Example sentences of "is that they [vb base] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The single most startling fact for girls , however , is that they tend to be taken into care for ‘ status offences ’ rather than for breaking the law . |
| 2 | A common feature of all these systems and methods of control is that they contribute to the setting of standards , as well as to the measuring of performance against standards . |
| 3 | The danger with these time-removed antecedents is that they come to be regarded as irremediable causes ( which they are ) . |
| 4 | The dates on the letters are quite clear , but a vague possibility is that they refer to the first actual parachute operation and that the dates are confused — by perhaps a month . |
| 5 | The good new s is that they go to the Ranfurly Library . |
| 6 | The reason I touched upon the problem of realisation and the related questions of a rising organic composition of capital is that they relate to both growth and crisis theory . |
| 7 | The value of the Survey 's findings on book condition is that they relate to material actually issued to readers , and do not simply describe books stored on the shelves . |
| 8 | He says the problem with some teams , like the Eastern Europeans , is that they want to be part of the display flying circus , but they have n't got the financial means . |
| 9 | One of the reasons for owning rather than borrowing textbooks is that they need to be marked to get the best out of them . |
| 10 | The trouble with all panspermic theories is that they look to outer space , yet we have no particular reason to believe that life could not have emerged right here on our own world . |
| 11 | The major problem with essentially voluntary schemes like these , however , is that they appeal to only those farmers who arc already convinced environmentalists . |
| 12 | Perhaps the oddest feature of evidence on spillovers is that they seem to be particularly prevalent in high R&D sectors , and this raises the question of whether they actually do undermine incentives to do R&D ( see Levin , 1988 ) . |
| 13 | So what 's interesting here is that they seem to be having a conversation about un the university matters , the history department and so on but in fact there 's this kind of subtext going on here in which both of them want to find out about the other person 's children and both of them are being very mysterious and avoiding the question . |
| 14 | ‘ One of the attractions of younger men is that they appear to be less traditional than the older generation . |
| 15 | A business relies on a driving personality taking it forward , and the confusion about getting somebody on board who is working with you in the business and who is putting money board , is that they feel to some extent , proprietorial to that business , and you can find that that will result in those individuals who have done that tearing apart the business because they are trying to go in different directions . |
| 16 | The reason so many things are delayed is that they have to be perfect . |
| 17 | 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 . |