Example sentences of "is that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result is that the townscape of houses has been spreading further outwards and now , in places , the rurban fringe of one town meets that of another . |
| 2 | The key lesson is that the exercise you pick should stretch and push you , but not hurt . |
| 3 | What Odd-Knut has not told him is that the water under the ice is pressurized , and it wells up out of the hole . |
| 4 | The advantage of reverse-flow is that the water can be constantly filtered for detritus and debris that would otherwise be held in the coral sand and gravel and cause it to pack down and clog . |
| 5 | One of the problems of studying nitrate pollution is that the water that replenishes aquifers — particularly the Chalk — typically takes many years to travel from the soil to the water table . |
| 6 | The ancient superstition is that the water gods required a sacrifice to keep them content , and the church later named wells after saints and called them holy wells . |
| 7 | The illusion is that the water is emerging from within the grotto . |
| 8 | It is relatively easy for an admissions authority to admit in excess of the standard number , provided various conditions are met — of which the most important is that the school buildings are adequate to accommodate the new number . |
| 9 | Adjusting to small changes is always easier than adjusting to large and the whole aim is that the school should be a nicer and more effective place for everyone . |
| 10 | If the focus is that the school is a good place for all , that it gives as well as takes , then it can gain a great deal of positive publicity . |
| 11 | Hoyle 's major assumption is that the school as a social system can be creative . |
| 12 | Mr Davey 's imperative as a publisher that so upset Mr Hitchin and his fellow booksellers was that ‘ my prime concern is that the school buys my books , and the only person the publisher can rely upon to actively sell his books to the school is himself ’ . |
| 13 | Perhaps the only disappointment is that the money is to be shared equally , when a winning bonus would give the event the edge it deserves . |
| 14 | ‘ But the problem about heroin is that the money is so good that even the good people do it ’ . |
| 15 | The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier . |
| 16 | A key assumption is that the money supply is exogenous — uninfluenced by economic activity — but is controllable by the monetary authorities . |
| 17 | The short answer to this contention on behalf of the appellant is that the money in the wallet which he appropriated belonged to another , to Mr. Occhi . |
| 18 | Erm the gist of it is that the money from the A B C er i you 're not allowed to go over your forty eightieths of your pension with it . |
| 19 | Now what that actually means is that the money er will go to your daughter if anything happened to you but if you re er was still alive come maturity time you could then take the proceeds yourself to then give her . |
| 20 | I M P A Cs belief is that er if you get the trustee balance right , that 's the first place where the decision ought to be made , but there should be a fall back position which Good has given , which they they trustees could go to the regulator in the case of er not being able to solve things , but our feeling very much on surplus is that the money is there first for to pay pensions and until pensions are paid up to Inland Revenue levels whatever they are , then no money should go back to the company . |
| 21 | Thus , leaving the graduated scheme out of account for a moment , the position we have reached today is that the state pays to all retired persons , without regard to means , a pension roughly of subsistence value . |
| 22 | If a homosexual union is to be accepted as a marriage and yet denied the right to raise children , what is really being said is that the state has an interest in sheltering and protecting children from a homosexual environment . |
| 23 | The prevailing ethos today is that the state not the individual is responsible for his welfare , that the erosion of private property rights and the control by the state of many areas of our lives is legitimate and welcome and that the distribution of wealth must take precedence over its creation . |
| 24 | The second hopeful sign is that the state and its criminal justice system ( broadly conceived to include criminal , administrative , and civil law ) has shown itself receptive to arguments that corporate crime victims deserve protection and that corporate criminals deserve sanctioning , particularly when those arguments have been well orchestrated , empirically supported , and contain implicit electoral threats . |
| 25 | The unexpected feature of the quantum world is that the state resulting from this combination does not correspond to the electron being somewhere in the middle between " here " and " there " but rather to its having a certain probability to be found " here " and a certain probability to be found " there " . |
| 26 | Nor does this account explain why it is that the state must act to serve the interests of the monopolies . |
| 27 | Jessop argues that what instrumental Marxist writers fail to grasp is that the state does not respond to the economic crises of capitalism . |
| 28 | The alternative view is that the state comes into being and is maintained as an instrument of domination , as a result either of the internal differentiation of society into dominant and subordinate classes ( according to the Marxist theory ) , or of the imposition of the rule of one group of people upon another by conquest ( as Oppenheimer argued ) . |
| 29 | The obvious reason for that is that the state pension is low . |
| 30 | The assumption , which the project sets out to test , is that the State is increasingly withdrawing from the business of providing services but strengthening and widening its role as the regulator of services produced by others in the private and voluntary sectors . |