Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [noun] [is] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most revealing facts about using BM is that you often discover that inadvertently you are either rewarding undesirable behaviour and hence encouraging it , or are mistakenly punishing good behaviour . |
| 2 | In fact , one of the main advantages of using IFAs is that they can hunt through the range of mortgage offers and find the best deal for you . |
| 3 | In short , one way of understanding Burgess is that he is describing the moral careers of immigrants ; some successfully adapting and eventually living in what they and respectable Chicago society saw as the ‘ front regions ’ of the desirable suburbs . |
| 4 | An incidental advantage of splitting pupillage is that you thereby become known in two places instead of one . |
| 5 | The service conception establishes that the point of having authorities is that they are better at complying with the dependent reasons . |
| 6 | The general principle as to the cost of effecting service is that the authorities of the state of destination seek no reimbursement of any costs they incur . |
| 7 | However , one problem with using recognition as a method of assessing memory is that although it gives good overall measures of performance it does not make it clear exactly which details of a stimulus were remembered . |
| 8 | An additional attraction of studying informatics is that graduates may now also achieve chartered engineer status through the British Computer Society , a body which has been nominated to register individuals with the Engineering Council . |
| 9 | The most important outcome of the increased use of monitoring equipment is that people who suffer from respiratory diseases can be alerted to the possibility of a problem arising within the following 24 hours . |
| 10 | The point of mentioning John is that he used to work at the massive Hoover plant in West London . |
| 11 | The usual reason given for the Jewish and Moslem strictures against eating pork is that they began a public health measures , to prevent pork-borne diseases such as trichinosis . |
| 12 | The reason for installing QRAM is that I 've been repeatedly informed that one should always free up as much Conventional memory as possible . |
| 13 | The most obvious definition for labouring poets is that it includes all those whose support normally depended on manual work , either their own or that of their families . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , one problem with using glosses is that you need to decide which terms to gloss ; some terms will have conventional meanings in the genre you are writing in , while other terms — like " synonymous " in the above quotation — will be common in non-technical discourse . |
| 15 | The big problem with using photographs is that the drawing can end up looking just like a photo , with little vitality and depth to it . |
| 16 | The big problem with using photographs is that the drawing can end up looking just like a photo , with little vitality and depth to it . |
| 17 | What results from this is that we might be led to think that the problem with defining God is that there is a whole range of ideas about the divine being that tend to produce no very clear overall picture . |
| 18 | The difficulty with defining God is that the theist is perfectly entitled to claim that ‘ God ’ refers to something that can not be known in the way that other things are known . |
| 19 | One problem with analysing fraud is that the official statistics do not record the class or occupation of the offender , nor the detail of the offence . |
| 20 | She might have agreed with my friend Roger Hinks — who , after his unmerited disgrace over the too energetic cleaning of the Elgin Marbles , left the British Museum to work for years for the British Council — that the compensation for having acquaintances is that we can make game of them with our friends . |
| 21 | To my mind the most powerful argument for having saints is that they are such a diverse bunch that among them will be at least one person that even the most eccentric believer can identify with . |
| 22 | Perhaps the most important and least obvious reason for doing archaeology is that , in many ways , the past is the key to the present and to the future . |
| 23 | The reason for the excitement in using lasers is that they enable us to study unstable nuclei , which was not previously possible . |
| 24 | I am sure that one of the things that prevents us from accepting help is that we think other people wo n't do things the way we do them . |
| 25 | Here the desires of the vendor and Newco may converge because the problem for Newco in acquiring goodwill is that it will reduce Newco 's distributable profits as it must be written off in the profit and loss account , unless it can be written off against the share premium account . |
| 26 | Further research has failed to turn up a single firm IBM Corp mainframe deal for this quarter anywhere across Europe , and the disk business is not going to save any IBM bacon either : word in leasing circles is that users are so averse to buying new disks that prices of used 3380Ks have risen by some 25% . |
| 27 | A problem in studying language is that it is often too close to individual speakers to be observed dispassionately : it is either taken for granted and not seen at all , or is too intimately involved in individual and social identity to be discussed objectively . |
| 28 | The problem in discussing consumption is that our ‘ common sense ’ understanding of the phenomenon is often merely a reflection of the ordering of the processes we see around us . |
| 29 | Such a tactic would make sense , because the difficulty Anis faces in raising capital is that its business is back to front . |
| 30 | I think that the vital point that is missed by psychologists and educationalists who have tried to devise techniques for learning language is that this process does not , and should not , take place in a vacuum . |