Example sentences of "[be] that the [adj] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The preliminary conclusion must be that the general approach taken in the research projects has been clearly vindicated . |
| 2 | The idea is that the various farm based tourist attractions get together to help bring in the visitors . |
| 3 | One American commentator has expressed the following view : ‘ the skewing effect of an ageing society is that the economic imbalances caused by the provision of health care for the elderly potentially threaten the welfare of younger generations and of society as a whole … the stage is set for a profound confrontation . ’ |
| 4 | But what must astonish us , I think , more than the details of violence is that the only charges brought as a result of this death were against three men who were charged with assault and punished with a 20 shillings ' fine , with the additional requirement that they should pay the doctor 's bill on the dead man . |
| 5 | The problem is that the additional functionality provided by Unix vendors — the bells and whistles which differentiate and position their products in the market — all require further APIs , rendering different Unix implementations incompatible in certain areas . |
| 6 | The main premise is that the corporatist strategies developed almost universally by authoritarian regimes in order to organize and control civil society , serve simultaneously to create the political context for popular responses ; and special attention will therefore be paid to the ways in which unions , community groups and parties find the political space to organize within the institutions of these regimes . |
| 7 | An even greater criticism is that the vast sums spent should have been spent elsewhere , especially in missionary efforts among the growing number of Englishmen who never went to church or chapel . |
| 8 | The problem for the draftsman of a partnership agreement who specifies the initial ratio and provides that in future years it shall be as agreed between the partners at the beginning or end of each year is that the equal sharing required under the Partnership Act in default of agreement will always benefit at least one of the partners . |
| 9 | What Tracey and Morrison argue , although they do not use terminology derived from Gusfield or Wallis , is that the discrete campaigns engaged in by Mrs Whitehouse and the NVALA were important symbolic battles in a larger cultural ‘ war ’ . |
| 10 | The primary point I am demonstrating here , however , is that the wide variation reported in research concerning the incidence and prevalence of childhood sexual abuse in part reflects the very different definitions of the problem used ( Wyatt and Peters , 1986 ) . |
| 11 | Obviously all age-groups are arbitrary ; the point being made here is that the actual divisions used should be chosen for their usefulness in classifying people for the purposes of the research being undertaken , and this decision should be considered at an early stage . |
| 12 | The other major assumption made from this approach is that the territorial cleavages formed by the centre-periphery divide are not superimposed exactly on other social and political cleavages ; on the contrary . |
| 13 | What we have shown in this section is that the contextual features suggested by Hymes , supplemented with the index of co-ordinates proposed by Lewis ( put forward , remember , with quite different purposes in mind ) do enable us to give a partial account of what the undifferentiated term ‘ context ’ may mean . |
| 14 | The most striking finding , however , is that the warming effect caused by greenhouse gases may be being slowed both by the effects of sulphur dioxide pollution , and also by the depletion of the ozone layer . |
| 15 | The main reason for the continual losses , apart from the switch to private car transport already outlined , is that the modal split outlined in Table 6.1a makes it very difficult to provide an economically efficient service . |
| 16 | The reason is that the organizational changes discussed by Williamson influence the distribution of power both within and between firms , and one can not presume that power is used to produce efficient outcomes . |
| 17 | The important point in this respect is that the legislative rules introduced into industrial relations emphasised the establishment of bargaining relationships plant-by-plant and enterprise-by-enterprise rather than on any wider basis . |
| 18 | The main difference between the two tasks was that the causal task required a choice between two different events ( the cause and the effect of B ) , whereas the temporal task required a choice between two different event-orders . |
| 19 | The irony was that the economic returns expected from the reforms were hardly gained at all , and the railways were really no nearer paying their way by the end of 1966 than they had been in 1962 . |
| 20 | The problem was that the cultural experience offered by an education in science and technology was in practice a completely different kind of experience . |