Example sentences of "of [noun sg] is [that] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A crucial difference , of course , between the " real " model of reality and the " mock reality " of fiction is that the mock reality does not exist apart from the message by which it is conveyed : this is the case , at least , if we regard a fictional work in its entirety as constituting a single message . |
| 2 | The clear lesson of the history of modernism is that the academic left is quite capable of fashioning a central instrument for the reproduction of the interests of the dominant class at precisely the moment when it is making the most strident claims to the contrary . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But the problem with this type of creation-as-destruction is that the negative aspect is easily equated with nihilism . |
| 5 | Although it is difficult to determine what was the original material from which these rocks were derived , the general consensus of opinion is that the original material was of igneous origin , with the old term orthogneiss being used to describe these rocks in the past . |
| 6 | An important point in the analysis of Paisleyism is that the religious wing of the movement predated the Catholic civil rights movement . |
| 7 | A second line of attack is that the proposed harmonizing measure is inadequate in scope . |
| 8 | Another result of training is that the different signals arriving at an element often have similar values , except that some are positive and some negative . |
| 9 | Another significant feature of matter is that the nuclear mass is smaller than the sum of the nucleon masses by the binding energy due to the nuclear force between them . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , since a requirement of rationality is that the subjective expectation of the price level , , should equal the objective conditional mathematical expectation for , it follows that . |
| 11 | However , the disadvantage from the tenant 's point of view is that the minimum rent payable under the lease will be increased . |
| 12 | Another source of distraction is that the initial what-questions ( first and second sentences ) are followed not , as one might expect , by an identification of the thing that inspired Rimbaud and drove him to reach into his soul , but by the pronoun It . |
| 13 | However , what is of interest is that the other two comparative static propositions of the theory are confirmed by the subjects ' behaviour : output rises with an increase in σ and falls with an increase in k . |