Example sentences of "[is] that [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point here , however , is that whatever kind of semantic theory is adopted , many aspects of meaning in a broad sense simply can not be accommodated if the theory is to have an internal coherence and consistency . |
| 2 | The difficulty with this argument is that whatever factor of psycho-social pathology is associated with racism or racists can be shown to exist just as widely in other institutions , or groups . |
| 3 | One reason why the poorest endure unemployment longest is that their share of the job market is shrinking , while those from higher social groups confront radically different job prospects . |
| 4 | The characteristic of less developed countries is that their consumption of both wood and steel , that is the total tonnage of their artifacts , is less . |
| 5 | The best thing that can be said of them is that their contact with women is slight , the numbers who participate regularly are few , and whilst this reinforces the commonsense definition of poverty as being a result of apathy , it protects those who escape from the prescriptions of unperceptive need-meeters and from yet more management by misguided missionaries . |
| 6 | A major complaint of the Serbs is that their proportion of the Kosovo population is steadily shrinking . |
| 7 | The major point which I want to take from this discussion of young people 's situation is that their need to be supported economically by their parents , and more generally their position in structures of reciprocal support within families , to a large extent depend upon factors outside the control of individual families : laws relating to schooling and employment , and the operation of the labour market . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One reason is that its rag-bag of products is hard to evaluate ; another is that Hanson appears to have a poor image on community and environmental responsibility . |
| 10 | One of the more commonly heard complaints against the existing management structure from top athletes is that its detachment from the road race scene leaves management ill-equipped to make selection decisions for road races in major internationals . |
| 11 | The worst that can happen is that its domain of applicability becomes circumscribed . |
| 12 | Another is that its method of valuation was too complex and this would detract from its widespread adoption . |
| 13 | One reason cited for its downsizing is that its mix of skills is no longer appropriate , given that the mainframe software business is declining , and its Unix and client-server applications are only now coming to market . |
| 14 | And the problem is that its effect on the neighbours — within a radius of miles , given the capability of modern sound systems — is severely damaging . |
| 15 | What we have to hope for is that its control over the language and its position as an arbiter of the quality of that language are maintained . |
| 16 | Erm I I think that one of the erm , drawbacks in using animals for any kind of testing is that it sort of precludes in some way using alternatives . |
| 17 | Some people do n't mind answering machines , I must say , I 'm beginning to get used to them now , I think the problem is that it sort of wrong-foots you , so you get an answering machine , and think ‘ Oh my God ’ , and you know that in about a few seconds time , when you hear that bleep , you 've got to give a concise message which will be intelligible to the person when they replay it , so instead of coming out with sort of babble , you 're forced into thinking what the essence of the message is that you want to leave . |
| 18 | All that may be stated with any certainty is that his knowledge of the craft must have been more than merely adequate and that he was a good businessman . |
| 19 | The reason why Henry 's belief that McEnroe is this year 's champion was too lucky or too luckily true to count as knowledge is that his route to this lucky truth was such that even if it had been false , he would still have ended up believing it . |
| 20 | The second is that his treatment of psychotic patients fulfils most of the criteria for an ideal milieu therapy . |
| 21 | A more serious problem with Deffenbacher 's approach in terms of the ability to generalize the results to other settings is that his distinction between studies which did and did not successfully manipulate violence level or personal threat can be argued to be post hoc . |
| 22 | An alternative , and in some ways overlapping argument advanced in justification of the doctor is that his duty to his patient , once he has embarked on treatment , is to continue to care for him until he dies . |
| 23 | that my sin was laid on you , now what happens is that our relationship with God is restored , that , that chasm , that , that gulf that we 've been trying to get across with our good works with our church attendance with all these other things , suddenly we are , our land with a bridge across it , there 's no longer a barrier there , there 's no longer a great gulf there , Jesus Christ has bridged it , that broken relationship has restored and from this relationship the basis of that relationship we have the power to become as God made us . |
| 24 | What is evident , apart from the fact that Swegen on any reckoning spent much time in England between c.990 and his death in 1014 , is that our knowledge of his activities is patchy , and that English sources may omit important matters . |
| 25 | That man , okay , singular , who was then each one of us , plural , erm erm , I take it that , that erm one of the things that we could conclude from this entire discussion is that our notion of selfhood erm which is our modern notion of selfhood , deeply bound up with erm personal history , you know , Locke 's erm , what is Locke 's example ? |
| 26 | The significant difference is that our interpretation of the capital-output ratio includes variable capital , not merely fixed capital stock . |
| 27 | But what we 've already found is that our involvement with Connections has led to our speaking to people who ask what we do and this has thrown up other opportunities . ’ |
| 28 | One of the main reasons is that our system of democratic parliamentary self-government is incompatible with the Brussels machine , which has an unelected Commission with the sole power of initiative and right of veto , a Council of Ministers which legislates in secret , the so-called Parliament , which is not really a Parliament , has no roots in this country and will never be the focus of the hopes , aspirations and loyalties of our people , and a Community court , which in many ways is a political court and engine of federalism , standing above Parliament . |
| 29 | One reason for the New Testament 's concern for the quality of family life is that our development into mature humanness relies on a complex and subtle learning-process . |
| 30 | Rather , his argument is that our consciousness of ourselves conveys to us that we are not self-enclosed or self-sufficient , not our own cause or our own explanation . |