Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] is [that] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One of his favourite sayings is that : |
| 32 | The only distinguishing feature of two different attributes is that they are in different positions , or something like that , which has no bearing on their possible values . |
| 33 | The reason why you are asked to be restrained in drinking calorific drinks is that these , even more than refined carbohydrate foods , have the opposite effect from fibre-rich foods in nearly all those steps in the consumption process which influence your degree of hunger . |
| 34 | A problem with making recordings direct from electronic instruments is that they are totally free from any natural reverberation . |
| 35 | The major difference between the American and British systems is that we vote for an MP , the party with the most MPs wins and its leader moves into Number Ten . |
| 36 | But the other evil part of the government 's attack on public services is that it is an attack upon democracy . |
| 37 | And the point about the German schemes is that they achieved much more besides because they attempted more : measures of noise , air quality and levels of-street activity have all improved , and there are dramatic specific results , such as Buxtehude 's growth of cycling or Moabit 's greening of the environment . |
| 38 | The weakness of both the holistic and individualistic approaches is that they are both in their different ways incapable of explaining the origins of phenomena ; yet it is the origins which are of first importance in understanding human psychology and society . |
| 39 | A fundamental disadvantage with the conception of the British schemes is that such compensation is neither considered nor provided . |
| 40 | Having done so , I find the one feature that is common to both the New Zealand and British schemes is that their basic purpose is to relieve financially-embarrassed governments of claims for further investment . |
| 41 | One of the problems with social services is that , unlike material goods , they are generally intangible . |
| 42 | Probably the most decisive argument for the free personal social services is that most of their recipients are already so poor that charges bring little revenue . |
| 43 | An important conclusion that can be drawn from the fiscal records is that the immediate effect of the Black Death in 1348–49 was slight in destroying communities , because most of the villages which eventually disappeared are still recorded as contributing to subsidies levied in the fifteenth century . |
| 44 | The major problem with investigating the effects of human sexual scents is that many of our actions are dictated by our conscious mind which can moderate or overrule these unconscious influences . |
| 45 | The impression the public gains is that judges frequently impose unsatisfactory sentences . |
| 46 | The great advantage in generating patterns in development by such reaction-diffusion mechanisms is that they are self-organizing and so can generate patterns without the complex programming that the interpretation of positional information requires . |
| 47 | Her main problem in both academic and social contexts is that she is not sure enough of herself to be able to assert her point of view in an idiom which is both personal and appropriate . |
| 48 | The trouble with Labour-supporting celebrities is that very largely they want to pronounce . |
| 49 | The reason behind all of the red tape even under normal circumstances is that a legal process is being implemented . |
| 50 | Moscovitch therefore suggested that the reason why the right hemisphere shows so little language ability under normal circumstances is that it suffers from inhibitory control by the left hemisphere . |
| 51 | An important feature of owner-occupancy in rural areas is that the stock of housing is relatively limited in any given location and hence choice is restricted . |
| 52 | One key problem with the more domestically-scaled Georgian pubs is that they were often originally conceived as , or converted from , modest homes . |
| 53 | Perhaps the clearest indication of the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of Quaternary investigations is that a book written by a geographer , D.Q. Bowen , and published in 1978 is entitled Quaternary Geology and is subtitled A Stratigraphic Framework for Multidisciplinary Work . |
| 54 | Their similarity to the preceding cases is that they seem to fall within an accepted canon of traditional wordings ( one , incidentally , which as Ulpian shows is also subject to extension by analogy ) . |
| 55 | The value of having such materials in brief and physically separate forms is that it is easier to manipulate ideas while they are still in note form than it is once you have written them out in prose . |
| 56 | An important feature of Tit for Tat-like strategies is that they are forgiving . |
| 57 | The general opinion amongst Central Authorities is that a request should not be rejected on this ground ; and this appears to accord with the views expressed in the House of Lords in the Westinghouse case . |
| 58 | One of the opposition 's chief demands is that President Gustav Husak should step down because of his association with the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 . |
| 59 | The first development of the Tollmien-Schlichting waves is that they become three-dimensional ; their amplitude varies in the lateral direction parallel to the wall . |
| 60 | One benefit of this over similar units is that the groove retains the semi-circular wedge , so it is hard to separate this moveable part from the nut . |