Example sentences of "[is] [that] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The problem for this Tory government is that their ideology is out of phase with the demands of ecology . ’ |
| 2 | One of their main concerns is that their children or grandchildren are to be placed for adoption with no continuing contact with family members , including brothers and sisters . |
| 3 | The one factor that still tilts general election predictions in the Tories ' favour is that their hillcrest position seems ultimately impregnable . |
| 4 | sometimes artists have been working for two or three years , releasing records unsuccessfully , although the public 's perception is that their first hit must be their first record . |
| 5 | The reason why so many books and articles on the 1931 crisis end with the formation of the first National Government is that their authors are still obsessed by the time-worn and stale debates about Ramsay MacDonald 's supposed ‘ betrayal ’ of Labour , about a hypothetical ‘ plot ’ , and about the ‘ bankers ’ ramp' . |
| 6 | A further complexity in the comparison between Locke and the Aristotelians is that their ‘ opinion ’ concerns contingencies , things which are so , but which might have been otherwise . |
| 7 | It is not surprising either to find that English visitors were hostile ; the notable point is that their real venom was unleashed not in the period before 1560 , when England and Scotland were nourishing their long-standing enmity , but afterwards , when they were officially allies , and particularly once the unthinkable and shameful had happened , and Scotland had given England a king , in the person of James VI in 1603 . |
| 8 | The interesting point about the satellites is that their behaviour includes many submissive components that trick the resident males into allowing them to remain near their sites . |
| 9 | The other characteristic is that their influence seems out of all proportion to the amount present : a little goes a long way . |
| 10 | Items stated as fact should be accurate , and often the benefit of access is that their accuracy can be checked . |
| 11 | The overriding priority for parents is that their children should enjoy coming to school . |
| 12 | Its claim is that their actions should reflect reasons which apply also to their subjects , but these need not be reasons advancing their interests . |
| 13 | Without going into the details ( they are distractingly complicated ) what matters is that their genes do not leave the snail 's body in the snail 's sperms or eggs . |
| 14 | One significant advantage of electric vehicles is that their widespread use would make far better use of off-peak electricity . |
| 15 | A major complaint of the Serbs is that their proportion of the Kosovo population is steadily shrinking . |
| 16 | A common criticism is that their ‘ telepathy ’ is nothing more than mumbo-jumbo covering the clever ‘ detective ’ work of extracting clues and information from their naive victims . |
| 17 | Their chief concern is that their status as skilled specialists should be recognised and respected . |
| 18 | The tragedy of the situation is that their aims , their social aims , are often similar . |
| 19 | But what is especially characteristic of Todi and San Gimignano is that their golden age , their period of most notable prosperity , came to an end about 1300 , so that we can still inspect cities whose walls and public buildings , though there is an element of Etruscan and Roman in many of them , belong above all to the period from 1050 to 1300 . |
| 20 | Undeniably their faith is genuine , but the weakness is that their faith is developed at the expense of their understanding . |
| 21 | Their only condition is that their privacy be respected ; if the householder spies on them as they work , they will vanish and never return . |
| 22 | What is surprising is that their refusal to read black texts — a refusal that makes no disturbance in their intellectual life — repeats itself when they reread the traditional , established works of literature worthy of their attention . |
| 23 | Part of Granta 's secret — on top of its heavyweight marketing and sampling from Viking Penguin 's new titles — is that their compatriot keeps his organ similarly undefiled . |
| 24 | When we have a hunch that somebody is telling lies , for instance , ‘ what we really mean is that their body language and their spoken words do not agree . ’ |
| 25 | Whatever the description the result for such individuals who take up this role is that their lives are beset by disappointment and frustration because the remainder mobilise in their own defence of their egos the kinds of myths I have indicated , or withdraw in a schizoid way . |
| 26 | The problem is that their ‘ product ’ — primarily concerts — can not attract enough box office income to cover their overheads . |
| 27 | What must be certain is that their problems will be heard and evaluated . |
| 28 | The interpretation which perhaps makes most sense of people 's answers is that their decisions seem to be based first on a desire to pay off quickly , and second ( in modification of this ) on how high an instalment they can afford — rather than on interest rates or total cost . |
| 29 | The usual , if not the inevitable , result is that their expectations are regularly disappointed . |
| 30 | The characteristic of less developed countries is that their consumption of both wood and steel , that is the total tonnage of their artifacts , is less . |