Example sentences of "of these [noun pl] is [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One analysis of the function of these duties is that they ensure that the directors of the company have sufficient discretion and flexibility to be able to manage the company efficiently , whilst precluding them from exercising this discretion contrary to the interests of the shareholders . |
| 2 | As with the indecent assaults on males , the predominant feature of these reports is that they are concerned with men abusing their positions of trust rather than being some unknown sex beasts who are assaulting victims not known to them prior to the offence . |
| 3 | The obvious problem with the designs of these experiments is that it is impossible to know whether the difference observed in the test depends on positive transfer in the distinctiveness group , negative transfer in the equivalence group , or both of these . |
| 4 | The importance of these articles is that they remind us forcibly of the false dawn which often surrounds new treatments . |
| 5 | The overwhelming conclusion emerging from any assessment of these programmes is that they have only a marginal impact on inner-urban problems . |
| 6 | What is immediately noticeable in the discussion of these markers is that they are genre-specific . |
| 7 | Here , the only justification for the introduction of these syndromes is that they reflect a psychiatric ( i.e. medically based ) taxonomy . |
| 8 | What 's quite remarkable about the necks of these guitars is that they 're as straight as could be ; one might have expected , after a quarter of a century festering away in an old warehouse , that the day-to-day fluctuations in temperature and moisture would have wreaked havoc . |
| 9 | For the crucial characteristic of these tests is that they may be taken at any time , according to the readiness of the student . |
| 10 | The secret of these organisations is that they have a power which enables them to keep the key people which they want , even if executive search consultants potentially and actually try to lure them away . |
| 11 | The essential feature of these representations is that they seek greenbelt status , and any question of the technical means by which this is sought to be achieved , such as by washing over , or exclusion from an inset area , is immaterial to the relevance of the representation of the end desired . |
| 12 | One implication of these comments is that it is perhaps more reasonable to explain class differences in terms of sex , than sex differences in terms of class . |
| 13 | The defence of the format of these books is that they were written as part of a struggle . |
| 14 | The fundamental weakness of these bodies is that they do not usually own the land they are trying to control , so that the most effective preservation of landscapes may well stem from private landowning bodies that have an interest in conservation . |