Example sentences of "is [that] [noun pl] do not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What this means , of course , is that functionalists do not see consciousness as a defining feature of the mental . |
| 2 | The other is that draughtsmen do not spend all their time actually drawing . |
| 3 | In other words , a market economy is an efficient way of producing wealth ; the reason it is more efficient than a planned economy in which prices are not competitive is that prices do not convey this information . |
| 4 | The biggest problem is that loggers do not replace the felled trees with new saplings ; the option of creating plantations is largely ignored . |
| 5 | ‘ The plain truth is that farmers did not recognise the inevitable and lobby hard enough for their interests in what was an entirely predictable future . |
| 6 | What must be hurting him today is that others did not have the courage to do the same to him . |
| 7 | The disadvantage is that children do not have the same choices as if the open-plan system was operating and , for this reason , I prefer all the food to be laid out to view . |
| 8 | The first , golden rule is that children do not learn at an even pace . |
| 9 | No one pretends that ageing has no ill-effects : the argument is that birthdays do not signpost them . |
| 10 | Other than timing , the problem with such wheezes is that voters do not take kindly to ‘ unnecessary ’ by-elections . |
| 11 | The implication of this is that dividends do not carry significant new information , merely a confirmation of present conditions which are already known from other sources of information . |
| 12 | The intention here is that victims do not have to pursue claims against manufacturers in foreign countries which may have less favourable laws . |
| 13 | The important point is that targets do not shift — they have to be shifted to match the reality that has shifted . |
| 14 | Payne says the advantage of using emulation over binary-to-binary translation is that ISVs do not have to tinker with their applications one iota to get them up on PowerPC , they just run , although some performance is lost . |