Example sentences of "this [noun sg] is that the " in BNC.

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1 In the process of negotiating conflict all the participants help to set the framework of ideas within which conflict is managed and a crucial dimension of this framework is that the Japanese people are characteristically said to defer to the national consensus .
2 Another aspect of this change is that the return on investment has declined sharply .
3 The basic reason for this change is that the scale of government activity is so vast that , more and more , ministers have to delegate to their civil servants .
4 One reason for this change is that the loosening of Russian control over Eastern Europe has bared old frictions .
5 The result of this link is that the most efficient producers tend to have the shortest development lead time .
6 The interesting thing about this story is that the model was used almost as an incidental — she was portrayed in the distance , as the aesthetic human element on an otherwise deserted beach .
7 Indeed the overall triumph of art in this case is that the novel walks out into our fact rather than ourselves entering its fiction : a very primitive and absolute form of consumer capitulation .
8 The interesting point in this case is that the writer himself did not acknowledge the work of his assistants in his papers , so the reader had no knowledge of the writer 's separation from his data .
9 Unless … unless they face the truth — the truth ‘ that will make ye free ’ , according to the Bible — which in this case is that the love and/or respect that was earned by the deceased during their lifetime is there for ever in the minds and hearts of those who knew them .
10 The end result of this case is that the police have a power to enter and search any premises for the purpose of recapturing a person unlawfully at large , provided he or she has reasonable grounds for believing that the person is on those premises ( s. 17(1) ( d ) & ( 2 ) of PACE and that they have the power to use reasonable force in effecting entry and arresting the person sought ( s.117 of PACE ) .
11 What is striking in this case is that the sequence is also clearly marked by a change of code from Creole to English .
12 What matters at this level is that the searcher clearly understands that if Christianity is true , his need , whatever it is , is met .
13 The importance of this technique is that the young child experiences stimulation of the normal feeding and sucking patterns which prevents reluctance to eat once the operation is completed and the child has recovered .
14 An advantage of this technique is that the teacher can decide while using the program what level of exercises to generate — the computer program offers a great deal more flexibility in this respect than an ordinary textbook .
15 The major advantage of this technique is that the microprocessor 's program requires no information about motor or drive parameters , and needs no initial Setting.up or subsequent adjustment .
16 The penalty for all this housekeeping is that the files generated by the program do tend to get bigger and bigger as time goes on .
17 A second guideline which emerges from this decision is that the application of the reasonableness test is not merely the exercise of a discretion , but is a decision .
18 9.2 Party walls The internal non-load bearing walls that divide the Premises from the adjoining units in the Centre and from the Retained Parts shall be deemed to be party walls within the meaning of the Law of Property Act 1925 section 38 and shall be maintained at the equally shared expense of the Tenant and the other respective estate owners As the footnote to the precedent states , the object of this provision is that the tenant and the adjoining estate owner ( who could be either another tenant or even the landlord ) will share the responsibility for the internal divisional walls .
19 For if one of the main results of this election is that the Labour Party ditches Mr Kinnock as leader in favour of Mr Smith , it could well be a case of reculer pour mieux sauter — a kind of Pyrrhic defeat .
20 The danger with trying to shoehorn the IRA into this category is that the criminal justice system has had to be stretched almost to breaking point to accommodate them — Diplock courts , the abolition of the right of silence , rigged inquests , detention without trial , and so on .
21 The clear implication of this study is that the biggest response of northern hemisphere temperatures ‘ should ’ have been in June , two months after El Chichón 's eruption , and that is just what the temperature record shows .
22 The second important finding of this study is that the P3A + variant is expressed constitutively both in muscle and non-muscle tissues , in contrast to the tissue specific expression of the p3A - variant in skeletal muscle .
23 Another criticism of this study is that the authors only differentiated very generally between first and second generation Asian and Afro-Caribbeans without discussing the implications of mixing them together in the study , potentially masking important differences in the rates of schizophrenia between the two , and leaving an unclear picture as to whether second generation Asians , who were in the minority , benefited in the same way from the postulated protective factors .
24 Apart from the use of quarterly data , the main difference in this study is that the current monetary shock is included in the output equation rather than being incorporated in the error term , in what — ADD demonstrate — is an asymptotically efficient estimation procedure .
25 The main reason for this study is that the future economic development of the Soviet Republics depends very largely on trade in order to provide the currency for food provision and modernisation .
26 The major finding of this study is that the effects of chronic ingestion of a small amount of gliadin in this group of coeliac disease children were clearly dose-dependent .
27 The postulate put forward in this study is that the potential meaning of to before the infinitive is more abstract than that found in the spatial use of the preposition , and can be stated as follows : the possibility of a movement from a point in time conceived as a before-position to another point in time which marks the end-point of the movement and which represents an after-position with respect to the first .
28 Perhaps the single most important conclusion to be drawn from this review is that the monitoring , modelling and management of the global environment are tasks which uniquely require the integration of skills and techniques from many disciplines .
29 Since there is no net escape of RNA polymerase past the identifiable platination site , the most likely explanation of this effect is that the intercalator perturbs the geometry of the coordination complex sufficiently to enable the catalytic site of the RNA polymerase to move slowly an additional one or two bp along the DNA .
30 An equivalent view of this effect is that the result of parallel transport in a curved space depends on the path taken .
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