Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [be] [that] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great advantage of such institutions is that they fit you for prison conditions . |
| 2 | One of the good things about such clubs is that they offer a range of courses , so that , having mastered the basics , you can progress to a more advanced level . |
| 3 | The problem with such lists is that they do not specify any order . |
| 4 | Although one object of having such ministries is that they can deal with problems in a manner specially suited to conditions in Scotland and Wales , the fact that the ministers belong to the UK Cabinet and are responsible to the UK Parliament means that there is considerable pressure for uniformity . |
| 5 | The beauty of such methods is that they can never be proved wrong since , by ignoring what the people concerned themselves think , you have removed any empirical basis for testing the interpretations . |
| 6 | The beauty of such gardens is that they are not dependent on scale for their success . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Another advantage of such places is that they often have someone on hand to keep an eye on the exhibitions . |
| 9 | An important feature of such costs is that they tend to increase rather than decrease with sales volume . |
| 10 | The value of such catalogs is that they prevent too parochial a view of the scientific effort . |
| 11 | This is consistent with the idea that the importance of such memories is that they provide and anchoring point between personal and public life ( Neisser , 1982 ) or a coherent autobiographical history for the individual ( Conway , 1990 ) . |
| 12 | The value of such studies is that they show plainly the ubiquity of popular political action , which may be diffuse , episodic , lacking any clearly formulated doctrine , or expressing itself mainly in religious or cultural terms , but always provides a matrix from which political organizations can emerge in favourable circumstances . |
| 13 | Perhaps the reason for the comic success of such characters is that they help us to recognise the prejudice which exists in all of us at so many different levels about so many different things . |
| 14 | Indeed , he does not seem to be aware that it exists : ‘ All Darwinism has to say about such miracles is that they are due to chance . ’ |
| 15 | What is most striking about such groupings is that they provide for careers on the football terraces . |
| 16 | The major criticism of such charts is that they assume linear relationships between costs and output , and sales ] and revenue , whereas this is not always true . |
| 17 | One important feature of such factors is that they will tend to shape the person 's capacity to cope with adverse circumstances . |
| 18 | One theory about these openings is that they were Nature 's way of lightening the head to make it more flexible and manoeuvrable : shattered archosaur skulls might be proof of this . |
| 19 | One result of this difference of reference is that it is possible to construct sentences which will be analytic or contradictory on the one interpretation but not on the other : ( 11 ) Nikolai offered us the message decoded but it was not decoded when he offered it to us 4.2 One curious feature about these adjectives is that they somehow seem to modify not only the noun which they accompany but simultaneously the verb as well ; if this is a genuine observation it will be surprising on general grounds , since it would be decidedly abnormal in syntax for one element to simultaneously qualify two different items . |
| 20 | The common factor in all these cases is that they were not discovered by MI5 . |
| 21 | One problem with these vegetables is that they need a lot of cooking to make them digestible and palatable . |
| 22 | The majority of the training is within the Options Agency , erm , achieve a positive outcome , and I do apologise with all the jargon that will creep in , erm , positive outcomes in terms of these programmes are that they achieve jobs . |
| 23 | The overwhelming conclusion emerging from any assessment of these programmes is that they have only a marginal impact on inner-urban problems . |
| 24 | The difficulty with these checks is that they can not be adjusted to trap the returning hammers without hindering their upward motion . |
| 25 | The attractions of these products are that they store well , are easily obtained and offer a high profit margin . |
| 26 | The advantages of these methods are that they allow for careful preparation of material and can make use of the best teachers available . |
| 27 | The problem with all these formulations is that they are reductionist : that is , they claim that complex and multi-faceted phenomena can be explained by a single , simple cause . |
| 28 | The striking thing about these units is that they are virtually the same as other single cells that swim by themselves and have separate existences . |
| 29 | The most important of these characteristics were that they were the administrative centres of royal estates , or more rarely great ecclesiastical estates . |
| 30 | The defence of the format of these books is that they were written as part of a struggle . |