Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [that] it [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One explanation for this unbridled production of HBV proteins is that it is fostered by concurrent mediations , including glucocorticoids and cyclosporin . |
| 2 | Am I right in supposing that one essential quality of poetry is that it is meant to be read aloud ? |
| 3 | The particular value of task-centred work is that it is based on an intention to form an agreement or contract between the client and the worker , thus freeing the client from the burden of always being a grateful recipient . |
| 4 | Another view of local budgeting is that it is dominated by habit , by small additions to or subtractions from the base budget . |
| 5 | Further , since he is only one of a significant group of bishops who came from court in the early seventh century , if there was any general transfer of secular authority to bishops in this period , and the evidence is far from clear on this , the likelihood is that it was condoned by the king . |
| 6 | Its other main claim to fame is that it is credited with inventing the word tweed to describe the famous cloth first made in the area . |
| 7 | ‘ The danger is that it is perceived that your board is already committed to change . |
| 8 | This is probably why , for most Prague linguists , part of the definition of theme is that it is given and part of the definition of rheme is that it is new . |
| 9 | The hypothetical action of VPDPR is that it is released from procolipase in the duodenum during digestion , is actively or passively absorbed , passes through the circulation to act on a receptor site in the central nervous system , and so inhibits , in the short term , further consumption of food , specifically that food which contains fat . |
| 10 | ( There was no way we could check this figure ; the point is that it was accepted as a social fact . ) |
| 11 | If Day-Lewis is the movie 's greatest strength then its most noticeable defect is that it was shot by two different cinematog-raphers , often with the same scene lit very differently as if taking place at contrasting times of day . |
| 12 | The differentiating characteristic of a coin as opposed to a piece of bullion is that it is issued with a recognised value by a competent authority . |
| 13 | That is , it implies that part of the reason for his authority is that it be used in this way . |
| 14 | In fact , the dilemma of any national state in cultural terms is that it is charged with defending cultural patrimony within a world market over which it exercises little control . |
| 15 | The genius of our constitution is that it is geared to the real world . |
| 16 | One of the most important aspects of a presentation style is that it is suited to your intended output — be it 35mm slide , overhead transparencies , screen show or printed output — in black and white or colour . |
| 17 | The third problem with the existing legislation is that it is confined to gold and silver only , giving archaeologists no control over accompanying objects in other materials which are often of equal archaeological importance . |
| 18 | The reason is that it is based , not on discernible facts , but on stories and writings that have been created by man himself in an era of his history obtaining long before he had learned that , if he were so minded , he could use his intellectual power to establish facts on which to build the structure , not only of his religion , but of the whole of his society . |
| 19 | The reality is that it was beaten long ago . |
| 20 | The downside of the book is that it is written in a terribly deadpan style : ‘ At forty-five Picasso had become a successful man . |
| 21 | The only problem I had with the book is that it is hinged on the premise that hardened psychopaths are capable of deep love — somehow that does n't ring true . |
| 22 | The proposed explanation of the volume-composition relation is that it is controlled by the recharge rate : rapid recharge leaves little time for assimilation , and produces large volumes of mantle-melt melts . |
| 23 | The main importance of A. braziliense is that it is regarded as the primary cause of cutaneous larva migrans in man . |
| 24 | The real merit in this suggestion is that it is based upon ( in principle ) easily observed magnitudes those calculating the bonus need know only about price , output and cost levels in each period ; they do not need to estimate either demand or cost functions . |
| 25 | The answer is that it was borrowed from the gravitational energy of the universe . |
| 26 | The only possible explanation is that it is employed by mother cats when out with their nearly fully-grown kittens , to help focus their attention on potential prey , as part of a general hunt-training process . |
| 27 | So the point of conclusion is if the myth is different in the Bible then the likely explanation is that it was tampered with , but that the scribes and the people who wrote the Bible altered the and they changed it round why should they change this myth ? |
| 28 | All one can say about the legend of Mu is that it was invented recently and has no scientific backing whatsoever . |
| 29 | My guess is that it was concealed inside . ’ |
| 30 | However , the major weakness of the Keynesian theory of the demand for money is that it is couched in terms of a choice simply between money and bonds . |