Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [noun] is that " in BNC.

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1 The great virtue of the N & P service is that the customer hears the price at which he is dealing , at the time it happens .
2 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 .
3 The difference between Peak and RMS switching is that , with Peak , the compressor monitors the true signal peaks which may be much higher than the average level ; for drums , therefore , Peak makes most sense .
4 The one fundamental difference between program files and data files is that data files never contain instructions for the CPU .
5 What Marx and Engels show is that since these ideas are examples of ideology , attributing to them causal primacy amounts to making them unquestionable , and to making the social order which they legitimate and organize — capitalism — free from possible challenge .
6 ‘ The only difference between Lee and Roy Keane and David Hirst is that they are doing it in the Premier League .
7 However , a particular feature of the provisions on Cooperation in the fields of Justice and Home Affairs is that they expressly envisage that certain matters may be transferred to Community competence .
8 The most significant difference at the search and investigation stage is that the national press will retain interest in a case only if there is scope for the construction of a sex fiend who continues to wreak havoc on a community .
9 The assumption behind the Bacon and Eltis thesis is that only industrial production can maintain and improve the standard of living in the country .
10 The kind of norms we are concerned with here are sometimes called community norms in order to distinguish them from the superordinate norms that I have mentioned , and I shall suggest below that a major difference between superordinate and community norms is that , whereas ‘ standard ’ norms are uniform , community norms are sometimes more aptly described as variable norms .
11 Although it was never stated so baldly , one implication of the Samuelson-Solow and Lipsey approach is that , since is the target rate of unemployment , it is , in essence , the full employment rate of unemployment : it is that unemployment rate which the authorities regard as attainable , sustainable and , taking the good with the bad , ‘ correct ’ .
12 One feature of the use of both dependency ratios and population projections is that they concentrate upon expected changes in structures .
13 As Lavandera ( 1978b ) has remarked , one paradoxical consequence of the ‘ sea-change ’ in the concept of the sociolinguistic variable evident in the Weiner and Labov paper is that the authors seem to be attempting to argue for a function of variation almost converse to that which emerged from Labov 's earlier work .
14 ‘ The difference between Manchester and Liverpool groups is that Liverpool has never had a university tradition . ’
15 One clear difference between human and dolphin perception is that because of the ability of sound waves to penetrate objects , the dolphin can listen and ‘ see ’ through things .
16 One difference between perceived-as appearances and presentation appearances is that whereas it does not make sense to talk of being mistaken about the former it does make sense to talk of being mistaken about the latter .
17 The major difference in practice between share ( equity ) and loan capital is that the interest on the latter must always be paid whether the company makes a profit or not .
18 The major difference in practice between share ( equity ) and loan capital is that the interest on the latter must always be paid whether the company makes a profit or not .
19 The good news for CCG staff who would like to gain a City and Guilds qualification is that the course is now open to any CCG staff member .
20 One fundamental difference between junior and adult fiction is that many ( in certain periods , most ) writers for children feel they must tell their readers what they want them to know or to feel .
21 An important distinction between Bourbon and Tennessee whiskeys such as George Dickell and Jack Daniels is that the latter are filtered through maplewood charcoal after distillation and have a sweeter , dustier character .
22 What makes this pattern of dots different to those that can be produced by a scanner and page printer is that they vary in size .
23 One of the many adverse criticisms of Albert Ferrasse and Jacques Fouroux is that , for involved reasons of French rugby politics , they have ostracised the Toulouse club together with such players as Denis Charvet and Eric Bonneval , who would walk on merit into any northern hemisphere XV .
24 ‘ Another thing I admired about young lads like Ken Logan , Gregor Townsend and Peter Wright is that they have the right attitude , a little bit of cockiness .
25 One important caveat to the E. F. Loftus and Burns study is that the test of memory could be considered to be one for a peripheral detail .
26 Implicit in the discussion of this data analysis and database approach is that a total system is implemented .
27 Talk of ‘ processes ’ and ‘ states ’ commits us to an inappropriate way of looking at the matter — as though the only difference between understanding understanding and understanding sweating is that in the case of understanding understanding our gaze is directed inwards .
28 But what is especially characteristic of Todi and San Gimignano is that their golden age , their period of most notable prosperity , came to an end about 1300 , so that we can still inspect cities whose walls and public buildings , though there is an element of Etruscan and Roman in many of them , belong above all to the period from 1050 to 1300 .
29 Mark Saunders ( BBC Radio ) in a personal review of design requirements for RDS car radios points out that one of the problems that RDS poses for both broadcaster and receiver manufacturer is that , with the exception of obvious features such as the display of the programme service name , an RDS receiver is not apparently different in performance , or looks , when observed in the static environment of the dealer 's showroom .
30 Another important difference between this form of mass-production and unit mass-production is that the former invariably requires a lower labour force than the latter .
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