Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [be] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One sign of change is that some senior politicians have broken with the establishment by founding a reformist faction within the ruling party . |
| 2 | If you want to en try and ensure that you 're going to have a self sustained community , one hundred percent , you make sure that presumably you 've got a show case cinema with fifteen screens there , er a B and Q , erm a whole range of of facilities that nobody ever needs leave , erm erm erm er that new settlement , the reality of the real world of course is that all settlements to a greater or lesser degree , er have a relationship with other er larger scale settlements , now then let's look at the new settlement , fourteen hundred dwellings , we estimate that that is going to be of the order of around three thousand three hundred people , now that is sizeable , it is not small , it is larger than a number of the small market towns er in North Yorkshire , like Boroughbridge , Settle , it is a significant development erm erm and within it erm there will be a requirement er be a requirement for a a a primary school , it justifies that . |
| 3 | But what I hope what we hope of course is that some people give us a real good try . |
| 4 | The reason why people are willing to spend money and time looking at the geology of Lake Tocarno of course is that some of our ancestors are lying around in the rocks and people are therefore very keen on getting accurate dating of the fossils and one way of doing that is to get erm accurate datings of changes in other fossils that you can co-ordinate with them . |
| 5 | The advantage of this form of key is that several different characters are compared together so that if one or more is missing , closeness of fit to the list can be used to gain an identification . |
| 6 | Another reason for the non-reporting of crime is that many victims are unaware that they actually are victims of specific crimes . |
| 7 | A feature of suburbia is that many people do not even know their own neighbours ; certainly not those across the way . |
| 8 | A basic principle of the rule of law is that any interference with the liberty of the individual must be justified by law . |
| 9 | The point of headroom is that those above should act as a support rather than as a control . |
| 10 | The miracle of anorexia is that this wish can be fulfilled : one does not have to grow up ; one does not have to become a woman , even in the biological sense ; one can reject all foreign substances , for which food is a metaphor , and subject them to one 's will . |
| 11 | While one argument against expecting schools to carry an additional load of knowledge is that such knowledge , particularly in the vocational field , rapidly becomes out of date , two arguments from the other side have some lasting weight . |
| 12 | One of the effects of anharmonicity is that these transitions do not all have exactly the same frequency , and so a band may have a very complex form . |
| 13 | One problem with King 's line of argument is that several modern presidents , apparently long on relevant experience , have not done well in the White House . |
| 14 | What adds to the fragmentation of policy is that these organizations represent so many different definitions of ‘ Europe ’ . |
| 15 | One feature of lamb is that any part of the meat is suitable for either roasting or grilling , depending on the cutting . |
| 16 | One important distinction between these types of society is that some may be resistant to further development while others facilitate it , and thus a contrast is established between the development of society in Western Europe , through feudalism to capitalism , and the relative immutability of Asiatic societies . |
| 17 | It is important to note that a presupposition of this sort of sampling is that each stage is composed of similar sub-units so that sampling at each stage will not result in unrepresentative samples . |
| 18 | The first rule of sampling is that each member of the relevant population must have some chance of being included . |
| 19 | Lastly , although it would be nice to feel that everybody charts the forward direction absolutely correctly , the reality of life is that this is an almost impossible ambition . |
| 20 | Hierarchy presupposes an already determined outcome or purpose ; the underlying idea of hierarchy is that such an outcome can be broken down into a set of sub-processes . |
| 21 | He added his own comments that Ashby 's tributes to voluntaryism present us with a very serious challenge — to the professional to be patient in service , to aid and abet but not to take over from the voluntary worker any of the tasks or decisions which he should do and make : to the voluntary worker to recognise that the only sure safeguard against injury to the mainstream of voluntaryism is that that mainstream , which is himself , shall never slacken . |
| 22 | One commentator suggests that : " the essence of agency is that one person is entrusted with the power to act for another in that other 's interest , a clause enabling him without warning on a particular occasion to act in his own interest , or in the interest of another principal , seems plainly inconsistent with the whole nature of fiduciary responsibility . " |
| 23 | The only point to note in this system of allocation is that those who bid in excess of the striking price will have priority in allocation where the issue has been oversubscribed . |
| 24 | Gateway has issued a writ because a condition of sale was that all identification should be removed if the goods were resold . |
| 25 | One of the rules of gardening is that all rules have an exception ! |
| 26 | Now the distribution of land was that these two groups making up ten percent of the Chinese countryside owned fifty percent of the land . |
| 27 | One of the most noticeable features of English is that many syllables are weak ; this is true of many other languages , but it is necessary to study how these weak syllables are pronounced and where they occur in English . |
| 28 | A major advantage of this type of input was that these basic validation checks were made at input time and any errors detected were displayed back to the operator immediately , thus allowing corrections to be made quickly . |
| 29 | The danger in quoting fragments of their writings out of context is that this may distort their intention and produce a static picture . |