Example sentences of "at [noun] is that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conclusion of the policy being pursued at present is that eventually everybody will be subsidising nearly everybody 's housing . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought a personal appeal to the Brotherhood for a relic for Shaftesbury Abbey would be much better than legal wrangling , and all I can say at present is that negotiations are going very well indeed , ’ said Mrs Rider last night . |
| 3 | The clear message behind this and so much more of national policy at present is that teachers can not be trusted . |
| 4 | The primary limitation of the technique at present is that it applies only to simple overlayer adsorbate structures producing fractional-order LEED beams . |
| 5 | All one can say at present is that though the process is difficult , time-consuming , and at times very unsatisfying , it is at least an improvement over those processes we have followed in the past . |
| 6 | But the big problem at present is that that form tutors get loads of information sent to them and then they |
| 7 | Tenants allocated homes in this way do of course pay rent and local taxes just like everyone else , although the sad reality at present is that many councils have such long waiting lists of homeless people and families living in substandard accommodation that people with mental disorders face great competition for housing . |
| 8 | One of the principal difficulties faced by the Russians at present is that they have no effective distribution system whatsoever to deal with the aid that is available to them . |
| 9 | The most important thing to note at present is that any strong syllable will have as its peak one of the vowel phonemes ( or possibly a triphthong ) listed in Chapter 3 , but not . |
| 10 | The most widely quoted medical ‘ fact ’ I hear at parties is that a moderate alcohol intake is good for you . |
| 11 | Of course , in such cases , rulers tend to have different life-styles from their subjects , but what is at issue is that they do not have a privileged access to property , especially to the means of production , an essential element of Marx 's and Engels 's definition of a class . |
| 12 | The point at issue is that both sets of disciplines tend to have different conceptions about the domain and status of proof in the pursuit of knowledge . |
| 13 | The particular point at issue is that in standard English anymore , along with other items in the any series and a number of adverbials , is in main clauses usually restricted to interrogative or negative constructions ; Labov ( 1973 ) cites the following dialogue to show the difficulty of investigating by direct questioning of a native speaker his hunch that this particular constraint was less binding in Philadelphia : |
| 14 | The point at issue is that what is happening is not only a tragedy of today but a portent of tomorrow . |
| 15 | The second point at issue is that while Sir Bryan wants independent financial advisers to disclose their commissions in hard-cash terms at the point of sale , he rejects the case for similar hard disclosure by tied agents because ‘ the costs would probably outweigh the usefulness ’ . |
| 16 | One advantage of being at home is that you will be less likely to have a caesarian section , which is seen as a last resort while in hospitals around 12pc of all pregnancies will end in an operation . |
| 17 | I have n't used the word poverty I 've used a phrase about lack of financial resources because it relates more obviously and directly to many of the concerns of the Board for example almost certainly the real reason why there was no room in the inn at Bethlehem is that the income of a village carpenter did n't go near the exorbitant prices being charged by mine host when , to use the good Scots phrase , the cow calved and there was this boom over the crows for the census . |
| 18 | One complicating result of these diverse ways of looking at media is that they can easily seem to have more in common with non -media organizations and products than with each other . |
| 19 | The point I 'm trying to get at sir is that erm it is none of it is in none of our interests , either the planning authorities or even of the developers , that if we were to erm find a strategic sites policy appropriate for this alteration , it 's in none of our interests that it should be confusing to the public or to the development industry as to how rare a thing this should be and how tightly directed it should be in geographical terms . |
| 20 | Mixu Paatelainen was shown the same consideration earlier in the season and the word from the maternity unit at Pittodrie is that Mrs Duncan Shearer is next in the gynaecological line . |
| 21 | It has been argued , for a long time now , that the reason girls do not do so well at mathematics is that females , from at least adolescence onwards , have poorer spatial visualisation ability than males . |
| 22 | By 4 January 1927 , the full force of Nizan 's anger , repressed for so many years , could no longer be held in check : The effect of the solitude at Aden is that I am storing up a violence that was unknown to me … |