Example sentences of "[noun pl] [is] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the most important thing about community arts is that it 's arts for the community , and invariably one is not approaching it in the same way as one would market , say , a show at the Theatre Royal for instance . |
| 2 | What moves me very deeply about primitive peoples is that they still attach an enormous importance to a certain kind of communication which we have lost ; and that is that they allow the being of the person they are with to communicate with more than words . |
| 3 | Their importance to the history of the Yugoslav peoples is that they kept alive the spirit and culture of a downtrodden nation during the centuries of foreign occupation . |
| 4 | The rationale for trying to obtain verbatim records of children 's speech in naturalistic settings is that it provides the best indication of what language a child actually uses in ordinary , everyday settings . |
| 5 | One of the reasons the New Spirituality has legs is because it is experiential . |
| 6 | However , one of this industry 's main characteristics is that it attracts the maverick . |
| 7 | One of the WEA 's abiding characteristics is that it dare not become complacent , can never afford to stand still . |
| 8 | One of the biggest attractions for fans is that they like to identify with the group ; they want to be part of The Club . |
| 9 | The beauty of such methods is that they can never be proved wrong since , by ignoring what the people concerned themselves think , you have removed any empirical basis for testing the interpretations . |
| 10 | A key weakness of conventional forecasting methods is that they often fail to capture the ‘ turning points ’ — the onset of recession or the beginning of recovery . |
| 11 | But the radical difference between this and previous dieting methods is that it makes the food you consume more filling and also renders some of the calories it supplies non-fattening , as you will begin to learn in the next chapter . |
| 12 | What comes to the fore through Gandhi 's strictures on the attitudes and methods of certain Christian missionaries is that it is possible for religious zeal and enthusiasm to lead to activities inconsistent with the religious and ethical ideals or values one might be seeking to promote . |
| 13 | One of her fears for the future of white water rodeos is that they almost inevitably will become more serious competitions and less friendly . |
| 14 | The last observation about dictionaries or word lists is that they may under-represent similarities between different sign languages : for example , the American and British signs for WALK are quite different , but British signers would certainly use a sign resembling the American sign in certain contexts . |
| 15 | The problem with all ongoing lists is that they are liable to be out of date almost from the day they are compiled . |
| 16 | The problem with such lists is that they do not specify any order . |
| 17 | What distinguishes the last two from gains and losses is that they are transactions involving owners in their capacity as owners . |
| 18 | The tragedy of clients ' huge losses is that they were sometimes led to believe they would make fortunes on the above stocks within a month or two , maybe within three or four weeks . |
| 19 | One of the problems with these job losses is that they were almost entirely unplanned : anyone who wanted to take severance or early retirement was allowed to do so irrespective of its effects on the department concerned and on the shape of the university . |
| 20 | The great skill of Japanese and German manufacturers is that they know how to make things efficiently and well , which is what we are so bad at . |
| 21 | The first development of the Tollmien-Schlichting waves is that they become three-dimensional ; their amplitude varies in the lateral direction parallel to the wall . |
| 22 | Perhaps the main consequences of the lack of high intelligence in animals is that they are not as good as we are at fooling themselves . |
| 23 | The major problem with legislation concerning animals is that it is from a human perspective . |
| 24 | So the id is a jumble of contradictions and the reason it 's a jumble of contradictions is that it 's not in contact with reality . |
| 25 | The problem with all these formulations is that they are reductionist : that is , they claim that complex and multi-faceted phenomena can be explained by a single , simple cause . |
| 26 | There are to be no statutory ombudsmen or ombudswomen to represent the consumer , despite the Government 's admission in their document entitled ’ Citizens Charter Implications for the Regulators of Privatised Utilities ’ : ’ The principal advantage of introducing ombudsmen for each of the utilities is that they are seen by the public to be impartial and independent of all parties . ’ |
| 27 | The only difference between railways and the other utilities is that they are precieved to be costing the exchequer money , not providing revenue to it . |
| 28 | But the main problem with defectors is that they quickly run out of crown jewels and then inevitably resort to inventing what they think their new-found paymasters want to hear in order to extend their usefulness and avoid being discarded to end their days washing dishes in a Hungarian restaurant in downtown Washington . |
| 29 | What it means for the homes is that they 're going to have to take a what we 've been doing over the last two or three years is gradually improving the staffing levels in our elderly people 's homes , because the dependency levels in those homes are getting very high . |
| 30 | The problem with device drivers is that they have to be installed in your CONFIG.SYS file , and it is usually helpful to have an install routine guide you through the process — lord knows , just about every other program you come across these days insists on writing to CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT . |