Example sentences of "is that [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The best thing that can be said of them is that their contact with women is slight , the numbers who participate regularly are few , and whilst this reinforces the commonsense definition of poverty as being a result of apathy , it protects those who escape from the prescriptions of unperceptive need-meeters and from yet more management by misguided missionaries .
2 One reason is that its rag-bag of products is hard to evaluate ; another is that Hanson appears to have a poor image on community and environmental responsibility .
3 One reason cited for its downsizing is that its mix of skills is no longer appropriate , given that the mainframe software business is declining , and its Unix and client-server applications are only now coming to market .
4 A more serious problem with Deffenbacher 's approach in terms of the ability to generalize the results to other settings is that his distinction between studies which did and did not successfully manipulate violence level or personal threat can be argued to be post hoc .
5 But what we 've already found is that our involvement with Connections has led to our speaking to people who ask what we do and this has thrown up other opportunities . ’
6 That is , it is unclear whether what is being maintained is that our conception of effects is of unnecessitated events or that we should change it to that .
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