what is taught and learned at school is most clearly related to the world outside school . |
| 18 | It was of the kind that one is warned against sleeping upon , but I knew she did sleep upon it . |
| 19 | There may be snags and complications but , provided there is no great delay , the cost depends on decision : the money that it is intended to spend . |
| 20 | Where the plaintiff has been found to have been contributorily negligent , his damages will be reduced by the proportion that he is found to be to blame for his damage . |
| 21 | There is little wonder that he is remembered still in Australia , his adopted land . |
| 22 | He 's a literate man now , a ferociously eager autodidact who got through Proust , Joyce and Stanislavsky in his twenties , who still retreats to his trailer between takes to write poetry that nobody is allowed to see . |
| 23 | Were it face-on to us , I suppose that binoculars would show the spiral ; it is a great pity that it is placed at such an unfavourable angle . |
| 24 | Blinkered and self-serving as this picture may appear ( it entirely ignores the gains which the USSR has achieved through war ) , it will be clear on reflection that what is meant by ‘ peace ’ is conflict without war : or , to invert these terms , ‘ a form of warfare which permits the settlement of unavoidable clashes between Socialism and Capitalism without having recourse to general armed conflict , ( author 's italics ) . |
| 25 | However , the contractual commitment stems from the first of those calls on the basis that it is followed up by the time agreed . |
| 26 | He feels so close to the nature of the place that he is photographed on the jacket of his book wearing a curious hat and holding the tusk of a wild pig . |
| 27 | ( 5 ) Where a solicitor or licensed conveyancer , or an agent or employee of a solicitor or licensed conveyancer , in the course of or in connection with a transaction involving the disposition or creation of an interest in land , purports to deliver an instrument as a deed on behalf of a party to the instrument , it shall be conclusively presumed in favour of a purchaser that he is authorised so to deliver the instrument . |
| 28 | Behaviour which involves assimilation of the subject matter , attitudes , and values of the foreign language and culture to the point that one is identified by them . |
| 29 | or anything like that and I will make the point that it is targeted at a sector of the economy and the workforce , it is not the whole economy and not the whole workforce . |
| 30 | Generally , once a settlor has put property into a settlement he will have alienated the income therefrom for income tax purposes for the period that it is held in trust . |