Example sentences of "that [ex0] is the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If the sentence ‘ God exists ’ entails no more than that certain types of phenomena occur in certain sequences , then to assert the existence of a god will be simply equivalent to asserting that there is the requisite regularity in nature ; and no religious man would admit that this was all he intended to assert in asserting the existence of a god .
2 ‘ The way we sex a grape , or vineyard , in New Zealand , ’ he began , ‘ to ensure that there is the right amount of grape exposed to the sunlight , is to ask a friend to stand on the other side of the vine .
3 Beyond that there is the sheer cost involved in visiting all of its customers and replacing the BT box on their wall with another , more expensive one and writing off the old analogue exchange line cards .
4 And I think there is this dividing line that there is the pure craft where the object is functional and is made for a specific purpose , but is beautifully made , but there is also the craftsman who crosses the barrier between art and craft , who makes beautiful objects that are perhaps non functional , and then of course you 're in the controversial field .
5 Is a human being and his idea-thinking process like a healthy tree in that there is the stable main trunk with subsidiary branches that grow slowly and are added to through the years ?
6 But now that there is the United Nations there should be no need for these barbaric acts to take place .
7 The excuse of self-defence should also no longer apply now that there is the United Nations .
8 Beyond that there is the deep-felt conviction that it is not within the rights of any person to use the machinery of state in order to force his conception of the good life on other adult persons .
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