Example sentences of "[noun pl] [is] that they [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the biggest attractions for fans is that they like to identify with the group ; they want to be part of The Club . |
| 2 | The problem with such lists is that they do not specify any order . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Indeed one possible advantage offered by computers is that they free children from lower order tasks and allow far more time for higher order thinking — instead of laboriously drawing a graph , pupils have more time for analysis of a graph produced by the computer . |
| 7 | Here , the only justification for the introduction of these syndromes is that they reflect a psychiatric ( i.e. medically based ) taxonomy . |
| 8 | One useful function of hypotheses is that they help to indicate what data are needed for their testing . |
| 9 | The great advantage of such trials is that they resolve uncertainty so that an effective measure is more likely to be adopted and an ineffective one more likely to be abandoned . |
| 10 | However , the reason for linguistic interest in the maxims is that they generate inferences beyond the semantic content of the sentences uttered . |
| 11 | The fourth characteristic of each of the three countries is that they have had the luck to avoid the worst of the droughts which have badly affected agriculture and hydro-electric power supplies in many African countries in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 12 | models is that they provide a basis for the solution of complex problems in static or dynamic situations . |
| 13 | The reason for these visits is that they have asked for our help in drafting new laws and constitutions , as well as advising on legal procedures and the training of advocates . |
| 14 | The importance of these stored finds is that they form a research collection available for study by archaeologists and others , and some are used for travelling and temporary exhibitions , and in teaching collections on loan to schools . |
| 15 | The problem with the mixtures is that they have never been proved in the classical homoeopathic way , as had been done with the original remedies . |
| 16 | What identifies these zones is that they contain a high concentration of the enzyme , cytochrome oxidase ( CO ) . |
| 17 | The soft tones of the colour range always produce a successful design and the joy of using all the silvery tones is that they last so well In many cases , the silver-grey effect is created by the very small hairs on the underside of the flower or leaf , which catch the light and give a lovely overall tone to the picture . |
| 18 | It may be that the growth of desk-top publishing will allow a wider circulation of material ( a great advantage of Renaissance texts is that they present few copyright problems ) , but there is little evidence so far . |
| 19 | My view of the exhibition and these complementary texts is that they seem for the most part to lack the critical motivation and the dialectical irony of the Situationists . |
| 20 | The importance of these articles is that they remind us forcibly of the false dawn which often surrounds new treatments . |
| 21 | One analysis of the function of these duties is that they ensure that the directors of the company have sufficient discretion and flexibility to be able to manage the company efficiently , whilst precluding them from exercising this discretion contrary to the interests of the shareholders . |
| 22 | ‘ Our biggest problem with A-levels is that they have not been modified in the light of the GCSE , ’ says Brian Howseman , principal of Luton Sixth Form College . |
| 23 | One of the reasons for owning rather than borrowing textbooks is that they need to be marked to get the best out of them . |
| 24 | The trouble with everyone these days is that they want constant sensation , to live on the peaks of existence . ’ |
| 25 | One advantage of Chinese celebrations is that they do not linger on , as everyone knocks off and goes home to bed at about 9 p.m . |
| 26 | The secret of these organisations is that they have a power which enables them to keep the key people which they want , even if executive search consultants potentially and actually try to lure them away . |
| 27 | The most common explanation for long-duration unemployment among older workers is that they lack skill which enable them to find work in the expanding sectors of the economy , and , being older , do not have the expected future working lives to justify further training and retraining . |
| 28 | However , one of the claims for the new intelligent pulse-chargers is that they extend battery life by as much as three times . |
| 29 | One of the most commonly used arguments against the use of probabilistic grammars is that they do not take semantic information into account . |
| 30 | An essential feature of general SVQs is that they preserve the main characteristics of occupational SVQs . |