Example sentences of "of [noun] [is] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An important function of assessment is that it can help determine the extent to which a child 's language is subject to changes over time . |
| 2 | The final point by way of preface is that it is a mistake to assume that all black people are deprived . |
| 3 | A major benefit of ISDN is that it is a dial-up service , just like the ordinary phone network . |
| 4 | Our measure of progress is that the way that we ask these questions has changed . |
| 5 | The main advantage of this type of support is that it keeps the joint warm , but it has to be said that it is not really suitable for more recent or severe injuries . |
| 6 | The reality of the process of change is that it is conducted in context . |
| 7 | One sign of change is that some senior politicians have broken with the establishment by founding a reformist faction within the ruling party . |
| 8 | The problem with a lot of acts is that they do n't realize their limitations . |
| 9 | As Lord Keith said in Lonrho Plc. v. Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 525 , 539 : ‘ The only significance of the absence of reasons is that if all other known facts and circumstances appear to point overwhelmingly in favour of a different decision , the decision-maker , who has given no reasons can not complain if the court draws the inference that he had no rational reason for his decision . ’ |
| 10 | The composition of the Cytherean atmosphere in terms of relative numbers of molecules is as follows : 96% CO 2 ; 3.5% N 2 ; 0.015% SO 2 ; about 0.01% H 2 O in the lower atmosphere ; 0.007% Ar ; plus traces of several other gases . |
| 11 | Perhaps the only glimmer of hope is that there has been no increase in the use of heroin , cocaine and crack just 1.2pc admit to trying them , the same as in 1990 . |
| 12 | The most significant feature of Taos is that the kernel takes up just 13Kb of memory — and is blindingly fast on complex applications such as graphics ray tracing . |
| 13 | The most significant feature of Taos is that the kernel takes up just 13Kb of memory — and is blindingly fast on complex applications such as graphics ray tracing . |
| 14 | The plan of operations is as follows . |
| 15 | The age and sex distribution of children who had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia diagnosed in the study area conformed to expected patterns , with slightly more boys and a peak age at diagnosis of 3 years ; the excess of Down 's syndrome in young children with non-lymphocytic forms of leukaemia is as would be expected . |
| 16 | The advantage of this concept of function is that it avoids absolute distinctions between one kind of text and another . |
| 17 | Yet the whole point of crossbenchers is that their values are unpigeonholeable . |
| 18 | The big drawback of FAXgrabber is that the quality of the text conversion is totally dependant on the quality of the original material — the received fax . |
| 19 | What is usually said about the invention of printing is that it greatly expanded an earlier minority culture , and at last made it into a majority culture . |
| 20 | The full list of courts is as follows : Barnet Marylebone Bloomsbury Mayor & City of London Bow Shoreditch Brentford Wandsworth Clerkenwell West London Edmonton Westminster Lambeth Willesden The Lord Chancellor has power to redesignate insolvency districts under s 374(1) . |
| 21 | The problem with this type of measure is that compiling the figures is a time-consuming and essentially clerical task . |
| 22 | What happens in the Celebration is of Election is that the erm it happens at the end of mass I think or round the end of mass . |
| 23 | The whole character of faith is that it does not rest on itself , nor on what can be seen as an extension of itself , but on what is quite other than itself , by which its own emptiness is filled . |
| 24 | Yet the danger of both these kinds of literature is that they offer just the kinds of all-explaining and deterministic theories as the form of Marxism we reviewed earlier . |
| 25 | The difference between the two classes of case is that , whereas the innocent party has the option of affirming the contract after a fundamental breach , there is no possibility of affirmation after a breach of fundamental term , since the breach amounts to a total non-performance of the contract . |
| 26 | But actually in between , I 'd forgotten the in between bit of course is while all this pandemonium 's going on , the neighbourhood did n't realize she was moving , or perhaps one or two did . |
| 27 | The problem of course is that , even if the Trusts are given house , contents and land , they need a major endowment to ensure preservation in perpetuity . |
| 28 | Another way of doing it of course is that as you 're |
| 29 | The other thing of course is that you have n't got any choice anyway , because the yen to have children is about as basic as the yen to have sex . |
| 30 | The danger of compromise of course is that you forget what 's been relinquished in the pursuit of what 's been achieved . |