Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] is that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the major reasons for the widespread failure of rural developments is that it usually does not serve the interests of the people at whom it is ostensibly aimed . |
| 2 | It was previously suggested that one reason attention focusing might actually impair recognition of non-risky junctions is that it would prevent subjects from attending to useful peripheral information . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The significance of the geoid for the operation of geomorphic processes is that it defines the ultimate base level for denudation ; any change in the geoid would therefore cause consequential changes in base levels . |
| 6 | A justification for talk of abstract ideas is that it provides an explanation of how our thought and knowledge can be general ; ‘ how we can know any proposition to be true of all particular triangles , except we have first seen it demonstrated of the abstract idea of a triangle . ’ |
| 7 | One problem with the Royal College of General Practitioners is that it seems to equate general practice exclusively with being an NHS general practitioner . |
| 8 | One of the saddest effects of the radical trade unionism of recent years is that it has divided teacher from teacher , head teacher from staff , teachers from ancillary workers , schools from parents . |
| 9 | The major advantage of considering children 's language as a complex set of learned behaviours is that it gives rise to direct implications for language intervention . |