Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] be that of " in BNC.

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1 ON the basis that ‘ forewarned is forearmed ’ the fundamental principle underlying the Companies Acts has been that of disclosure .
2 The key change that could be identified in all the schools visited was that of a rethink about departmental allocation , As a result of devolution , capitation seemed to be allocated to departments using criteria that were more public and in most cases fairer ; for example , a formula based on pupil and subject weightings , or a system of bidding or , inevitably , the use of last year 's figures plus an allowance for inflation .
3 The frame of reference within which the authors write is that of the linguist .
4 Among the sites listed are that of the 1956 crash of a nuclear-armed bomber aircraft at Albuquerque , New Mexico , and the Agriculture Research Center at Beltsville , Maryland , where scientists used radioactive matter to test the effects of fall-out on crops in the 50s and 60s .
5 Perhaps one of the most creative and imaginative responses has been that of the Lucas Workers with their corporate plan for socially useful production .
6 An aim of educational policy in this and many other countries has been that of enhancing equality of opportunity .
7 One of the dualities noted was that of hard/soft ; another was that of difficult/easy .
8 Apart from recruitment the greatest problem most armies faced was that of giving adequate training to their officers .
9 Undoubtedly the most significant of these in the context of lasers has been that of inhomogeneous broadening , to which we will return .
10 One of your major interests has been that of the relationship of allegory
11 One of your major interests has been that of the relationship of allegory
12 One of the most popular trends has been that of Drama Games .
13 In the case of subject searches , the criterion as applied to traditional IR systems has been that of retrieval effectiveness , based on the concept of relevance and the measures of recall and precision .
14 Typical of the complaints had been that of David Fletcher , a Wirral councillor , who said his constituents ‘ objected most strongly to subsidising the extravagancies of hard-left councils like Liverpool ’ .
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