Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [be] [that] " in BNC.

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1 What was interesting about the projects was that they were asked at the outset to establish their local objectives , and set criteria for success for themselves .
2 What is wrong with the Greens is that they do not acknowledge the profound economic difficulties , and all their attendant national and international jealousies and suspicions , which obstruct the path to an environmentally safer world .
3 What is clear from the minutes is that the implications of school closure for the way of life of the community which was to lose its school were not considered .
4 The relation of all this to the regalia is that , before setting out , the assembled tribes are supposed to have made a sacred ‘ Blood Agreement ’ by which the new lands would be governed .
5 The finest of the cathedrals is that at Basle , which has a picturesque situation on the Rhine .
6 There are to be no statutory ombudsmen or ombudswomen to represent the consumer , despite the Government 's admission in their document entitled ’ Citizens Charter Implications for the Regulators of Privatised Utilities ’ : ’ The principal advantage of introducing ombudsmen for each of the utilities is that they are seen by the public to be impartial and independent of all parties . ’
7 The common thread running among many of the announcements was that companies were sprucing up their bus architectures in order to keep up with the faster processor and memory : Advanced Logic 's server features a new ‘ Quadflex ’ architecture using a 128-bit ASIC chip set and dual 64-bit buses .
8 In fact , one of the perennial irritations of those involved in the sciences is that it is somehow chic to be innumerate and totally ignorant of physics , mathematics and the rest , but at the same time taboo to be ignorant of the basics of , say , literature .
9 For Marx , what was most important in the gens is that it was a group based totally on communal principles , where individuality and selfishness did not exist and where private property had not begun to appear .
10 One of the problems is that these older men do n't understand their roles and younger men feel let down and betrayed , ’ says Richard .
11 One of the problems is that there are teachers who do not have a salary fixed by the Ministry of Education and sometimes this salary is made up from fees paid by the parents since the Ministry argues that they do n't receive a sufficient subsidy to pay the teachers .
12 One of the problems is that we have not found a way of doing it cheaply , and this has caused great anxiety . ’
13 One of the problems is that some doctors still behave as if they are deserving of awe , or as if patients are fools , when every patient is an expert on himself , at least .
14 One of the problems is that it is much more likely to become hostile and therefore difficult to handle .
15 One of the problems is that this last type of research tends to be attractive to local authorities and central government departments who face pressing problems , and there is a danger that such studies can become too influential on policy when little else is available .
16 One of the problems is that these moult-sites are usually as far from man 's activities as possible , often near remote skerries , headlands or small uninhabited islands , and this necessitates the use of a boat in most cases .
17 If you 've got carbon monoxide poisoning one of the problems is that your blood ca n't carry the oxygen because the red blood cells are being put out of action by the carbon monoxide .
18 One of the problems is that once the commercial sector has been legitimated , it is difficult to limit its growth .
19 To some extent , but one of the problems is that women of an earlier generation have had to claw their way through the art world in order that a younger generation of women artists today — a generation which is almost gender blind — should have an easier time .
20 One of the problems is that the Government 's momentum to privatise was determined for ideological reasons and on a tight time scale .
21 One of the problems is that you ca n't say one night you may get seven or eight calls .
22 One of the problems is that the rider , perched up there , is sitting almost directly over the centre of gravity of the thing , and there is little room to manoeuvre .
23 One of the problems is that the army of inflation forecasters in the City of London simply do not believe that the corner on inflation has been turned so easily .
24 Now one of the problems is that they no longer perhaps group together in self-supportive units .
25 Now one of the problems is that doctors are rather reluctant to do that because it 's very difficult for them to be sure that a particular headache or a particular skin rash has been caused by one of the medicines which the patient was taking , so the doctors are not very good at filling in the yellow cards and these are not a very good way of reporting adverse reactions , and to get over that we are starting now to use computers .
26 One of the problems was that the type of people they recruited to man to staff the switchboard were from outside , they did n't know the force
27 One of the effects is that a survey of a range of prep school publicity material revealed nothing in the way of knocking copy aimed at other schools within or outside the private sector .
28 One of the reasons is that people in this country do n't value labour .
29 On erm food and noise , we 're still very , very busy indeed , and our figure for noise inspection is higher than it ever has been before , and the comment that was made under that section will show you that some of that most certainly is the amount of work that the team had to carry out during the summer , one of the benefits of our glorious summer is that most of us slept with our windows fully open for three months or more and one of the dis-benefits was that if anybody else down the road had a party that went beyond normal bed-time , everybody shared that , and our team was very busy in consequence .
30 I think one of the things is that Mrs Thatcher 's not there any more . .
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