Example sentences of "[adj] of [det] is [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not the least of these is that this does not square very well with the way to is learned by children . |
| 2 | Most likely of all is that we partially trust one another , and each play some mixed sequence of COOPERATE and DEFECT , ending up with some intermediate sum of money . |
| 3 | The most obvious of these is that he frequently quotes the Old Testament . |
| 4 | They basically carved up our surplus between them and each supported the other and overriding all of that is that each and every one of them was an active member of the scheme . |
| 5 | The net result of all of this is that we are deleting two words from point ten the rest of the procedure stands . |
| 6 | The most important of these is that there seems to be no evidence that people assumed automatic responsibility for their relatives — including parents — who were old , sick , or in some other circumstance where they were unable to work to maintain themselves . |
| 7 | The most important of these is that the use of expressions such as ‘ functional ’ or ‘ vitally necessary for society 's health ’ are really ways of disguising value-judgements about what the user finds acceptable or unacceptable in society . |
| 8 | The most important of these is that depicting the Royal Maundy ( Beauchamp Collection ) and an early portrait of Elizabeth I ( Royal Collection ) . |
| 9 | The most important of these is that it will almost certainly not equal the actual return from holding the bond even if the bond is held to maturity . |
| 10 | The most important of these is that there shall be a specific planning permission for development for operational purposes . |
| 11 | The most important of these is that provided by Professor Beer in his recent work Britain Against Itself . |
| 12 | The principle which would have to be established first of all is that each person in the world ( all those aged 21 or over , suggests Dr Grubb ) would have an equal share in man-made carbon dioxide emissions , regardless of whether he lived in a rich developed country or a poor one which produced hardly any carbon dioxide at all . |
| 13 | What I want to make sure first of all is that erm you understand what has gone on before the scene that we actually want to find ourselves in . |
| 14 | The first of these is that , like Cassandra , they will be right but nobody will believe them . |
| 15 | The first of these is that the word generally translated as ‘ carpenter ’ does not , in the original Greek , mean merely a woodworker . |
| 16 | The first of these is that while anthropology purports to say things about man and humanity at large , anthropological practice has fairly consistently been concentrated upon the study of " primitive " man rather than man as such . |
| 17 | The first of these is that a basic system with only 640k of RAM will be unable to use smartdrv , since it requires either expanded ( at least 256k ) or extended ( at least 512k ) memory . |
| 18 | Probyn himself says : ‘ I hold my own beliefs about front-row play and one of those is that there is no substitute for experience . |
| 19 | one of these is that when the two parties separate , the manager continues to take commission for a number of years , but only on those records issued or those songs written during his or her term of office . |
| 20 | One of these is that stocks have been only modestly run down compared with previous recessions ; another is the boost to government spending from the Gulf war . |
| 21 | One of these is that there will inevitably be widely different reading speeds . |
| 22 | One of these is that it is easier to do the sum if one deals with histories in what is called imaginary time rather than in ordinary , real time . |
| 23 | One of these is that , in each generation of selective " breeding " , the mutant " progeny " phrases were judged according to the criterion of resemblance to a distant ideal target , the phrase METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL . |
| 24 | The major stumbling block to the last of these is that solicitors can only be remunerated for advice under the green form scheme . |
| 25 | He thinks that he wants a reconciliation , and up to a point he does ; but what he hopes most of all is that Alfred will give his blessing to the new play he has written — a drama of sibling rivalry called Brother Mine . |