Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] is that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The only blessing about my absence from the side recently is that owner Sam Hammam has not had to pay me my goal bonuses ! ’ |
| 2 | The important point here is that country houses are not simply art galleries or museums , of value purely for their great paintings and furniture ; they also provide a remarkable document of numerous aspects of life and work over several centuries . |
| 3 | The point here is that bureaucracy has no continuous boundary or uniform integrity . |
| 4 | The point here is that language equivalence problems emerge in a natural way , bringing to the surface characteristics of a particular language , not necessarily previously thought of . |
| 5 | The point here is that merchantability as a commercial concept is unsuited in its application to consumer supply contracts , a fact which was recognised under the ill-fated Consumer Guarantees Bill 1990 . |
| 6 | The point surely is that music-hall and vaudeville were transitional forms , transitional , as Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel suggest , between the genuine folk culture of an earlier age and the mass commercialization of the twentieth century . |
| 7 | The real difficulty now is that risk insurance will be harder to buy , and will certainly be more expensive . |
| 8 | The trouble now is that jargon , both the thing and the word , have become a kind of battle ground . |
| 9 | The central claim here is that modernization is a process of differentiation ( a ) of cultural spheres and ( b ) of the cultural realm from the social realm . |
| 10 | The argument here is that insider dealing is a victimless crime . |
| 11 | The one proviso here is that assessment centres , whether based in college or at work , have to be approved by City and Guilds as an Awarding Body . |
| 12 | The policy implication here is that family planning programmes are linked strongly with conservation programmes ( as in Kenya or in India in Sanjay Gandhi 's Four ( and later Five ) Point Programme which included both family planning and reafforestation ) . |
| 13 | The greater probability however is that fire will start at low levels before spreading vertically and in the case of occupied buildings an initial attack on a fire with hose-reel equipment may well be successful at a stage before automatic systems have operated . |
| 14 | The situation now is that witchcraft is only really effective against sinners . |
| 15 | The later case of R. v. Felixstowe Justices , ex parte Leigh appears to have clarified this point , and the position now is that standing is related to the applicant 's interest in the case and not to the remedy sought . |
| 16 | The main problem here is that television seeks to dramatise and explore the extremities of human life . |
| 17 | The idea here is that Parliament will set the framework of general rules for society , the executive will govern within those rules and an independent judiciary will resolve disputes over the meaning of those rules and will , in particular , keep the executive within the boundaries of law . |
| 18 | The underlying idea here is that reason can be more than going through the techniques and operations that reason demands ; and more than paying attention to particular truth claims . |
| 19 | While , in the majority of states , the legislature is limited by the constitution in what it can or can not do , the traditional view here is that Parliament is subject to no such legal limitation and that our courts have no power to declare laws duly passed by Parliament invalid . |
| 20 | Okay , so our modern view then is that evolution is all about the quantitative reproductive success of individuals and in fact of individual genes . |