Example sentences of "[is] [art] [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The source of arousal is critical for a number of reasons , in addition to the considerable literature suggesting that arousal is not a unitary physiological dimension , there is the problem that in memory tasks an external source arousal may simply distract subjects while memory for an arousing item itself may be subject to von Restorff effects . |
| 2 | ( The subsidiary element is the idea that since ‘ pain' is evidently not the name of a material object it must be the name of an aethereal one , a personal experience . ) |
| 3 | Now one of the interesting cameos of God 's providence , prominently found in the Talmud and among the Hasidim , is the idea that in every generation are 36 tsadihim , pious or righteous men , who ( though unknown ) keep the world going . |
| 4 | What has upset Brian is the knowledge that within hours of Joanna disappearing from the leisure centre car park eight days ago , he was being ‘ fingered ’ as someone who could have been responsible for kidnapping her . |
| 5 | There is the possibility that at this point , Joan could interpret this as a genuine request for information addressed to her , and respond , for example , " on Tuesday " or " I do n't know " , creating an insertion sequence like that of ( 8 ) or ( 9 ) . |
| 6 | We are aware that there are lots of individuals around us , individual people like Socrates erm and erm Plato , erm and then there is the possibility that in addition to these individual people er at the level of there are corresponding to these individual people at the level of intellect erm there are forms of these individuals . |
| 7 | While not seeking to whitewash General Noriega , he asked : ‘ Where is the guarantee that under some trumped up pretext … the US would not send [ forces elsewhere ] to justify their arguments are right ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ So lone is the land that in this lonely room Never before has breached a human being … ’ |
| 9 | What is here at stake , however , is not primarily the interest of any one party : it is the principle that in a democracy political minorities , save only the minimal , must be assured of the representation that is their due . |
| 10 | This is condemnation indeed , but more crucial is the circumstance that in its diminished state , criminal law remains for some students the first impression of serious legal study . |
| 11 | This is the date that by law the government must review the budget process to determine whether enough progress has been made in reducing the deficit to avoid automatic spending cuts . |
| 12 | Underlying the work is the belief that beyond all else the competitive achievement of a particular company is a product of the energies and competency of a relatively small group of very senior executives . |
| 13 | That is a tenable argument as is the belief that in any case little that is practical can be done without help from outside agencies . |
| 14 | More serious is the allegation that in these latter years Ghana was allowed to accumulate extravagant debts : an amount of £500 million is often quoted , though the true figure seems to have been about £120 million . |
| 15 | It is the theory that in these special places gaps widen out in the texture of order and without that order uncontrollable impulses lead to meaningless and violent behaviour . |
| 16 | Talcott Parsons has proposed the very influential theory that of all other available institutions it is the classroom that above all converts an incomplete person into a member of the kind of society Parsons takes for granted as natural , that is , a kind of society where to be social is to be interested in achievement . |
| 17 | It is the presumption that during any particular moment in geological time , sediment was raining down everywhere , preserving all the different contemporaneous environments simultaneously . |
| 18 | The key theme in this study is the suggestion that for any given sequence of changes in technology , the speed at which change takes place may influence the ultimate market structure . |
| 19 | More important than the cash itself , which would be spent over five years , with the taxpayer providing two thirds , is the suggestion that within the Department of Industry ( DoI ) there should be a small commercially-minded unit to run the project . |
| 20 | The negative heuristic of a programme is the demand that during the development of the programme the hard core is to remain unmodified and intact . |
| 21 | Their starting point is the observation that despite periods of sustained economic growth and increasing prosperity all social statistics indicate a growing sense of malaise and unfulfilment . |
| 22 | So fine is the distinction that in truth the High Court has a choice before it whether to interfere with an inferior court on a point of law . |
| 23 | What worries many here is the claim that in the initial stages the surge for the Securitate men has not been pursued with real vigour . |
| 24 | What environmentalists are concerned about is the fear that in spite of a clay lining — dangerous waste from the site will eventually leak through the porous chalk below and into the groundwater — though that may not be for another fifty years . |
| 25 | Little more persuasive is the argument that under another tsar the regime could have withstood revolutionary pressure indefinitely . |
| 26 | At its root is the premise that by more openly sharing with one another both our long-term strategies and how we operate on a day-to-day basis , we will actually be able to improve both our businesses . ’ |
| 27 | There is one great consolation , however , which is the fact that on a mountain nothing looks stupider than someone on a bike . |
| 28 | On the other side of the argument is the fact that over one-fourth of the respondent firms in the survey did not have an environmental scanning system in evidence , only 5% of the firms were using the most sophisticated environmental scanning system available ( i.e. they have an environmental scanning unit which is tied to the planning process , utilizes computer data banks , involves most countries in which they operate and integrates environmental information on a worldwide basis ) , and 51% of the respondents still reported little or no computerization being used in the process . |
| 29 | And one of the things that 's happened in our business I think , erm , is that , is the fact that during the recession people stopped keeping stocks and now they do need a fairly quick delivery of , of their products . |
| 30 | What is interesting about this view is the fact that despite the subversion of democracy outlined , most pluralist writers maintain an abiding faith in the ultimate democratic nature of the American political system . |