Example sentences of "[noun pl] is [that] " in BNC.

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1 I think the most important thing about community arts is that it 's arts for the community , and invariably one is not approaching it in the same way as one would market , say , a show at the Theatre Royal for instance .
2 What moves me very deeply about primitive peoples is that they still attach an enormous importance to a certain kind of communication which we have lost ; and that is that they allow the being of the person they are with to communicate with more than words .
3 Their importance to the history of the Yugoslav peoples is that they kept alive the spirit and culture of a downtrodden nation during the centuries of foreign occupation .
4 All that has changed over the centuries is that the monarch used to be the substantial head of the government and it is , indeed , still the case that , legally , much central government executive authority continues to reside in the monarch .
5 The rationale for trying to obtain verbatim records of children 's speech in naturalistic settings is that it provides the best indication of what language a child actually uses in ordinary , everyday settings .
6 A more serious problem with Deffenbacher 's approach in terms of the ability to generalize the results to other settings is that his distinction between studies which did and did not successfully manipulate violence level or personal threat can be argued to be post hoc .
7 However , one of this industry 's main characteristics is that it attracts the maverick .
8 One of the WEA 's abiding characteristics is that it dare not become complacent , can never afford to stand still .
9 One of the biggest attractions for fans is that they like to identify with the group ; they want to be part of The Club .
10 Over at Ibrox , the news for their fans is that the long injury list is continuing to shorten .
11 But the radical difference between this and previous dieting methods is that it makes the food you consume more filling and also renders some of the calories it supplies non-fattening , as you will begin to learn in the next chapter .
12 However , my experience of do-it-yourself aquarium methods is that : —
13 Another problem with a textbook description of research methods is that the textbook gives the impression that this is what really goes on .
14 The beauty of such methods is that they can never be proved wrong since , by ignoring what the people concerned themselves think , you have removed any empirical basis for testing the interpretations .
15 A difficulty with both these methods is that two different binary patterns represent zero , so that testing for zero becomes slightly more complicated .
16 The paradigm underlying this family of methods is that patterns or clusters appear nonrandomly in the training set , for some unknown underlying reason .
17 An immediate and obvious problem with pluralists ' methods is that in the effort to achieve falsifiability , only major visible issues reaching decisional status are used , yet of course it is possible for pre-decisional power to be used to keep grievances from becoming observable issues .
18 A key weakness of conventional forecasting methods is that they often fail to capture the ‘ turning points ’ — the onset of recession or the beginning of recovery .
19 What comes to the fore through Gandhi 's strictures on the attitudes and methods of certain Christian missionaries is that it is possible for religious zeal and enthusiasm to lead to activities inconsistent with the religious and ethical ideals or values one might be seeking to promote .
20 One of her fears for the future of white water rodeos is that they almost inevitably will become more serious competitions and less friendly .
21 The problem with lists is that by the time you write item number three , you have completely forgotten about item number one , and so on .
22 One important difference between the two lists is that those in list ( a ) refer to internal events and states , whilst those in list ( b ) denote external and therefore observable behaviour .
23 The last observation about dictionaries or word lists is that they may under-represent similarities between different sign languages : for example , the American and British signs for WALK are quite different , but British signers would certainly use a sign resembling the American sign in certain contexts .
24 One objection made against West German party , lists is that MdBs chosen from them are not directly answerable to the electorate .
25 The problem with all ongoing lists is that they are liable to be out of date almost from the day they are compiled .
26 My experience of practitioners trained overseas and with small lists is that most are good doctors committed to caring for their patients to the best of their ability .
27 The problem with such lists is that they do not specify any order .
28 The only similarity between the words in these lists is that the pattern recognition system perceived them as being orthographically similar .
29 One of the basic factors we have to bear in mind about fungi is that , unlike insects , which make their attack at certain predictable times depending on their life cycles , fungal attack in one form or another is about and ready to take advantage of any weakness for much longer periods — in fact , at almost any time of the year .
30 What distinguishes the last two from gains and losses is that they are transactions involving owners in their capacity as owners .
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