Example sentences of "[is] that [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One clue is that under stress of excessive heat or pursuit by predators , the amount of energy needed or dissipated can be very high . |
| 2 | My own view is that for readers to be promised even a glimmer of understanding as to the origins of our world and the universe was tempting enough , but the further promise that it was to be told briefly was irresistible . |
| 3 | What we mean by this , is that at times of great stress we can all be overwhelmed by the experience and find ourselves ‘ at sea ’ , not knowing what to do . |
| 4 | What can be said about fluoride is that at concentrations of even less than one part per million ( the official dose ) it can cause toxic reactions in sensitive people and recent reassessments of the fluoridation scene suggest that this measure may be much more harmful to health than has been hitherto realized . |
| 5 | Another lag , for example , is that between changes in instruments and the achievement of the employment and prices objectives . |
| 6 | What is , however , a matter of concern is that within days of receiving and failing to reply to that letter , on 23 October 1991 , the local authority moved the children from the family friends with whom they had lived since 17 July 1991 and placed them with foster parents . |
| 7 | What Coetzee 's work suggests , and it is a pity he does not pursue this point fully , is that in Britain before 1914 the potential fragmentation of the political right was contained . |
| 8 | Riva smiles ( is that in gratitude for the timely break , or a mark of motherly resignation ? ) , and says , ‘ All right , all right , we 're coming . ’ |
| 9 | The assumption is that in cases of arousal , memory for central information will be enhanced while memory for peripheral information will be impaired . |
| 10 | The practical significance of this distinction is that in cases of ambiguity an exception will be construed against the landlord , while a reservation will be construed against the tenant ( St Edmundsbury & Ipswich Diocesan Board of Finance v Clark ( No 2 ) [ 1975 ] 1 All ER 772 ) . |
| 11 | The first is that in cases of doubt the courts will construe the restriction contra proferentes . |
| 12 | I think er that Mr is er Mr er suggestion is that in order to erm expedite matters he would be willing to , to submit his sort of comments , brief comment in writing and hopefully if Mr could fit in a quarter of an hour sometime on Friday |
| 13 | Perhaps the most important consequence of a limited partner 's role is that in return for his limited liability he must give up his normal right to participate in the management of the partnership . |
| 14 | Some negotiation is required but the outcome is that in exchange for using the schools/LEA , the student/institution provide a service ; and vice-versa . |
| 15 | One possible answer is that in periods of structural change major upheavals and dislocation are felt — a crisis is obvious — whereas in the intervening years changes occur smoothly and are felt to be less dramatic . |
| 16 | The snag is that in countries with persistently high inflation hardly anyone holds paper money ; instead they put all earnings in index-linked bonds or interest-earning savings accounts . |
| 17 | We have tramped miles over mountain and moorland in search of sport , and one of the joys of living and fishing in Scotland is that in spite of nearly forty years ' trout fishing , we have at least another forty years to go before we can honestly say we know but a fraction of all the fishing available . |
| 18 | The bitter injustice which is afflicting him so deeply now is that in spite of the fact that he has been perfectly all right ever since , no-one will believe it . |
| 19 | What is not in doubt is that in spite of huge emigration , steadily dropping natality and enormous wartime losses , the European population as a whole still went up throughout this period ( see also pp. 367–68 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ The role of kin selection is that in competition between related males , it makes the costs higher and the benefits lower , ’ he says . |
| 21 | The fact of the matter is that in terms of setting up some kind of economic common market , much of the groundwork had already been done . |
| 22 | ‘ The reason why men are pioneering many new ideas in this field is that in terms of numbers they are still the large majority . |
| 23 | The intractable fact of the matter is that in terms of archaeological time scales the operational continuity of contemporary hardware can not be assured even when suitable specimens are available to begin with . |
| 24 | Since the most important acts of the Community require the concurrence of the Council , and since the prevailing understanding is that in relation to any matter which any member state considers to affect its own vital national interests , unanimity must prevail , the Community appears as at most a confederation with restricted , albeit important , powers . |
| 25 | The relief sought is an order of certiorari , and the principal ground on which relief is sought is that in relation to Winchester the board of Lautro had on 30 October failed to observe the rules of natural justice . |
| 26 | My point in this context is that in films of recent years ‘ spectacle ’ — especially if we expand the definition of spectacle to include also images marked by the aggressive instinct — does not any longer become subordinated to narrative . |
| 27 | What all this means is that in common with all other performance figures Whetstone and Dhrystone should be regarded as performance indicators rather than as absolute measurements . |
| 28 | The next word of warning is that in negotiations with opponents it is usually prudent not to give commitments without a package settlement . |
| 29 | The point is that by thinking of concepts as variables we also begin to think of suitable ways of reflecting their character by numbers . |
| 30 | The third and most important reason is that by virtue of its ownership of an almost infinite variety of coasts , countryside , woods and waterways , gardens , historic houses and works of art , it can make a unique contribution to public and professional debate , and to environmental education . |