Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [is] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole point about chaos is that it roars down on you when you least expect it , like a motorcycle messenger . |
| 2 | Remember that the point about self-access is that the learners make their own choices about how they will use the resources at their disposal . |
| 3 | A further reason for caution with regard to RE through story is that knowing a story does not by itself provide sufficient safeguard against serious misunderstandings which can have far-reaching effects on people . |
| 4 | The disadvantage of using water as a medium for cooking is that it absorbs a considerable proportion of the minerals and vitamins in the potato . |
| 5 | The remarkable thing about teacher-in-role is that it allows the teacher to change into a different gear , as it were , as subtly or as crudely as the occasion seems to require . |
| 6 | The bottom line for liability is that you are only legally committed to an agreement made by an agent when : |
| 7 | The important point about heritability is that we do not need to know anything about the actual genotypes in order to say what it is . |
| 8 | A point to note about technique is that when you actually go round the mark in strong winds the daggerboard should be retracted first then the mast track moved back in preparation for the reach . |
| 9 | However , the major weakness of the Keynesian theory of the demand for money is that it is couched in terms of a choice simply between money and bonds . |
| 10 | The implication for teaching is that texts or situations should not be devised where only the next level of ‘ difficulty ’ is provided , since these are not necessary . |
| 11 | The whole point about aerobics is that your exercise is done with plenty of ? |
| 12 | The third criterion for recognition is that the item can be measured at a monetary amount with sufficient reliability . |
| 13 | The curious thing about industry is that if we think for ten minutes and draw a picture of the kind of organization we would least like to work in , and hence the one where we are least likely to be effective , we often look about and see just such an environment around us . |
| 14 | Of course , being in the same profession may increase a sense of rivalry between you — but what 's good about friendship is that we can take a little of this . |
| 15 | The other factor making for openness is that MI5 's record for this period seems on the whole to be creditable . |
| 16 | Perhaps the most prevalent belief about crime is that it will ‘ explode ’ if penalties are relaxed , and can be contained only if they are stiffened . |
| 17 | One reason for confusion is that you may have tackled something too difficult , like skipping a step . |
| 18 | The great opportunity for Labour is that it will again be the main repository of anti-Conservative votes . |
| 19 | The bad news for Labour is that the section of the party which is n't blaming Kinnock is blaming John Smith instead — both for an unnecessarily harsh tax programme and an unnecessarily timid attack on the Government 's economic record . |
| 20 | As Ogden Nash put it , ‘ Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody 's reach/And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech … ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The worst thing about cocaine is that once it has exhausted all the dopamine from the brain , then what 's left is a black hole of depression so big and so awful that not all the misery in the world can fill it . |
| 22 | The reason the coding metaphor has such currency in contemporary talk about perception is that it seems to suggest a way in which very simple and apparently homogenous elements such as nerve impulses can generate the richness and variety of consciousness . |
| 23 | The problem facing writers like Schon who attempt to theorize about practice is that if they fail , practice remains particularistic or intuitive , and if they succeed , they simply generate more theory . |
| 24 | One of the most wonderful things about religion is that it 's always there waiting for us . |
| 25 | Perhaps the most important thing to remember about exercise is that it must be enjoyable . |
| 26 | The implication of this for theology is that if it is really theology , it can only take place as God conveys his own Word to us and enables us to hear it ; but the Word itself always remains his and not ours . |
| 27 | At the same time we should also recall that , as Levinas puts it ‘ the best thing about philosophy is that it fails ’ . |
| 28 | The problem for Foucault is that this argument involves more than just madness as such , for it really amounts to a questioning of the very possibility of critique . |
| 29 | An important function of assessment is that it can help determine the extent to which a child 's language is subject to changes over time . |
| 30 | The final point by way of preface is that it is a mistake to assume that all black people are deprived . |