Example sentences of "of [noun sg] is [that] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , what Mr very carefully very carefully failed to mention of course is that the rates of has in fact gone up by eleven point one percent . |
| 2 | The best hope of course is that the rates which the government has chosen to go in at will be sustainable , that the government will be able to combine cuts with interest rates , cuts in interest rates , with the needs of the economy and the constraints of the European Monetary System , so that it actually gets a downward path of interest rates at the rate which the economy needs , without provoking a sterling crisis which would push sterling to the bottom of its permitted rates , and produce a crisis of erm of confidence needing higher interest rates . |
| 3 | A further fear of industry is that the monies raised by carbon taxation will not be channelled into research or development of energy efficiency but will simply be used to line government coffers . |
| 4 | One problem with the above studies which used GSR to different words as a manipulation of arousal is that the words producing high arousal were not necessarily the ones which would have been predicted a priori . |
| 5 | The advantage of this sort of work is that the descriptions of cellular mechanisms are very detailed and this provides a good basis for determining whether the same cellular mechanisms are available in mammals . |
| 6 | One reason for these differences of opinion is that the claims made for serotonin reuptake inhibitors are often based on the results of individual trials . |
| 7 | A basic principle of sustainability is that the needs of the present generation should be met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs . |
| 8 | A basic principle of sustainability is that the needs of the present generation should be met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs . |
| 9 | But the most general conclusion that we draw from this kind of pattern is that the norms of a speech community are not necessarily uniform within that community , with every group agreeing on a single appropriate realization . |
| 10 | Regarding economic management , one tenet of monetarism is that the effects of money supply changes involve both long and variable lags , so that it assumes too much expertise on behalf of politicians to imagine they can time expansive monetary policy to their advantage . |
| 11 | ‘ to proceed beyond the stop line of a ‘ Pelican ’ crossing when the vehicular traffic signal was showing a red light' As the most common defence to this type of offence is that the lights were still at green it is desirable to prove this point convincingly . |
| 12 | One disadvantage of nylon is that the knots are inclined to slip , creating variations in mesh size . |
| 13 | Another reason for the more restricted use of these sorts of typification is that the situations in which they become operative are infrequent , such as the typifications ‘ old biddies ’ or ‘ old dolls ’ for pensioners who make petty complaints , ‘ Easton funny ’ for strange and odd events , and ‘ loopers ’ for odd and strange people . |